"Fluff" crafting in PFS


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I know that ( other than alchemy) you may not craft in PFS. However, if your character is trained in the craft skill, are you allowed to claim -for purely flavor reasons- that your character crafted their own weapon (that they paid full price for and followed all fame restrictions on). Or would that be a violation of the no reskinning rule or something?

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I have claimed this. My cyphermage will say that she scribed a lot of her own scrolls, even though I paid full price for them. It doesn't make any practical difference, and it's a little silly to think that a 13th level cyphermage can't scribe scrolls.

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As long as you calculated the crunch correctly, then it wouldn't bother me. You might use it as a GM credibility test; if a GM is going to get bent out of shape about it that then you might want to cut your losses then and there.

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My dwarven foehammer fighter with craft: weapons as his day job is a blacksmith who only joined the Society to test out his family's wares "in the field". Some of his weapons were made with his own hands, while others were made by his brothers, father, cousins, etc.

Scarab Sages 5/5 5/5 *** Venture-Captain, Netherlands

I GMd for a guy who had craft: wood sculptures. Usually he used it during travel time. Make some wooden statues of his companions. But then they went to the shackles and he ended up carving fancy peg legs. It was awesome. (No money was made, it was all fluff)

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Michael Haneline wrote:
I know that ( other than alchemy) you may not craft in PFS. However, if your character is trained in the craft skill, are you allowed to claim -for purely flavor reasons- that your character crafted their own weapon (that they paid full price for and followed all fame restrictions on). Or would that be a violation of the no reskinning rule or something?

The only concern is that there are a handful of traits/abilities which benefit from items you crafted. As long as you aren't doing this for those, I don't see the issue.

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Tineke Bolleman wrote:
I GMd for a guy who had craft: wood sculptures. Usually he used it during travel time. Make some wooden statues of his companions. But then they went to the shackles and he ended up carving fancy peg legs. It was awesome. (No money was made, it was all fluff)

I have a warpriest of Shelyn with craft: wood carving. After all, Shelyn's priests are all supposed to do something artistic every day, even if they're bad at it. Which my guy is - int is his dump stat, so even with masterwork tools and the fact that it's a class skill, he only has a +4.

I usually end my character introduction for him with "Please accept this rose from the church of Shelyn", and then he hands out little wooden roses to each party member and the Venture-Captain giving the mission briefing.


Murdock Mudeater wrote:
Michael Haneline wrote:
I know that ( other than alchemy) you may not craft in PFS. However, if your character is trained in the craft skill, are you allowed to claim -for purely flavor reasons- that your character crafted their own weapon (that they paid full price for and followed all fame restrictions on). Or would that be a violation of the no reskinning rule or something?
The only concern is that there are a handful of traits/abilities which benefit from items you crafted. As long as you aren't doing this for those, I don't see the issue.

Are there any of those that are allowed in Pathfinder Society? They seem to be pretty consistently banned on the additional resources page.

Sovereign Court 4/5 5/5 ** Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden

PFS has a "no reskinning" rule that this can get close to, but it's important to understand the context of that rule.

I don't remember the story exactly, but it was something like this: someone had a dog animal companion, but reflavored it as a boar. The adventure had goblins in it, who really really hate HATE dogs. So the reflavoring led to arguments.

So what it really comes down to is: reflavoring (and in this case, "flavoring your items as self-made" shouldn't have a huge impact on the scenario.

With what you're asking to do, I don't see any problems.

Scarab Sages

Michael Haneline wrote:
Are there any of those that are allowed in Pathfinder Society? They seem to be pretty consistently banned on the additional resources page.

Not sure off hand, but I think a few are. Doesn't really matter while crafting isn't legal.

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