A few questions about PFS play - am I getting them right?

[Egrek]

Hello all.

So I've been reading around and have a few questions I've not been able to track down the answers to:

Easiest to start with and example, you've played a 4th level pre-gen and assigned it to character A (to be picked up at 4th level). At level two, character A dies.
1) Does this mean you lose the scenario? As character A can't use it? (And you can't play it again!)
2) Can you transfer it to another character?
3) And you can't raise the character (as won't have the money or the PP)

4) Another observation is, as you can only play a scenario once, if it's two tier and you play the lower tier, you don't get the higher tier items. And never can? So it's worth playing the higher tiers whenever possible to give you access to the items!

Thanks. Sure I'll have more soon ;)

[The Fox]

1). Yes. Yes. (Sort of.)
2). No.
3). Likely correct.
4). Yes. No, most items you can gain access to by other means—namely prestige or fame. If access to items via chronicles is your goal, then yes.

[Andreas Forster]

The only items you will actually be able to never gain access to when you don't get them on the chronicle are items that are unique to the scenario (those with stat blocks), wands/scrolls/potions with higher than minimum caster level, wands with less than 50 charges, and magic ammunition in quantities less than 50.
Everything else can eventually be bought when you have enough fame.

The character you played a scenario with can never gain an additional chronicle for that scenario, so anything he wouldn't be able to eventually buy with a high enough fame score will be out of reach for him.

You can, however, run that scenario as a GM and apply GM credit for it to a character that is within the higher tier. That character will gain access to everything on the chronicle sheet.

[Egrek]

Thanks to both! :) Was as I thought. Just feel like I'm wasting level 7 games on my level 1 characters... but I have to get going at some point! :)

Also scary you can save them all up, get killed and lose everything!

[glass]

Egrek wrote:

Thanks to both! :) Was as I thought. Just feel like I'm wasting level 7 games on my level 1 characters... but I have to get going at some point! :)

You can also give the pregen chronicle sheet to a level 1 character immeiately. You get 500 gp rather than the usual gold amout, and I can't remember how it works with gear access OTTOMH.

glass.

[Akerlof]

glass wrote:

Egrek wrote:

Thanks to both! :) Was as I thought. Just feel like I'm wasting level 7 games on my level 1 characters... but I have to get going at some point! :)

You can also give the pregen chronicle sheet to a level 1 character immeiately. You get 500 gp rather than the usual gold amout, and I can't remember how it works with gear access OTTOMH.

You gain 500gp and access to everything appropriate to the level at which you played it.

So if you played a 3-7 scenario with a level 4 pregen at sub tier 3-4 and applied it to a new character, you would gain 500gp, access to all the gear in sub tier 3-4, and any boons gained through the mission. If you played it at sub tier 6-7 with a level 7 pregen, you would gain all that plus access to everything on the 6-7 sub tier section.

As for "wasting" level 7 games with a level 1, don't worry about it. There are roughly as many level 7 scenarios out there as level 1s and you'll almost certainly play more at level 1-2 than at level 6-7.

But, I suggest playing the level 1 only scenarios (First Steps Part 1: In Service to Lore and The Confirmation) whenever you get the chance. You can replay those for credit, but more importantly, they're great scenarios that really explain the world of the Pathfinder Society.

[Mark Stratton]

Akerlof wrote:

But, I suggest playing the level 1 only scenarios (First Steps Part 1: In Service to Lore and The Confirmation) whenever you get the chance. You can replay those for credit, but more importantly, they're great scenarios that really explain the world of the Pathfinder Society.

As a side note, The Confirmation is for Levels 1 and 2, not only level 1.

Mark

[kinevon]

Mark Stratton wrote:

Akerlof wrote:

But, I suggest playing the level 1 only scenarios (First Steps Part 1: In Service to Lore and The Confirmation) whenever you get the chance. You can replay those for credit, but more importantly, they're great scenarios that really explain the world of the Pathfinder Society.

As a side note, The Confirmation is for Levels 1 and 2, not only level 1.

Mark

But only once for credit with a level 2.

Another 4 hour module that is frequently recommended as a sequence with the two scenarios is Master of the Fallen Fortress, which is a Tier 1-2 module.

Frequent order:
MotFF
First Steps
Confirmation