Is the guide still a legal source to use to purchase a wayfinder?

[claudekennilol]

Quote:

Wayfinder (at a 50% discount for 250 gp; see page 299 of

Pathfinder Campaign Setting: The Inner Sea World Guide)

However, listed in the guide itself used to be the wayfinder's statblock. I see that's missing from season 8. Is it intended that players must now have the Inner Sea World Guide or Seekers of Secrets to make use of a wayfinder? Or is having access to an older guide still sufficient?

[Nefreet]

Access to an older Guide would not work for characters making a purchase after August 4th.

Much like the older Faction Traits are no longer available for characters created after those Guides were replaced.

Though if you already have a Wayfinder, and a copy of the older Guide, that would work.

Just like using an older Guide to reference your Trait.

But I do really hope that the team puts it back into the edited Season 8 Guide.

My future CORE characters will be sad otherwise.

[claudekennilol]

Nefreet wrote:

My future CORE characters will be sad otherwise.

That's something I hadn't even thought of. I was moreso thinking of "what about new players that don't have these books yet?" My thinking that a wayfinder is a pretty standard piece of equipment for a pathfinder and that easy access for everyone was intended.

[Nefreet]

That, too.

[leonvios]

have to make all of them run through a certain evergreen XD

[Curaigh]

The Confirmation gives one for free and a Wayfinder is still listed as always available. However a player has to have a copy of the book for anything other than Core.

I hope (expect?) it will go back into the guide (or an allowance is made :)

[claudekennilol]

Yeah, The Confirmation doesn't list the entire item, just that they can have one. While there are some scenarios that have items' whole stat blocks on the chronicle sheet making them legal without the source, The Confirmation is not one of them.

[Nefreet]

Oh. Good point.

Just because a Chronicle grants access to a Timeworn Laser Pistol doesn't mean you can purchase it. You still need to own the Technology Guide.

Or even something normally "Always Available", like a Katana. You'd need to own the book for that, too.

Same thing for Wayfinders, now.

[Slothsy]

I'm fairly sure that this is an oversight (since all good Pathfinders should own a wayfinder!). Hopefully this thread will bring it to campaign leadership's attention that the stats were excluded from the guide.

[Nefreet]

That is my hope as well.

[Fromper]

I'll just add a "me too" to hoping it goes back in the Guide, or an exception is made.

[Blackbot]

Especially considering there a certain scenarios written under the assumption that at least one character has a wayfinder on them...

[Hmm]

+1 to keeping the guide a legal source for Wayfinders.

Hmm

[Murdock Mudeater]

If not the guide, where is the legal wayfinder found?

[UndeadMitch]

Ineer Sea World Guide, for one. It might be in other sources, but I'm not completely certain.

[Soluzar]

This is especially relevant for Core.

[nosig]

Mitch Mutrux wrote:

Ineer Sea World Guide, for one. It might be in other sources, but I'm not completely certain.

Standard Wayfinders are also listed in Seekers of Secrets (pg. 50). - it also has the rules for socketing Ioun Stones...

[Murdock Mudeater]

Soluzar wrote:

This is especially relevant for Core.

Sounds like Core characters can't take Wayfinders anymore.

[Merisal The Risen]

I'll be flabbergasted if this is the new policy rather than an oversight from cleaning up the guide

This being core characters can't have way finders on their always available list

[Murdock Mudeater]

Jeff Cook wrote:

I'll be flabbergasted if this is the new policy rather than an oversight from cleaning up the guide

This being core characters can't have way finders on their always available list

I was teasing. I agree, definitely seems like an accident. Though that said, all the wayfinder upgrades are presently non-core, so perhaps we're waiting on an upcoming remake of the Pathfinder Campaign Setting: PFS guide (which is overdue anyway).

Wink, wink, paizo. I love to see that old PFS guide for sale again in print. Especially with updated faction options (all the other content is solid). Selling it in print means I can support my local hobby store when I purchase it. Plus I like hard copies.

[Darrell Impey UK]

Today's blog has confirmed that it was an error, and that it will be corrected.