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With the recent announcement of new factions, shakeups for the old 5 based on performance, and unlockables based on Faction performance, I thought it might be interesting to see how Factions had fared for different GMs.
Of course, this won't be a true reflection of how the new system would work, as Mark said performance would be measured as a percentage of success of the PCs of each faction.
However, I thought the numbers may still prove interesting.
My totals: Andoran - 78, Qadira - 61, Taldor - 54, Osirion - 43, Cheliax - 30
I'm closing in on my 3rd star, and do mostly convention play.
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Andoran - 236, Cheliax 88, Osirion 162, Qadira 102, Taldor 121
Not counting Year of the Shadow Lodge, here's how the percentages break down (silly Taldans!)
Andoran - 83%, Cheliax 85%, Osirion 86%, Qadira 89%, Taldor 77%
Question: do these figures represent those who started in a mod you ran or completed it?
I suspect that it's the former as I think the latter would be more like:
Andoran 4, Cheliax .2, Osirion 5, Qadira 3, Taldor -9
Amirite?
-Pain
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You guys don't work for any national election prediction pollsters, do you? Cause I'm seeing some inaccuracies or missed trends.
Small sample size :)
Actually, I was interested in just seeing what people have and contrasting it with whatever comes down later.I know that I was surprised to have given out so much to Andoran, and so few to Taldor, but I suspect that is because many of my Taldor players have been in Season 0 scenarios.
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OK - here's my info (GM'd 28 mods, so close to that 2nd star...)
Personal PA
Andoran: 13 Cheliax: 29 Osirian: 39 Qadira: 60 Taldor: 9
GM'd PA
Andoran: 75 Cheliax: 47 Osirian: 37 Qadira: 60 Taldor: 25
PS- these are total numbers, though I have no clue how the percentages work out for PA Gained/Max PA possible.
My totals: Andoran - 94, Taldor - 72, Osirion - 57, Qadira - 48, Cheliax - 37
My avatar picture! I'm afraid now I have to pull a greatsword out of a dinner jacket and cut off your head to absorb your power. In the end their can be only one. :-)
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Just to make it more pretty and sorted:
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Andoran - 1292
Osirion - 879
Qadira - 649
Taldor - 607
Cheliax - 569
Yeah, that's total PA gained, but it's going to be about percentage competed, not the total number, right?
It would be justice that the DC and # of trained only skill checks of the winning factions would increase. Seems those factions need more of a challenge!
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Yeah, that's total PA gained, but it's going to be about percentage competed, not the total number, right?
It would be justice that the DC and # of trained only skill checks of the winning factions would increase. Seems those factions need more of a challenge!
See my post above for percentages. Chelaxians are lazy and Andorans try to win things with sheer numbers alone.
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I love how I've given out 100 more PA than Stephen, yet he's got 4 stars. We all know it's not because I'm more generous!
(I've obviously GM'd a higher % of Season 1 and 2 vs. Season 0)
Hi Kyle,
You're probably right. I started GMing Pathfinder at Conventions as soon as Season 0 became available, and there are new players who discover PFS each year, for whom Season 0 scenarios are still new.
I find the best way to ensure players are able to join a table without scenario clashes, is to run new players through Season 0 scenarios whenever possible, so that new releases will still be available when needed. For example, I've started GMing weekly sessions at a new game store a few months ago, so I've been running new players through Season 0, and now some Seaon 1, to give them an opportunity to catch up with the PFS veterans. When they attend Conquest next month, I'll be running more new release scenarios, because the veteran players will have already played everything else.
I'll also note that Season 2 haven't seen as much play yet, because the first half of the Season had very few low-level scenarios suitable for new players. Eg, players at the new game store have only reached 3rd level.
So although I've GMed scenarios from all Seasons, I've run Season 0 scenarios year after year for new players, while Season 1 and 2 haven't been around quite as long to have seen the same amount of play.
You must be very close to your 4th Star though?
Cheers,
DarkWhite
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Doug's given out over 6,000 PA. What a softie! ;-)
New Totals:
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Andoran - 3384
Osirion - 2183
Qadira - 1775
Taldor - 1513
Cheliax - 1423It's amazing how close Doug's PA matches what everyone else had already compiled (as far as faction %).
I totaled/mixed mine with the last totals, so you just added them again. I have not awarded 6,000 PA. Yet. Give me two more years.
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Eric, it stands to reason that factions with three people at the table are going to succeed in more of their missions than groups with singletons, even granting that situations arise where members of one faction give a hand to rivals.
As an aside, I took a look at the collection of secret missions assigned to a particular faction over a season, hoping that some sort of mosaic would emerge, some sort of over-all cool thing broken into small dollops and assigned to different Pathfinder agents.
So far, nothing obvious has come up, but there have been some cool story ideas beginning with "what if these three faction missions were parts of a larger Cheliax agenda?"
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As an aside, I took a look at the collection of secret missions assigned to a particular faction over a season, hoping that some sort of mosaic would emerge, some sort of over-all cool thing broken into small dollops and assigned to different Pathfinder agents.
So far, nothing obvious has come up, but there have been some cool story ideas beginning with "what if these three faction missions were parts of a larger Cheliax agenda?"
Incorporating this level of subtle plotting is a goal for the campaign, but likely won't be evident for at least a season, even as we start to implement it. That level of metaplot micromanagement is giving me a panic attack at the moment, in any case. I'm going to see how the already slotted changes pan out before we kick this into full gear, is what I'm saying.
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Not a single Taldan has given their scores and, oh, Taldor is seemingly not in its rightful first place. Clearly the trend you are all missing is the vast quantity of points Taldans actually have.
Here are some more numbers I found:
Total for Andoran 27
Total for Cheliax 8
Total for Osirion 21
Total for Qadira 23
Total for Taldor 18
Er, clearly the Taldan number has been amended down once more, I shall have to look into that.
Septimus of Oppara.