Purchasing spellcasting services

[Bigdaddyjug]

So this came up at our PFS session today and nobody was sure how to handle it. My character got cursed. I decided to purchasing spellcasting services to remove it with gold. Is it just assumed that the remove curse'works, or does the GM have to make the roll and I run the risk of having to pay multiple times to get the curse removed?

[Nebten]

The GM makes the roll and you run the risk of having to pay multiple times to get the curse removed.

This is also true for Remove Disease and other such spells.

[kinevon]

However, if you pay gold, you can also reduce or eliminate the risk entirely by purchasing the services at higher than minimum level.

If you pay with Prestige, you can only get the spell cast at minimum caster level.

[Bigdaddyjug]

Wow that absolutely sucks. So when I pay for a remove curse it is always purchased at CL 5? Even if it's possible to find clerics of higher caster level in a big town, like Abdalom?

[Jeff Merola]

Bigdaddyjug wrote:

Wow that absolutely sucks. So when I pay for a remove curse it is always purchased at CL 5? Even if it's possible to find clerics of higher caster level in a big town, like Abdalom?

Only if you buy with prestige. If you buy with gold you can purchase higher.

[The Great Rinaldo!]

Jeff Merola wrote:

Bigdaddyjug wrote:

Wow that absolutely sucks. So when I pay for a remove curse it is always purchased at CL 5? Even if it's possible to find clerics of higher caster level in a big town, like Abdalom?

Only if you buy with prestige. If you buy with gold you can purchase higher.

I haven't seen that rule - can you link it, or give me a book and page number? I thought all spellcasting in PFS that wasn't by a PC was at minimum level.

[Sniggevert]

Tony Lindman wrote:

Jeff Merola wrote:

Bigdaddyjug wrote:

Wow that absolutely sucks. So when I pay for a remove curse it is always purchased at CL 5? Even if it's possible to find clerics of higher caster level in a big town, like Abdalom?

Only if you buy with prestige. If you buy with gold you can purchase higher.

I haven't seen that rule - can you link it, or give me a book and page number? I thought all spellcasting in PFS that wasn't by a PC was at minimum level.

There is specific language limiting the purchase of spell casting services to minimum caster level when using prestige. That same language is missing in the general discussion of purchasing spell casting services.

There is also the stance on fixing magic items broken during a scenario via make whole given by Mike Brock, that all you have to do is pay the cost in gold and its assumed you found a caster of high enough level.

I'll find and edit a link to that post shortly.

EDIT: LINK

[Bigdaddyjug]

Well herein lies another problem then. Say I decide I want to pay for a CL higher than 5 for my remove curse. Can I spellcrat myself to see if I can figure out the CL of the curse that was laid on me, or do I just have to guess and hope I guessed high enough?

I guess a simpler way to word that is, can you use spellcraft to determine the CL of an effect as it is being cast? In this case it was a spell, but

Paths We Choose spoilers:

the curse in the Osirion tomb.

[Sniggevert]

Bigdaddyjug wrote:

Well herein lies another problem then. Say I decide I want to pay for a CL higher than 5 for my remove curse. Can I spellcrat myself to see if I can figure out the CL of the curse that was laid on me, or do I just have to guess and hope I guessed high enough?

I guess a simpler way to word that is, can you use spellcraft to determine the CL of an effect as it is being cast? In this case it was a spell, but

** spoiler omitted **

That's up to the GM...when it comes to clearing things out at the end of the scenario I just tell them the CL of the curse and figure out what it would be to guarantee a clean bill of health. Or I let them roll it out if they wish.