Is this permitted in PFS?

[CthulhuPrime]

To make it short: Is it permitted to have regional triats in more than one area? Meaning is it ok to have be part of one area but have a trait from another? My character has spend years in both Andoran and Riddleport.

I'm making my first character for PFS and I'm having trouble decided how to write him. Making him an Andoran privateer makes for a stronger written character/back-story, but the traits aren't any good. Riddleport seems like a much more fun setting to live in, and the traits are more beneficial in general. But I doubt a privateer would be allowed to hang out in Riddleport unmolested.

So he's either a privateer turned pirate or pirate turned privateer.

Can he exist in both? Have traits from one but live in another? Or does it have to be 100% one or the other?

[MeriDoc-]

I think you are limited to one type of trait per slot. Regional, combat, magic etc. You can get two but they can't be of the same type

[CthulhuPrime]

MeriDoc- wrote:

I think you are limited to one type of trait per slot. Regional, combat, magic etc. You can get two but they can't be of the same type

Didn't even think of that

[CthulhuPrime]

Follow up question: Are the traits in 101 Pirate and Privateer traits official? I couldn't find them listed anywhere in the additional sources page

[DrParty06]

CthulhuPrime wrote:

Follow up question: Are the traits in 101 Pirate and Privateer traits official? I couldn't find them listed anywhere in the additional sources page

That's not a Paizo book, so nothing from it is PFS legal.

[CthulhuPrime]

Crap. Thanks

[claudekennilol]

CthulhuPrime wrote:

Follow up question: Are the traits in 101 Pirate and Privateer traits official? I couldn't find them listed anywhere in the additional sources page

If it's not in the additional resources it's definitely not legal.

[Nefreet]

Although you can't have two Regional Traits, you can have a Trait from one region, and claim backstory from another.

Having a Regional Trait doesn't necessarily mean you were born and raised there. You could've just visited on vacation.

[Dave Setty]

From the APG: "In order to select a regional trait, your PC must have spent at least a year living in that region."

You can be eligible for any number of regional traits based on backstory, but you can only actually take 1 of them, just like the other categories.

[W. Kristoph Nolen]

Dave Setty wrote:

From the APG: "In order to select a regional trait, your PC must have spent at least a year living in that region."

You can be eligible for any number of regional traits based on backstory, but you can only actually take 1 of them, just like the other categories.

Insofar as it goes for PFS, RP requirements are hand-waved ... that's been a long-standing fact. If someone wants to say they lived somewhere for a year, then it is so. There's nothing more to it than that.

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"It's a kind of magic!"

[FLite]

My recollection is that it was pretty common for a pirate to go back and forth between pirate, privateer, and pardoned (retired) as regional politics changed and as the balance of profit vs risk changed.

[Nimrandir]

W. Kristoph Nolen wrote:

"It's a kind of magic!"

Bonus points for a Highlander and/or Queen reference!