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For rules on the methods for running APs for PFS, see the Guide. If you're going to run the path, with the ability to make things like "house rules" you run the path as you wish as far as advancement and treasure, but the players would get chronicle sheets to apply to a PFS character with X amount of gold on it. I didn't do a very good job of summarizing that, but it's better explained in Chapter 6 of the Guide to Organized Play.
As currently, Kingmaker is not a sanctioned Adventure Path. APs were pretty recently sanctioned, so it will take a while for campaign staff to go through and choose which sections to sanction. I imagine that would be especially tough for Kingmaker, since it's very open and sandbox-like. Not everyone encounters the same situations in the same ways.
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One of the ideas behind PFS is providing the same experience for all the players. That's one of the reasons why perhaps the most important rules for GMs is Run as Written.
Same applies to sanctioned APs, if you review the ones already available, they are based on the most "structured" parts of the individual books.
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Reecy, that is a suggestion, but it is not how the APs currently work in PFS. You either run them as a home game with the perk of being able to get a chronicle sheet for a PFS character as a bonus, or you run the sanctioned bit of content as a module for PFS legal characters.
However, there is some of what you are talking about in PFS scenarios, especially for scenarios in Seasons 2+ thanks to metaplots.
Season 2 - dealt all about the rise of the Shadow Lodge, a separatist sect of the Pathfinder society.
Season 3 - all about the Ruby Phoenix Tournament, and the PFS involvement in it.
Season 4 - We go back to varisia to deal with the imminent threat of a rising runelord.
Season 5 - The Worldwound.
In each of these seasons, some scenarios specifically had different groups of pathfinders accomplish the different missions for the same end goal. You even hear in later scenarios tidbits about how others fared in the previous adventures. An early season scenario may have you investigate and recover documents, while a later scenario has a more experienced group take the documents and plant them in an embassy.
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Incidentally, Reecy, that's a fantastic idea. There have been very large-scale "interactive events" at conventions like PaizoCon and GenCons of years past.
I'd love to set something like that up at a convention, sort of a small-scale interactive. It has the potential to be a very memorable weekend for the players.
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Again, that all sounds well and good for a home game. But for a worldwide campaign, I personally would rather see consistency between tables trying to play the same thing.
You will begin to encounter some of the same problems that some MMOs face. "How come your character got to get his bar written in a scenario next season, and not mine?" etc... Something like this would work small-scale like Chris mentioned, but I doubt it would be feasible in the global scale (at least anytime soon).
