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.
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* 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/

Suppose I meet a cleric in a PFS game. Can I ask them to stick around with me during downtime and prepare (during downtime) Everlight, or maybe cast a spell which is listed as a requirements to craft something, or similarly ask for actions that don't cost them anything?

Obviously I would have to pay for the material components of the spells, e.g. 6 GP for everlight.

Or am I stuck with having to pay NPCs for it, or ask them to prepare one less combat spell for the game?

Most crit fails I’ve ever seen in a single session

I juat started playing pathfinder with friends and am looking for feat ideas for my human fighter. Im looking to beef up and build fast. My primary is a 2 handed sythe amd secondary is a dagger. I currently have Catch Off Guard, Power Attack, Dirty Fighting, amd Weapon focus sythe. Any ideas to help my goal is to end up absoultely broken

I couldn't find anything like, that wasn't like an fairly old post l when I did a google search.

I have 2 pathfinder society characters, a Leshy Druid and a Catfolk Bard, the 2nd I bought the ancestry with my achievement points, so I guess it's gonna take me a lil while to save up again for another ancestry.

I'm being I guess? Overprepared and thinking about another character. I've been to most sessions since we started the society this year so I've got one of the higher characters (my Leshy). They're about to hit level 4 (would be level 4 already if I didn't dump my GM xp into my Bard). Some of the other players are irregular or have got characters to level 3 but now wanna try other characters. Obviously this is fine. I've got my bard to level if we get stuck still playing level 1-4 games after my Leshy hits level 5.

I'm doubting that by then both my characters will be level 6 before enough people have level 3 we can regularly do 3-6 games (my Leshy is about to hit level 4, so they'll probably be level 5 unless I stop playing them for a bit) - my Bard is still level 1 so I guess they'll probably be fine? But I'm wondering about making a 3rd character just in case. But I don't have the points to buy ancestry. I imagine I'll have enough for an 80 point ancestry maybe by then, especially since I've recently stepped up and offered to GM some weeks.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Basically what are the ancestries I can use without spending points? If you can't tell from my previous choices, I prefer playing like non-humanesq characters when I can. I know Kobold is an option but in my regular non-society game I play a Kobold magus so probably not gonna go for Kobold again.

Many thanks in advance.

One of my previous players asked me if I could register our starter box run so he could get society credit... but MAN the UI is confusing.

I'd actually really like to do this for him as well as get GM points for myself as I hope to someday get more into the Society ( if I can ever figure it out ). Ive run several groups through the starter adventure ( Troubles in Otari ) and am running Abom and Kingmaker with other groups ... all from Foundry.

Is any of this eligible for Society credits/points? If that is even the right way to phrase it. Also, any good links that explain how to do stuff like this and get into the society? THANKS!

Looks like some big news was announced last night, highly recommend checking out the stream if you haven't seen so far. But I figured it might be interesting to talk about what that means to agents of the Pathfinder Society.

A new playtest at the end of the month for new classes will be big.

And as we get closer to October, I would anticipate we have guidance on champions and clerics impacted by the death of these gods they might worship.

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This probably gets asked a lot, but I didn't see a relevant thread.

I will soon begin running some PFS scenarios. I have never run them before, and I'm much more used to long-form campaign adventures. I'm just wondering if I can get some wisdom from more experienced GMs. Any tips on prepping the scenario content? Anything you wish you had known or done differently when you started out? What's your strategy for pacing the content since it's it's one-shot?

In particular, I'd like to know how you handle starting and ending each session. For example, should I give the PCs an opportunity to meet each other and interact in-game at the beginning, or would it be better to jump straight to business? And what is your method for wrapping things up at the end?

Thanks!

Hi all, probably left this a bit late but I've had a busy week, volunteered to step up to GM (I've barely got any experience GMing and I'm fairly new to Pathfinder) as nobody else would.

I've been suggested to run 'The Arclord Who Never Was'.

Looks fine apart from one section confusing me:

The players have to wander around with a talking skull to some locations to help the skull retrieve her former memories. At these locations they have to do skill checks to help get the memories. The wording is 'if they succeed at a check they help skull recall a memory'. Does that mean the skills checks are them talking to the skull or them personally interacting with the environment? Say they go to a place with another NPC, are they talking to that NPC or the skull with the skill? I get the implication the players are supposed to interact with the NPC, but the scenario gives me 0 info on the NPC except their job + what they look like, so am I just supposed to make everything up for them?

Many thanks in advance!

I recently made a new character, she's this sorta badass woman who absolutely defeats people with her heels/dancing (thats the basic explanation) and my dm suggested bladesinger but her next campaign (which would be where I'd use her) is probably going to be Pathfinder and it seems like there's not a bladesinger there.

Any suggestions for a partial melee caster that has to do with dance? Full caster would be ok too, as long as she can have an almost melee like attribute (like the heels for example)

I’m about to start playing but I always played D&D is there any good apps for pathfinder that can make a character sheet and show information on things?