Running AP in a different system.

[Pirate Rob]

So, I picked up the Jade Regent AP a while back and have been working on a conversion to 13th Age (d20 game by Jonathan Tweet/Rob Heinsoo).

We'll be using the 13th Age campaign variant where you play 1 session at each level, with all the background and side stuff described at the beginning of each session. 13th Age only goes 10 levels (each 13th age level is about the equivalent of 2 pathfinder levels powerwise)

I'm running this for a table of non PFS players, although I've convinced them to take PFS #s and chronicles in case they ever decide to play.

We'll be going through the whole story but I wanted to double check before I reported all 6 AP sessions. I think the rules say it's fine but

I'm a little concerned with reporting what's supposed to be ~18 sessions when I'm only really running 10. I don't think its against the rules but it seems against the intent to me.

Does anybody have any thoughts? Maybe only report the first 3, stop worrying about it and be thankful I've got 4 awesome players that might decide to get into PFS?

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

10 Session Campaign:

In this quick campaign, the players start at 1st level and gain one level each session. The campaign concludes on the 10th session in a climactic confrontation with the PCs’ personal enemies.

Each session includes two battles. These are double-strength battles because there are only two of them. A session will alsoinclude a small number of other features: encounters with NPCs, places to explore, traps, hazards, challenges, etc. In general, give the party about two opportunities a session to use background skills or icon relationships to advance their goals within the campaign.

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You’ve only got ten sessions for them to see the world, so don’t have them stay in one place. You can make a checklist of locations on the map you want the campaign to go. At the start of each session, summarize what has happened in the days, weeks, or even months since the last session. Fast forward through the administrative stuff, like travel, and race to the action—important NPCs, exotic places to explore, and high-powered battles.

[Brian Lefebvre]

Pirate Rob wrote:

I'm a little concerned with reporting what's supposed to be ~18 sessions when I'm only really running 10. I don't think its against the rules but it seems against the intent to me.

Running in campaign mode you would only be reporting 1 table per book of the AP, so 6 tables total by the time you finish. The amount of sessions it takes you to complete each book in the AP is irrelevant.

[Dylos]

relevant text from guide:

Alternatively, if you are participating in a Pathfinder
Adventure Path with an ongoing group undertaking the
entire, six-book campaign, you may receive credit for
playing the sanctioned portions of the adventure as if you
had played a pregenerated character. In this case, GMs
running the Adventure Path are not bound to the rules
of the Pathfinder Society Organized Play campaign (such
as 20 point buy, unavailability of hero points, etc...) when
running the campaign or the sanctioned portion of the
adventure. Pathfinder Society characters and characters
from an ongoing Adventure Path campaign may not play
in the same adventure.

Because of the line "GMs running the Adventure Path are not bound to the rules of the Pathfinder Society Organized Play campaign" I believe it is in the spirit of the rules to be able to run the Adventure Path in a different rule system then presented. However I will note that it says entire six book campaign, meaning if you are cutting out parts of the book in order to make the run faster - that is not in the spirit of the rules.

[YogoZuno]

The question has been asked here before, with no conclusive answer. But the text quoted by Dylos seems to support the option.

[FLite]

Some of us are still waiting for someone to organize a pathfinder AP Larp.

[Dylos]

FLite wrote:

Some of us are still waiting for someone to organize a pathfinder AP Larp.

That would be a really big table to report. Plus it brings up additional questions, such as would people Larping NPCs still get chronicles?

What about if the pathfinder community made a Rise of the Runelords movie based on the AP, would everyone who took place get the chronicles?

[FLite]

The trick would be working out what percentage of the module each NPC actor was involved in / balancing multiple rolls for each NPCa so that they all can get full credit. It would be even worse for a movie, since it is harder switching actors. (In a larp you can just stipulate that whoever is wearing the big hat of doom is the big bad evil guy. In a movie, if the BBEG's face changes in every scene it gets wierd.)

[Michael Brock]

As long as you are running campaign mode, it is fine.

[Chris Mortika]

FLite wrote:

Some of us are still waiting for someone to organize a pathfinder AP Larp.

Come to Convergence in Minneapolis this summer.

[Pirate Rob]

Thanks everybody for your feedback etc.

[FLite]

Michael Brock wrote:

As long as you are running campaign mode, it is fine.

Awesome! We have confirmation!

[FLite]

Chris Mortika wrote:

FLite wrote:

Some of us are still waiting for someone to organize a pathfinder AP Larp.

Come to Convergence in Minneapolis this summer.

I have a convention in my home town that I can get into free if I GM 3 games, and I can't go because I have too much to do.... I don't think I'm going to be able to get to Minneapolis.

But you guys should totally film it, I want to see it.

[IronHelixx]

Thanks for the response, Mike - that will make a few people very happy around here - we have been getting this question a lot lately.

(I am curious to see when someone does Carrion Crown using World of Darkness LARP rules now. ;b)

[UndeadMitch]

A different system...like the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game?

[Under A Bleeding Sun]

I know someone who ran 2nd darkness in Star Wars (I didn't play in the game) and he said it was awesome!

[Jeffrey Fox]

Interesting... I wonder how much work it would take trying to run one of the AP's using Torchbearer.