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So, unless you can tell me where it explicitly states that a person may not have more than one Paizo account- I will assume (as much as the team may not like it) that I can't get banned for it. So I can make new characters under a different PFS ID number and make up for all those wasted scenarios due to TPK.
Its not cheating if there is no rule specifically disallowing it.
You would be cheating, but for a different reason. Presumably, you would do this so you could replay a scenario a second time for credit to make up for a character death (or less than full rewards). That is specifically against PFS rules.
And while it probably will not get you banned Paizo has stated numerous times in various forums that they do not allow multiple accounts for a single user. If they become aware of it, your accounts will be merged. Do not be surprised if this happens based on your post. And they may ban you if you are carrying multiple accounts so you can behave poorly in the forums and try to hide your identity. Not saying you are doing that, but it has happened in the past.
(After all, alot of GMs "frown upon" Gunslingers but they cant refuse to let them play simply due to their class choice)
Actually, a GM can chose to allow/ban anyone for any reason from their table. It is, after all, a volunteer position. However, that could be viewed by players as a "jerk" move and said GM might find it difficult to find players in the future. So while it's not recommended, it is certainly not illegal.
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As I said- please link me to where it says a user may not have multiple accounts.
If the scenario is listed under a different PFS# attached to a different email/(first and last)name etc... Especially if I call myself by that different name while I am playing it at a table... it may as well be a different person. Each account will have only played it once.
Do I need to get a second SSN# as well? :P Maybe I have multiple personalities? ;P
Page 16 of the Guide to Organized Play lays out very specifically how one gets credit for playing scenarios. No one care about accounts, it is a distinction without a difference. If you, the player, ever played a scenario a second time for credit you cheated. Frilly emoticons aside.
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I think that answers Nevynxxx' query.
Anything that makes a VC's job easier, in assigning players to games.
I have a question. Why is this hard? Can't you just announce a bunch of tables, say four on a Saturday let people sign up for tables they have not played, rather then going through the headache of assigning people to tables?
If you then suspect someone of playing multiple times or whatever, then confront them.
So, unless you can tell me where it explicitly states that a person may not have more than one Paizo account- I will assume (as much as the team may not like it) that I can't get banned for it.
You cannot have more than 1 account per person on paizo.com. We have the alias function to facilitate the needs a person would use a second account for.
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When a GM requests a sheet of ten pregenerated PFS numbers, it allocates the next ten numbers available. It may then take months to hand those out (it took me till a couple of months ago to give out the last of my cards in the 38,XXX range), while other players are registering themselves online with brand new numbers (now at 6X,XXX).
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Question, I signed up for PFS online and noticed that my PFS number starts at 60,000+. But someone that walked in for a game at the store got a card/paper/number from the GM and it starts at 50,000+...
Is this intentional? Like a range of numbers allocated for different methods of registration?
I just recently handed out a 41xxx number.
As GM you can assign 10 numbers to hand out. 2 years ago at a CON we 'ran out' and didn't have enough numbers. We overcompensated the year later and I still have some from last year.
These are numbers never been used.
Call it bad planning - but it can be difficult to know how many new people show up at a CON without pre-registration and a lot of new walk-in players.
So the bottom line:
If you sign up yourself you will get the latest up-to-date number
If you reserve 10 numbers as GM you will get the latest up-to-date 10 numbers
Yes - I've now run out of 38K numbers and still have a few 41K numbers and expect I will need to reserve some up-to-date ones for the upcoming convention I organize.
So some people will get 41K numbers - some will get 60K+ numbers or even 70K+ if we reach that number by then.
In the latter case it sometimes can take a year for a GM to hand them out.
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I still have half a sheet of 28K numbers, but I was told that the old numbers were no longer reserved. So I don't know whether to give them out or not.
I stand to be corrected, but I think it's extremely unlikely that numbers would ever expire or be reused, particularly because some technophobic players may use the number from the card and never register their characters online.
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Page 16 of the Guide to Organized Play lays out very specifically how one gets credit for playing scenarios. No one care about accounts, it is a distinction without a difference. If you, the player, ever played a scenario a second time for credit you cheated. Frilly emoticons aside.
Well except for how the rules used to be different.. For example I have 4 Chronicle sheets for a season 0 adventure that I played 3 times (different factions) and GMed once back when the rules allowed that.