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Welcome to the Pathfinder Society Melbourne.
Pathfinder Society Season 4 focuses on Heidmarch Manor - a recently established Pathfinder Lodge in Magnimar, City of Monuments, in the frontier nation of Varisia. From this base of operations, Pathfinder field agents set out to explore ancient Thassilonian ruins scattered throughout the Varisian countryside, and recover relics for future study.
If you're new to Pathfinder Society, all you need do is sign up and come along! We have ready-made characters you can play to get started quickly.
Pathfinder Society Organised Play assumes that every player has the following resources with them at the table: *
* New players are not expected to necessarily have purchased the Core Rulebook before their first game. Come along and give the game a try, with the understanding that you will acquire the books necessary to play your character before playing your next PFS gameday or event.
Paizo Publishing produces a wide range of sourcebooks that further explore the game rules and world of Pathfinder. These volumes contain a huge variety of options to help you customise your character. You can view a frequently updated list of all campaign-legal Additional Resources online. In order to utilize content from an Additional Resource, a player must have a physical copy of the Additional Resource in question, a name-watermarked Paizo PDF of it, or a printout of the relevant pages from it, as well as a copy of the current version of the Additional Resources list. You must inform the Game Master that you plan to use Additional Resource material before play begins, so he has a chance to familiarize himself with the new material.
If you don't have time to create a new character or simply wish to try out a new character class, you may choose to use one of several level-appropriate pregenerated characters available at the Pathfinder Society organised play page or provided by the Games Master at your table. If you play a 1st-level pregenerated character, you can apply the credit for her first adventure to a newly created character of your very own. If you play a non-1st-level pregenerated character, you can apply the credit to your character as soon as she reaches the level of the pregenerated character played. You may also opt instead to apply the credit from the non-1st-level pregenerated character played to a newly created character with the GP gained reduced to 500 GP.
There's also wealth of information regarding Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and Pathfinder Society Organised Play on Paizo's website:
- Pathfinder RPG
- Pathfinder Society
- Guide to Organised Play
- Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Reference Document, a free web-based reference for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
- Pathfinder Society Organised Play Factions: Andoran, Cheliax, Grand Lodge, Lantern Lodge, Osirion, Qadira, Sczarni, Shadow Lodge, Silver Crusade, and Taldor
Almost as important as your choice of race and class is your character's Faction - one of ten allegiances who assign you secret missions
- Free Pathfinder Roleplaying Game PDFs
- Character Traits
- Character sheet
We highly recommended you create a secondary character once your primary character has reached 3rd- or 4th-level, to ensure you'll always have a character within tier, regardless of which scenarios are scheduled. While every effort will be made for you to play on the table you've signed up for, we do recommend bringing your other PFS characters (if any) to the game, just in case circumstances change.
Please use the waitlist feature if tables are full, and we'll get back to you with some options.
You may continue your character's daring adventures at Pathfinder Society gamedays held every week at game stores around the country, including:
- Good Games Blackburn
- 3/66 Railway Rd
Blackburn VIC 3130
Phone: 03 9877 8136
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[PFS played 11am-6pm every Sunday]
- Good Games Geelong
- Level 1/28 Malop St
Geelong VIC 3220
Phone: 03 5223 3940
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[Enquire within store]
- Good Games Melbourne
- Level 1, 365 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Phone: 03 9670 0102
[PFS played - varies - refer to Gaming Schedule]
- Dungeon of Magic
- Basement, Royal Arcade
331-335 Bourke Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Phone: 03 9650 5815
[PFS played - varies - refer to Gaming Schedule]
and Melbourne's annual games conventions - Arcanacon, Conquest, Unicon;
Are you playing Pathfinder Society at a local store, school, library or other public space, or like to start a PFS group in your area? Contact us to let us know!
If you have any questions about character options or Pathfinder Society events, please don't hesitate to contact RyanK or myself or join the discussions on the Pathfinder Society Society messageboards.
Cheers,
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Stephen (DarkWhite)
Pathfinder Society 5-Star GM
Venture-Captain, Melbourne |
