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While it's fun to think about rerolling that crit confirmation on the orc's greataxe, as GMs, we're not allowed to use free rerolls. Free rerolls are exclusively for people playing a scenario. (Of course, if a monster has something else built-in that lets it reroll, that's a separate thing.)
Now, if you're playing in a game instead of GMing, you might be allowed one reroll per session if you've got the right Paizo swag equipped. As long as you've got the right gear, you get your reroll--your GM stars just increase the result of the reroll by one per star!
As a way of rewarding players who show their support for the Pathfinder Society Organized Play campaign by purchasing and wearing special shirts featuring campaign insignia, faction logos, or Pathfinder branding, a player wearing any of the shirts listed below during a Pathfinder Society event may reroll one d20 roll during the course of that scenario. This reroll must happen before the original result is determined and the player must use the reroll result, even if it is lower. Game Masters are also invited to wear Pathfinder Society Organized Play shirts, but gain no additional benefits other than supporting Pathfinder.The following Pathfinder Society Organized Play shirts are currently available.
- Andoran faction shirt
- Cheliax faction shirt
- Osirion faction shirt
- Qadira faction shirt
- Taldor faction shirt
- Venture-Captain polo
- Venture-Lieutenant polo
- Year of the Ruby Phoenix
- Year of the Risen Rune shirt
- Year of the Demon shirt
- Year of the Sky Key shirt
- Year of the Serpent shirt
- Iconic character shirts (Seoni, Harsk, Valeros, & Kyra)
- Paizo golem shirt
- Pathfinder goblin with d20 shirt
- Pathfinder goblin song shirts (both color and black and white)
- Pathfinder goblin with red gem shirt
- Burnt Offerings Goblin shirt.
- Gray Maiden shirt
- Pathfinder Society-exclusive volunteer shirt
- Goblinworks Kickstarter shirt
- Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook shirt
- Dogslicer Ale shirt
- Ghost Goblin Ale shirt
- Messenger Bag (Beginner Box, Burnt Offerings, Core Rulebook, Rise of the Runelords, Ultimate Campaign, or Year of the Demon)
If a player is using a physical copy (not a PDF, printout, or photocopy) of the Pathfinder RPG Player Character Folio, he receives a free reroll. No player may receive more than one free reroll per session.Additionally, when a player uses a free reroll, she may present her Pathfinder Society membership card and receive an additional +1 for every GM star she has earned, for a maximum of a +5.
Finally, if a player receives a Campaign Service Award coin for going above and beyond when giving back to Pathfinder Society, she receives a free reroll once per scenario upon displaying the coin. She may also change her Pathfinder Society number to the three-digit number found on the coin.
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Heyo..
The reroll itself comes from the shirt, messenger bag, or character folio (for those of us who do not fit into puny shirt). The DM doesn't get one, but you often see a nicer dm handing a new player a folio with "here, hold this..."
The stars just add to it. I have 4 stars so if i reroll, I add 4. Really handy for when i get a 5 and say "...well i can't do any worse"
Thanks for stepping up!
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While it's fun to think about rerolling that crit confirmation on the orc's greataxe, as GMs, we're not allowed to use free rerolls. Free rerolls are exclusively for people playing a scenario. (Of course, if a monster has something else built-in that lets it reroll, that's a separate thing.)
Now, if you're playing in a game instead of GMing, you might be allowed one reroll per session if you've got the right Paizo swag equipped. As long as you've got the right gear, you get your reroll--your GM stars just increase the result of the reroll by one per star!
** spoiler omitted **
Game Masters are also invited to wear Pathfinder Society Organized Play shirts, but gain no additional benefits other than supporting Pathfinder.
Thanks! Missed that sentence in my reading of the Free Rerolls section. :)
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While it's fun to think about rerolling that crit confirmation on the orc's greataxe.. because it confirmed and you don't want to kill the character.
Riiiiiiight?
Awwww... the GM gotta have some fun, too! :( LOL
I can assure you, your characters are safe with me. Haven't killed one yet! Well, not permanently in PFS. Maybe I'm a big softie, or maybe the local scene is just pretty good at building characters. None of us around here have been particularly brutal.
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I don't really keep track of deaths but I can think of three off the top of my head, though I almost had more when I ran Captive in Crystal on Saturday. All but one of the characters I've deaded have either gotten BoL'd or raised, I've only reported one dead PC.
One was during Jester's Fraud by one of the archers, hit a PC a few times got another turn and ended up hitting twice before critting once the PC was in single digits.
One was from a Phantasmal Killer during some scenario I don't recall at the moment.
The only permadeath was during Risen From the Sands, pregen Oloch got mummy rot and died a day away from town post scenario.
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How do you only have 2? I have had more players that practically commit suicide.
Experienced players (some of my players have been playing longer than some of my other players have been alive). This goes beyond the players themselves as they show the other players what to do.
Mostly low tables (its hard to consistently get 2 tables going in small venues)
Packed tables 6 or 7 is sadly the norm. Rolls over the scenarios.
Ungrateful munchkins: most people here know how to build a character.
and as a DM i assume that the PCs are semi professional somewhat trained murderho..erm.. Archeologists that know to look for traps when they have the time.
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I think 19 deaths and one wolf, one pig and two Riddlywhipples. Only 3 were permanent though.
Wait, I'm not this horrible a player! These were those poor sods killed by my dice( and that one mummy on tier 2-4).
I think I've had 4 chars of my own die, one permanently:
Spider Swarm + Trap
Large Earth Elementals + Trap
Vescavors + Confusion + Poison + Nega-levels + Playing up
3 failed Ref saves back to back
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Sometimes I'll use my reroll as a GM, though most of those times I give the roll to a player.
Wait! I thought GMs didn't get rerolls, as indicated by Terminalmancer and BigNorseWolf at the beginning of this thread? Are you referring to when you were a player, used your reroll and added your GM stars bonus?
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I once killed someone twice. In the same module. The party paid to bring him back to life and then I killed him again later.
I wasn't trying to I swear.
On the topic of rerolls, I always bring my shirt. I usually donate it to the table, unless I'm at a convention. Then I donate it to whoever buys me alcohol or pizza, because I am most definitely a bribable GM.
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On the topic of rerolls, I always bring my shirt. I usually donate it to the table, unless I'm at a convention. Then I donate it to whoever buys me alcohol or pizza, because I am most definitely a bribable GM.
... now more confused... this is directly opposite to what's written in the Guide to Organized Play (pg28-29).... :-/
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Many times GMs that have an item that allows a reroll will loan it to a player at their table. GMs can't use rerolls on NPCs. The player getting the reroll loaned to them would use their star rank for any bonus, and not the star rank of the GM loaning it out.
This is allowed? I have the Character Folio already so I can give my reroll to a player at my table, but can't use it myself when I'm GMing?
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Many times GMs that have an item that allows a reroll will loan it to a player at their table. GMs can't use rerolls on NPCs. The player getting the reroll loaned to them would use their star rank for any bonus, and not the star rank of the GM loaning it out.This is allowed? I have the Character Folio already so I can give my reroll to a player at my table, but can't use it myself when I'm GMing?
Things like this are a gray area that are usually tolerated, sometimes cheerfully, in the name of building camaraderie. I think the way it works is that:
- You're the GM, so you decide what "wearing" a shirt or "using" a folio means--although the previous campaign leadership had some pretty loose guidelines for what using a folio entails, which seems to be owning and displaying it. I keep mine in the front outside pocket of my character binder. If you throw a t-shirt at a player and tell him that he gets his reroll as long as he wears it like a bandanna, or there are holes cut out of the front and she has to wear it like a mask, that's sort of your prerogative.
- The players generally don't complain about it because you're giving them things, not taking them away. Nobody should ever die because of a reroll. (ed. note: I almost did once!)
- Other tables don't usually complain about it because it's only a reroll, it's probably just going to be used to reroll a saving throw to keep Bob from kicking the bucket when the fighter next to him gets possessed.
- The campaign leadership doesn't complain about it because it's a way of making the GM/player relationship less contentious which is good for morale and participation, it shows players without reroll gear that rerolls are cool, and it encourages those players to buy more Pathfinder stuff. Which is sort of the point of PFS from Paizo's perspective anyway.
Actual campaign leadership probably has a more reasoned explanation.
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Many times GMs that have an item that allows a reroll will loan it to a player at their table. GMs can't use rerolls on NPCs. The player getting the reroll loaned to them would use their star rank for any bonus, and not the star rank of the GM loaning it out.This is allowed? I have the Character Folio already so I can give my reroll to a player at my table, but can't use it myself when I'm GMing?
Correct, you as the GM have the option to give your reroll to the PC's if one of them doesn't have one. However, this does not allow a player to get more than one shirt/folio reroll per session. And you are not required to do so.
Additionally, you the GM are not allowed to use your reroll on an NPC. Free rerolls should not be used by the GM to hurt the party.
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I tell the players they can use my reroll for any roll I make. But they all have to agree on it.
Additionally, you the GM are not allowed to use your reroll on an NPC. Free rerolls should not be used by the GM to hurt the party.
("All have to agree"?) Player B: "No Bob, I don't think Finlanderboy needs to use his re-roll on that GreatAx crit you just took..." {Evil grin}
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Many times GMs that have an item that allows a reroll will loan it to a player at their table. GMs can't use rerolls on NPCs. The player getting the reroll loaned to them would use their star rank for any bonus, and not the star rank of the GM loaning it out.This is allowed? I have the Character Folio already so I can give my reroll to a player at my table, but can't use it myself when I'm GMing?
Correct, you as the GM have the option to give your reroll to the PC's if one of them doesn't have one. However, this does not allow a player to get more than one shirt/folio reroll per session. And you are not required to do so.
Additionally, you the GM are not allowed to use your reroll on an NPC. Free rerolls should not be used by the GM to hurt the party.
I've seen one of the kinder GMs around here bend the rules the other way invoking the free reroll to avoid doing massive damage to the low level characters of fairly new players. Doesn't do it often but I've seen it once or twice, feels like a good idea to me.
Venture-Agent, Minnesota
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I have a T-Shirt. When I GM, I stick the t-shirt on the table and say, "This is a free reroll for someone at this table. You all decide who gets that reroll!"
I've had one character death. A charging barbarian NPC in Wounded Wisp critted a level 1 character with a great axe. Ooh, that was painful. Fortunately, it was the first chronicle on that character, and it was in an evergreen, and the player (Rosc) was an experienced guy who was cheerful about it and didn't get upset.
I still felt awful.
Hmm
