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.

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* No, you can't just merge subreddits.
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* Yes, I do suck. And I am dumb.

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Hello! I'm playtesting the Necromancer class and was wondering if anyone knew a way to protect my undead from positive energy our cleric may do?

I played a lot of pfs years ago before 2nd edition came out. Now I wanted to run my friends (who rarely played ttrpg) thru older pfs scenarios since I have the books/modules to use.

Now I’m trying to see if there was an option to play online, with a later goal of having a large lcd screen table for irl gaming, but would initially be just online. I see foundry and roll20 are options but first look seems like they dont support 1st ed anymore? And even then it looks like I have to rebuy all the books in the software to use it? I’m a little confused now, and would hate to pay for any licenses when I cant even play the older edition that I wanted.

Hey, so I’m newer to PF1e, I’ve played a few one shots of 2e, but a group asked if I wanted to join and I agreed. I’m very use to playing DnD5e and have a general consensus of how the character sheet and stats work, but I’m having a hard time trying to concoct an, in my opinion, “niche” build.

I wanted to focus on warding damage as opposed to dealing damage, playing a pseudo support/utility class that focuses on damage mitigation as a “full caster” preferably. For this I immediately gravitated towards abjuration wizard as i was familiar with it from DnD5e and saw it was also in PF1. My conundrum though was at a first glance all mitigation or abjuring spells seem selfishly targeted on the caster itself rather than being able to use on other party members. I’ll be honest I had just glanced at the spells and brief summaries of what they did so i suppose I could’ve missed something. I am also not married to wizard, but I would like to keep it in the realm of a full caster as that’s what I like to play in my games, so things like cleric or bard are on the table for class pick( though I havnt really looked at them much comparatively).

I know from my friends that pathfinder has a lot to offer when it comes to “making builds” and I’m not trying to exactly min max here, but does anyone know a direction I can take to get started planning this character?

I don't need help with with going to far into the details of the backstory but I'm not sure what the best path to choose for creating my character and could use some ideas

I'm stepping away from mmo's and planning on finding a pathfinder 1e group to join. I had a couple questions if you guys would be willing to help.

1. I have heard of all of these platforms to play them online with people but are there any that I should steer clear of? Toxic? Riddled with viruses? Etc.

2. I have always loved being a rogue poisons, daggers, picking locks, disarming traps, the works. Would you say this is a good choice for a beginner to table tops or is it more complex and I would get a better feel for table tops before I play them? If so can you recommend a good starting class?

3. If there isn't any good websites to play online how would one find a group other than the local game store?

If I have sneak attack can I use it during an attack of opportunity? and if not natively is there a way to do so?

Hello guys! 🙂

I’ve been a long-time D&D player, but lately, I’ve been getting a bit annoyed with the direction Wizards and D&D are taking. So, I started looking into other systems, and after checking around, I fell in love with Pathfinder.

Now, I want to buy the rulebooks, but I’m a bit lost—not just on where to buy them, but also on what to get. I would be eternally grateful for your help!

At the moment, I have all the D&D core rulebooks in physical form, while I use Beyond for other supplemental books (including the core books as well, since it’s a bit more convenient).

I noticed that the closest thing to Beyond for Pathfinder is Pathfinder Nexus. Is that the right choice?

Also, does anyone offer a physical-to-digital connection—like when you buy a physical book, you get a digital version as well?

Lastly, what books would you recommend I start with if I’m willing to spend around 300–400€ I clarify because I saw the Nexus Ultimate Bundle for 2,500€, and that’s wild! 😆

Thank you, guys!