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You can't run a home game and earn PFS credit, but you can add homebrew content to certain PFS sanctioned material and still earn credit.
You can run Adventure Paths in home campaign mode. Which allows you to make modifications, and earn PFS credit as you finish each of the 6 books.
You can also run certain modules in home campaign mode. At the moment you are limited to Dragon's Demand, but will eventually include Wardens of the Reborn Forge and Tears at Bitter Manor. When you finish the whole thing you will get credit to apply to a PFS character.
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None of the game play counts towards PFS at all.
Unless it is an AP in campaign mode.
If you are running an adventure path, that is sanctioned, such as Reign of Winter, or Rise of the Runelords, you can transplant that adventure path to another world of your making, and change any number of things (even the ruleset) and you can still receive credit for PFS.
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3). It does, but only if I work in sanctioned content into the game
This only applies if the sanctioned content you're working in is a 64-page module that's sanctioned for PFS (as Brian mentioned above).
(What this effectively means is nothing prevents you from playing characters from a campaign-mode game within your own content after the module, and nothing prevents you from playing characters for a higher-level campaign-mode game within your own content before they reach the required level.)I don't think it's possible to work in a campaign-mode Adventure Path, because that's the whole 6-book campaign. You can still mix it with homebrew rules (as Dylos also mentioned), but in that case it would be the homebrew that's worked in ;P
What you are not allowed to do, however, is to mix PFS scenarios played for credit with any homebrew stuff. Also when playing any other sanctioned material with your PFS characters, you are not allowed to mix in homebrew stuff.
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Let's boil this down to a simple list. The only events you can get PFS credit for are:
1. Pathfinder Society Scenarios that haven't been retired, including Specials and Exclusives.
2. Sanctioned Modules.
3. Sanctioned Adventure Paths (either just the sanctioned portions with a PFS character or the whole AP with non-PFS characters, but with credit applied to a PFS character).
4. The one Quest that has been released.
Chronicles for Sanctioned Modules and Sanctioned Adventure Paths can be found in the Additional Resources.
Rules for applying credit for Sanctioned Modules and Adventure Paths are in Chapter 6 of the Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play.
The only option of these that allows for any homebrew anything is the Sanctioned Adventure Paths played through in full with non-PFS characters. You can then apply the credit for the sanctioned portions to a PFS character (but not the character you played through the AP with).
You may not, under any circumstances, mix homebrew and sanctioned content on the same character and get PFS credit for it.
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You are free to buy and mine PFS scenarios as fodder for ideas for your home campaign, but any variation from the scenario as written, to include running them in a setting other than Golarion, means the characters can't get official PFS chronicles and be reported online.
If you want to run your home campaign PFS-style and if you and your players have no intention of going to game stores or conventions and playing these characters in PFS, then it's no big deal.
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Let's boil this down to a simple list. The only events you can get PFS credit for are:
1. Pathfinder Society Scenarios that haven't been retired, including Specials and Exclusives.
2. Sanctioned Modules.
3. Sanctioned Adventure Paths (either just the sanctioned portions with a PFS character or the whole AP with non-PFS characters, but with credit applied to a PFS character).
4. The one Quest that has been released.Chronicles for Sanctioned Modules and Sanctioned Adventure Paths can be found in the Additional Resources.
Rules for applying credit for Sanctioned Modules and Adventure Paths are in Chapter 6 of the Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play.
The only option of these that allows for any homebrew anything is the Sanctioned Adventure Paths played through in full with non-PFS characters. You can then apply the credit for the sanctioned portions to a PFS character (but not the character you played through the AP with).
You may not, under any circumstances, mix homebrew and sanctioned content on the same character and get PFS credit for it.
You missed one module, in the ways you can play:
Most modules are set as whole module = one chronicle, covering all of the older, 32 page, PF modules.The Dragon's Demand, which was the first of the new, 64 page, PF modules, can be played either as three separate PFS module segments, or the whole module can be played with non-PFS PCs, as a complete module, gaining the players (and GM, of course), up to 4 chronicles (compared to 3 for PFS module mode), if all 4 chronicles are applied to the same PFS character.
We are still waiting to see how the sanctioning of the two new 64 page modules, Wardens of the Reborn Forge, and Tears at Bitter Manor, will be handled.