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There is an undefined amount of time between scenarios. Unless a multi-part scenario specifically says it happens immediately after its predecessor without any time-lapse, you can assume as much or as little time passes as you wish. However, since there is no aging or ability score adjustments due to aging in PFS, it doesn't matter.
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I would think it be real world years for age, as the years in pathfinder directly link up to the real world year. ( i forget the pathfinder year currently, but i recall it goes up when ours goes up)
Correct, the correlation is game year = real year+2700. Or more easily drop the '20' from 2016 and replace it with '47' for the in game calendar. Thus the current year in the PFS campaign is 4716
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I once did some back of the envelope calculations for my character who was about level 10 or so at the time. IIRC she had spent something like 50 years in the society. Almost all of it, of course, was the travel time required to get her to a scenario from the previous scenario (particularly egregious with the ones in Tian). But some individual scenarios span months.
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I have a dwarf PC who started out around 60 years old. I told the VC that he would wait 40 years for his next adventure so that he could take Breadth of Experience.
This tripped me up on my gnome Investigator as well, so I started him at 99 (the max of the starting age category for gnomes), then aged him to 100 before taking the feat a couple of levels later. As it turns out, you can actually start your character older than the starting ages, so it's possible for a Dwarf or Gnome to have Breadth of Experience at level 1.
A character can not be younger than the minimum age listed on Table 7–1 of the Core Rulebook, or listed on Table 5–1 of the Advanced Race Guide, and must be younger than venerable, as listed on Table 7–2 of the Core Rulebook and Table 5–4 of the Advanced Race Guide. A character that ages past venerable, for whatever reason, dies of old age and is removed from the campaign. Characters do not alter their ability scores as a result of this choice.
So you can begin anywhere from the minimum starting age (Adult) up to one year less than Venerable.
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But the guide says if you reach a certain age you die and are retired from play
This will only happen if there is a specific event that causes you to age in the scenario/module/AP. Generally speaking, PFS characters do not age in the game and never adjust their ability scores per the aging charts in the CRB. The age of your character is merely fluff and you can virtually say it is anything you want within the legal limitations of your race and makes sense. So please don't claim your human is 300 years old (at least not naturally) or your elf is two.
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Do we track it for age purposes?
How much game time is between scenarios? I play sometimes 2 games in the same week with same character. I can understand if it is a linked but how about other ones?
Aging modifiers are not used in PFS.
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Heck, my wife has a PC that is Pregnant... and has been 5+ months along sense season 1 or 2...
Playing a pregnant PC.She's coming up on retirement now though... 11th level with only one or two more games left... Maybe she'll do Ruby Phoenix with this PC...
If you've got a good group of local players and a GM willing to play along, she should go into labor in the middle of a game. That could be fun, if done right.