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Whatever the solution is, it seems like something that should have been worked out long before ever getting in a car to drive 90 minutes.

The game is this week. When I realized that I wouldn't have the scenario to prep, I told the VC that I wouldn't be able to make it and dropped out, rather than drive the distance unnecessarily. He was perfectly fine in what he said, as that is what Paizo has told him he has to do. I was just surprised that this was actually a Paizo rule that would serve to limit how many GMs a lodge could support at a given event.

As the VC in question above, I'm disappointed that what I said is being so drastically misrepresented. I said I'm allowed to share one copy, and that I had already shared it with the other signed up GM, a local who asked weeks ago. We've both had the conversation about how many copies a Venture-Officer can have lent at a time a couple of times recently, so I did not expect it to be a surprise.

This was never about a specific person or situation, as it has been an ongoing problem for years and years. When they have someone volunteering to support their company's product at a public event, they should make it easier to run, not harder. I thought that they had loosened things up since I quit several years ago, as it hasn't seemed to be a problem recently and GMs nowadays had the materials that they needed. I was disappointed that I would not be able to get what I needed when I was willing to drive for 90 minutes to run the game.

I was venting at Paizo for disincentivizing volunteers, never at the VC who was simply applying the rules that Paizo had imposed on him. I'm sorry I hurt him. I wasn't mad at him. I really wanted to help out and got frustrated with Paizo's limitations.

Marcia

The VC absolutely may loan you a physical copy to run from. In fact, any person can loan another a physical copy of a scenario to run. That has been the case for years. Perhaps your VC didn’t know that (and if your VC did not know that, then that’s a major issue that needs to be resolved.). If the store owner is a registered retailer with Paizo, I believe they also get the scenarios, too, and could loan you a physical copy.

But, generally speaking, it has been true since the beginning of organized play here that GMs were generally expected to buy their own scenarios, that’s not new.

The VC has already given his one allowed copy to another GM, so no love for me.

But if they're expecting the GMs to buy their own copies, it's no wonder we're losing GMs right and left. We only have 4 left in our town of the 12 or more we had two years ago. As I said earlier, I would buy mine for private games, where I run for my friends, but when running for the organization or store, it's a lot to ask from someone who is volunteering to run for strangers.

Marcia

To add another wrinkle to this, a lot of local "lodges" have multiple sessions of the same scenario on a game day with VOLUNTEER GMs. If these VOLUNTEERS are expected to pay out of pocket for the privilege of running at someone else's event, AFTER spending hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars on books ($65/ea), maps ($25-30/ea), and minis (yeah, I know, from Wizkids, but still $8+/ea), I see a lot of VOLUNTEERS dropping out. I VOLUNTEERED to run a scenario at a game store 90 miles away, but the VC said that he couldn't give me a copy of the scenario, not even a hard copy when I get there an hour early. Guess who's no longer VOLUNTEERING to help out?

Are they TRYING to lose VOLUNTEER GMs???

Marcia Schoonover
The Once and Future (now maybe non-existent) GM

I always appreciated having the full stat blocks of monsters in the back of each PFS scenario. I'm pretty upset that's going away.

Not having to flip between bookmarks for each monster was such a godsend, especially for multi-table specials.

This might be a deal breaker for me, as table space is limited and having multiple books open bogs down combat, not to mention that some creatures are in the older bestiaries that many don't have.

I bought a bulk load of PFS maps earlier this year. Among them was a complete set of maps for Emerald Spire. So, I was thinking of running that for my PFS group locally. However, they are all comfortable with PFS 2e, now, and won't want to learn 1st Ed. (I, on the other hand, have extensive experience running 1st Ed.)

Would it possible for me to adjust the adventure so that it fits into 2e? Am I allowed to? Has anyone already done a conversion for it that I could use?

Thanks for any help or advice.
Marcia
(The Once and Future GM)

Guess it's Glad Hand, then. Not terribly useful, as usually we have loads of time for a Diplomacy check.

I've already got several feats and special abilities that are pretty much useless, as they take an action in combat when you already don't have enough actions.

Anyway, the question still is, can I wait on selecting a feat until next level, to take a 7th level feat (assuming that 7th level allows me to bump my Diplomacy and Medicine to master level)?

My cleric leveled to 6th level and gets a skill feat, but there AREN'T any 6th level feats. The highest level feat that I can select is 2nd (or 3rd, if I can sub a General feat). The next level that offers skill feats is 7th. Can I defer my selection until my character reaches 7th level? If not, I'll have to take a 2nd/3rd level feat that is really not needed at all.

Thanks