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Suppose I run an adventure path in campaign mode (i.e. running all content without PFS rule restrictions), and for PFS credit, which of the following should I do:
(1) Report a session every time I complete a book, and hand out the corresponding chronicle sheet
(2) Wait until I've completed all six books, report six sessions and hand out six sheets at once
My reading got the rules suggests the latter, but it seems oddly restrictive to me.
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Alternatively, if you are participating in a Pathfinder Adventure Path with an ongoing group undertaking the entire, six-book campaign, you may receive credit for playing the sanctioned portions of the adventure as if you had played a pregenerated character.
If you play a 1st-level pregenerated character, you can apply the credit for her first adventure to a newly created character of your very own. 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.
The one exception is if you have multiple Chronicle sheets from
pregenerated characters, they are applied to your character’s Chronicle sheet stack all at once when your character reaches the appropriate level, even if this would advance your character several levels.
1. should be good.
It´s probably best though if the players hold the character untill finished or they have a concrete overview of leveling.
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You would think it would be #1, because the Characters are going to have to re-stock inventory and supplies at some point in the adventure, It would not make any sense that they would go through the entire Campaign without doing so. I could be wrong, but I would do it after every book is finished.
Campaign mode doesn't use the PFS PCs, it uses home brew PCs, instead.
For APs, per the rules in the Guide, the chronicles are given out as each sanctioned section is completed.
For Dragon's Demand, in home game mode, the chronicles are all given out at the end, but that rule, as far as I know, is only specific to the Dragon's Demand module. And it has to do, I think, with the requirements for giving out, and using, the bonus chronicle for Dragon's Demand.
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The wording that confused was this:
Alternatively, if you are participating in the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path with an ongoing group undertaking the entire, six-chapter campaign, you may receive credit for playing the sanctioned portions of the adventure as if you had played a pregenerated character. In this case, GMs running the Adventure Path are not bound to the rules of the Pathfinder Society Organized Play campaign (such as 20-point buy, unavailability of hero points, etc.) when running the campaign or the sanctioned portion of the adventure. Pathfinder Society characters and characters from an ongoing Adventure Path campaign may not play in the same adventure.
[/qupte]My reading is that you can use non-PFS/homegame characters to play either the entire AP, or the six sanctioned portions of the AP, but only if you intend to run all six books.
I also realised there's nothing in the wording that bans me from handing out chronicles.
I would fully intend to run all six books, but even by very optimistic estimates, a PbP would take a year-and-a-half to finish (and the best I've every heard of is two years, with very dedicated players.). So, even if I intend to run all six books, I'm not sure if a game would even survive that long.
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I think that your willingness to GM all six parts is enought to hand out chronicles as soon as part is finished. On the other hand, if party dies, game stops and you are not willing to continue after part two, you should not provide a chronicle for that, since it contradicts statement of undertaking the entire Path.The wording that confused was this:
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I would fully intend to run all six books, but even by very optimistic estimates, a PbP would take a year-and-a-half to finish (and the best I've every heard of is two years, with very dedicated players.). So, even if I intend to run all six books, I'm not sure if a game would even survive that long.
Even if the game dies, as long as they have finished a full sanctioned section, I wouldn't see why they should not receive the PFS rewards that they have earned.