applying credit from a campaign

[Wheldrake]

I've got very nearly all the answers I want from the Jade Regent pfs organized play guide and the pfs roleplaying guild guide (version 7.0):

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Alternatively, if you are participating in the Jade Regent Adventure Path with an ongoing group undertaking the entire, six-chapter campaign, you may receive credit for playing the sanctioned portions of the adventure as if you had played a pregenerated character.

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You may also opt instead to apply the Chronicle sheets earned with a non-1st-level pregenerated character to a 1st-level character with the amount of gp gained reduced, and any character specific boons earned must wait to be utilized until the character is of the same level as the subtier on the Chronicle sheet unless otherwise noted. You do not lose access to any of the Prestige Points, or items listed on the Chronicle sheets that were earned during the adventure, but you do forego downtime.

My pfs character is brand new, and I have 2 chronicle sheets from our home campaign. From what I understand, each will give me 3xp and 4pp, but my question is about the gold award. The above quote specifies "with the amount of gp gained reduced" but not by how much it is reduced.

Later in the guide, I found:

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If the player is playing a non-1st-level pregenerated character, he may choose instead to apply this Chronicle sheet to a 1st-level character by reducing this value to 500 gp (or 250 gp for the slow advancement track).

So here's my question: Must I apply the two chronicle sheets in the order they occured, limiting my gold to 500+500 = 1000gp, or can I apply the second one first, bringing my pc to 2nd level, which is in the level bracket of the 1st chronicle sheet?

I suspect the answer is "no, you must apply them in the correct chronological order".

Thanks in advance, I'm trying very hard to do this all "by the book". My DM thought that I would get full gold awards for both sheets, and I feel kind of stupid trying to argue that I should receive only 1000 gp instead of some 12,423 gp, but I do gather that pfs is all about playing by a shared rule set, and I just want to do the right thing.

[Jessex]

This is an area where the rules are very vague.

I think you are supposed to apply the chronicles in order but here is something you may be missing, You could apply the first one, get only 500 gold, and then hold the second one till your character reaches the right level for that sheet before applying it and get the full gold.

[Wheldrake]

Jessex wrote:

This is an area where the rules are very vague.

I think you are supposed to apply the chronicles in order but here is something you may be missing, You could apply the first one, get only 500 gold, and then hold the second one till your character reaches the right level for that sheet before applying it and get the full gold.

Yes, I do realize that I could hold one sheet, but the benefit of starting play at 3rd level outweighs the gold, I think.

I'm hoping I can invert the order of the sheets, but will accept it if I can't.

[Kyrand]

It's my understanding that sheets have to be applied in the order earned... However, because it is a module sheet, rather than a scenario, I think this passage applies:

PFS Guild Guide, page 31 wrote:

If you play a non-1st-level pregenerated character, you may apply credit from the pregenerated character to one of your 1st-level characters, with the gp gained reduced to 1,398 gp (or 699 gp for slow advancement track characters).

While it references pregenerated characters, I believe it also applies to playing an AP volume in campaign mode, like you are doing.

EDIT:

So, did a bit more digging. It looks like you can hold the first one, but drop the second to 1st level (giving you the gold I listed above). Then the "first" sheet would apply, since you were now 2nd level.

PFS Guild Guide, page 31, next section wrote:

If a player uses an existing Pathfinder Society character for the adventure, he must apply the Chronicle sheet to that character immediately. A player who uses a pregenerated character must apply the Chronicle sheet to a 1st-level character or hold the Chronicle sheet until his character reaches the level of the pregenerated character.

[Wheldrake]

Landon Hatfield wrote:

lots of great stuff

Oooh! I like that. Opens up whole realms of possibilities. If nobody contradicts this interpretation, I'll roll with it. Thanks!

[Paz]

That looks OK to me:

- Assign credit from 'The Brinewall Legacy' to a level 1 PC, to be held until they hit 2nd level.
- Apply credit from 'Night of Frozen Shadows' to the (still) 1st level PC with the gold reward reduced to 1398 gp.
- The PC hits 2nd level, so now apply credit from 'The Brinewall Legacy' (with full rewards). The PC immediately jumps to 3rd level.

[Andreas Forster]

yep, that's how you can do it.