If you object to a rule...

[Sylrae]

Recently I sa a thread where someone commented on the PFS rules, and objected strongly to having players be able to do something that they are 'allowed' to do in PFS.

Now this isn't to re-dredge up the specific issue, but more-so to get thoughts on this:

Pathfinder Society games are not your home game, they often take place at conventions, with other people you do not necessarily normally play with. You don't get to approve/disapprove all the characters creation, because, odds are, they already exist.

I could be wrong about whether or not your home game can be an official PFS game. I'm a bit fuzzy on how you get PFS games approved, I just know you can pick up your character from one game and move it to another, and that you can only run PFS modules.

If you disagree with an official ruling and refuse to abide by it, that is, in essence, a house rule. (This is fine, I have heaps of different rulings, alternate mechanics, and character creation processes I use in my home game). House Rules do not work at conventions though, especially in convention games with characters from games you didn't run.

If you can't deal with or otherwise refuse to run games using just the official rules & rulings, I would imagine you would avoid running a 'living golarion' type game, and just run your home games, where you can just make whatever ruling you want.

If you won't allow evil characters, or won't allow players to have, use, or do x thing from a book, don't run games that allow it?

Maybe I've got a bad stance on this, I dunno. thoughts, comments?

 

[IronWolf]

I could be wrong about whether or not your home game can be an official PFS game. I'm a bit fuzzy on how you get PFS games approved, I just know you can pick up your character from one game and move it to another, and that you can only run PFS modules.

A home game can be official (as can an online game) as mentioned in this thread.

If you won't allow evil characters, or won't allow players to have, use, or do x thing from a book, don't run games that allow it?

There are certain things allowed in the game that one may not agree with. If this presents a major problem that a character can be allowed to own or do something you do not agree with then it might be best to avoid running an organized play game.

However, with that said - as per the rulebook "extreme forms of dysfunctional play will not be tolerated." - so if someone abuses an allowed item to the point that it impacts the enjoyment of the game to others at the table the GM is well within rights to ask that player to refrain from that behavior and remove them from the table if need be.

I think a lot of the discussions seen previously were around a hypothetical situation and the general consensus was that the GM in a PFS game had the tools at his or her disposal to resolve the situation that was making people uncomfortable within the rules of the game.