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.

To help reduce the misconception of what sub this is I will work on a monthly Society update. Here is the link to the Paizo Monthly Update blog post.

December 2024 Organized Play Monthly Update

Thursday, December 5, 2024

**OPC Musings**

Happy December! By the time you read this, I’ll be on the ground in Philadelphia, getting set up for PAX Unplugged! If you’re at the show, stop by our space on the gaming floor to say hi and grab an advance copy of the necromancer & runesmith playtest classes. After I get back, it’ll be time to start work on PaizoCon 2025 and Gen Con Indianapolis. Stay tuned next month for information on volunteering for those shows. It’s convention season again forever!

Also, just as a note: starting in 2025, our Organized Play blogs will be moving to Wednesday as we retool the blog schedule. Be sure to update your calendar reminders accordingly!

**Digital Adventure Releases**

These adventures will be available on December 18, 2024. PAX Unplugged attendees will have the chance to play these adventures early!

**Pathfinder Society**

Pathfinder Society Scenario #6-08: Upon Wheels and Rime*

Pathfinder Quest (Series 2) #22: Friends in Need

**Starfinder Society**

Starfinder Society Scenario #7-09: Clutches of the Vault Lord*

*part of a subscription

**Sanctioning**

Another month, another book of divine content! In both senses of the word, really. Pathfinder Lost Omens: Divine Mysteries is now sanctioned for Pathfinder Society play! This includes the web supplement of deities published on the Paizo Blog last month.

This book contains a number of options for divine-focused characters and tells the tale of many gods who are now dead or missing as a result of the War of Immortals. Speaking of which…

**Rule Updates**

Newly Removed Deities and You(r Characters)

The following deities have been removed from Pathfinder Society legality and may not be selected by new or existing characters:

Anubis

Ashukharma

Cernunnos

Grundinnar

Horus

Isis

Lubaiko

Ma’at

Mother Vulture

Osiris

Ra

Sekhmet

Sturovenen

Thoth

Any character with an option that relied on worship of a newly removed deity, such as a cleric, gets a free rebuild immediately. Your characters may be played as written until the end of the year, but after January 1 you will need to use this rebuild to remove any mechanical effects of worshiping that deity.

**Hireling Translators**

The Hireling Translator boon has been updated so the second sentence now reads as follows:

“This ally speaks, reads, and understands Common as well as two additional languages of common rarity or that you have access to, chosen when this boon is purchased.”

The most recent update to the Guide to Organized Play also granted all Pathfinders access to all Uncommon languages. Go forth with your new and improved translators!

**GM Recognition**

GM Ranks

Whether stars, novas, or glyphs, achieving a 5 ranking in any program involves a substantial amount of time. To achieve the 5th milestone, a GM must run 150 games, of which at least 50 must be unique scenarios and 10 special scenarios as well as run between one and three games for venture-captains (program dependent). A conservative estimate of the time needed to reach the 5th milestone is 650 hours!

This month we had two GMs reach their fifth rank!

5th Nova(SFS1): Elizabeth Nold, Solatra Harving

If you believe you’ve completed your 5th rank but haven’t been announced yet, please email me at organizedplay@paizo.com.

**Conventions**

The holidays typically mean events slow down, but we’ve still got some December events to celebrate the season! Check out the Conventions calendar for upcoming events to get your Paizo fix in.

Until next time adventurers - Explore! Report! Cooperate! And have a happy new year!

Alex Speidel

Organized Play Coordinator

The dedication says I get versatile vials and 4 common formulae. I'm taking it at 9th level with Multitalented. What level of formulae can I use?

How does their belief in Green Faith or just any nature deity even work from a roleplay point of view?
I mean rituals, prayers and so on.

My partner bought me Rescue of the blackthorn clan date night dungeons, unknowingly the Pathfinder edition. I've only played D&D. He's a complete noob to anything in this realm. Has anyone played this edition and has tips? I've never actually played pathfinder but its such a sweet gift i dont want to disappoint him and im open to trying it out. Im super unfamiliar with pathfinder i wasnt 100% if i could post this or what the right tag would be.

Hi I need help with a level 6 sylph build, he’s a tank so he takes a lot of damage and can damage a bit. My character mains a spear. And has the vambraces of the genie attached. I’m looking for more items to either bring more of the air element to him or storm abilities that can help him be more of his race into action. Please help haha

I've been poking around, and having to dig down several links to every scenario individually on the Paizo website is just too time consuming, trying to find something my group would enjoy. Is there an easier way to do this?

Hi all! I am volunteering to run Pathfinder Society at my lgs. You can look at my previous post to see how clueless I am, but suffice to say I didn't really understand what PS even was until basically today (I thought it was just a bunch of one-shots). Anyway, I got some helpful info off the responses to that post, but I have a more specific question.

Is it okay to run an old season of Pathfinder Society, as long as it's for PF2e? I own the entirety of Season 3 from an old Humble Bundle and would prefer to run that for financial reasons. Will players showing up be annoyed that I'm running a season/scenario they may have already played? Will their rewards and whatnot still "count" at tables running the current season?

Alternatively, if I start with the current Season 6, should I start with the most recent scenario or is it okay to start at Scenario 6-01 even though that's a few months old now? I prefer to bulk prep in advance so it would be best if I don't have to run each scenario within days of its release.

Hi all! So I volunteered to run Pathfinder Society at my local game store, thinking that it was just a series of one-shots. My lgs accepted my offer and so I started to actually look at Pathfinder Society. I had no idea it was the whole thing that it is. Apparently I'm supposed to report progress online, hand out some kind of rewards sheet at the end that they can take to other tables, etc. I looked at the Pathfinder Society tab on Paizo's website and I have a... *slightly* better understanding of it now, but I can't seem to find any resources from the GM's perspective. I found the Organized Play sheet in the PDF to be confusing and not at all informative. What exactly am I supposed to do besides the basics of just running the game? I'm honestly very confused about this and don't even know what questions to ask.