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Only the account that creates an event can report under that event number. Nothing prevents you from creating a duplicate event under a different event code and reporting the tables, though this could present problems if/when he gets around to reporting the sessions himself.We've got 3 GMs all running a Chicago-based Windy City Pathfinder Society, the above makes reporting annoying, as the purist in us wants them all to be part of the same event. Feature request for the dev's backlog :-)
If you are such purists why do you call it "Pathfinder Organized Society"? ;)
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Pardon my noobishness at reporting scenarios, im not the one who normally does it for our group.
I just noticed that a session I created and reported on back in March is still listed on the 'events Im organizing' list under the 'GM/Event Coordinator' tab. Is it supposed to stay there indefinitely?
It will allow me to report more sessions, or at least to input info on it, though if I click on the sessions tab for it, it has the player and GM info ive already reported months ago.
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I just noticed that a session I created and reported on back in March is still listed on the 'events Im organizing' list under the 'GM/Event Coordinator' tab. Is it supposed to stay there indefinitely?
It will allow me to report more sessions, or at least to input info on it, though if I click on the sessions tab for it, it has the player and GM info ive already reported months ago.
If you mark the event as completely reported, it should no longer appear on that page and clutter things up.
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Oooh! Lots of sweet new updates to the events/reporting system!
On quick glance:
1) when you got to Create/Edit an Event, the list of Scenarios is much more tidied up, grouped by Season title;
2) when you go to Report a Session, only the Sessions checkboxed on your Event page appear in the Scenario list dropdown. This makes the dropdown list much easier to scroll through for small events, such as a local store or home game.
Note: if you haven't checkboxed any Scenarios on your Event page, the Scenarios dropdown will be empty on the Reporting page, so go back and enter the Scenario(s) you require on your Event page first, then come back to Report the results of play.
3) Go to your GM/Event Coordinator tab, you'll see "You have 121 tables of credit" - I'm guessing this is so GMs can see how close they are to their next GM Reward Star!
I'm sure there are other improvements I haven't noticed yet, but so far I'm liking what I see :-)
Cheers,
Stephen (DarkWhite)
Pathfinder Society 4-Star GM
Venture-Captain, Australia
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I dont see any place to mark it. What page is it on?
If you mark the event as completely reported, it should no longer appear on that page and clutter things up.
When you 'Edit' the event, you should see a checkbox right above the 'Event Schedule' that says 'I have completed reporting for this event'
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Oooh! Lots of sweet new updates to the events/reporting system!
On quick glance:
Lotza good stuff
Cheers,
Stephen (DarkWhite)
Pathfinder Society 4-Star GM
Venture-Captain, Australia
Thanks for this post Steven!! I was trying to go in as an event organizer this morning and correct a couple recent tables and it wasn't letting me because the scenario drop down was blank. I wasn't sure if it was a system error or what causing issues.
Although point 2 is nice for conventions for a local store event where we will potentially play everything at one time or another it seems awkward. No worries, just an observation.
I do like the ### tables of credit entry.
Hi Josh!
Finally found the right place for this, I hope. I have tried to report a scenario played but the drop-down only gives the text " Select Scenario." Is this a new issuse ?
It's a new behavior. The drop-down list only contains scenarios listed as being played at that event, so if the event you're trying to report has no scenarios selected, you'll get an empty list.
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On a related note; what happens when a PC dies after completing the majority of the scenario (including one or both missions)?
Does reporting his death online prevent him from gaining PA and gold from that scenario?
We had an example last week, where a PC died in the last encounter, to a freak crit, after resolving his main mission and faction mission.
It wasn't clear if the rest of us had to chip in to get him raised, or if the gold and prestige he would have gained would allow him to call in the favour on his own behalf.
(We paid up anyway, as we felt he deserved it.)
In other words;
Do the Decemvirate still pay up, if agents die in the field?
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Alrighty, thanks.
Further question: The character I was asking about died in the first combat, and therefore didnt receive any exp or PA for the module, but after looking through the guide, I couldnt find anything that says they dont get the gold. (Mostly cause he was a kid) we allowed him to keep the gold for the sheet, to help pay for his cost to raise himself, but Im not sure if thats how its supposed to work.
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Hello. New to PFS GMing. I plan to run a scenario for my local gaming group. Several of the members are PFS members and have numbers. A couple others want to play but are not interested in becoming PFS members primarily because they don't plan on playing that often but also because they don't want to worry about the additional details and bookkeeping. So, I have a couple questions.
1) To be a PFS sanctioned event, do all of the players have to be a PFS member (or plan to become one by requesting a new PFS number) or can non-members play.
2) Assuming that it is ok for non-members to play, must they use pre-gen characters or can they create their own but following the PFS rules?
3) And lastly if non-members are allowed to play, are they recorded in the event record? I am assuming no as the PFS number needs to be entered though I have checked to see if it is required as I haven't run any events yet.
Thanks in advance.
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I don't want to turn anyone away, but even the non-registered characters must follow the OP guidelines to ensure fairness and equality. Their OP PC's cannot be played in OP and non-OP events. If they only play at your table, it's not a problem because you can control there builds, but if they join any "official" PFS event, they will not be permitted to use those PC's.
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I don't want to turn anyone away, but even the non-registered characters must follow the OP guidelines to ensure fairness and equality. Their OP PC's cannot be played in OP and non-OP events. If they only play at your table, it's not a problem because you can control there builds, but if they join any "official" PFS event, they will not be permitted to use those PC's.
Thanks. That is understandable if they played out of rule characters. They plan on playing by the PFS rules though but they don't care about recording their characters or joining PFS. I don't think they plan on playing at other events as they aren't big on gaming outside of the group.
I could probably coax them into just getting a membership number but don't want to make a big deal of it as long as the rest who plan on leveling their characters in PFS get credit for a sanctioned game.
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Bob speaks the truth. Something you could do (though I dont neccessarily suggest) is to allow them to start playing with a level 1 pregen (or even make a level 1 yourself, if you want), register the character with its own number, and then every time that player wants to play in a pfs event, let them use that same character. Just keep updating it as it levels and such.
By the time they become interested enough to actually want to register, they wouldnt have to, cause youve been keeping it up for them at they have a level X character already, Dont like the build? They can make a new character.
Like I said, I dont think Id suggest it, but if these are personal friends who would mostly/wholly be playing at your table, it ought to work out ok.
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I don't want to turn anyone away, but even the non-registered characters must follow the OP guidelines to ensure fairness and equality. Their OP PC's cannot be played in OP and non-OP events. If they only play at your table, it's not a problem because you can control there builds, but if they join any "official" PFS event, they will not be permitted to use those PC's.Thanks. That is understandable if they played out of rule characters. They plan on playing by the PFS rules though but they don't care about recording their characters or joining PFS. I don't think they plan on playing at other events as they aren't big on gaming outside of the group.
I could probably coax them into just getting a membership number but don't want to make a big deal of it as long as the rest who plan on leveling their characters in PFS get credit for a sanctioned game.
If they are getting Chronicles, they should have PFS numbers and it should be reported. If they aren't interested in the paperwork aspect of organized play, then the games should be run unofficially. But if they want to participate in the campaign, they need to register, so we can keep them updated when rules change or as new developments in the campaign come along. They don't have to participate in the messageboards or ever check their reported scenarios, but if they play the campaign, they should at least get a PFS number and register their character(s).
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If they are getting Chronicles, they should have PFS numbers and it should be reported. If they aren't interested in the paperwork aspect of organized play, then the games should be run unofficially. But if they want to participate in the campaign, they need to register, so we can keep them updated when rules change or as new developments in the campaign come along. They don't have to participate in the messageboards or ever check their reported scenarios, but if they play the campaign, they should at least get a PFS number and register their character(s).
I'll just get them to register. Not sure where it will go from there. Thanks for the responses.
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If they are getting Chronicles, they should have PFS numbers and it should be reported. If they aren't interested in the paperwork aspect of organized play, then the games should be run unofficially. But if they want to participate in the campaign, they need to register, so we can keep them updated when rules change or as new developments in the campaign come along. They don't have to participate in the messageboards or ever check their reported scenarios, but if they play the campaign, they should at least get a PFS number and register their character(s).
I probably said it badly, but thats what I meant. I was meaning for him to do it without their knowledge if they didnt wanna deal with the paperwork. That way, when the PFS bug eventually bites hard enough to interest them, they are registerd and already have characters ready to go.
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If you are such purists why do you call it "Pathfinder Organized Society"? ;)Only the account that creates an event can report under that event number. Nothing prevents you from creating a duplicate event under a different event code and reporting the tables, though this could present problems if/when he gets around to reporting the sessions himself.We've got 3 GMs all running a Chicago-based Windy City Pathfinder Society, the above makes reporting annoying, as the purist in us wants them all to be part of the same event. Feature request for the dev's backlog :-)
If I understand this correctly...
There were tables at our game last night; I was the GM for one. Each GM will create a different event.
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If I understand this correctly...
There were tables at our game last night; I was the GM for one. Each GM will create a different event.
If you ran 3 tables in the same place, it's one event. That one person will have to have ownership over creating and reporting.
If you each ran 3 tables and then 3 more tables back to back in the same place, it's one event.
If you ran 3 tables around town, just at the same time, that's three events.
If you run 3 tables at the same place again next week, that's a new event.
Help?
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If I understand this correctly...
There were tables at our game last night; I was the GM for one. Each GM will create a different event.
If you ran 3 tables in the same place, it's one event. That one person will have to have ownership over creating and reporting.
If you each ran 3 tables and then 3 more tables back to back in the same place, it's one event.
If you ran 3 tables around town, just at the same time, that's three events.
If you run 3 tables at the same place again next week, that's a new event.
Help?
You sure about that last one?
Wouldn't that last be a recurring event, so one event with 6 sessions, instead of two events with 3 sessions each?
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You sure about that last one?
Wouldn't that last be a recurring event, so one event with 6 sessions, instead of two events with 3 sessions each?
There is some debate in both camps about this, but I believe the Campaign Management came down on the side of different day, different event for non-convention reoccurring events. I've been mistaken before though, and there is a 100% chance I will be mistaken in the future.
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There is some debate in both camps about this, but I believe the Campaign Management came down on the side of different day, different event for non-convention reoccurring events. I've been mistaken before though, and there is a 100% chance I will be mistaken in the future.You sure about that last one?
Wouldn't that last be a recurring event, so one event with 6 sessions, instead of two events with 3 sessions each?
I thought that to, But when I asked Mark he said just adding to the same event for weekly/Bi-weekly/Monthly event is fine.
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I thought that to, But when I asked Mark he said just adding to the same event for weekly/Bi-weekly/Monthly event is fine.There is some debate in both camps about this, but I believe the Campaign Management came down on the side of different day, different event for non-convention reoccurring events. I've been mistaken before though, and there is a 100% chance I will be mistaken in the future.You sure about that last one?
Wouldn't that last be a recurring event, so one event with 6 sessions, instead of two events with 3 sessions each?
Either way is fine, but at some point you will have to create a new event, to keep things clear for yourself.
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Im trying to report a scenario, and have filled in the player and gm information, including that everyone got 2 PA for the session. I put a '2' in the Prestige blank, but when I hit the save and exit button, and it shows me how it has all been reported, it gives a '-' instead of '2' PA for two of the players. The other two players and the GM all have the 2 reported, so Im not sure what is wrong with it.
I tried refreshing and editing it and resubmitting it with 2 in the blank and it keeps coming up with a '-'.
Any suggestions?
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Apparently Im wanting to correct the fact that I didnt know the two players in question had previously played the module, and therefore their credit wont count.
Well, this is unfortunate. We generally keep pretty good records for regular players for what they have played and what they havent. These two did go to Gencon, though, so if I had to guess, they played the module there and didnt recognize it as one theyd already played.
Thanks for the help guys.
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Apparently Im wanting to correct the fact that I didnt know the two players in question had previously played the module, and therefore their credit wont count.
Well, this is unfortunate. We generally keep pretty good records for regular players for what they have played and what they havent. These two did go to Gencon, though, so if I had to guess, they played the module there and didnt recognize it as one theyd already played.
Thanks for the help guys.
No problem. It looks like they actually played them at Egypt Wars in April, but at least it makes sense now why it didn't work ;)
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Megan: what browser are you using? Have you tried another?
The fields at the top are:
Select a Scenario...
Date
GM #
GM Name (auto-populated)
(Faction radio buttons, auto-populated)
If you're not getting those, then something's wrong.
With regard to the badgering player, make sure he knows that his physical chronicle sheet is the primary record, and sometimes con sessions aren't reported until weeks after the event. If he keeps badgering you, hit him with your GM screen! ;)
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When I report a module, it gives me an empty field to give each player the appropriate amount of PA, but it defaults my DM credit to giving 2PA for the whole module. I'm pretty sure that I am supposed to get the full 4PA for the module. Am I just missing the obvious way to change this?
It's just a limitation of the reporting tools on the web site. The physical sheet is the primary record, and for full-length modules the GM receives 4 PA.