How immediately is a held PFS chronicle applied?


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Sovereign Court 4/5

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"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. (Guide to Organized Play, 31)

"If the GM with a low-level character runs any higher tier scenarios that don’t include a subtier for her 1st-level rogue, she takes the lowest subtier Chronicle sheet from that scenario and holds it for her PC. Then, once her PC achieves the appropriate level for that Chronicle sheet, it is immediately applied." (Guide to Organized Play, 39)

"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." (Guide to Organized Play, 21)

Can a PC make changes on the chronicle that caused her to gain a level before the held chronicle is applied?

Example: Emerald Spire 15: Order and Chaos...

Spoiler:
has a boon called "runes of change" that permanently changes the PC's race. The PC retains his previous race-specific feats, etc. but does not qualify to acquire new ones.

Bob the Aasimar gets a chronicle that gives him enough XP to gain 10th. level. Then he retrains a feat to "angel wings," which requires him to be at least 10th. level. Then the "runes of change" boon applies. He is now a Dwarf with angel wings.

It seems like this should work with a held chronicle as long as the retraining is noted and paid for on the previous chronicle. It is not really different from retraining before playing Order and Chaos. The case of the "runes of change" boon on a chronicle applied to a 1st. level character seems much more murky. Thoughts?

Grand Lodge 4/5

You apply chronicles one at a time, in the order played, as soon as you qualify to receive them. I think you would completely apply the chronicle that made the character 10th level, including levelling to 10th level (that is applying the XP for the chronicle) and making all choices for 10th level. After that you would apply and receive the held boon for the Emerald Spire chronicle, notwithstanding that the rest of that chronicle has already been applied.

Spoiler:
Because you retain race-specific feats and count as both races for certain purposes, it makes sense that you still gain the benefit of the feat and it remains legal for you from PFS Additional Resources.

Liberty's Edge 4/5 5/5

I agree with Starglim; you'd treat it as if they were two separate sessions, with the levelling up, retraining etc. completed from the first one before doing anything with the second chronicle.

Liberty's Edge 3/5 *

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Of course you can't play a pregen in Emerald Spire 15. There are no legal pregens in the level range of the adventure.

Silver Crusade 1/5 Contributor

Michael Hallet wrote:
Of course you can't play a pregen in Emerald Spire 15. There are no legal pregens in the level range of the adventure.

I'm guessing that Xellrael is applying GM credit. ^_^

Silver Crusade 5/5

Sounds legit.

Sovereign Court 4/5

Thanks everyone!

Michael - Modules and sanctioned adventure paths may be run in "campaign mode." Players may use any character that the GM approves then apply the chronicle to a PFS character. If your GM approves...you could build an 11th. level oracle, play ES 15, then apply the chronicle to a 1st. level PFS bard.

For PFS scenarios, of course, only the approved pregens are allowed.

Grand Lodge 5/5

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Xellrael wrote:

Thanks everyone!

Michael - Modules and sanctioned adventure paths may be run in "campaign mode." Players may use any character that the GM approves then apply the chronicle to a PFS character. If your GM approves...you could build an 11th. level oracle, play ES 15, then apply the chronicle to a 1st. level PFS bard.

While all APs and most modules offer a campaign mode, Emerald Spire in point of fact is not among them, so no you couldn't do this.

Full Text of ES for PFS Characters:

Legal Pathfinder Society Characters
All players must use an existing Pathfinder Society
character (without modification) within the legal
character levels range for the specific sanctioned
portion of the adventure being played. If you do not
have a character in the correct level range, you may use
a Pathfinder Society pregenerated character, available on
paizo.com. You may apply the credit for the adventure to
a Pathfinder Society character as soon as she reaches the
level of the pregenerated character played.

edit: you could do it with GM credit though.

Liberty's Edge 4/5 5/5

My message above had assumed that this was GM credit; if an Emerald Spire session has been run outside PFS rules with non-PFS PCs, then it is not a valid session for giving PFS credit. John Compton offers some justification for this here.

Sovereign Court 4/5

Thank you for the correction. I was previously given a "campaign mode" chronicle for playing a level of Emerald Spire.

Yes, I have always intended to use a GM chronicle to gain that quirky effect. I wanted to make sure to do it legally before committing an Aasimar boon. :)

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To answer your question about applying to a level 1 character boons don't work until you reach a level at which you could have played the scenario.

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