Race for the Runecarved Key & level 20

[Zach Davis]

So as I understand it this is the only way to get to level 20. Correct?
And since it has a tier for every level there is no way to GM it, and hold it for a character. So if you have any desire to hit level 20 you should avoid playing OR GMing this like the plague until 19.2. Right?

[Nefreet]

As of right now, yup.

[Zach Davis]

Thanks that's what I thought.

[Silbeg]

If it matters, we are planning to run this sometime this year (once a group of us have hit 19.2) in Minnesota. Don't have a good timeline, because we need to still do the last couple of AP modules.

[BartonOliver]

Zach Davis wrote:

So as I understand it this is the only way to get to level 20. Correct?

And since it has a tier for every level there is no way to GM it, and hold it for a character. So if you have any desire to hit level 20 you should avoid playing OR GMing this like the plague until 19.2. Right?

You can GM it as much as you want before then, just don't take GM credit until the 19.2 run. You're never forced to take GM credit.

[GreySector]

I'd seriously advise against playing this at 19th level. The scaling for 12+ doesn't work very well, and IMO the bragging rights of having a 20th level character (that you'll probably never get to play) aren't worth the disappointing play experience that you'll have with Race to the Runecarved Key at that high of a level.

[Disk Elemental]

Jack Brown wrote:

If it matters, we are planning to run this sometime this year (once a group of us have hit 19.2) in Minnesota. Don't have a good timeline, because we need to still do the last couple of AP modules.

Heh... any chance you'll be running it during December?

[UndeadMitch]

That's what GM stars are for! I played it once online at a lower level, and plan to either GM or play it again to get a different character to twenty.

[TriOmegaZero]

I'll be looking to GM this again myself somewhere down the line when Kurik reaches 19.2.

[Prethen]

The only problem with getting a 20th level character is that you never get to actually play with the character at 20th level in PFS. For certain characters they get some cool abilities at level 20 that are essentially moot in PFS.

[Nefreet]

Maybe in another 8 years they'll release a Tier 19-20 Special =D

[Ragoz]

Prethen wrote:

The only problem with getting a 20th level character is that you never get to actually play with the character at 20th level in PFS. For certain characters they get some cool abilities at level 20 that are essentially moot in PFS.

You can play your 20th level character for no credit to make a table of Race for the Runecarved Key fire.

[TOZ]

..that sounds like a horrible idea. I like it.

[Zach Davis]

Michael Eshleman wrote:

I'd seriously advise against playing this at 19th level. The scaling for 12+ doesn't work very well, and IMO the bragging rights of having a 20th level character (that you'll probably never get to play) aren't worth the disappointing play experience that you'll have with Race to the Runecarved Key at that high of a level.

I don't care about bragging rights, and I know I won't get to play the character. Its really just about two things in my mind: 1) Playing as many sessions as possible with the character, and 2) because I have a completionist need to do it. I appreciate the input though. In your opinion is the scaled up version actually appropriate for any of the 15 + tiers? I was just going to GM it Core since I don't really have any plans to play Core and it wouldn't disrupt anything, but I may use Joe's suggestion which I hadn't really thought about. Jack thanks for letting me know about that, but I kind of doubt I'll reach 19.2 this year(possible though). Plus there's no way I'd be able to get out there.