Achievement Points (AcP) and Free RPG Day

I understand your frustration. I have multiple tables that should have RSP credit but don't. The only thing I can do is just wait.

If a game that you have a chronicle for does not appear on your sessions list, there is a good possibility that the player number was incorrectly entered. This is why I suggested contacting the GM/VO. I was not specific enough to suggest asking to confirm the PFS number and Player number are correctly reported. Human error (think "fat finger") or not reading what was written down correctly are mistakes I have done as a reporter. This can include sloppy writing.

How many are we talking about here?

Actually looks like 4 , 2 from a con and 2 from an RSP event so 21 points worth of AcP.

Actually looks like 4 , 2 from a con and 2 from an RSP event so 21 points worth of AcP.

Ok so 4 tables not reported on your sessions but you have had confirmation that the tables have been reported. This points to an incorrect entry being made with the PFS number since you didn't indicate that the credit was showing on the wrong character.

At this point, it will take either talking to the reporter to get the number corrected or sending a message to the pfsreporting email listed above with all the information you can provide (Date, event number, GM PFS number, your PFS number and character number).

Then it will be a wait. At one time VCs could correct mistakes on the system but that functionality has been removed for now.

You have to realize that RSP and increased AcP are not automatic in the system. It has to be manually imputed. Only Paizo has the access to do that so you can imagine that it may not always be done immediately. More likely it is triggered by the organizer submitting the after action report (AAR). So, you have to be patient. I would not obsess about the values the moment the table is reported. Give it as least a few weeks to a month. After that, it’s either Paizo failed to code the event or something happened specifically with your table. RVC are suppose to have access to make corrections for an individual player, but that should only happen after they confirm the overall event was properly coded.

The events seem to be recorded properly as RSP and Cons. I'll talk to my local guys one more time then send off an email to the reporting email after that.

Question - I noticed in the sessions tab that some sessions have achievement points granted while others are blank. Not just one or two scenarios and not all before a certain date.

Have you "Refreshed" your points?

I believe I read it somewhere but can not find the source. Are the new Versatile heritages restricted to just humans, like half-orc or half-elves, or can they be combined with other ancestries?

They can be taken by any Ancestry.

AcP
Conventions are tagged in the Paizo system when support is sent out. Any convention over 15 blocks can get support, but not all event organizers ask for it. If the convention isn't listed in the first of the month update blogs, it is not on our radar and won't get Premier status. We encourage all event organizers to reach out to the OP team and get their event submitted.

RSP locations had specific parameters regarding their event coding that needed to be met. They set up their event and provided the codes to the RVC, who collated their region and forwarded it to the OP team. If that didn't happen, the event won't get RSP. We do have a few emails that got hidden (I created a folder and put them in it without telling Alex) but as soon as we get through the Gen Con press, we will get those resolved.

There are some games not showing AcP. There isn't a discernible pattern yet, but as people report the errors we are looking at the larger picture to see what we can do to correct the issues for the larger community instead of on a person-by-person basis.

Free RPG Day
we realized there was an issue in the sanctioning and decided to do a review of the entire package. Doing this the week before Gen Con was fraught, but we didn't want to issue something with erroneous info or that would just need an immediate correction issued. Because of Gen Con, the review is on pause briefly. We will have sanctioning available before the Aug 25th street date and any games ran on Free RPG Day will count as valid for applying credit. We appreciate your patience.

Thanks for shining a little light on the behind-the-scenes workings of AcP!

Actually looks like 4 , 2 from a con and 2 from an RSP event so 21 points worth of AcP.

Scan/photo your paper sheets and send them to pfsreportingerrors@paizo.com. we will use those sheets to either find the report in the system and why it isn't showing or report tables with the information. If you're missing it, so are 3-5 other people.

There has been a bug in the past that unset the scenario titles from events. No scenario means it won't show up on the user display. The one I remember was Year 5ish when Blakrose Matrimony glitched. I went from 101 tables of credit to 95 and lost a star. Upsetting!

Sometimes we just need to go in and fix something like that to make credit appear. It is SO something we want to fix, but we don't know there are issues until we get the reports. We prefer email, as it is something that doesn't get lost in strings of posts and we can reply to the sender when we get the issue resolved (or what steps we are trying to resolve the issue).

Is there a list of events that are Premier and Premier Plus?

For example, in some cases I received 1 AcP for a scenario; this is wrong (regardless of event level or whether I GMed or played), but I don't know how wrong. Should I just report "this is wrong but I don't know what's right" or "this is wrong and should be ___"?

Ok will do, but I will let it go until after gencon so it isnt swamping you guys, thanks Tonya.

How does the Rewrite History boon interact with the gold cost reduction from crafting?

If I had 150 gold worth of crafting reduction, would I include that 150 gold in my wealth and then reduce it to 127.5 gold or ignore it?

On the other side of the equation, would I lose the opportunity to have benefited from earned income for the scenarios that I played up to the point, potentially losing an extra 10-20% of my gear wealth?

How does the Rewrite History boon interact with the gold cost reduction from crafting?

It doesn't unless there's text on the boon explaining how it does.

Hello I purchased the Avid collector-core rune book boon. I expected a Wizard Ring to be on that curated list. I was sadly mistaken. Will other uncommon items that were missed in this curated list appear in future lists?

As a heads up the items available are listed on the blog that announced AcP being turned on.

See here

FYI, not sure if this is a bug or not.

I attempted purchasing a hobgoblin ancestry for a character just now. I don't have any Playtest points, so I didn't change that dropdown menu. I selected my character in the dropdown menu for AcP and clicked Purchase, but the page just refreshed with no change.

I tried again, this time selecting my character in both the Playtest and AcP dropdown menus. Now when I clicked Purchase, it worked.

I kind of want to know what happens if someone buys a hobgoblin boon, and then manages to rack up the (insane) number of points necessary (12,100,000.00) to convince the system that they are allowed to buy a second hobgoblin boon...

(Yeah, assuming playing 12 hours a day, that would still take over 1 million days. But darn it...)

FYI, not sure if this is a bug or not.

I attempted purchasing a hobgoblin ancestry for a character just now. I don't have any Playtest points, so I didn't change that dropdown menu. I selected my character in the dropdown menu for AcP and clicked Purchase, but the page just refreshed with no change.

I tried again, this time selecting my character in both the Playtest and AcP dropdown menus. Now when I clicked Purchase, it worked.

There is a known display "error". When you first go into that page it shows the AcP first, than Playtest. But what is actually happening in the backend is Playtest is first and AcP is second.

Reload the page and it will be displayed correctly.

I kind of want to know what happens if someone buys a hobgoblin boon, and then manages to rack up the (insane) number of points necessary (12,100,000.00) to convince the system that they are allowed to buy a second hobgoblin boon...

(Yeah, assuming playing 12 hours a day, that would still take over 1 million days. But darn it...)

It's probably like after working on a spreadsheet for 18 hours straight, your mind is Swiss cheese, and you just want this last formula to work, so you make it false if greater than 1,000,000,000.

Yep. I inadvertently purchased an ancestry boon for a human character instead of a playtest boon. Really annoying.

I bought an orc boon for my kobold character the other day. I just wanted him to be an Arctic survivor :(

Any word on the timeline on the Free RPG Day Chronicle Sheets?

I believe Tonya said elsewhere that they will be released within a month after FreeRPGDay.

It was initially going to be the Tuesday after the games released, but something happened.

Any word on the timeline on the Free RPG Day Chronicle Sheets?

Sanctioning is up on the Free RPG Day product pages.

Sagian wrote:

Is Rewrite History available for any character or just the -2001? If available for any character, can it be purchased for more than one character?

Any character, and yes!

(andreww: we've seen your question on wands/scrolls and are discussing/looking into it)

If a rewrite history was applied to a character but that character hasn’t been played, can the rewrite include new materials such as from the ancestry guide, or are the changes fixed at a certain date?

Thanks.

If a rewrite history was applied to a character but that character hasn’t been played, can the rewrite include new materials such as from the ancestry guide, or are the changes fixed at a certain date?

Thanks.

If the character hasn't been played at 2nd level, you can redo anything.

If the character hasn't been played at 2nd level, you can redo anything.

Sorry, hasn’t been played since purchasing the rewrite in August. Currently 3rd level when last played prior to rewrite.

I am not even sure those boons are still valid. I have one for each of my first five characters and looking at the boon, it only says Pathfinder Character Rebuild.

If it is the boon from this blog than it was a limited time boon that took effect when it was applied. It ended back in 2019.

There are two AcP boons now to rebuild characters, Career Change (valid for 5th level or higher) and Evolving Destiny (valid for 4th level and lower). It looks like this is the boon you will need to use.

Per the Society FAQ, Career Change and Evolving Destiny do not change ancestry or background. Picking new option in an ancestry is allow, just not changing the ancestry.

The Boon existed until mid-2020.

Yah, it’s the boon that ended Aug 31. It’s the full rewrite history. I would surmise, given this discussion and the boon description that all changes to the character can’t be from materials produced after August 31.

Final thoughts?

It was supposed to be applied when purchased, not assigned and held, so it has no effect after the deadline (apparently August 31st).

It was supposed to be applied when purchased, not assigned and held, so it has no effect after the deadline (apparently August 31st).

I hear what you are saying, but take for a minute the scenario below.

Scenario in which this boon was purchased for a character on, let’s say the 30th of Aug., but the next game available for said player was September 1st then this boon would be useless?

The boon does not indicate that the character needs to be played, but does indicate that “All changes to the character must be applied by the time the character next plays an adventure; once the adventure begins, no further changes can be made with this boon.”

I see no rational reason to enforce a player that the have to play said character before the deadline as that seems like an unrealistic restriction on things the player might not have control of, as well as there being no real difference on the character as long as changes did not incorporate materials beyond Aug 31, “supposed” reasons aside.

Anywho, appreciate the discussion and arguments.

Well, if memory serves correct, the rebuild was supposed to be cut off earlier in the year (maybe even 2019, as Gary mentioned), and the August 31st deadline was an extension for just that sort of reason.

No, you don't need to have played the character by the deadline. But I don't think you can choose options that were published after August 31st. They extended it to allow including options from the APG, not to include them from publications indefinitely.

Scenario in which this boon was purchased for a character on, let’s say the 30th of Aug., but the next game available for said player was September 1st then this boon would be useless?

Yes. The changes have to be made from the options available before the boon was purchased. And the boon specifically said it could not be used after Aug 31.

You don't have to play the character before the deadline, but you did have to make all the changes by the deadline.

And honestly, there was so much advance notice, and the boon was free to start with, that there really isn't a compelling argument that anyone got cheated.

And the boon specifically said it could not be used after Aug 31.

That's actually not on the Boon anywhere.

It's pretty lacking in any details, itself.

I'm pretty sure somewhere in the forum threads there was discussion around this. As long as the boon was purchased by Aug 31st and the changes are made before you play, I think you're fine. However it was also discussed that it didn't apply to newer books. I have no idea which thread all that was in.

Jared Thaler wrote:

And the boon specifically said it could not be used after Aug 31.

That's actually not on the Boon anywhere.

It's pretty lacking in any details, itself.

That boon was back when they could only print on the boon what was on the summary on the boons page.

The rules for using it were all on the forums.

For example, I remember when the deadline was earlier than August 31st, Tonya stated you could wait to rebuild until after the APG came out if you wanted to keep your character out of games until then. But I'm pretty sure that book was set as the limit. Then later the deadline changed to be after that book came out.

Nefreet wrote:

Jared Thaler wrote:

And the boon specifically said it could not be used after Aug 31.

That's actually not on the Boon anywhere.

It's pretty lacking in any details, itself.

That boon was back when they could only print on the boon what was on the summary on the boons page.

The rules for using it were all on the forums.

Thank you for confirming my statement ^_^