PFS Question on Mundane Equipment

[LDiR]

Hello Everyone,

I've recently played my second time in the local PFS game day. This time I survived the adventure and played my own character instead of a pregen. I took some advice I found on these forums for surviving the lower levels after I died playing the pregen and immediately used my first 2 PP to buy a CLW wand to help with survival.

My question, however, comes up because the group I played with had to disband rather swiftly once the Chronicle sheets were handed out. Now that I have some gold I just need to know if I have to wait to purchase any mundane equipment upgrades until I'm in the presence of a GM or if I am able to add them to the sheet included with the PFS Guide to Play myself and deduct the gold from my totals. If I'm able to add them myself do I need to have my next GM initial my purchases to make them official?

Thank you for any assistance.

As a side note, I did have a blast my first session despite the near-TPK situation my group ended up having. The second session was equally as fun. Looking forward to many more.

[Jiggy]

Congrats on your successful adventure! :D

Do you have your ITS (Inventory Tracking Sheet)? If so, here's how to do "between-scenario" shopping:

Write down what you want to buy on your ITS. In the box for the Chronicle number, write down the next chronicle you'll be getting. For instance, if you just played that character's 1st scenario, write down "2". Go ahead and add the purchased gear to your character sheet.

Next game, when you get your chronicle, fill in the "starting gold" with however much gold you had at the bottom of your previous chronicle. Under "gold spent", write the total of the things you bought (the things on your ITS with the new chronicle's number). Over in the notes box, write "ITS - XXXgp". Then do your math and get a new total gold amount at the bottom of your new sheet.

[trollbill]

Welcome to PFS!

While technically you are supposed to fill all that out at the table, I seldom see people actually do this. Just make sure you fill out your ITS and you shouldn't see any problems.

[Eric Clingenpeel]

Bill, what Jiggy mentions is pretty much how the ITS is supposed to work. Here's a post from Mike on it

Michael Brock wrote:

Doing a purchase in front of the GM is as simple as handing him a list on the ITS and saying, these are what I'm purchasing at the beginning of this scenario and to be applied on the Chronicle sheet at the end. Any problems with that, GM? The GM doesn't have to sit there while the player pours through 16 books to find the item he wants.

The GM signs off on purchases when he signs the bottom of the Chronicle sheet, something he is already doing. He or the player adds one sentence in the Notes section. "items purchased -XXXX GP - See ITS #X."

[LDiR]

Figured I'd just ask here rather than make a new thread.

If I want to make a weapon out of cold iron does it need to be masterwork or is it just double the cost?

Also, if ammunition, is it double the cost per arrow/bolt, or double the cost of 20/10?

Specifically, I'm hoping to buy some arrows and while the 2g for 20 would be affordable after my other purchases, as would the 40g for 20 if that is how the doubling works, 122g for 20 would be too steep to afford at this time.

Thank you for the assistance already provided everyone, and thank you in advance for any further assistance.

[Nefreet]

Cold Iron is not inherently masterwork, like Mithral or Adamantine. If you want a masterwork weapon made of cold iron, you must pay the +300gp (look at the example of the masterwork cold iron longsword in the back of the CRB).

The regular cost of a quiver of arrows is 1gp (for 20 arrows). A quiver of cold iron arrows would be 2gp (double the cost of 1gp).

If you wanted masterwork cold iron arrows, you'd have to spend 305gp (300gp for masterwork and 2.5x2gp for the 50 cold iron arrows).

[LDiR]

Awesome, thanks Nefreet.