Welcome to /r/Pathfinder, a subreddit for the Society-offshoot of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Pathfinder Society (or PFS) is a weekly organized campaign, typically played at a local game store or similar venue. You can find more information on PFS at the official about page on Paizo's site.

Full explanation of the history of the "split" can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder_RPG/comments/1970yw/z/c8lj1xd

To head off the usual questions:
* No, you can't just merge subreddits.
* No, I'm not closing /r/Pathfinder_RPG and redirecting everyone over here.
* No, I'm not closing this subreddit and opening another one.
* Yes, I do suck. And I am dumb.

This is to allow artists to still advertise while not flooding the sub with advertisement.

For background on this see: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder/comments/114vbhj/can_we_ban_art_commission_posts/

Hey guys, how are you? So, I’m doing a Summoner and I’m with a little bit of difficulty in the Summon Creature spell. I can’t find where are the monsters in “small” and “medium” size, only in the “tiny” size. Because of that, it’s not making to much sense the Summon Creature II and III (I’m lvl 5). Can someone help me plssss

there's not much of a PFS activity around me, so i'd like to hear GMs of this sub's perspective:

i feel like PFS is the most fun when you build your own character and carry it from game to game. however, my various convention/monthly gathering observations tells me 1. players are mostly "casual" 1. they approach PFS games as independent one-shots 1. they use level 1 pregens and don't register their characters to paizo

is this a fair assessment? and if so, do you think these players would enjoy a quick character creation section, or is that wasted effort?

i'm asking this because i recently released a "build-your-pregen" pack, thinking it'd be a nice tool for PFS GMs but i don't know if it's overkill for "fine with regular pregen" players.

[addendum: just so i don't mislead anybody, this is mostly a market research question ("do you think PFS GMs/players would enjoy creating characters at the table") to assess if i should promote my pregen pack here]

As the title says. Is there any news for us since the paizo forums are down again?

Last year seemed easier to fill in every Thu~Sat slot with PFS games, but with the narrower lvl ranges, it seemed a little tougher with just a handful of PFS characters, none of them past lvl 2 atm (will hit lvl 3 after the Thu 8am session).

How did everyone else do?

Does any one know why PFS Gen Con events are so much more expensive this year?

Last year, a normal event was $10, and the interactive special was $14.

This year, they normal events are $22, and the interactive is $30.

I get that things are more expensive this year but that's more than double the price from just a year ago. Other types of events don't seem to have gone up as much, though -- I see plenty of RPG events for $6.

EDIT: After a little more digging, I see the events are now 3 hours instead of 5 hours, too...

I used to be a Venture Officer back in 2018, and got into a mess and basically had to leave my community back in 2018.

In 2024 I finally had free time, but my local society seems to of uh---locked themselves down and gotten all secluded. I mean seriously, who makes your Facebook group require approval to join the society group page locally? Talk about bad first impressions. So I've avoided them for the most part (also from some potential conflicts).

Yet I love the game. Love Society play.
I've been periodically getting inspiration to write some guides specifically for Society Play 1e.

I know it continues as a Legacy program and I know people still do it. But how much is it still done? How active is it really? Would it be worth it?

Hi there! My group and I are looking to try our first PFS events at GenCon this year. I’ve played PF2e for a while with another group, but we are all TTRPG vets, though this will be their first time with Pathfinder.

Looking at the new season 8 events, 1 is Intro Year of Clockwork Mystery for levels 1/2, scenario 2 is the Fey Reclamation for levels 3/4, scenario 3 is even higher level and scenario 4 is back down to levels 1/2.

I can’t imagine that you gain multiple levels from a single scenario, so these must not be meant to be played in order. Should we try to sign up for both the level 1/2 adventures? From the descriptions it doesn’t sound like any of the four scenarios “go together.” We were hoping to do two adventures back to back like a mini adventure path (that we could then continue at future events).

As I said, we would all be PFS newbies. Any help / advice would be appreciated. Thanks!!

I used to play D&D a lot, but several years ago I got my group to switch over to Pathfinder 2e and I love it so much more. Thing is, we've only ever played online with Foundry, I've never actually played it tabletop. I know that Foundry is doing a ton of the math for us. I'm wondering how people who have played both online and in person feel about it. Is it a lot more complex when you're doing everything yourself?