+4 Skill Check, cost 1 Fame

[Matt2VK]

Question: What's the game mechanics for the +4 to any one skill check for the cost of 1 Fame?

Where and When can I use this 'purchased' skill check?

Could it be purchased in the middle of a session and be applied to a Society 'Hireling' that's with a player?

How has it been used in other people's tables?

[Nefreet]

I have literally never seen it come up.

In either SFS, or PFS1.

[Matt2VK]

Would like to know as I have a Vesk Solarian who is 'lacking' in skills for skill checks. After playing in a scenario that required lots of skill checks, have started looking for ways to buff those numbers.

[Dracomicron]

I've done it in some clutch circumstances. It may or may not have been with a Paizo developer GM at a convention.

Officially, it's probably just "announce paying 1 fame beforehand for +4 to a clutch check."

I believe the real mechanics are, "convince the GM to add 4 to your failed skill check in exchange for 1 fame."

[Belafon]

I don’t see it nearly as much as I used to.

In the “Faction Mission” days of PFS1, you would sometimes see a player use it when they were making a check that was clearly and obviously the one that would get them a Prestige Point.

I think the only time I’ve seen it used in SFS is when a particularly cunning and paranoid player took 10 to disarm a trap (GM decided the check wasn’t “crucial”) and failed - but didn’t set it off. So he spent a prestige to try again.

[BigNorseWolf]

I assume the roaming charges of this apply?

Edit: This probably needs to be used before the roll doesn't it?

[eddv]

I have used it a couple times - on checks I knew were going to be difficult and potentially be disastrous on failure such a couple of ultra-clutch Athletics or be in for a world of ouch rolls.

But I dont play that often and I think the average player doesnt know or remember this mechanic even exists.