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If you come to my table, and claim to have a trait named "Metamagic Mastery", you won't be able to play that PC (or, if I'm generous, you just won't be able to use that trait).
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Now, with that aside, if you do have Magical Lineage and Wayang Spellhunter (and can show you own a copy of Dragon Empires Primer), the two traits work together to lower the effective Metamagic Level of a spell by 2.
As always, a quick search of the Additional Resources document will tell you whether a trait such as this is legal for Society play.
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Not sure why you insist on product ownership at your table, but thanks for the info.
It's to make sure that the player is using rules coming from an official source:
In order to utilize content from an Additional Resource, a player must have a physical copy of the Additional Resource in question, a name-watermarked Paizo PDF of it, or a printout of the relevant pages from it
After all, you did ask this question on the PFS boards, and asked specifically about PFS legality.
Venture-Captain, Germany—Bavaria
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Not sure why you insist on product ownership at your table, but thanks for the info.
Actually, Pathfinder Society does insist on prodcut ownership, the additional resources and the guide to organised play are pretty damn clear.
Paizo is supporting organized play and this is the way they have chosen, to let the players support them in turn.
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Not sure why you insist on product ownership at your table, but thanks for the info.
If you don't have the product you cannot confirm it's legality as most of the time the additional resources refer to page numbers. If you cannot prove the trait/feat/spell/archetype's legality, no one has to let you use it, additionally, you have to provide the rules as written in the original document for the GM to interpret should they wish to see the text.
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It depends on what your build is. Some casters don't really benefit from the increase in caster level on certain families of spells. For instance, caster level doesn't really do too much for Summon Monster X.
IME it mostly makes a difference for evocation casters...
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Gotcha. It's not in the core rulebook so you have to make sure you own one of the listed sources here that are allowed in additional resources.
Inner Sea World guide costs the most but you get a ton of other really cool stuff. Pathfinder Player Companion: Varisia, Birthplace of Legends would be the cheapest legal source.
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Agreed. I, too, primarily use Archives of Nethys for most of my searches.
Especially since searching the new PRD is more difficult now than it was before.
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Pathfinder Player Companion: Varisia, Birthplace of Legends would be the cheapest legal source.
He's talking about the "Varisian Tattoo" Feat, not the Trait. The feat can only be found in the Inner Sea World Guide.
The Inner Sea World Guide is money very well invested, though, even if you don't use it for PFS. It's full of information about the countries of the Inner Sea, has lots of minor deities, description of human ethnicies, and some more feats than just "Varisian Tattoo", most of which are really good. (There's more stuff in there, but I think those are some of the best parts.)|
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Pathfinder Player Companion: Varisia, Birthplace of Legends would be the cheapest legal source.He's talking about the "Varisian Tattoo" Feat, not the Trait. The feat can only be found in the Inner Sea World Guide.
The Inner Sea World Guide is money very well invested, though, even if you don't use it for PFS. It's full of information about the countries of the Inner Sea, has lots of minor deities, description of human ethnicies, and some more feats than just "Varisian Tattoo", most of which are really good. (There's more stuff in there, but I think those are some of the best parts.)
Thanks for the correction, was not aware there was even a trait.
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I little suggestion if price of the books is an issue. You can buy PDF's from Paizo for much less than the books cost(especially the hardcover books), then print out the pages you need that will show your watermark to prove you bought it. It's also a lot less heavy than hauling all your books around everywhere.
Oh course, I've rarely seem anyone check to make sure everyone has all the books they need, even at big conventions. But any GM is well within their rights to call you on it, and say you can't use the ability or even play the character if you can't provide the books they are in.
And if you have an electronic reader (like a kindle), a tablet or a laptop, you can just show the source to the GM on that. But it still has to be a legal pdf source. Alternatively you just have to provide any source, if one of your friends has a physical copy of the product (maybe they are a subscriber) they can lend it to you and use their pdf.
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The only time I've had anyone check that I( or someone else) had the source material:
- I was using a trait that the GM hadn't heard of, and he asked to see the source to see WTF does that do?
- As a mildly passive-agressive way of saying I think this ability use is cheesy and if you're going to use this at my table, you better damn own the book