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I have been thinking about the Sorcerer of Sleep. Does anyone see a likely reason why this archetype was banned, other than its association with drug use? I can totally understand if that is the reason for the banning, but I still have a glimmer of hope.
Likely it is drugs. There is a moral component but there's also a gameplay component that makes anything associated with drugs - in this instance pesh - tricky.
The problem is how to handle addiction rules in PFS play. The long term problem is that if you become addicted to a drug that is a condition and all conditions have to be cleared by the end of a scenario. So a GM would have to spend quite a lot of time running through the addiction rules and making sure the condition is cleared at the end of each scenario. Shorter term you have to actually deal with the addiction rules during the scenario, but only for one player.
So basically all the potentially addictive drugs are banned because they add greatly to the time to play a scenario. And because the Sorcerer of Sleep is tied so tightly to pesh it makes no sense to have the archetype without the pesh connection.
