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Before I left for Vegas on a trip, my group and I played through Merchant's Wake #5-21. However, one member in the group didn't play because he wouldn't receive credit for playing.
My question is this. As I've already played and received credit on #5-21 with my 4th Level Rakish Rogue Velarrio, would I be able to receive credit for it if I played again and used a new 1st Level Character?
If not, then what is the point of making additional characters if eventually you run through everything and the rest of your characters become stagnant because they can no longer receive credit for anything played.
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Covered in the Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play, page 20.
Replaying Scenarios
In certain circumstances, a player may need to replay a scenario he has already completed, or play a scenario that he has already run as a GM. The following rules determine when replaying Pathfinder Society Scenarios is legal, and what benefits you may gain from replay.• The first time you play a scenario, the character you play receives a Chronicle sheet that grants him XP, gold, Prestige Points, boons, and the opportunity to purchase any special items discovered in the course of the scenario.
• You cannot receive more than 1 player Chronicle and 1 GM Chronicle for the same scenario, regardless of how many times you GM or play the scenario. You are free to replay a scenario in order to meet the minimum legal table size (see Chapter 7), but once you have reached that limit, you do not earn any additional rewards beyond having a good time. A player replaying a scenario in order for the table to reach the minium table size should (in this instance only) be given a Chronicle for the scenario, though marked to earn 0 Gold, 0 Fame, 0 XP; it does not allow the character to make a ‘Day Job’ check, no boons, item access, or anything else appearing on the Chronicle might provide for having played the scenario. This Chronicle only serves as a placeholder to indicate the character participated in the adventure, and gives a place for consumables, purchases, and conditions to be tracked from playing through the adventure. This is the only exception to not having two of the same Chronicle assigned to one character.
There are two exceptions to these rules. All Tier 1 scenarios and Tier 1–2 sanctioned modules are available for unlimited replay with a 1st-level character for credit. The sanctioned modules may also be played with a 2nd-level character once for credit. GMs may receive another Chronicle sheet each time they run one of the Tier 1 scenarios or Tier 1–2 sanctioned modules, but may only apply a Chronicle sheet to one 2nd-level character per adventure.
Alternatively, campaign GMs who are recognized for their efforts by receiving GM stars (see page 38), may receive additional player or GM credit for a number of non-Tier 1 scenarios or sanctioned modules per GM star they have earned. For example, a three-star GM may select any three scenarios or sanctioned modules that she can then play or GM for credit one additional time each. For each of these adventures, she can thus earn a total of three Chronicle sheets, rather than the two normally allowed. When replaying a scenario with GM-star credit, the GM completing the Chronicle sheet will annotate the Notes section of the Chronicle sheet and add “GM Star Replay Credit × Star” to annotate the use of star credit replay. The GM Star Replay Credits are a once per star, lifetime benefit.
-- Steve
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Before I left for Vegas on a trip, my group and I played through Merchant's Wake #5-21. However, one member in the group didn't play because he wouldn't receive credit for playing.
My question is this. As I've already played and received credit on #5-21 with my 4th Level Rakish Rogue Velarrio, would I be able to receive credit for it if I played again and used a new 1st Level Character?
If not, then what is the point of making additional characters if eventually you run through everything and the rest of your characters become stagnant because they can no longer receive credit for anything played.
You need to have a LOT of characters to do that, considering 6 seasons worth of scenarios, sanctioned adventure paths, and modules.
There are a few doldroms in the system: level 6 in particular can be easy to get stuck on.
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Right now my highest character is stuck on Level 4 (with one or two points before 5th.) Mainly because I lose out on 4 games when I'm in Vegas (and because the Vegas Pathfinder Society group from what I've heard and have been told has more or less collapsed.)
It just seemed like eventually there's going to be a point in PFS when there's a handful of retired 12th and 13th level characters with this large 3rd level character base for the people that have been playing for a while.
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There are people who have played so much, that they have to wait for the new scenarios every month to be released so that they can play them for credit. Those people are, by far, the exception. And even they have options with Sanctioned Modules, and Sanctioned Adventure Paths. I have 12 characters with credit applied to them, ranging from levels 1-10 and I haven't even come close to running out of playable scenarios/modules.
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Right now my highest character is stuck on Level 4 (with one or two points before 5th.) Mainly because I lose out on 4 games when I'm in Vegas (and because the Vegas Pathfinder Society group from what I've heard and have been told has more or less collapsed.)
It just seemed like eventually there's going to be a point in PFS when there's a handful of retired 12th and 13th level characters with this large 3rd level character base for the people that have been playing for a while.
What tends to happen is you have a bit of a pyramid effect. Not only are there more scenarios for characters 1-5 to play , but there are far more games to play.
A group starts and everyone makes their first characters. You play 1-5s because.. well thats all you can play. Some of the group gets up to 3 for a bit and decides to try out these cool 3-7s. (which your future self should tell you is a bad idea but your present self either doesn't know or just wants to play) so you get some people hovering around 3-6 and the new people coming in around 1-3. Unless you have a very large group you're going to have nights where you don't get enough for the 3-7s, or someone wants to play with their friend they brought along, or someone wants to finally get a character and faction mission to line up, so you start some new characters because you don't want a level 5 soloing the scenario with a bunch of level 1s.
So you start alternating 1-5s when you can with 3-7s and eventually start running some 5-9s. By the time you creep up into the upper end of that range, you'll have restarted with different 1-5 characters a few times.
You finally get a character into retirement (Yay!) and then those 7 to 9s have...no reason to hurry, at all. There's nothing for them to look forward to past 12.