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Hello all! I've read the PFS Guild Guide and some of the GM materials as well, and I have a few things about Chronicle Sheets that confuse me.
1. What Chronicle sheets are still legal? I see stuff about retired scenarios and old seasons. Are only sheets from the current season (7 i think right now) actually legal to play, obtain and get XP from?
2. I see you can only play any scenario twice in PFS and twice in core. Once as player and GM, but then special rules apply for making table legal. In the replays do you get a new Chronicle sheet each time or are notations made to the same one?
3. In what cases do you get to use Chronicle sheets to advance other characters?
Thank you for your time and help.
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Retired scenarios are all from Season 0 or from the First Steps series (parts 2 and 3) and are marked as such on the Paizo website. All other scenarios are perfectly legal to play at any given time.
There are practically no cases where you would have to modify an existing chronicle. GMing a scenario nets you a new chronicle, as does making a table legal (even though you receive an "empty" chronicle with no loot or XP - it's still needed to track expenses). Also, if you have GM stars, you can use those to replay scenarios you have already played. This also nets you a brand new chronicle.
GM chronicles and pregen chronicles can be assigned to any character, race boons can be used to create a new character of a specific restricted race, and some chronicle sheets grant you access to specific archetypes, but I can't recall ever seeing a chronicle that allows you to add XP to a different character after playing one of your own characters, if that's what you mean by advancing a character.
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Welcome to PFS!
1. The only scenarios that don't give a chronicle are the retired scenarios. If you go to this page you will see that there is a link in there to all of the retired scenarios. Just avoid that link and you will be fine.
Each season represents a metaplot that winds through those scenarios (some metaplots cross over between seasons) and features a different set of goals for the Pathfinder Society (in-game). You can play old seasons at any time. You still get credit (chronicle).
2. Small corrections. For most scenarios, you can play the scenario for credit once, and you can GM it for credit once. You can GM any scenario many times over and not take a chronicle for it (GMing for no credit). You can play a scenario and not take a chronicle, but if doing so would make an otherwise illegal table a legal one (i.e., if you are the third player required to make the table run).
On top of that, some scenarios are infinitely replayable and credit may be applied each time you play the scenario, albeit to a different 1st-level character every time (most of these also allow you to apply credit to a 2nd-level character as well).
Then, on top of that, as you GM more games, you earn GM stars. Each star allows you to play any one scenario a second time for credit. This is a one-time benefit and for all intents and purposes does not refresh.
Then, all those same rules apply to the Core campaign.
3. Any chronicle you earn as a player goes to the character who played the scenario.
If you played a pregen character, you can assign the chronicle to any character whose level is the level of the pregen you played (except a 1st-level pregen chronicle can be applied to any 1st-level character). The character to whom you assign the chronicle gains the benefit of the chronicle when they reach the level of the pregen you played.
Or you may assign a pregen chronicle to a brand-new 1st-level character. The gold amount is reduced to 500 gp (1,398 gp for a module), and you don't get access to the boons until the character reaches the level of the pregen you played.
When you GM, you can apply the chronicle to any character you have in tier for the scenario, or you can apply the chronicle as if you had played a pre-gen (using all the same options outlined above).
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Thank you so much for the replies, and the welcome! You've cleared many things up for me. If I can I would like to follow up with another question.
GMing a Scenario or Module for the first time just gives the person another step towards earning stars, or are their other things one gets for running a game?
Thank you again! I am very excited to get involved in the Pathfinder Society.
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GMing a Scenario or Module for the first time just gives the person another step towards earning stars, or are their other things one gets for running a game?
The first time your GM a scenario or module, you get a chronicle sheet just like the players do (I outlined above how you can apply the chronicle).
Every time you GM a scenario or module—including the first time—you get table credit toward your GM stars. Each scenario is worth 1 table credit, each module 2 table credits. When you get to 10 tables of credit, you earn your first star. At 30 tables, you get your second star. 60 tables is your third star, and 100 tables is your fourth star. Your fifth star is 150 tables and some other requirements which we don't need to go into here and now.
Hopefully you also have a good time while GMing tables, so there is that bonus too. :)
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Yeah, I'm laying down the prep work right now for running play-by-post format sessions. And am signed up to GM at the local convention... which I'm worried will flop due to bankers hours, obscure to the point of 'why should I care' guests, and no advertising. This is the first year of the convention after all. And 10-5 on Saturday seems odd for convention hours. 12-5 for Sunday seems even odder, and asking for it to fail.
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Yeah, I'm laying down the prep work right now for running play-by-post format sessions. And am signed up to GM at the local convention... which I'm worried will flop due to bankers hours, obscure to the point of 'why should I care' guests, and no advertising. This is the first year of the convention after all. And 10-5 on Saturday seems odd for convention hours. 12-5 for Sunday seems even odder, and asking for it to fail."What is a 'Non Sequitur,' Alex?"
My comment was more in response to Welcome Committee's reply then anything. (S)he was mentioning how GMing is rewarding experience. I mentioned how I'm prepping for GMing as well in two formats, and fearing one of those formats is going to flop due to the venue's poor choices.
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Myhre still sort of indirectly connects to all my questions. I them ask because I hope to GM a few games at the upcoming Anime convention in my town. Being that it's a smaller city there is always games going on anytime there is a geeky convention of any type.
Again I appreciate all the help from The Welcome Committee.