Changing Chronicles

[Dazz]

Before I ask this, I haven't done it yet and am guessing I cannot.

The issue here is: I've GM'd three games for my family, and the idea was that the character I'm applying credit to would play with them in conventions later on. Without really thinking about it, I've been putting the credit towards a character that doesn't fit well with their party (a sorcerer, which they already have one of and they don't have a healer).

This character has never played in any sessions yet, only having GM credits. Could I switch the credit to another brand new character, which would qualify for all of the same chronicles? I am physically able to (since I was the GM and coordinator for these home games, so I can edit that), but I didn't want to do it if PFS would be upset with me for doing so.

[TetsujinOni]

You have a presumably -1 PC that hasn't been played yet.

It's an unmolded ball of clay for two reasons: 3 or less XP, and GM credit only.

You don't have to finalize the GM Credit baby until you actually play it. Once you do, it becomes subject to the Guide to Organized Play (And if it had less than 4 xp after you played would still be eligible for rebuilding).

[Dazz]

The only reason I wouldn't want to remold it is because I filled out and signed a racial boon for it--kitsune specifically, and I really wanted to keep it as a sorcerer. Since the boon will only work for character ###-3, I want to know if I'm allowed to swap the credit to an unmade ###-4, so I can play the kitsune sorcerer next time I'm at a convention (that my family's not playing with me). If it hadn't been for that, I probably would just total rebuild to make it fit.

[Patrick Harris @ SD]

Just change the number on the boon. You're allowed to rebuild before you play at 2nd level, and it has been established that this includes racial boons.

If someone asks you what happened, you can tell them what happened ... or you can give them the short version which is arguably true: "I wrote the wrong character information on it by mistake. Whoopsie."

Edit: Before people start arguing about that retrain/race boon thing, let me say this: If you're going to tell me that only applies to applying boons, I'm going to tell you it says one may use the boon during a rebuild, but we are not compelled to do so, and unless MorM specifically say otherwise, that's how it stands right now. Mmkay? Mmkay.

[Paz]

If you're the GM and coordinator, and these chronicle sheets have never come to the table assigned to a PC that's being played, I see nothing to stop you reassigning them.

[Don Walker]

First, I'm not Mike Brock and he may need this to work another way, but in as much as I understand the rules and the way PFS works and how Paizo wants everything to work ...

You are good on several levels.

First, as mentioned above, if you have never played the PC yet, the PC is still a "lump of clay". Until you actually play it, you don't have to set it in stone.

Second, if you have played it, but only at level 1, then you can retrain it under the retraining rules in the PFS Guide 4.2. And yes, you may add/remove a race boon assigned to it. There was a clarification about that.

Third, if you feel the need to reassign the Chronicle sheets AND you were the event coordinator for all the sheets so you have the ability to edit the session data online AND you haven't actually played the PC after assigning the Chronicle sheets that you want to change, then you could do that too. The only remnant of doing this is that the PC name will not change on those GM records, although the PFS-PC number will and that is what the system goes by to link credit for the session to a particular PC.

[verdigris]

Don Walker wrote:

...Third, if you feel the need to reassign the Chronicle sheets AND you were the event coordinator for all the sheets so you have the ability to edit the session data online AND you haven't actually played the PC after assigning the Chronicle sheets that you want to change, then you could do that too. The only remnant of doing this is that the PC name will not change on those GM records, although the PFS-PC number will and that is what the system goes by to link credit for the session to a particular PC.

I actually had something similar to Don's third mentioned situation this week. I found deleting the whole table (after making certain I had all the information to put it back in at hand) and re-entering it to work well. It does change the session number, but I don't think that matters too much. If it does, I hope someone will correct me on this so I'll know for the future.

[Don Walker]

I suppose that would even let you attach the correct PC name that way too.

[Thorkull]

I've discovered that if you delete just the entry for that character at the table and then re-add it, the database does all the initial checks over again and will correctly populate the character name, as well as re-check for duplicate sessions.

[verdigris]

Don Walker wrote:

I suppose that would even let you attach the correct PC name that way too.

It does, as in essence you're starting over from scratch. For players at the table, you can just delete the single player, but for the GM credit, I've had it do some interesting (by that I mean irritating) things unless I completely delete it and re-enter.

[Thorkull]

Hmm. Never had to do that for a GM credit.