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A question for you all.
I have never GM'ed an adventure path for PFS players/credit before, just played/gm'ed the RPG section of an AP. In the RPG section we cover the entirety of an adventure path. However I have noticed that for PFS you actually only play a portion of the AP for credit. How do you best handle telling your players they aren't going to see the rest of the adventure?
Specifically I am thinking of doing Reign of Winter: Snows of Summer. It looks like the AP for PFS players end at section P5 for where they go into the portal. Since the primary focus is to shut the portal down, how am I to handle the closing? Do I take some GM liberties and fabricate a story that oh, you see we had another team of Pathfinders at work in this country and well they assassinated you know who which is going to get this portal shutdown or offer some other excuse that the Riftwardens mysteriously pop in and close the portal. Anyhow my biggest concern is robbing them of feeling like heroes.
Any suggestions? How do you handle the missing content in Adventure Paths for PFS play?
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one way you can have them do it is if they are having fun with it i would let them know what parts they will get credit for and if they want to keep going let them just have them transfer there stats to a different charter sheet and that can be use for the AP i mean on my own judgement its more about the fun you have than the credit you get
Venture-Captain, Germany—Hamburg
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However I have noticed that for PFS you actually only play a portion of the AP for credit.
This only applies if your players want to play with their PFS legal characters.
All Adventure Paths have the option to be played in normal campaign modes and once you finish a sanctioned portion, you can apply credit to one of your PFS legal characters as if you played that portion with a pregen. (which means the PFS character isn't locked into the module while you play, but doesn't get a day job roll.)
If your players explicitly want to play the Adventure Path with their PFS characters, either play everything, but inform them that much of it is for flavor only; or just tell your players what happens between the sanctioned parts without actually playing it out.