Returning to Society play - GMing for local gaming group

[Andrew Daley]

Hi all.

After a fair amount of time absent from the game, I am planning on returning and running society events in my local city. There is a bit to catch up on as it has been 2.5 years since I have been face to face.

That said, I am going through the new materials and new products. I also noticed that the GM rewards have changed. I am wondering about the ranking? I believe I should be a 2 star GM with my record and some of my tables are worth 1 points and others 2 and not sure why the difference. How do I get my ranking check?

Also, any advice/guidance on where to start? Links to tools/forums/pages/aids etc etc? Looking for tricks of the trade to make things easy. My return date to GMing to the gaming group is late Jan/early Feb 2016.

Thank you in advance.

[sanwah68]

Welcome Back

One thing to be aware of is that in your absence a new sort of campaign has been added to the play options. It is called Core Campaign (and is the forum where this thread resides). Basically it is a stripped down version of the allowable rules elements with the Core book only allowed.

As for the point cost towards your stars: Normal tables are one point whereas modules, including the Free RPG Day ones are worth two points. There was some wonkiness earlier this year around the points for stars, mainly to do with the multi part dungeons and that they were all reporting as the first level. If you still have your chronicle sheets, just check your PFS account against them. Go to My Account: Pathfinder Society and click on the Sessions tab.

One great place for help with prepping scenarios is the GM prep site found here

[Andrew Daley]

Thanks for the welcome and advice sanwah68. Great to hear from you again. I noticed a problem with the points around 3 years ago but never followed up LOL. I get 0 points or 1 points for some tables all up I have run 29 tables. In the next post I will try and share what is in my society page for others to see. Should I post here about errors or in customer service?

[Masika]

From my main account (My GM name is Andrew Daley):

Date Event Session GM Scenario Player Character Faction Prestige Points Notes
Jun 8, 2009 2203 #1 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Masika #1: Silent Tide (RPG) 4844-1 Adom Radames Scarab Sages GM 0 Edit
Apr 25, 2010 2159 #33 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Andrew Daley #33: Assault on the Kingdom of the Impossible (RPG) 4844-1 Adom Radames Scarab Sages GM 2 Edit
May 3, 2010 2156 #9 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Andrew Daley #9: Eye of the Crocodile King PDF (Retired) (RPG) 4844-2 Zahra Sovereign Court GM 2 Edit
May 25, 2010 2304 #4 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Andrew Daley #4: The Frozen Fingers of Midnight (RPG) 4844-2 Zahra Sovereign Court GM 1 Edit
May 25, 2010 2923 #2 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Andrew Daley #2: The Hydra's Fang Incident (RPG) 4844-1 Adom Radames Scarab Sages GM 1 Edit
Jun 14, 2010 2157 #5 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Andrew Daley #5: Mists of Mwangi (OGL/PFRPG) (RPG) 4844-2 Zahra Sovereign Court GM 1 Edit
Jul 28, 2010 2158 #3 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Andrew Daley #3: Murder on the Silken Caravan (RPG) 4844-2 Zahra Sovereign Court GM 2 Edit
Sep 8, 2010 2902 #13 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Andrew Daley #13: The Prince of Augustana (RPG) 4844-1 Adom Radames Scarab Sages GM 1 Edit
Sep 15, 2010 2922 #12 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Andrew Daley #12: Stay of Execution PDF (Retired) (RPG) 4844-1 Adom Radames Scarab Sages GM 2 Edit
Sep 19, 2010 3449 #19 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Andrew Daley #19: Skeleton Moon PDF (Retired) (RPG) 4844-1 Adom Radames Scarab Sages GM 1 Edit
Oct 6, 2010 3658 #14 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Andrew Daley #14: The Many Fortunes of Grandmaster Torch (RPG) 4844-4 Bartholomew "Eddy" Eddington Liberty's Edge GM 1 Edit
Oct 20, 2010 3659 #6 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Andrew Daley #6: Black Waters (RPG) 4844-3 Sheel Dark Archive GM 2 Edit
Oct 27, 2010 3660 #11 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Andrew Daley #11: The Third Riddle PDF (Retired) (RPG) 4844-3 Sheel Dark Archive GM 1 Edit
Nov 3, 2010 3661 #25 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Andrew Daley #25: Hands of the Muted God PDF (Retired) (RPG) 4844-3 Sheel Dark Archive GM 1 Edit
Jan 26, 2011 4053 #8 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Andrew Daley #8: Slave Pits of Absalom (RPG) 4844-2 Zahra Sovereign Court GM 2 Edit
Jun 12, 2011 9765 #24 scenario for friends 1 Masika #24: Decline of Glory (RPG) 4844-2 Zahra Sovereign Court GM 2 Edit
Jun 29, 2011 6658 #51 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Masika #51: The City of Strangers—Part I: The Shadow Gambit (RPG) 4844-5 Poon Xang The Exchange GM 2 Edit
Jul 6, 2011 6659 #52 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Masika #52: The City of Strangers—Part II: The Twofold Demise (RPG) 4844-5 Poon The Exchange GM 2 Edit
Dec 20, 2011 9668 Daley's Intro to PFS scenario for friends 1 Masika Intro 1: First Steps—Part I: In Service to Lore (RPG) 4844-6 Liu Kang Lantern Lodge GM 2 Edit
Jan 2, 2012 9671 Daley's Intro to PFS scenario #2 for friends 1 Andrew Daley Intro 2: First Steps—Part II: To Delve the Dungeon Deep PDF (Retired) (RPG) 4844-5 Poon The Exchange GM 2 Edit
Feb 1, 2012 10424 #23 scenario for friend 1 Masika #23: Tide of Morning (RPG) 4844-7 Lady Ariel Silver Crusade GM 2 Edit
Feb 15, 2012 10427 3-05 scenario for friend 1 Masika #3-05: Tide of Twilight (RPG) 4844-7 Lady Ariel Silver Crusade GM 2 Edit
Feb 29, 2012 10458 PFS The Godsmouth Heresey 1 Masika The Godsmouth Heresy (RPG) 4844-7 Lady Ariel Silver Crusade GM 2 GM ranking: +2 Edit
Mar 13, 2012 10459 PFS Crypt of the Everflame 1 Masika Crypt of the Everflame (RPG) 4844-7 Lady Ariel Silver Crusade GM 2 GM ranking: +2 Edit
Jul 18, 2012 10461 #7 Daley's PFS scenario for friends 1 Masika #7: Among the Living (RPG) 4844-7 Lady Ariel Silver Crusade GM 2 Edit
Aug 1, 2012 10462 PFS Feast of Ravenmoor 1 Masika Feast of Ravenmoor (RPG) 4844-7 Lady Ariel Silver Crusade GM 2 GM ranking: +2 Edit

[Andrew Daley]

I am also naughty as I have three old old events listed but results not registered.

[Fromper]

Based on what you pasted above, 29 tables GMed towards stars seems right. Godsmouth Heresy, Crypt of the Everflame, and Feast of Ravenmoor are worth 2 tables of credit, while the rest are normal scenarios worth only 1. At least, I think they are - I'm not familiar with a couple of those old, retired ones.

The GM 0, GM 1, GM 2 stuff at the end has nothing to do with your star rating. That's how many prestige points your character gets for that scenario. You should always give yourself the max available prestige for any table you GM, which is 2 for all of those except the 3 modules I mentioned above, where you should have gotten 4 prestige.

[GreySector]

There is no way to manually input GM prestige earned. It is automatically granted by the reporting system. The system doesn't give you 4 prestige for a module, and there is no way to indicate a GM character is on slow track and only gets half prestige.

[Andrew Daley]

I got you and thanks. I got to reading stuff this night and I see I need 30 tables - I am one short currently.
I did run another 3 tables as they were listed events under my coordination but I never entered. They are still listed under my account, fingers crossed that they are still acceptable. If not I will get there soon enough as I start up running games again.
I can not wait!