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I usually run my PCs through Modules or Adventure Paths and we were going to fool around with making PS characters and run them through some of these this time around.
If I run my PCs through a true Module (such The Godsmouth Heresy) rather than PS Adventure do you get additional GM Stars? Or do you simply get one no matter the length of what you run then through?
Thanks for your help on this topic!
Venture-Captain, Washington—Spokane
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Sorry for necro'ing this thread (albeit it is only a small one).
Modules count as 2 tables each for determining GM stars.How do Sanctioned AdventurePaths function?
Are they also 2 Tables worth of credit or only one?
Sanctioned APs count as 2 table credits for each book.
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Sanctioned APs count as 2 table credits for each book.Sorry for necro'ing this thread (albeit it is only a small one).
Modules count as 2 tables each for determining GM stars.How do Sanctioned AdventurePaths function?
Are they also 2 Tables worth of credit or only one?
Really??? Isn't each book worth like 3 character levels each normally? That's a heck of a lot of GM'ing for just 2 credits.
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You can get your total number of table credits on your My Pathfinder Society page under the GM/Coordinator tab. If you want to know how many physical tables you have ran, go to your sessions page and CTRL+F for "+2 GM Ranking" and subtract the results from the first number. This will remove the doubles from module credits.
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Thanks, Steven. I've never played nor run an AP before but see that there's something like 6 (physical/digital) books in a lot of them. And, from what I can tell from the descriptions, each of those books is good for 3 levels (like look at latest Hell's Vengeance AP). Am I getting my wires crossed here somehow?
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Am I getting my wires crossed here somehow?
I wouldn't say so. If you want to run the entire adventure, then yeah it is a lot a gaming for 2 table credits. But if you're just running a dungeon delve for regular PFS characters, it's just about equal to a sanctioned module like Murder's Mark or Carrion Hill. The real benefit to running the entire adventure is being able to do Campaign Mode and playing as close or as far from PFS standard rules as you like.
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Thanks, Steven. I've never played nor run an AP before but see that there's something like 6 (physical/digital) books in a lot of them. And, from what I can tell from the descriptions, each of those books is good for 3 levels (like look at latest Hell's Vengeance AP). Am I getting my wires crossed here somehow?
Each book in an AP is going to be a variable amount of levels, usually more levels for the first book(s), and fewer for the last book or so.
For PFS, you can run an AP in either of two modes.
Campaign mode, where you run the entire AP, all content, for a consistent group of players, with non-PFS PCs, even using a different game system if you want. As you complete the PFS-sanctioned portion of each AP book, you report it, and give out the chronicles to your players. And, yes, those portions should be legal to mark in on the Expanded Narrative boon.
PFS mode is the other option, but reduces the amount of material run to just the sanctioned section of each AP book. The upside is that there is less material to run. The big downside is that the players lose out on the whole story of the AP, and get disjointed pieces of the story, and there may be no obvious connection between the sanctioned portion of two consecutive books.
It can get very disjointed, at times, without some work form the GM on some sort of "What has gone before..."
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I strongly recommend campaign mode for APs. It might seem like a lot more GMing for the same amount of credit, but gaming is supposed to be fun why should more gaming be bad no matter what credit you receive. It will be far more enjoyable for the players as well since you avoid the disjointed narrative Martin described.