Need some clarification on purchasing items

[crashcanuck]

I've received mixed messages regarding this so I figured the forum would be able to point me to the correct answer. I'm unsure just how the Fame limit applies to purchasing items. Am I only allowed to purchase items from the Always Available list and the chronicle sheets I have, limited by the Fame value or am I able to purchase any item from Always Available and chronicles and anything else is limited by Fame?

[Pink Dragon]

You can purchase an item if it meets at least one of the following criteria:

1. It is on the always available list and you have enough gold to buy it.
2. It costs 750 gp or less and your character spends prestige points to buy it.
3. It is on one of your character's chronicle sheets and you have enough gold to buy it.
4. Its cost is equal to or less than your character's Fame limit as outlined in the table on page 19 of the PFS Guild Guide Version 8, and you have enough gold to buy it.

I think that covers it.

Edit. I will add that for Core games, the item must also be in he Core rule book or on a chronicle sheet that your character has.

[BigNorseWolf]

Flutters Gude for newbies

You usually acquire access to equipment from the society in 4 ways::

1)It's on a chronicle sheet. You were the one that brought the item in for study, so you can buy it back once they’re done studying it in between adventures.
2)It's on the always available list. The society will let any members, including their most junior, buy mundane and alchemical weapons, armor and gear made of normal and special materials (other than dragonhide), alchemical equipment, scrolls and potions of first level spells.
You can spend 1 or 2 pp to buy an item worth up to 300 or 750 gp. Many adventurers use their first two PP to purchase a wand of cure light wounds or infernal healing this way. Even if they can’t cast it themselves, they can hand it to someone who can. This way, you pay for your own healing, even if someone else is operating your wand.
And most importantly, Fame. You can buy any legal item from the society that you meet the fame score for. (See the chart in the guide.) As you adventure your fame grows, and the society is more willing to open their vaults or have their craftsmen make items just for you. This means that if you have a character concept that requires a flaming, shocking, mithril kusarigama you don’t need to pray that you find one on the chronicle, you can get it made. Your purchase limit USUALLY exceeds the amount of gold on hand. While chronicle sheet loot looks very important, in practice only rare items, partially charged wands, and items you can’t normally buy (like an elven cloak of resistance) really matter.

[crashcanuck]

Thank you, your explanations were the method I was expecting to be the correct one, I just wanted to confirm it.

[BigNorseWolf]

crashcanuck wrote:

Thank you, your explanations were the method I was expecting to be the correct one, I just wanted to confirm it.

No problem. its a lot to take in and a lot of the rules are a lil..wth? worthy.

Also, theres a reason that question is in the introduction , it gets asked.a.lot. and it's something you may have to plaan for from the beggining.