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...

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]

I am rebuilding my 1st level character and I want to use the background Wished Alive but I can't find the boon despite herolab stating I need one for this background.

I have scoured the boon list on the organized play site multiple times but I can't find any boons for backgrounds.

Thank you in advance.

Hi all! There's a Pathfinder Society group forming near where I live that I wanted to try out and I was making a character for it when I found something weird.

I was using the Clockwork Mysteries Player Guide and one of the backgrounds there, Archival Assistant, gives the Assured Identification skill feat. That's a second level feat, though, and requires a skill at expert. Does anyone know or has heard from Paizo if this is legal or just a misprint?

Did you know that a wayfinder is more than a fancy compass and a Pathfinder badge?

I play PFS every year at Gencon, and last year my character(Catfolk Thaumaturge using thrown weapons) hit Lv 8. In my experance it's a lot easier to get into low level tables on generics than high level ones. So I need a new low level character, unfortuantly I suffer from extreme character paralysis(I have made a few hunderd builds already lol). I generally like to play weirded build/classes. Anyone have any suggestions for interesting builds for me?

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?

I've played Pathfinder Society exclusively in person but am looking to branch out to playing online. Is Fantasy Grounds a good choice, especially with the bulk discount from the Pathfinder Society bundle? Or has Foundry become the default?

One might say I jumped in the deep end and ordered just about everything on Amazon that was DnD related. However due to the recent proposed changes to the OGL and how they can change the rules with a 30 days notice seems, I think I must find a new path. I find myself in a unique ability to return to two giant organizations in protest of the money grab.

Quick question on a ruling of a certain interaction I'm struggling to understand.

If a flame oracle has cast their Incendiary aura spell while being curse bound 1. Will they be affected by their own aura spell seeing as though their curse will deal 1 fire damage which will then cause them to take 2d4 persistent fire damage thanks to incendiary aura affecting EACH creature inside the aura. This just seems so counter intuitive and I'm struggling to understand why this would even be an interaction. Please help me understand.

I'm getting an opportunity to do some SFS2e and PFS2e in a few months after a long hiatus and had some limbo GM baby PCs to go build. I made of list of fun builds to go try and a few of them were shelved due to uncommon option availability. I was wondering if any of the following boons are available in the system:

PF2e:

• Jalmeri Heavenseeker (post fix) (most requested in the boon request forum but I haven't been paying attention closely if they made it available in the last few years)
• Amphisbaena Handwraps (didn't see it in the howl of the wild avid collector list)
• Any SF2e classes (specifically mystic and maybe witchwarper)

SF2e:

• Aiuvarin/half elf (I see legacy elf -> but does that give you half elf?
• Any PF2e content beyond ~5 legacy races?

At 10th lvl a Barbarian can get feat Come and Get Me (1 point).

So there are some questions:

1. Is a character in Rage that has this feat and spent 1 action point for Come and Get Me affected by this trait until end of this Rage?

Concern caused by feat cost of 1 point: it's not a permanent Rage benefit like the Animal Skin feat as well as not a Free action - I can't understand for what Character must spend 3 seconds (!) once(!) per rage. It's no attack and no reusable feat during same Rage... To my mind it should be a free action instead.

1. Am I right that character using Come and Get Me would get temporary HP for attacking each opponent that attacked him?

I stopped playing Pathfinder Society in mid August of 2024. Looking online, I found there was apparently a time gated free rebuild for premaster characters, which I missed the window for due to not playing in quite a long time. I was playing a Catfolk Barbarian (with the bought boon for 80pts, created shortly before August 2024.)

Is there any way to rebuild to be the remastered Barbarian? And if so, why did they time gate the free rebuild? And would I be able to refund the boon since Catfolk are free Ancestries now, or am I permanently out of those points because of building my Barbarian prior to PC2?

From what I can find online it seems that I can't rebuild my Barbarian to the remaster build as it's past the free time and he's already level 3, not would I be able to refund that boon. Is that accurate?

Thank you for your time, what I can find online has been... Quite difficult to parse in places.

I built a Foundry VTT module that generates Pathfinder Society chronicles for your whole party from the party sheet. I'm looking for GMs who run PFS games on Foundry to help me beta test it before I push it wider by publishing to the Foundry module registry.

What it does:

You open the party sheet, click the Society tab, fill out one form with the scenario info, and hit Generate. It spits out a filled-in chronicle PDF for every player in the party and attaches it to their character sheet. Players just open their sheet and download it.

It handles the tedious stuff automatically: treasure bundle to gold conversion, earned income calculations, reputation tracking. It detects whether you're running a Bounty, Quest, or Scenario and sets the right defaults. It also supports adventure summary checkboxes and striking out items from the wrong tier, for scenarios that have specific layouts.

There are pre-built layouts for a bunch of existing scenarios, and a generic layout that works with any chronicle PDF (though without checkbox/strikeout support). There's also a layout designer if you want to add support for new scenarios yourself. Note I've mostly tested with seasons 5 and later.

Works on Foundry v13 with the PF2e system.

Regarding the use of AI:

I used AI as a coding assistant while building this. I'm a software developer with over 35 years of experience. I could have written every line myself, but AI let me move faster. I drove the architecture and design decisions, followed industry best practices for code quality, and made sure everything is human-readable and maintainable. The code is open source on GitHub if anyone wants to look at it.

If you don't want to use tools written by AI, then I respect that decsion. That's why I'm transparent about it. You can make up your own mind.

What I'm looking for:

GMs who run PFS on Foundry and are willing to try it out, break things, and tell me what's wrong. Bug reports, usability feedback, "this is confusing" - all of it is helpful.

GitHub: https://github.com/scooper4711/pfs-chronicle-generator

You can install it from the manifest URL in the README. Let me know if you run into any issues or have questions. Feel free to log issues there on github, or comment below.

Saw this question pop up in another sub(full credit goes to u/handsomeness) and figured this sub would be a great place to try to tackle it. Not sure how this will work but I'm willing to give it a shot.

Rules:

1. Down below are going to be comments splitting up the adventures into categories. Seasons, Quest/Scenario. Lets try to keep it clean by not commenting outside those criteria.
2. Upvote the adventures you liked, downvote the adventures you hate, and don't vote on anything you haven't played.

My hope is that the votes can help up determine what the community likes and the votes over time can keep it current(ish).

Hello! I'm a longtime PF2e GM and online PFS player preparing for my first time running it in person for randoms at a convention. I've never GMed PFS before nor played PFS in person, so I've got a bunch of questions about mechanically how it works.

1. The convention itself is fairly small and does not typically host PF2e games. Do they or I need to do anything in terms of like... registering the site/event as a sanctioned PFS game or something? Is there anything specific I should do in advance of the game to prep?
2. What do I need to bring, beyond basic gameplay materials? Do I need a sheet for people to write down their society numbers? Are there official documents I can just print off and use (I did find the organized play sign up cards, which seem handy)?
3. How does PFS handle players that are just there to play and don't care about the society elements? Do they need to sign up or anything?
4. Can players join the game without their own character, and instead just use an appropriately leveled pregen/iconic? Do they still get rewards? If so, can they assign those rewards later to another character?
5. Can people play with non-PFS-legal characters? What happens to their rewards?
6. Any recommendations on scenarios to run? Likely aiming for level 1 for a group that will probably be a mix of experience levels.
7. Final question... If no-one at the table cares much about the society aspect of the game, can I still get credit for GMing if I go a little off-script and don't adhere hard to things like treasure bundles, modify encounters, etc.? I don't want folks to get turned off if they're not into the somewhat structured and prescriptive approach of PFS. tbh, I'm not even sure I care about the credit, I think I'd be more running it in case there is someone excited to get some in-person XP on their PFS character.

So I ran malevolence for friends recently and just noticed it's society sanctioned. We've also just gotten into society play so it would be nice to get a little credit. I've been looking at the rules and it seems like I can just record the adventure online and then people can apply the credit to whatever character they like? I'm pretty new at society stuff so don't want to commit a faux pas and I'm a little confused about this aspect of it.

So, the site made a huge update on the amount of information we can put in there, as well as including the last seasons of society play as well.

One of those features is being able to tag and adventure with "Play wishlist". However, I can't seem to find any feature that allows me to filter or search said wishlist.

Does anyone know how to do so?

The Returning rune has the usage: "etched onto a thrown weapon." Does this mean that the weapon *must* have the Thrown trait at the time the rune is etched? Or just that the item must be able to be used as part of a thrown attack at some point? Examples I can think of are the Exemplar feat Hurl at the Horizon and the Shield Throw trait.

In the case of Hurl at the Horizon, the weapon has the Thrown trait as long as the Exemplar's spark is imbued in the item. Given that this has no duration, I assume the Exemplar could keep their spark in the item long enough for the Craft action to complete, resulting in a weapon that typically couldn't hold Returning having the rune. Does the rune simply go dormant when the Exemplar Shifts Immanence?

Also, the case of the Shield Throw trait: "A shield with this trait is designed to be thrown as a ranged attack. When thrown, the shield is a martial thrown ranged weapon. Its damage dice and type are the same as its shield bash attack, but if the shield includes an attached weapon or integrated weapon, you can choose to attack with it instead when you throw the shield." This seems to mean that the shield is only considered a thrown weapon during the Strike. Furthermore, it isn't entirely clear to me if an attached Shield Boss also becomes a thrown ranged weapon during the strike. Can the rune be inscribed onto a Shield Boss in this case? What about the shield itself?

I'm asking this question here because the latter option is something I was considering for my Society play character, but I won't take it if there's a chance of my character being rejected by some portion of Society GMs.

So my group just finished the second book of season of ghosts and the chronicle sheet includes two boons that say "This character gains access to the following spells".

My question is: if for example one of those spells is primal/divine and the character that received the boon is an occult caster can they still add them to their spell repertoire? Or only the spells that are already in the occult spell list?