elven curve blade access

[Lucy_Valentine]

Hello,
Have I understood this correctly? I am rather puzzled.
If I create an elven ranger character, they are trained in martial weapons. The elven curve blade is a martial weapon so they can use it no problem. But it is uncommon, so they cannot buy it. If I want to buy an ECB for this character, I'd need a chronicle sheet or to unlock it with a heritage feat. The heritage feat in question would give them trained proficiency with an ECB and some other martial weapons... which they already have.
So in order for an elf ranger, from Kyonin, to purchase an elven curve blade that they can already use, they have to take a heritage feat that does nothing else.
Is that really correct?
Thanks.

[Pirate Rob]

That seems to be correct.

Michael Sayre says he's working on it here and further in the thread explains why the current system is an issue and is working to being fixed.

[Lucy_Valentine]

Well, that is not what I hoped for.

But thank you for taking the time to answer. :)

[arthurthearcher]

Seems to me that beyond being an elf, you have to have the Elven Weapon Familiarity ancestral feat. With that feat chosen, Herolab (for example) will let me buy an ECB without complaint.

[David knott 242]

I think the best fix for this feat might be to invent at least one advanced elf weapon -- then the feat would do something beyond granting access to uncommon elf weapons for anyone who takes it.

Halfling Weapon Familiarity and a few other similar feats seem to have the same problem.

[Lucy_Valentine]

That would give a reason to take the feat on a martial in some contexts. But if you didn't want to use the advanced weapon, and did want to use the ECB, you'd be in the same situation you are now.

I don't know any GMs who in a home game context wouldn't go "oh, you're an elf from elfland who lives in a big city with elven swordsmiths, yes you can buy an ECB".

Personally I think the problem is the interaction of the uncommon tag with the PFS context, and therefore the solution is with PFS rules on the uncommon tag.