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1. Why this limitation? I understand (and fully support) the limitation on only playing a scenario once, but the same issues would not seem to apply to GMing!
Its to encourage running and playing different scenarios instead of playing the same thing over and over.
2. I may just not be seeing it, but I can't see anywhere how the re-running works for starred GMs. So how does it work? Or where could I find the rules?
Alternatively, campaign GMs who are recognized for
their efforts by receiving GM stars (see page 37), mayreceive additional player or GM credit for a number of
non-Tier 1 scenarios or sanctioned modules per GM star
they have earned. For example, a three-star GM may select
any three scenarios or sanctioned modules that she can
then play or GM for credit one additional time each.
- Page 20 on the guide to organized play.
The latter is not of practical interest at the moment, but hopefully it will be one day!
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Hi folks,I am a little confused regarding re-running scenarios (or not). According to the Guide to Organized Play, by default you can only run any given scenario (for credit) once, with a partial exception for people with stars.
1. Why this limitation? I understand (and fully support) the limitation on only playing a scenario once, but the same issues would not seem to apply to GMing!
2. I may just not be seeing it, but I can't see anywhere how the re-running works for starred GMs. So how does it work? Or where could I find the rules?
The latter is not of practical interest at the moment, but hopefully it will be one day!
James.
Just for clarity, The rules say nothing about running scenarios multiple times, an activity that is not only allowed but often times encouraged. The rules discuss running multiple times for credit.
Replaying is another story entirely. That is not allowed outside very specific parameters.
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I am more confused now than i was before reading this thread...
I perfectly understand, that i cannot run an adventure with the same character twice for credit. Makes perfect sense. But from what i understood up until now, i can replay a scenario with a different character at any time for credit. Is that wrong?
So if i want to replay an adventure i have played with one of my higher level characters with a new character i just set up, is that not possible?
And furthermore, does the same thing apply to GM's? So let's say there is one adventure i really like (for instance Nightmarch of Kalkamedes) and i decide that i want more than one group to enjoy that, i can only apply the credit to one of my characters and that is the end of it?
And the final (OT) question: Do the replay options for GM stars get reset at the beginning of each season, or is it the number of GM stars in total forever?
The guide is just not very clear on the distinction of player and character.
I know adventures keep getting published, but i can see issues starting to crop up with your third or fourth character whenever you go onto a convention. Looking forward to the replies ;)
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I am more confused now than i was before reading this thread...
I perfectly understand, that i cannot run an adventure with the same character twice for credit. Makes perfect sense. But from what i understood up until now, i can replay a scenario with a different character at any time for credit. Is that wrong?
This is wrong. You can not play through a scenario more than once for credit (outside of Tier 1 scenarios or level 1-2 modules).
So if i want to replay an adventure i have played with one of my higher level characters with a new character i just set up, is that not possible?
Not without using a GM star replay credit.
And furthermore, does the same thing apply to GM's? So let's say there is one adventure i really like (for instance Nightmarch of Kalkamedes) and i decide that i want more than one group to enjoy that, i can only apply the credit to one of my characters and that is the end of it?
You can only take a chronicle to apply to one of your characters once. You can run it as often as you like (I've run that particular scenario 3 or 4 times so far) however to share the enjoyment with other players. You still get table credit towards GM stars for those additional runnings, just not chronicle sheets.
And the final (OT) question: Do the replay options for GM stars get reset at the beginning of each season, or is it the number of GM stars in total forever?
Currently it is total number of replays forever. There was discussion on looking at whether to set this as per season, but I wouldn't count on that happening at this time.
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I think Dave's confusion is coming from tables of credit versus GM stars.
Dave, whenever you GM a table of PFS, regardless of whether you get a chronicle sheet or not you get a "table credit" TOWARDS GM stars.
Once you have 10 tables of credit, you get 1 GM STAR
Once you have 30 tables of credit, you get your second star
and so on...
The maximum stars right now is 5. They show up on your PFS profile and here on the forums. For example, Sniggevert has 4 next to his name up there. This means he has GMed at least 100 tables of credit, and may replay for credit up to 4 scenarios EVER, not per season (at least currently).
Venture-Captain, California—Sacramento
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Yeah, they were originally debating X per season vs X per life, and they went back and forth before finally deciding that for this season they would do it X per life and see how it goes, and if it doesn't seem to cause too many problems they can always go to X per season next season or at some point in the future. (It's a little harder to go the other way.)