just a quickie,
I have a character who might be using a halfling sling staff, is it PFS legal to reflavor it from a club with a sling to a baseball bat?
nothing crunchy would change as far as i can tell, but feel free to let me know if I am horribly wrong...
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So instead of short club, you have a short bat...I think that goes in line with the 'like for like' reflavoring rules. I mean, you won't be able to hide it as 'sports equipment' or anything, anyone who has such knowledge will be able to recognize it as a halfling sling staff.
And oddly shaped one, but I agree.
From the PFS FAQ:
A player may not re-skin items to be something for which there are no specific rules, and any item a character uses for which there are no stats is considered an improvised weapon
No you may not have a baseball bat in Pathfinder unless there is one already in existence.
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From the PFS FAQ:
A player may not re-skin items to be something for which there are no specific rules, and any item a character uses for which there are no stats is considered an improvised weaponNo you may not have a baseball bat in Pathfinder unless there is one already in existence.
What's this baseball thing you speak of. This is just a club that I sanded down for aerodynamic, made wide at one end for good head bashing, and thin towards the other for easy gripping.
My issue is that you want to have a halfling sling be a baseball bat. It has to be a sling based weapon. You can not reflavor it as such that you play baseball with the ammo rather than using an actual sling mechanic.
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Wait, reskinning sounds backward.
If you reskin to something that already exists & has rules, that's not a change of "skin" that's to a different object.
Object A has rules, but you want a different flavor, so you can reskin it as object B which has different mechanics, but then ignore those mechanics because it's just a skin? But you can't do rule-less object C because...that would be misleading?
That makes little sense. If anything then you're fooling everybody with a B-looking object that's really an A. At least with C object then characters can guess it's mechanics because there's no baggage.
ETA: Can't we just be reasonable? For fun's sake.
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From the PFS FAQ:
A player may not re-skin items to be something for which there are no specific rules, and any item a character uses for which there are no stats is considered an improvised weaponNo you may not have a baseball bat in Pathfinder unless there is one already in existence.What's this baseball thing you speak of. This is just a club that I sanded down for aerodynamic, made wide at one end for good head bashing, and thin towards the other for easy gripping.
My issue is that you want to have a halfling sling be a baseball bat. It has to be a sling based weapon. You can not reflavor it as such that you play baseball with the ammo rather than using an actual sling mechanic.
Does this mean I can re-skin my Khepresh of Refuge to look like a jingasa or conical straw hat?
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Wait, reskinning sounds backward.
If you reskin to something that already exists & has rules, that's not a change of "skin" that's to a different object.Object A has rules, but you want a different flavor, so you can reskin it as object B which has different mechanics, but then ignore those mechanics because it's just a skin? But you can't do rule-less object C because...that would be misleading?
That makes little sense. If anything then you're fooling everybody with a B-looking object that's really an A. At least with C object then characters can guess it's mechanics because there's no baggage.ETA: Can't we just be reasonable? For fun's sake.
PFS leadership has been pretty clear about reskinning. If a wolf can't be a pig, then a halfling sling staff probably can't be a baseball bat.
Some GMs will disagree with the leadership and allow it anyway but if you are a player who travels and sits at a variety of GM tables then your mileage will probably vary.