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I'm looking at the max gold on the chronicle, and it doesn't seem to include a potential "tip" the PCs can earn for stellar performance in Act 3.
If they earn this, am I supposed to add that amount as a bonus to each chronicle sheet? I don't see any other way to incorporate this in the player awards.
On a related note, if this changes the Max Gold award from what's listed on the chronicle, do I as the GM get the higher gp award?
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The most you can award players is the Max Gold for the tier they play listed on the chronicle sheet. The GM gets the Max Gold for the tier his character falls into.
If the chronicle sheet amount is the true maximum here, then the text of this scenario needs correcting; it doesn't make sense to have gp awards listed which add up to more than the max gold on the chronicle. It appears to be an error from season zero; I can't think of any way PCs can make use of a gp award that doesn't fit into the gp total on the chronicle.
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Perhaps I need to be more specific about the discrepancy:
tier 1-2 max gold 453 equals the gold from all succesful combats
tier 4-5 max gold 1267 likewise for tier 4-5 combats
In Act 3, PCs must open at least 3 of 5 chests for Grandmaster Torch.
Grandmaster Torch tips each player 50 gp if they get 4 open
He tips them each 100 gp if they get all 5 open
It isn't a bonus if the PCs can't use the money for anything useful or if it disappears at the end of the scenario. I suppose you could buy one-shot items (potions) and burn them up during the adventure, but gp awards don't typically work that way (and if the bonus was something else like a potion it would normally show up on the chronicle).
I think the gp for this was just missed because it was a puzzle award and not a combat. If the PCs do well, they should be rewarded. The GP rewards for this scenario appear to be on the low side anyway - although the challenges are season zero CR.
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Perhaps I need to be more specific about the discrepancy:
Nope, you don't need to be more specific. Being that the scenario is older than the Pathfinder rules, it's come up a few times before. The most you can award a PC or earn as a GM is the max listed on the chronicle sheet.
I'm sure that when they update the scenarios to PFRPG rules they will fix what needs fixing, but that's not going to happen anytime soon.
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Remember that PFS scenarios are written to be usable outside of PFS. That extra money can be adjudicated by a home game GM to their players as they see fit. All the gold rewards listed throughout scenarios are mostly there for home game GM's purposes, although they are useful for when a party skips an encounter and you have to reduce the final gold.
Yes, the chronicle sheet is the true maximum. I can think of at least one chronicle sheet that allows the potential for extra money past the max, but it is explicitly listed as a boon in said chronicle. Granted, this is a much more recent sheet, and this convention was probably not adopted in Season 0. But that's how the cookie crumbles. By the rules max gold in the chronicle sheet is max gold.