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Keep also in mind that Society wayfinders have inscriptions that identify whom they belong to. They serve as a form of ID between Society members and those that are allied. So if someone has nicked your personal wayfinder, you have incentive to recover it.
I do not think this is true. In fact, from where they have appeared in other scenarios I have seen, I am pretty sure that it is not true. They are not inscribed with who they belong to...
Wayfinders are not dog-tags....
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Keep also in mind that Society wayfinders have inscriptions that identify whom they belong to. They serve as a form of ID between Society members and those that are allied. So if someone has nicked your personal wayfinder, you have incentive to recover it.
I do not think this is true. In fact, from where they have appeared in other scenarios I have seen, I am pretty sure that it is not true. They are not inscribed with who they belong to...
Wayfinders are not dog-tags....
Some of them do and some of them don't. As the plot and or word count demand for the specific wayfinder demands.
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...snipping some stuff...
Keep also in mind that Society wayfinders have inscriptions that identify whom they belong to. They serve as a form of ID between Society members and those that are allied. So if someone has nicked your personal wayfinder, you have incentive to recover it.
I do not think this is true. In fact, from where they have appeared in other scenarios I have seen, I am pretty sure that it is not true. They are not inscribed with who they belong to...
Wayfinders are not dog-tags....
If a wayfinder plays a significant plot role in a scenario, it is almost always inscribed.
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If a wayfinder plays a significant plot role in a scenario, it is almost always inscribed....snipping some stuff...
Keep also in mind that Society wayfinders have inscriptions that identify whom they belong to. They serve as a form of ID between Society members and those that are allied. So if someone has nicked your personal wayfinder, you have incentive to recover it.
I do not think this is true. In fact, from where they have appeared in other scenarios I have seen, I am pretty sure that it is not true. They are not inscribed with who they belong to...
Wayfinders are not dog-tags....
the first scenario that has one play a significant role (that I can recall) is #0-13 Prince... and the Venture Captain there comments that "the Wayfinder marks him as one of ours" until we can figure out where he got it... I.E. - "We have no idea how/where this Wayfinder came from..." no marking...
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To step back very briefly we encountered one Wayfinder during our home RotRL campaign.
As we'd met Sheila at a fancy dinner, we turned it over to her with some documentation of where we found it because we heard Pathfinders were all about documenting things.
It became kind of important later, that connection, when we uncovered something that would make nearly any Pathfinder worth the name swoon, and we did *not* have the resources as a party to preserve all of that... but the Pathfinder Society did.
They were also our 'message in a bottle' go-to, aside from the wife of one of the characters who would get coded messages and coordinates in letters that got sent to her -- just in case the party ran into something they couldn't handle and either needed bailing out or body retrieval, etc.
Regional Venture-Coordinator, Baltic
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In the non-PFS Pathfinder world wayfinders are probably not as sought after as in the PFS world, as not everyone is a metagamer that needs immunity against evil mindcontrol.
Even worse, if for some reason they would kill a pathfinder, the Society would rightfully come after them and their non-evil mindcontrol would still work!
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In the non-PFS Pathfinder world wayfinders are probably not as sought after as in the PFS world, as not everyone is a metagamer that needs immunity against evil mindcontrol.
Is PFS not canon? I mean, sure, in scenarios that's where the focus is, but there are ~24 scenarios a year and maybe 1/3 of them directly involve "pathfinders specifically being sought/hunted/killed/etc". But in the world of Golarion that's really only a small fraction of the overall stuff that could/would/does happen.
Nevermind, I completely misread what you meant. You're right, outside of organized play, wayfinders are probably used less often. But they're still extremely useful (perhaps moreso if you allow yourself to use something other than a Clear Spindle Ioun Stone).