World Traveler Boon and Tian Xia -- a plea for expansion and coverage

[Jinglemane]

Dearest Organized Play Leadership Team,

Is there any chance the World Traveler Boon can be expanded to cover Tian Xia? I just purchased it for a poppet from the Golden Road region so that I could pick up the Leiomano, and then discovered that Tian Xia is not listed in the regions on the boon. I need a Leiomano so that my Lion Poppet (who has no teeth of his own) can 'bite' people with his club. It's important to Jinglemane's pride to have a 'bite' attack of his very own.

Now... technically, I have no mechanical ties to the Golden Road region -- just story ones -- and this character has NEVER been played. So I suppose that I could proclaim that my Poppet has a "Made in Tian Xia" note on his tag and then pick up World Traveler to cover the time after he awakened in the Golden Road region when my sylph companion wished me to life. Mechanically, that would work, and the story would be preserved.

But I would absolutely adore it if instead I could have my home region be the Golden Road and me having picked up the Leiomano in a weapon shop in Minkai when I was last there. I'd like to have my mechanics match my story rather than have to adjust my story to fit my mechanics.

(Origin story and character sheet in my profile, for the curious.)

Thank you so much for your consideration,
Hmm

[Blake's Tiger]

I, too, echo the desire to see the World Traveler boon better "future proofed" as new regions outside Avistan and Garund will be published/expanded upon as more and more LO books are made.

However, you bring up a different issue: does the Access criteria trump the PFS Limited status of the Leiomano? I.e., that you need the boon from Despair on Danger Island.

But if you have the boon, then I don't think you need World Traveler to access it anyhow.

[HammerJack]

Blake's Tiger wrote:

However, you bring up a different issue: does the Access criteria trump the PFS Limited status of the Leiomano? I.e., that you need the boon from Despair on Danger Island.

This question is wrong. The leiomano is not listed as PFS Limited in the character options page. It is simply not published in a valid source at all. Despair on Danger Island, like other adventures, is not sanctioned as a source to use options from in the way that rulebooks and lost omens books are. Access conditions do not change that.

[Hilary Moon Murphy]

Oh shoot. So to get the Leiomano is not the regional access conditions, but playing or running the adventure? Huh. My boy scouts do love their combat... So I could run it. Is that the only way to get the Leiomano?

[HammerJack]

Without the weapons being reprinted elsewhere (maybe Treasure Vault?) or some kind of special sanctioning happening, the adventure is the only way.

[Hilary Moon Murphy]

Alright, the request for future-proofing World Traveler still holds. Providing access to other regions is important. And my boys get another online game coming their way. Wooot!

[Blake's Tiger]

HammerJack wrote:

Blake's Tiger wrote:

However, you bring up a different issue: does the Access criteria trump the PFS Limited status of the Leiomano? I.e., that you need the boon from Despair on Danger Island.

This question is wrong. The leiomano is not listed as PFS Limited in the character options page. It is simply not published in a valid source at all. Despair on Danger Island, like other adventures, is not sanctioned as a source to use options from in the way that rulebooks and lost omens books are. Access conditions do not change that.

Additional Resources: Character Options, Paizo wrote:

Limited: A limited option is rarer in Society play, but not unheard of. A limited option can be selected only if specifically allowed by a boon—whether from the Achievement Points system, a Chronicle Sheet, or another other option from a Pathfinder Society source—even if the option is common or if the character meets the normal prerequisites or access requirements printed in the option’s source.

An option that requires a boon to be allowed is Limited by definition. (EDIT: And the official SRD specifically lists the Leiomano as Limited.)

The short summary table is more succinct in the definition of Limited: "Your character needs a boon to gain access to this option."

So the question is not "wrong." All options granted only by AP boons are Limited by definition. All APs that are sanctioned are summarized on the Additional Resources page under the spoiler "Using Options from Pathfinder Adventures or Adventure Paths."

Additional Resources: Character Options, Paizo wrote:

Typically, characters cannot select options from a Pathfinder Adventure. However, Chronicle Sheets from sanctioned Adventures or boons from the Achievement Points store often grant characters access to options from these Adventures.

Ownership of Adventures or Adventure Path volumes is not required to use Character Options printed on Chronicle Sheets in the Pathfinder Society campaign, as long as option rules are referenced from the official Pathfinder Resource Document (prd).

I would put for the idea that calling an AP not "a valid source at all" is actually incorrect. That category of material ("not a valid source at all") would be 3rd party material or unsanctioned Paizo material. However, the point you're trying to convey is correct. Answering this terminology issue also answered my question: no, if it is Limited, you need a boon, even if it is Common.