How GMing scenarios interacts with replaying scenarios.

[redcapscorner]

I'm really sorry if this has already been covered, but I searched for a while and wasn't able to find an official stance on this. Now that it's possible to replay scenarios in order to make a table legal, how does GMing interact? If I have already GMed a scenario and somebody else is running it and needs me to play to make a legal table, can I still play that scenario with a different character (with a different faction) than the character I applied the credit toward previously?

What if I've already played a scenario, but not GMed it? Am I able to GM it and apply the credit toward a different character? My inclination is that the answer to the former question is "yes" and that the answer to this latter one is "no," but I figured I'd ask to be safe.

Thanks!

[Enevhar Aldarion]

For the first question, replay is only allowed if there is no other way to make a legal table, and it does not matter if the person needing to replay has played the scenario or GMed it previously. Though, if you have GMed a scenario before, it is preferred that you play a pregen character but you are not forbidden from playing a new character instead of the pregen.

For the second question, you may earn GM credit for a character once, no matter how many times you run a scenario and regardless of whether you have played it before running it or after running it. Just remember that the character getting the chronicle sheet must be different than the character you played in the scenario. In this situation, where you have one character getting credit from GMing and one getting credit by playing, I do not think the two have to be of different factions. This only applies if you are replaying a scenario and playing it again with a different character.

[Mad Alchemist]

Josh answered this exact question in this thread

http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/pathfinder/pathfinderS ociety/general/pathfinderSocietyOrganizedPlayRulesV22FAQ&page=2

The relevent post by Josh is about 14 or 15 down on the second page. It has the most blue quote text on the page.

[VanceMadrox]

Josh's post said:

The specific issue to address is whether or not a GM who previously received GM credit for a scenario may then also receive character credit on another character/faction by replaying the scenario under the Play Play Play rule. The answer is yes. What a GM may not do, is ever take GM credit for a scenario twice. He can GM #29, for example, and apply that GM credit to his Taldor faction rogue. Once he's done that, he may never apply GM credit to another of his characters for #29. Should he, however, be needed to play #29 later in order to make a legal table, he may do so with a character that is not his Taldor faction rogue--it would need to be a different character from a different faction and he would receive character credit as normal.

I don't see anything in that that indicates a GM can get credit after he's already played a scenario.

[Alex MacKinnon]

Sounds like you can get one of each. A credit as a player and a credit as a GM. Ideally, PFS would only like you to take a credit once, but if it breaks a table then by all means play play play.

Much of this conversation may be mute once we have a few more seasons under the belt. As a player whose recently refound his DM roots, I'm running out of lower Tier1-2 adventures to run, that I haven't already played, so this little rule comes in handy =)