Awarding PFS credit for a Rise of the Runelords home game

[Bardez]

Last night my home game group just finished Chapter 1 of Rise of the Runelords. I printed off some chronicles and asked for some PFS numbers from players and found some things that I didn't expect:

• I went into the reporting system to report and found that the only option for reporting is "#1–6: Rise of the Runelords (OGL/PFRPG)" with one item underneath it: "Pathfinder Adventure Path: Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition (PFRPG)". The other APs have each of the 6 chapters split up by AP volume number.

  Am I seriously only allowed to report on RotRL once the entire campaign has ended, but free to report the other APs as needed?

• I may have had some misunderstanding about the house rule credit application. Since this is a home game with house rules, the Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play says that we have to use pregen rules for applying credit.

  Since chapter 1 is a levels 3-5 chronicle, are my players not allowed to receive the chronicle on a character that is already at-level? For example, I as a GM have a characters who are level 2, 3, 4 and 7. Is my level 2 the only one who could receive it (or a new character), or could it go to the 3 or the 4 characters? I have at least one player whose only character is level 5, and I just want to verify whether or not that character can receive the PFS credit.

[CRobledo]

1. When creating the event pick "Pathfinder Adventure Path: Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition (PFRPG)", but when you go in later to actually report it, all 6 chapters are listed. Just pick Burnt Offerings.

2. you can apply the 3-5 chronicle to any character up to level 5. If you apply it on a character level 3, 4, or 5 it applies immediately. If you apply it to a level 1 or 2, it applies as soon as they become level 3 (the minimum level for this chronicle).

It applies more like GM credit than pregen credit.

Edit: Patrcik ninjaed my edit to #1

[Patrick Harris @ MU]

1. No. You select the Anniversary Edition when creating the event, but when reporting, it will put all six chapters in the dropdown. Report each book separately. It's weird, but it does work.

2. It has been clarified that the easiest way to deal with this credit is to treat it as GM credit. Put it on a character that qualifies for it, or hold it for a character that doesn't--either way apply it anywhere between levels 3 and 5.

[Bardez]

Can someone point me to a post indicating AP credit assigned as GM credit? Just for reference.

[CRobledo]

In the same PDF you downloaded to get the chronicle sheets, there is an intro section with a section labeled "Applying Credit"

If you still have questions on how applying sheets generally works, you have to read the section in the Guide to Organized Play.

[Patrick Harris @ MU]

Bardez wrote:

Can someone point me to a post indicating AP credit assigned as GM credit? Just for reference.

Pow! http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5le7p&page=2?Sanctioning-Adventure- Paths-for-Pathfinder#71

[Bardez]

CRobledo, I was reading those this morning, and it was specifically referencing "pregen credit", which...

Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play, page 6 wrote:

...

If you play a non-1st-level pregenerated character, you apply the credit to your character as soon as she reaches the level of the pregenerated character played. You may not apply a Chronicle sheet earned with a pregenerated character to a character that was already at the level of the pregenerated character or higher, as you should have used this character for the scenario instead.

...

That seems to poo-poo awarding credit to someone that is already in that range.

But, a quote from Mike Brock about applying it like GM credit seems to override that just fine.

Thanks both to CRobledo and Patrick for the reporting help and the link to Mike's clarification.

[CRobledo]

Bardez wrote:

CRobledo, I was reading those this morning, and it was specifically referencing "pregen credit", which...

Which is why I would suggest NOT looking at credit from adventure path as pregen credit at all.

Instead, look at how GMs apply their credits, which is how it works. As Patrick linked, Mr Brock confirmed that's the procedure.

[Bardez]

Yeah, the AP chronicles' PDF say to use it as pregen credit, though. Another interesting thing I see is that the GM Prestige is reported as 2, even though it is a 4-PP chronicle.

[Paz]

Bardez wrote:

Another interesting thing I see is that the GM Prestige is reported as 2, even though it is a 4-PP chronicle.

That's just a limitation of the reporting system. The GM gets 4 prestige on his chronicle, just like the players.

[Lithrac]

Also remember that another option is:

Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play 5.0, p.29 wrote:

If you play a non-1st-level pregenerated character, you may apply credit from the pregenerated character to one of your 1st-level characters, with the gp gained reduced to 1,398 gp (or 699 gp for slow advancement track characters).

If you play in "homegame mode" it counts as if you had played a non-1st-level pregen (BO is 3-5, SSM is 4-6), so you can always do that.

[Quarr]

I am currently running a Rise of the Runelords campaign myself as the GM. None of my friends that are playing characters have a pathfinder society character.

Am I still able to report the event as a pathfinder society credit for GM credit for myself with no players?

[Nathan Hartshorn]

The way to do that is to get numbers for them (at the bottom of the gm coordinator/events page) and give them the numbers. Then you can report them, even if they do nothing at all with the numbers.

[Quarr]

oh ok Thanks

[Dragnmoon]

Not sure if this is still the case, but it used to be possible to report a game with no players. No reason not to give yourself credit in a "campaign" mode AP even if your players are not interested in the credit.

[Quarr]

Ok. Cause I was just looking at the chronicle sheets for chapter 4 of rise of the Runelords and the character level is 12-14 which the only point of reporting that chapter would just be for GM credit as you will be unable to use that for a Society character.

[Pirate Rob]

Quarr wrote:

Ok. Cause I was just looking at the chronicle sheets for chapter 4 of rise of the Runelords and the character level is 12-14 which the only point of reporting that chapter would just be for GM credit as you will be unable to use that for a Society character.

My highest level pfs characters are 16, 15, 14, 12 & 12...

[Secane]

I got a related question. Sorry for posting this here.

If I'm running a homebrew that incorporates the entirety of 2 AP, can I give chronicle sheets for the respective APs to my players?

For example, if I'm running Kingmaker (non-PFS-sanctioned AP), but in-cooperate the whole of Wrath of the Righteous (PFS-sanctioned AP) or another sanctioned AP into the homebrew, basically running a campaign that is a mix of these 2 APs, can I issue chronicle sheets to my players for the Wrath of the Righteous AP or other sanctioned APs?

[Dylos]

Wrath isn't sanctioned. But if you were to combine Reign of Winter with Kingmaker I could see giving RoW chronicles.

[Secane]

@Dylos, Oops! Bad given example. Some how I thought it was sanctioned. My bad.

I'm thinking of mixing in another AP(sanctioned) into my Kingmaker. The party is on the slow xp track, so I'm thinking of ways to give the players a wider variety of encounters and events with Kingmaker as a base.