Help Needed Making Characters for Origins and Gencon

[DS229]

A friend of mine and me are making starting characters for playing at Origins and then on to Gencon...

...however I am confused between CORE and STANDARD. Do we only use the Core book or can we use the advanced options?

Please advise. Thank you.

David n Ben

[Andy Brown]

PFS Core: Core Rulebook only
PFS Standard: Whatever you own that is defined as legal in the Additional Resources.

The Roleplaying Guild Guide should answer a lot of questions.

[DS229]

Thanks Andy,

I do understand that part, but what confuses me is what what adventures you can't play in if you use Standard? Or doesn't it matter?

Basically, I want to create my character via Standard but will that limit what adventures my character can play in at Origins and Gencon?

David

[Andy Brown]

Ah right.
A Standard character can only play at a Standard table, and a Core character can only play at a Core table. If you use a Core character at a Standard table, it becomes a Standard character.
And, unless things have changed without me noticing, if you play a Standard character at a Core table, it becomes a Standard table and all the other characters then become Standard characters (this was down to how the online reporting works, and I don't know whether Paizo have been able to sort it out, because I don't GM very often and have never played Core). This means that everybody has to make sure they've got Core characters at a Core table before they start, or things get a bit messy.

[Scott Howland]

Standard is the standard, Core rarely if ever gets run.

Build for standard and you'll be ok

[DS229]

Thanks folks!

Cheers

[Qstor]

Ask the person that's mustering the table ie seating people at tables for the games if you have a question if the game is standard or Core too. The ticket's should say.