|
When ever I share a folio, I make a point to suggest that the player purchase a folio...
Most of the people I know who share folios do the same thing.. and there have been a fair number of folio purchases because of this...
I would have to argue, from my limited experience, that it encourages players to buy their own... and possibly an extra 1 or 2...
This is my experience also. And my FLGS has them very conveniently displayed for quick sales.
|
Do you think that might change if it were officially allowed? I've only seen a reroll shared in one game (the same game the social expectation arose).
I guess since I've never seen any sort of pressure to donate a reroll, it's not really something I think of as a problem.
I really don't think so, no. Of course I'm in a weird area, so take that with an appropriately-sized grain of salt.
I guess my approach would be just to not say anything and let it keep happening without explicitly commenting on it one way or the other.
|
Venture-Captain, California—San Francisco Bay Area South & West
|
As an aside on the subject of newbie player retention, PFS should offer a boon to anyone who loses their XXXX-1 character at 1st level.
There is now a "Welcome to Pathfinder!" boon which is intended to be handed out to new players (and can only be applied to their -1 character). It offers a choice between various forms of healing, etc.
I've been at a table where two of the four new players elected to use that boon to heal other members of their party; those are the kind of people I'm happy to see joining the ranks of the Pathfinder Society!
|
|
Off topic a little bit but has this actually been released? I can't find the darn thing anywhere.
There is now a "Welcome to Pathfinder!" boon which is intended to be handed out to new players (and can only be applied to their -1 character). It offers a choice between various forms of healing, etc.
Venture officers can get access to them. If you need some talk to your local VO.
|
Venture officers can get access to them. If you need some talk to your local VO.Off topic a little bit but has this actually been released? I can't find the darn thing anywhere.
There is now a "Welcome to Pathfinder!" boon which is intended to be handed out to new players (and can only be applied to their -1 character). It offers a choice between various forms of healing, etc.
From my understanding, these are currently Con only boons, to help pull new players into PFS.
Shiny new 4th star =D
|
|
Venture officers can get access to them. If you need some talk to your local VO.Off topic a little bit but has this actually been released? I can't find the darn thing anywhere.
There is now a "Welcome to Pathfinder!" boon which is intended to be handed out to new players (and can only be applied to their -1 character). It offers a choice between various forms of healing, etc.
From my understanding, these are currently Con only boons, to help pull new players into PFS.
Shiny new 4th star =D
Well, congratulations on star 4! I still have twenty some scenarios to go until I get there.
|
Venture-Captain, California—San Francisco Bay Area South & West
|
Venture officers can get access to them. If you need some talk to your local VO.Off topic a little bit but has this actually been released? I can't find the darn thing anywhere.
There is now a "Welcome to Pathfinder!" boon which is intended to be handed out to new players (and can only be applied to their -1 character). It offers a choice between various forms of healing, etc.
From my understanding, these are currently Con only boons, to help pull new players into PFS.
Shiny new 4th star =D
I asked Tonya about this, and was told the New Player boon was not limited to conventions, but could be given out at game days, regular store sessions, etc. - anywhere there were players new to Pathfinder Society.
P.S. Congratulations that new 4th star!
|
|
Huh, okay. Well, thanks! I will try to keep that in mind for the future... my newbie has gone and played another PFS game before mine, so he's no longer eligible. I think!
They can apply it if they are on their first character and that character has less than 3xp. So still safe with 2 games. Talk to your local VO about getting the boon.
|
Venture-Captain, Netherlands
|
Huh, okay. Well, thanks! I will try to keep that in mind for the future... my newbie has gone and played another PFS game before mine, so he's no longer eligible. I think!They can apply it if they are on their first character and that character has less than 3xp. So still safe with 2 games. Talk to your local VO about getting the boon.
I got mine from my VC to hand out to new players at my location.
|
|
BLUF: Yes, only if they are level 4 and below.
I allow lending if the characters are level 4 and below and it is a life or death situation. Mainly because most characters at that level do not have the PP available for the Raise Dead; potentially due to the ever popular purchasing of CLW wands with PP. Unless the player has done something stupid, I try and pull punches that prevent character death that usually involves but not limited to the character not being able to participate until they get back to town at which point they are brought back at 1 HP or permanently unconscious until the end of the scenario.
Characters at level 5 and above, I do not allow the lending of rerolls or items at all. At this point, the players themselves have invested enough time into society that if they want bonus rolls they can purchase the Paizo products that get them such benefits.
|
|
I saw on here the 'One cent deposit rule', not this thread, but boom, problem solved.
ie, player 'deposits' a penny (or smaller denomination coin for those folks in Canada, etc) to the person with the folio, and then provided it's intact at the end of the scenario, player returns folio, player gets penny back.
Personally, if someone spent the money to have four or five folios on 'standby', I'd let it fly as a GM, the money is spent, the community is served, and it encourages folks to get their own (thus more money spent for those who are counting it).
The alternative would be rather distasteful... "Oh, yeah, I've got this reroll, but since you don't have a folio or a shirt or a messenger bag or whatnot, you don't get one, so sorry." That would drive away new players or those who aren't sure about Society play, when the mantra is Explore. Report. Cooperate.