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I think it's most fun to give it to every character who participated in at least one Scenario from the Adventure (as opposed to just the characters that took down the last Scenario in the set).
As a solo player using three character parties, I would find it too restrictive and boring to just use the same three characters each time, just to maximize the prize at the end.
However, h4ppy, I don't think it's most fun to just automatically give the reward to every character who took part in at least one scenario, either. A reward has to feel earned to feel like an achievement.
So my compromise is this: to give an adventure reward to those alive characters who took part in the majority of (i.e. over half of) successful scenario attempts within the adventure (no back-tracking or repeats allowed). For the adventure path award, I'd reward those alive characters who got rewarded in over half of all adventures in the path.
So, if I buy the character add-on pack later on, before starting the third adventure pack, I actually get to incorporate those characters fully within my campaign. This also seems thematic (encountering new playable characters later in the campaign).
For me, it would make no sense thematically to give an adventure path reward to a character who took part in a single scenario, over a 30-scenario adventure path!
I started off with Valeros, Kyra and Merisiel. However, Kyra wasn't having such a great time of Poison Pill (the party lost due to the timer running out just before the final confrontation with Pillbug, for not being able to explore fast enough, since henchmen appeared near the bottom of the piles), so I swapped her to Ezren for my second more successful attempt. This made thematic sense, since Kyra's healing powers were not needed in this enemy-light scenario, where fast exploration is the priority. Ezren seemed to have fun naturally at the Apothecary (his character illustrates the shop!), and he enthusiastically explored through the entire Apothecary deck in one or two turns, and then closed the Apothecary with a check that was tailor-made for his stats.
So, if I'd want both Kyra and Ezren to get the Perils of the Lost Coast reward, I'd now have to include both of them in Black Fang's scenario. It could be a risky choice, but I'll attempt that.