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OK, that's fine. Mostly I was curious about Example 1 because it's the situation I was personally finding myself in. As I mentioned in a different thread, we've started running a PFS1 campaign as our "home campaign", and I wanted to make sure that -- if I run a session of something I've previously played -- that I wouldn't have my "home campaign alt" lagging behind because it wouldn't get credit.

Thanks!

The last version of the 1e PFS Role Playing Guide just says that GMs "any GM who runs a scenario gets full credit for that scenario to apply to one of her own characters".

Mechanically, how does this work, if the GM has already played (as a player) that Scenario? Or if they've already GM'ed that scenario?

Example 1: I've been to a PFS event and enjoyed {scenarioFoo}. At our "home PFS environment", I GM my friends through {scenarioFoo}. Can I apply {scenarioFoo} to a second character (ie, the character I use for our home-game rotation, so that it stays at the same level as the rest of the group)?

Example 2: A GM has five PFS characters that they use when not GMing. They spend a weekend, say, GMing {scenarioBar} four different times. Do they get a chronicle sheet from each of those GMing runs that they can apply to one of their five characters? (Obviously never twice to the same character, and obviously in this case, one character is potentially left going without).

So I'm (finally) getting around to cashing in playtest boon points, and (having been almost-killed once in 1e), "Against All Odds" (when dying, get a hero point and spend it to stay alive) seemed like it might be fitting for my 2e character. But I realized that "Starsong's Favorite" (get a hero point at any time) *seems* to accomplish the same thing, but with greater flexibility (I can cash in the hero point any time, rather than only when I'm dying).

Is there some reason why Starsong's Favorite isn't usable in the "dying" situation, such that you'd want the Against All Odds one instead?

Clearly there's a reason why there were two different-but-very-similar boons created, so I want to make sure I don't make a dumb mistake. :-)

If this is the question:

~ "What am I missing?"

Then this is the answer:

~ "That the system is buggy."

In an ideal world, December 31st will roll by, everything will work perfectly, and new players will only come to the Forums to praise, not question, the fully functional AcP and Boon system, and everyone who lived through this year-and-a-half-long hiccup will be able to recline back on our porch and say, in a raspy old timey voice, "Back in 2020..."

This seems most likely of all. I just wanted to firmly put to bed the AcP/reporting line of thought, cuz it's definitely not that. :-)

OK, as someone who only plays PFS games once a year, for four days a year, at Gen Con:

Am I reading this correctly that even though I've never referenced a single non-core item/trait/feat/etc. on the single character that I've been slowly progressing over the last several years, that if I want to finally be able to play that character with "like minded folks" in a core-only session, that I can't? I need to start all over?

I know that I don't play nearly as often as some of you and maybe for most folks "just rolling up and starting over" is easy. But it's taken me four years to make it to a measly level 4, and I'm not about to start over.

"Core Mode" fixed the one thing that I absolutely hated about playing in PFS games (the constant one-upsmanship on what folks were bringing to the table). But I'm not about to start over and throw away four years of grinding him up, three or four sessions per summer.

Being told (effectively) "keep putting up with the ultimate min-max'ing of folks who buy $1000 worth of books, or start over" would be enough to say "Nope, there's a third option, walking away from PFS."

There *has* to be some sort of allowance for this sort of thing. It's absurd that there isn't. Somebody please tell me that I'm insane.