Looking at Burnt Offerings Chronicle sheets, it says character levels 3-5.
How do I get my players' characters up to level 3 so they can legally play them in this?
Further down the list, level 7 is skipped in the legal levels listed. Again, what do I do here?
Since the characters can't play in another session while involved in an Adventure Path, I'm really confused.
Sure, there's the pregen characters, but that doesn't get the ones they made leveled up to participate.
Help?
Venture-Captain, Netherlands
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Depends on how you want to play the adventure path. If you only do the PFS sanctioned bits, there will be some level gaps you need to fikl in with othwr material.
If you run it in campaign mode you can play the adventure path however you want and then hand out the chronicle sheets once you finish a book.
Ok,so I have to first get them to level 3 to run it...
We did Confirmation, and I have a few of the free scenarios/modules. Level 2 takes 3 xp, they have 1. I need 2 more level 1 bits that are different, or can they do Confirmation again since its evergreen?
Can they only gain PFS char xp for the legal parts?
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Can they only gain PFS char xp for the legal parts?
That is correct.
There are two ways to receive credit for an Adventure Path. One is to play just the sanctioned parts. In that case you need to play other material (normally PFS scenarios, but also other sanctioned Adventure Paths or Modules) to fill in the missing levels. So once you hit level 3 you could play the first two sanctioned parts (taking you to level 5) but then you would need to play other material until you get to a minimum of level 8 to play "The Hook Mountain Massacre."
The other choice is to play the entire adventure Path with a non-PFS set of characters. In this case you can make all the house rules you want for the AP characters. You play all the material, not just the parts indicated on the sanctioning document. As the group completes the sanctioned parts (as indicated on the directions for each AP) they can apply the chronicle to PFS characters. Again, the normal rules for credit applies so if - for example - you completed "The Hook Mountain Massacre" parts B1-B37, the characters would not actually get the benefits of that chronicle (XP, gold, fame) until they get to level 8.
So a character, not the player, has to finish an AP book before it can go somewhere else? Like if I got Emerald Spire, could the characters go between the two for the xp they need to keep going in an AP as long as they've cleared the started content?
Sorry if my phrasing is confusing. I get the only get credit for sanctioned content part. How or when do I legally weave in additional but separate things for xp requirements?
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So a character, not the player, has to finish an AP book before it can go somewhere else? Like if I got Emerald Spire, could the characters go between the two for the xp they need to keep going in an AP as long as they've cleared the started content?
Sorry if my phrasing is confusing. I get the only get credit for sanctioned content part. How or when do I legally weave in additional but separate things for xp requirements?
If you are playing parts of an Adventure Path character with PFS characters, you only play the sanctioned portions. You don't play through the rest of the content. Once you have completed the sanctioned portion you receive a chronicle sheet and are free to play other content.
If you want to play an entire Adventure Path, you should create characters specifically for the AP. Not PFS characters (though you can just decide to use PFS character rules if you want). In that case, the GM (you) decides how to handle experience and leveling. You can track XP points, give levels out at the suggested adventure points, or use a different method.
As these AP characters finish the sanctioned content you can give the chronicles to PFS characters.
I get all that, with the sanctioned parts. And with only getting PFS xp for the right stuff. Though admittedly better than I did before. I can NON-PFS anything I want, any time anyway. That's not what I'm asking about though.
Say they get to level 3. We start part 1 of 6 for RotRL. Those characters have to finish part 1 of 6 before they can do something else, right? Which can be any level appropriate sanctioned content? I mean, content for progression of their characters.
Adventure Paths are a little confusing in when you can step away and use the same character to do other things for PFS progression. I appreciate the answers you've been kind enough to give. I guess I just need to ask better questions?
We do Scenario A. Then B, et al. The characters start an AP. At which points can I legally run them through Generic Sanctioned Scenario C? After they finish each part of the AP, or in the middle of it? Again, I get that a Chronicle sheet can't be applied until a requisite level is met but the material can be run legally and the Chronicle sheet acquired before it can be applied.
I hope this will be what I'm trying to find out, because I'm about to buy a bunch of non-mint bits and baubs to fill in the blanks, I just don't know when those blanks can be filled. Sorry for being a confuzzled blonde.
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Basically, you have two options:
Option A (Campaign Mode)
You run a normal home campaign of RotR (in its entirety), with whatever house rules, character build standards and alterations you want. Every time your campaign finishes one of the sanctioned sections (e.g. C1-E10 of 'Burnt Offerings') you and all your players get a chronicle that they can give to one of your PFS PCs of the appropriate level (3-5 for the first chapter). This makes no difference to what's going on in the campaign, it's just a nice participation bonus for any PFS players.
Option B (Module Mode)
You treat the sanctioned section of an AP chapter as a PFS module, with all the normal PFS player rules around character creation and levelling up, and GM rules around not altering content. So the way you'd do it is:
- All players advance a PFS PC up to the level 3-5 range (by earning XP from playing scenarios)
- You run just section C1-E10 of 'Burnt Offerings' as a proper PFS game with the players playing their PFS PCs. All being well, they get 3XP , 4 prestige etc. at the end.
- All players advance their PFS PC up to the level 4-6 range (by earning XP from playing scenarios) if they're not there already
- You run just section B1-B37 of 'The Skinsaw Murders' as a proper PFS game with the players playing their PFS PCs. All being well, they get 3XP , 4 prestige etc. at the end.
- All players advance their PFS PC up to the level 8-10 range (by earning XP from playing scenarios)
- You run just section B1-B37 of 'The Hook Mountain Massacre' as a proper PFS game with the players playing their PFS PCs. All being well, they get 3XP , 4 prestige etc. at the end.
- etc.
Effectively everything but the sanctioned sections gets thrown out, so it's not a particularly satisfying way of experiencing an adventure path.
While you're playing one of the sanctioned sections as a PFS module, the PCs are 'locked in' until that game is over; they can't be used for other PFS games during that time.
Thank you Matt. That's exactly what I was asking for. I have one player who will only play if it's PFS stuff, non Core. Knowing how to break everything up gives me a chance to acknowledge the content gaps and still keep the players engaged.
I'm still teying to understand it myself, tbh. Once you have a chronicle sheet, can you apply it to amy character since you can't get another one? Or do yoi have to do different kevel appropriate content to level a new caracter?
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I'm still teying to understand it myself, tbh. Once you have a chronicle sheet, can you apply it to amy character since you can't get another one? Or do yoi have to do different kevel appropriate content to level a new caracter?
You apply it to a character within or lower than the level range for the AP sanctioned section, as if it was credited for playing a pre-generated character. This generally means that you have to play (or GM) other content to get the character up to the level where you can apply AP campaign mode chronicles, yes.