Sanctioned AP's

[Hawkwing]

What are the chances of the Reign of Winter being sanctioned for Society use and how have other GM’s found using Rise of Runelords and the Shattered Star AP’s for society play?

[Paz]

Hawkwing wrote:

What are the chances of the Reign of Winter being sanctioned for Society use

100%

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and how have other GM’s found using Rise of Runelords and the Shattered Star AP’s for society play?

I'm playing through RotR and we're only a few sessions in; to be honest it's no different from a normal AP campaign. The chronicle sheets haven't merited a mention; the only issue I'm anticipating is making sure players don't assign the tier 12-14 sheet to a character they want to play in 'Eyes of the Ten', only to be disappointed when they blow straight past the level requirement.

[Hawkwing]

Are you running it with society character's or are you just getting credits for a home game?

[Paz]

Hawkwing wrote:

Are you running it with society character's or are you just getting credits for a home game?

The latter. They're all PFS players though, so the knowledge that they get 'bonus' chronicle sheets was a good tool to 'sell' the campaign to them.

[CRobledo]

I am running shattered star for PFS credit as well, but like Paz in "homegame mode". We are halfway through book two and although the chronicle sheets are definitely a nice bonus, I think we would still be having a great time and playing it anyway even without.

[Hawkwing]

Anyone actually running them as PFS games?

[Qstor]

I ran the first part of Shattered Star as a PFS game. The encounters didn't seem to challenge the part of five players.

Mike

[Hawkwing]

That's interesting I was thinking of running that adventure as well

[Shifty]

We have an existing group that is up to book 3 in Runelords, what is the difference between the new 'anniversary' edition and the earlier (classic I suppose!) edition?

Can we still get credit (chronicles) for the 'old' material, or do we have to swap editions and play the rest of the campaign on the 'anniversary' edition and just get new credit?

Seems annoying to have to swap editions half way to complete the AP, THEN play back through the first books and repeat content we already know just to get a full set :)

ROW seems much more straight forward though, at least it has one edition and the Chronicles were released with it.

[Don Walker]

You only get PFS Chronicles for playing the material in the new Anniversary Edition of Rise of the Runelords. The original version is not sanctioned for PFS play.

[Shifty]

Hmmm, might need to have a restart at some point :P

Thanks for the info DW!

[CRobledo]

Honestly, the biggest difference is the stat blocks are all using the 3.5 instead of the Pathfinder rules, but there are some other minor differences.

I would see no problem for the players to switch half way in order to start getting credit. The experience should be almost seamless. Then you could get credit for books 4-6.

You could then go back and play books 1-3 in "PFS mode" (like a module) if you wanted credit instead of "Homegame mode" since you already experienced the story and RP elements. Would be quicker and get you those credits.

[Shifty]

That is also a good point, hadn't thought of doing it that way, I like that kind of thinking! :)

[Rerednaw]

I'm confused I thought PFS characters retired at 12 (except for Seeker specials). Why are there 16-18th level chronicle sheets? I was looking at Rise of the Runelords...thinking about getting it, but unlikely I will have a group stable enough to play the campaign.

[LazarX]

Rerednaw wrote:

I'm confused I thought PFS characters retired at 12 (except for Seeker specials). Why are there 16-18th level chronicle sheets? I was looking at Rise of the Runelords...thinking about getting it, but unlikely I will have a group stable enough to play the campaign.

It's not that characters retire at 12th level, it's just that there are not scenarios available for the post 12 tiers. modules that are listed as say , 7-11 are closed to them.

However the latter parts of AP's have sanctioned parts that can get them there.

[LazarX]

Hawkwing wrote:

Anyone actually running them as PFS games?

YOu can't play PFS characters through the entire AP, because it's not set up that way. With sanctioned AP's you have two choices.

1. Play the sanctioned modules as one off adventures with normal PFS characters who will have and gain only the loot they would normally have from PFS chronicles.

2. Play the adventure with normal AP characters, and apply the chronicles to eligible PFS characters.

[kinevon]

Rerednaw wrote:

I'm confused I thought PFS characters retired at 12 (except for Seeker specials). Why are there 16-18th level chronicle sheets? I was looking at Rise of the Runelords...thinking about getting it, but unlikely I will have a group stable enough to play the campaign.

PFS scenarios end at 11th level, with the 12th levelSeeker arc allowing PCs to get to 13.2 XP.

Ho0wever, in addition to scenarios, there are teh PFS sanctioned modules and APs, that can allow a PFS PC to get enough XP to reach 18th level or so, at present.

So, APs will usually have the last book sanctioned for 16-18, and earlier books running down as low as one having a Tier 1-2 sanctioned section.