GM credit and applying it to characters.

[Darksmokepuncher]

As I understand this, you can only apply credit to a character once he/she reaches the appropriate tier. Is that right?

[TriOmegaZero]

Correct. But you must apply the lowest tier your character qualifies for. (If you have a sheet with both a 1-2 Tier and a 3-4 Tier, you cannot hold it until 3rd, you must use it on your 2nd level character.)

However you do not have to apply it to the first available character. You could hold it for your second character even if your first character becomes eligible before the second one does.

[W. Kristoph Nolen]

I was under the impression that it was held until the level at which the scenario was actually played.

[TriOmegaZero]

Guide To Organized Play wrote:

The subtier for which a GM’s character receives credit depends on the character’s level. If a GM with a 1st-level rogue runs a Tier 1–5 scenario using Subtier 1–2, she takes a Subtier 1–2 Chronicle sheet for her 1st-level rogue. If she instead runs a Tier 1–5 scenario using Subtier 4–5, she still takes a Subtier 1–2 Chronicle sheet, as her PC clearly falls within the lower subtier.

If the GM with a low-level character runs any higher tier scenarios that don’t include a subtier for her 1st-level rogue, she takes the lowest subtier Chronicle sheet from that scenario and holds it for her PC. Then, once her PC achieves the appropriate level for that Chronicle sheet, it is immediately applied. For example, if a GM with a 1st-level rogue runs a Tier 5–9 scenario, she would take a Subtier 5–6 Chronicle sheet (the lowest subtier for that tier) for running the scenario and set it aside. Once her rogue reaches 5th level, she can immediately apply the Chronicle sheet to her character. This means that GM characters can potentially level up in bursts.

[W. Kristoph Nolen]

Darn it. Well, I was clearly, and inexplicably wrong. I hate it when that happens. <sigh> Ah, well. Sometimes ya' got it, wometimes ya' don't.
Thanks for pointing out the appropriate rule, TOZ. I don't know how on Oerth I missed that. :D

[TriOmegaZero]

I'm still learning the ropes myself. I had to fill out my first chronicle sheets at the Grand Convocation during PaizoCon. I gave people Day Job checks they shouldn't have gotten. ;)

[Ben Mathis]

Don't feel bad TOZ, our DM did that at Origins after the battle interactive. Oops. Happens to the best of us.

[TriOmegaZero]

Considering the Convocation was my first PFS GM experience...

[kinevon]

W. Kristoph Nolen wrote:

Darn it. Well, I was clearly, and inexplicably wrong. I hate it when that happens. <sigh> Ah, well. Sometimes ya' got it, wometimes ya' don't.

Thanks for pointing out the appropriate rule, TOZ. I don't know how on Oerth I missed that. :D

It wasn't inexplicable, it was just getting two very similar rules confused.

If you play a pregen in a scenario, and have linked it to a PC, you give that PC the chronicle when it reaches the same level as the pregen that was used.

If you GM a scenario, and you give the GM chronicle to one of your PCs, and that PC is too low level to qualify for any tier the scenario can be played at, that PC gains the chronicle as soon as it reaches the lowest level that it could have played the scenario.

Hopefully, v4.2 will clear some of this up, especially since scenario credit for a pregen and module credit for a pregen are different from each other at this time.