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redcapscorner, Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 08:38 PM

I just reported the sessions we ran today at my store. It was our first foray into Pathfinder Society. Unfortunately, I reported the sessions with the players who actually played them, and it wasn't until after I did a final report that it occurred to me that my character (for the session I ran) and my friend's character (for the session he ran) weren't showing up in the session report. Then it occurred to me that I probably would have had to choose which character got the credit (even though I only have one currently).

The sessions are reported without the GM characters. Is there any way to fix this and give us credit? We already have Chronicle sheets completed for our characters for these chronicles, and I don't want Paizo's records to be inaccurate.

Sorry for the problems! There's a lot to take in in the PFS rules, and it isn't terribly explicit in there (at least as far as I could find) about how to report the session so as to get the GM's character credit. I didn't want to add us in as characters and confuse the issue if that wasn't the appropriate way to handle it.

Thanks!

redcapscorner, Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 08:40 PM

AND another question... in Assault on the Kingdom of the Impossible, the amount of gold the players found added up to being more than the listed max gold for the session. Is the max gold a cap on their earnings, regardless of whether or not they actually found more, or is the max gold listed for this mod a typo?

ithuriel (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber), Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 02:39 AM

Max gold on the chronicle sheet is the limit. If they made a mistake in the text of the mod, the chronicle sheet trumps it.

For credit you'd want to go back to the session reporting and edit it, then add your chosen gm rewards character in as an extra PC.

redcapscorner, Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 05:37 AM

Man, I always feel like a dunce posting on here. I tried over and over again to figure out how to edit the already submitted results before I started the thread, and couldn't. You posted, and I tried again and eventually figured it out. Thanks for your help!

That's a bummer about the gold. I guess I have to track everyone down and axe them 100gp or so. Has anyone else complained about that discrepency for tier 1-2 in Assault on the Kingdom of the Impossible?

yoda8myhead (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Fiction Subscriber), Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 10:02 AM

redcapscorner wrote:

That's a bummer about the gold. I guess I have to track everyone down and axe them 100gp or so. Has anyone else complained about that discrepency for tier 1-2 in Assault on the Kingdom of the Impossible?

I haven't seen that issue raised yet. How large a discrepancy is it? If it's 100gp, I say live and learn. It's not going to break anyone's PC to have an extra 100gp, even if that makes getting masterwork armor or a weapon that much easier to get. In the big scheme of things, 100gp is chump change. So I wouldn't track people down and take away something they've already gotten. That might turn them off to PFS and that's not something we want to do, now is it? ;-)

Joshua J. Frost (Events Manager), Mon, Nov 23, 2009, 12:07 PM

I double-check all math in a spreadsheet before it goes to publication. Can you confirm the amounts they received each time for me? If there's a typo somewhere, I need to correct it ASAP.

John Willy, Tue, Nov 24, 2009, 09:05 AM

I also had a gm credit problem w/ assault on the kingdom impossible Sunday. One of the players wouldn't play because she had run in it before. I told her she could make a new character, but she was affraid it was breaking society rules so she GM'd instead. Is it O.K. to play in the same scenario w/ different characters if you just fight and don't use insider knowledge? How about for a GM, can I play with a character in a scenario I have run in the past presuming the character is different than the one I gave credit too when I ran it?

yoda8myhead (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Fiction Subscriber), Tue, Nov 24, 2009, 09:39 AM

John Willy wrote:

I also had a gm credit problem w/ assault on the kingdom impossible Sunday. One of the players wouldn't play because she had run in it before. I told her she could make a new character, but she was affraid it was breaking society rules so she GM'd instead. Is it O.K. to play in the same scenario w/ different characters if you just fight and don't use insider knowledge? How about for a GM, can I play with a character in a scenario I have run in the past presuming the character is different than the one I gave credit too when I ran it?

You do not get credit for playing a scenario a second time or after you have run it, even if you use a new character. In other words, each player can receive credit for each scenario only once. In your situation, it would have been appropriate for her to play one of the pregenerated characters in order to ensure there were enough players at the table, though her GMing is also a solution.

John Willy, Tue, Nov 24, 2009, 02:58 PM

tanx yoda. One last clarification, if I gm a scenario twice can I give the partical credit you get for GMing (1 xp, 1 Prestige & 1/2 gold) to a second character?

Joshua J. Frost (Events Manager), Tue, Nov 24, 2009, 03:08 PM

No. You can only get credit once.

Mistwalker (Pathfinder Chronicles Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, GameMastery Maps Subscriber), Tue, Nov 24, 2009, 07:58 PM

If I played the scenario as a player, then run it as a GM, do I get full credit for player and then add the GM credit, or just the player credit?

yoda8myhead (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Fiction Subscriber), Tue, Nov 24, 2009, 09:35 PM

Mistwalker wrote:

If I played the scenario as a player, then run it as a GM, do I get full credit for player and then add the GM credit, or just the player credit?

No scenario can ever give you credit more than once. If you play the scenario first, you get credit as a player. If you GM it without playing it, you get credit as a GM. If you have never received credit for a scenario you ran in season 0 and you run it again in season 1, you get credit as a GM.