Play vs GM credit

[Gwaedh]

Hello,
I noticed something unexpected today when reviewing one of my characters list of sessions. This character has credit for playing Library of the lion. the following week I ran Library of the Lion and applied the credit to this same character. today when I look at my sessions I see a message "this character has already played scenario....."

I've reread the guide to play and I don't see anything that would suggest that we aren't supposed to do this. Did I miss something?

Thanks in advance

[Ring_of_Gyges]

It sounds to me like your GM was mixing up two separate issues.

If you have *played* a scenario before you don't get credit again (GM stars notwithstanding). You can get credit as a player if you've GM'd the scenario though.

Whether you have played, GM'd, or just read a scenario before you need to tell the GM ahead of time, but that is a separate issue. A GM can ask you not to play (though I've never seen that happen), but credit is separate.

[Sammy T]

I'm sorry, to clarify:

You played a character through Library of the Lion and received a chronicle.

You then GMed Library of the Lion and tried to apply a chronicle to the same character?

If so, you cannot apply the scenario chronicle twice to the same character, it would have to go to different characters.

[Sammy T]

Page 20 of the guide: "No character may ever have two of the same Chronicle sheet—a given Chronicle sheet must be applied to a different character each time it’s earned."

[Gwaedh]

Well, there you have it. Thanks for pointing that out. Not sure how I missed it. I'll need to figure out how to untangle this. Thanks!

[terry_t_uk]

Work out which character you want to allocate the GM credit and amend the session report

[Gwaedh]

Yep. Moving the credit to a new char is easy. But it's not clear to me the best way to fix this char. The bad credit made a difference in the characters level and gold received for his last played session.

Option 1: I could swap in a new gm credit for the next game I run, though that breaks the rule about applying credit as you earn it.

Option 2: contact the gm for the last session and have him rewrite the chronicle to reflect the lower level. Though that gets messy because I think it would mean we played up that session when we shouldn't have.

What an embarrassing mess.

[Silbeg]

Gwaedh wrote:

Option 2: contact the gm for the last session and have him rewrite the chronicle to reflect the lower level. Though that gets messy because I think it would mean we played up that session when we shouldn't have.

Since this appears to have been an honest mistake, I would just contact the GM to redo the chronicle. You've already played the scenario, so you cannot really undo that. The only change that needs be done, IMHO, is to correct your chronicle.

That's the least disruptive choice, as I see it.