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It was clarified in previous guides and is slated to be readded in the 8.1 guide. You can't sell pregen gear for anything other than resolving issues at the end.
Any equipment that’s listed on the pregenerated character sheet may only be sold to clear their own conditions during the play of a sanctioned event
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Just bear in mind that you only get half price for it. Usually you are better off using what you have.
Mostly to illustrate my contempt for the concept of magical studded leather I've sold a pregens magical studded leather to buy a mithril chain shirt at a small profit.
Everybody at Paizo has to realize that any character buying magical studded leather is an idiot :-).
With the occassional edge case for druid with wooden studs, or somebody who values aesthetics over survival
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Just bear in mind that you only get half price for it. Usually you are better off using what you have.
Mostly to illustrate my contempt for the concept of magical studded leather I've sold a pregens magical studded leather to buy a mithril chain shirt at a small profit.
Everybody at Paizo has to realize that any character buying magical studded leather is an idiot :-).
With the occassional edge case for druid with wooden studs, or somebody who values aesthetics over survival
Most of my characters have magical studded leather.
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Honestly had never noticed that. I may have to keep that in mind going forward. That said I never have to worry about completely losing my armor if we encounter a rust monster... :P
+1 studded vs mithril is essentially a wash.
But its at higher levels that the difference becomes more and more significant.
Plus mithril is just cooler :-)
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Which is definitely an issue, because there have been at least two situations (with GM approval) pre-8 that some 'useless' pregen gear was sold back to get *essential* gear for the scenario that I can remember, the sort of gear that if not acquired could potentially lead TO said resurrection costs.
I know in the past, I've sold Seelah's heavy shield to replace it with a light shield so I could actually use her LoH in combat.
Most of my characters have magical studded leather.Why?
I'm presuming that you realize that mithril chain shirts are cheaper and better?
Unless you have a Dex of exactly 20 or 21.
Max Dex for studded leather is +5 vs. +4 for a chain shirt.
Then it would be +7 for mithral studded leather armor (which apparently is a thing according to the Game Mastery Guide), thus raising the critical Max Dex values to the less likely 24-25 range.
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Does Mithral Studded Leather even work?
Items not primarily of metal are not meaningfully affected by being partially made of mithral.
Studded Leather: Similar to leather armor, this suit is reinforced with small metal studs.
It sounds like Studded Leather is primarily made of leather.
According to the Game Mastery Guide, it does.
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There is no dex score that makes darkleaf (or mithral, if it exists) studded leather provide more AC than mithral chain shirt.
+1 Dex
Darkleaf Studded Leather = AC 4
Mithril Chain Shirt = AC 5
+2 Dex
Darkleaf Studded Leather = AC 5
Mithril Chain Shirt = AC 6
+3 Dex
Darkleaf Studded Leather = AC 6
Mithril Chain Shirt = AC 7
+4 Dex
Darkleaf Studded Leather = AC 7
Mithril Chain Shirt = AC 8
+5 Dex
Darkleaf Studded Leather = AC 8
Mithril Chain Shirt = AC 9
+6 Dex
Darkleaf Studded Leather = AC 9
Mithril Chain Shirt = AC 10
+7 Dex
Darkleaf Studded Leather = AC 10
Mithril Chain Shirt = AC 10
+8 Dex
Darkleaf Studded Leather = AC 10
Mithril Chain Shirt = AC 10
Darkleaf studded leather is 250gp cheaper though and provides the same AC at +7 or higher.
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The items in the GameMastery Guide are explicitly not legal, unfortunately.
Otherwise everyone would ditch their Mithral Buckler in favor of cheaper Darkwood.
And nothing's wrong with Studded Leather. Sometimes you're going for a certain look.
Also, a Mithral Shirt is 10lbs, not 12.5
(matters a lot for some characters)
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I could see how selling pregen gear could be abused but at the same time I do think there are few pregens so egregious that if an inexperienced player is unfortunate enough to choose them I'm willing to bend the rules.
But on the other hand I have also seen table cooperation go a long way to help out players with pregens before. One time I was at a table where we pitched in to get Lirianne more adamantine bullets after the player playing her blew through her allotment in the first encounter of the scenario.