Dead Pregenerated character and body recovery


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A group of people are playing a special module with pregenerated characters (in this case Serpents rise). Due to reasons the pregen pc:s die. What are the costs for a non-pathfinder character to stay alive and contribute meaningly to the player's chronicle stack? All pc:s are dead.

Is it
a) 5pp for body + cash or bazillion pp for raise
b) cash or bazillion pp for raise
c) something completely different.

Cash is from the pregens sold junk.

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D) make a new character named "doornail" at XXXXX-11 and assign the Credit to them

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Kaapelikala wrote:

A group of people are playing a special module with pregenerated characters (in this case Serpents rise). Due to reasons the pregen pc:s die. What are the costs for a non-pathfinder character to stay alive and contribute meaningly to the player's chronicle stack? All pc:s are dead.

Is it
a) 5pp for body + cash or bazillion pp for raise
b) cash or bazillion pp for raise
c) something completely different.

Cash is from the pregens sold junk.

I'm pretty sure that you can't sell the pregens equipment to pay for a raise dead of the pregen. That would make the raise essentially free and so make the death meaningless

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pauljathome wrote:
Kaapelikala wrote:

A group of people are playing a special module with pregenerated characters (in this case Serpents rise). Due to reasons the pregen pc:s die. What are the costs for a non-pathfinder character to stay alive and contribute meaningly to the player's chronicle stack? All pc:s are dead.

Is it
a) 5pp for body + cash or bazillion pp for raise
b) cash or bazillion pp for raise
c) something completely different.

Cash is from the pregens sold junk.

I'm pretty sure that you can't sell the pregens equipment to pay for a raise dead of the pregen. That would make the raise essentially free and so make the death meaningless

You can. Its about the only thing you can sell the pregens equipment for.

and its a clone. of course its meaningless

However, any equipment that’s listed on the
pregenerated character sheet may only be sold to clear
their own conditions during the play of a sanctioned
event, and any remaining gold does not carry over at the
end of the adventure.

Scarab Sages

if they all died then I would assume the mission failed and there is nothing to apply to any character other than the fact they can not replay the module for credit. Thou I admit I am unsure if this is a replayable or not so..

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I was thinking the d) option too. Just wanted to make sure, that there isn't any loopholes.

The scenario up to the bbeg gives a pile of cash, experience and possibly some pp, however the corpses would be in the bbeg's office unreachable by conventional means. Also, replayable with gm stars.

Scarab Sages

No its explicitly stated in the guide that after using a pregen that chronicle sheet can be applied to a new not played character that is then reported as dead. That is one reason I have never placed character number on sheets of higher level things I cant use yet that I played with a pregen.

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You are certainly able to sell pregen gear to clear any conditions that would result in a character being reported as dead (death, curses, diseases). Things get murky when a TPK happens, since you can't pay money for a body recovery, and I'm not sure if you can pay PP from a real character to pay for a pregen's body recovery. If so, then the answer is A. If not, the answer is apply to a brand new number (BNW's option D).

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UndeadMitch wrote:
You are certainly able to sell pregen gear to clear any conditions that would result in a character being reported as dead (death, curses, diseases). Things get murky when a TPK happens, since you can't pay money for a body recovery, and I'm not sure if you can pay PP from a real character to pay for a pregen's body recovery. If so, then the answer is A. If not, the answer is apply to a brand new number (BNW's option D).

You'd be able to pay the prestige from the real PC. Don't go looking for extra reasons to report people dead.... They'll get there on their own.

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UndeadMitch wrote:
TetsujinOni wrote:
UndeadMitch wrote:
You are certainly able to sell pregen gear to clear any conditions that would result in a character being reported as dead (death, curses, diseases). Things get murky when a TPK happens, since you can't pay money for a body recovery, and I'm not sure if you can pay PP from a real character to pay for a pregen's body recovery. If so, then the answer is A. If not, the answer is apply to a brand new number (BNW's option D).
You'd be able to pay the prestige from the real PC. Don't go looking for extra reasons to report people dead.... They'll get there on their own.

Thanks for the response, I wasn't sure if a PC's wealth can get applied towards clearing a pregen's conditions.

But, I'm going to have to ask you to chill out. I'm not looking for reasons to report people dead, I was answering the OP's question to the best of my knowledge, that's all.

The guide actually specifically covers this. If you want to assign credit to a character, and the pregen dies, you need to clear the conditions. You may use that character's wealth or prestige to clear the condition. And you aren't doing so to bring the pregen back to life. You are doing so assuming that character needs to be brought back to life based on the way the pregen died.

Alternatively, you may sell the pregen's items to come back. I'm pretty sure the intent was if its to clear conditions from a character that can't afford to on their own. However, that wasn't specified, so any character could sell the items on a pregen to clear their own conditions.

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By definition, Aspis members don't have access to the same kind of prestige points that Pathfinders do, yes?

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Chris Mortika wrote:
By definition, Aspis members don't have access to the same kind of prestige points that Pathfinders do, yes?

Well, technically, wouldn't spending prestige to recover the body and res it actually work *against* the Society? Would that be a step towards 'evil' RAW in trying to recover and res evil persons who totes murderhobo'd the MurderHobo HQ?

I'd suspect the answer is 'Pregen dies, standard rules apply' and the 'story' implications are sort of gently guided to the side?

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Chris Mortika wrote:
By definition, Aspis members don't have access to the same kind of prestige points that Pathfinders do, yes?

This is irrelevant.

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