Venture-Captain, Nebraska—Omaha
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As a heads up to anyone that this might impact, there has been a change in how chronicles for pregen are applied in the new Season 8 Guide.
If you have multiple Chronicle sheets from pregenerated characters, they are applied to your character’s Chronicle sheet stack in the order played when your character reaches the appropriate level, even if this would advance your character several levels.
If you apply credit for multiple adventures at once, your Roleplaying Guild character might advance multiple levels. The character’s level cannot exceed the Tier range of any Chronicle sheets applied to her.
So be careful about your characters or might lose a chronicle or two.
Venture-Captain, California—Sacramento
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I presume we'll be allowed to re-assign the Chronicles, to currently-legal PCs.I could not find anything in the Guide that covered your question.
Previous threads, where people have applied a chronicle accidentally in a way that was illegal, Campaign Leadership have recommending making the least disruptive change to fix it.
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This rule could cause a catch 22.
say you have a character that levels enough to apply a stack of chronicles, that pushes him over the Tier level by just enough to invalidated some of the chronicles for being out of tier. Removing the invalided chronicles would drops the character back down to a character level which would make the chronicles once more valid.
For example a GM applies gm credit chronicles to a single character.
3xp from tier 1-2 chronicles (level 2)
3xp from a tier 1-5 chronicle (level 3) this would cause the character to exceed the 1-2 tier invaliding them, reducing the character back to level 2, making the tier 1-2 valid again.
Another good example:
Dragon Demand for someone playing home game style rule grants you 4 chronicles for playing it all the way through.
Chronicles are:
pt1 is tier 1-3
pt2 is tier 3-5
pt3 is tier 5-7
Bonus is 2, 4, or 6 your choice.
The suggested way to apply them to a character is:
First pt1 to new character making it level 2
Use the bonus chronicle at tier 2 for the character making it level 3
Add pt2 to character making it level 4
then wait to apply pt 3 to character when it makes level 5.
Unless I misunderstand this would invalidate the pt1 and possibly the bonus one making the character not high enough to apply pt2.
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Venture-Captain, California—Sacramento
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This rule could cause a catch 22.
say you have a character that levels enough to apply a stack of chronicles, that pushes him over the Tier level by just enough to invalidated some of the chronicles for being out of tier. Removing the invalided chronicles would drops the character back down to a character level which would make the chronicles once more valid.
For example a GM applies gm credit chronicles to a single character.
3xp from tier 1-2 chronicles (level 2)
3xp from a tier 1-5 chronicle (level 3) this would cause the character to exceed the 1-2 tier invaliding them, reducing the character back to level 2, making the tier 1-2 valid again.Another good example:
Dragon Demand for someone playing home game style rule grants you 4 chronicles for playing it all the way through.
Chronicles are:
pt1 is tier 1-3
pt2 is tier 3-5
pt3 is tier 5-7
Bonus is 2, 4, or 6 your choice.The suggested way to apply them to a character is:
First pt1 to new character making it level 2
Use the bonus chronicle at tier 2 for the character making it level 3
Add pt2 to character making it level 4
then wait to apply pt 3 to character when it makes level 5.Unless I misunderstand this would invalidate the pt1 and possibly the bonus one making the character not high enough to apply pt2.
No, because you don't apply multiple chronicles at once, you apply them one at a time. So when you apply the tier 1-5 chronicle, the 1-2 chronicles have already applied, and you do not become retroactively ineligible any more than if you had played 3 1-2 games, and then played 3 1-5 games.
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Venture-Captain, Nebraska—Omaha
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You would never be waiting to apply 1-2 and 1-5 chronicles in the first place because they could already be applied to a L1 PC.
I can see someone waiting to apply chronicles to a "blob" character that has not taken any definition yet.
Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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You would never be waiting to apply 1-2 and 1-5 chronicles in the first place because they could already be applied to a L1 PC.I can see someone waiting to apply chronicles to a "blob" character that has not taken any definition yet.
There's a difference between not filling in a character sheet, and not applying credit.
You have to apply credit as soon as your blob "matures" to sufficient level that you could apply that credit.
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This rule could cause a catch 22.
say you have a character that levels enough to apply a stack of chronicles, that pushes him over the Tier level by just enough to invalidated some of the chronicles for being out of tier. Removing the invalided chronicles would drops the character back down to a character level which would make the chronicles once more valid.
For example a GM applies gm credit chronicles to a single character.
3xp from tier 1-2 chronicles (level 2)
3xp from a tier 1-5 chronicle (level 3) this would cause the character to exceed the 1-2 tier invaliding them, reducing the character back to level 2, making the tier 1-2 valid again.
The sixth chronicle in the example is still applied to a 2nd level character. As the character was effectively played level 2 and becomes level 3 after the sixth scenario. The seventh chronicle would be in trouble if it was only a 1-2 tier. As Jared said the chronicles must be applied in the order they were earned. Player A would not be able apply a 1-2 chronicle to the third level character any more than s/he could apply it to a ninth level character.
Chronicle 7 question can also be avoided by applying some of the chronicles Slow.
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Chronicle 7 question can also be avoided by applying some of the chronicles Slow.
I believe you have to choose slow are regular advancement at the beginning of the scenario where the chronicle is earned. Not at the time you apply them.
If you apply credit for multiple adventures at once, your Roleplaying Guild character might advance multiple levels. The character’s level cannot exceed the Tier range of any Chronicle sheets applied to her.
On rereading "Applying Credit", it doesn't say anything about preventing you from applying chronicles or invalidating any them. It just says the character's level can't exceed the Tier range of any applied.
If as others said suggest chronicles are assumed to be applied as earned even if you don't update the character until you have a stack. The only way to have a multiple batch would be at 4th or 7th level advancement where you have pregenerated character chronicles that you couldn't apply until the character reached the appropriate level.
Does that mean that the character doesn't advance in level, effectively earn 0xp on any the the chronicles that would cause it to break the above rule? If so would you still gain the other benefits from the chronicles such as gold and prestige?
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Chronicle 7 question can also be avoided by applying some of the chronicles Slow.I believe you have to choose slow are regular advancement at the beginning of the scenario where the chronicle is earned. Not at the time you apply them.
Does that mean that the character doesn't advance in level, effectively earn 0xp on any the the chronicles that would cause it to break the above rule? If so would you still gain the other benefits from the chronicles such as gold and prestige?
Sorry, yes chosen when assigned. I didn't mean to imply it could be done later.
As for the second question, I interpret it as 'it can't be applied.' But, as a rwference, replaying to make a legal table wouldn't give any of the above.