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Heya! Wasn't entirely too sure where to post this specifically, but anyone who has the experience to inform me, feel free to chime in.
Currently, I'm GMing on average about 6 games a month. 4 of which are part of a sanctioned adventure path (Reign of Winter), there other 2 games are various scenarios. Reading both the rules that are listed in the supplement for chronicle sheets for Reign of Winter, as well as the Guide to Organized Play, that if a PC is involved in the Adventure path, they can't be involved otherwise in organized play. Here's where things get murky.
The group that I'm running the adventure path through are using custom rules based characters (essentially pfs character creation rules with a looser interpretation of races allowed), and as far as applying credit rules are concerned, they're doing the equivalent of pre-generated characters. Does the rule of a character that's involved in a sanctioned module/adventure path not being allowed to play scenarios apply to this situation?
My interpretation is no. As long as the character was no higher than say 2nd level with 5 xp total, they can apply the credit from the first module Reign of Winter adventure path (levels 1-2). Then, for the second adventure module in the adventure path (levels 5-7), as long as they were within 15 to 23 xp (5th through 7th level), they could immediately apply credit from the second adventure. Any less, they would have to hold the chronicle sheet and apply it at 5th level. Any more, they would have to apply it to a second character. Am I wrong in this way of thinking?
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...Thanks for dming, but PACE yourself.
Lol, yeah, i've thought about that too. When i say 6 times a month, we play the adventure path weekly; alternating between playing on friday and sunday nights to accommodate one of our players. On the weeks that we *do* play on sunday nights, those weeks we also play on the friday, but running PFS scenarios. Averages out to about 6 games a month.
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I see it as there are 3 ways to run APs as they relate to PFS:
1) Module mode: Your existing PFS character gets pulled in to run thru the sanctioned portion of an AP then returns to their normal scenario adventures. They apply the credit normally based on their existing level when they played it. The GM applies it to any character that falls within the published tier as normal.
2) Exclusive PFS Campaign mode: The characters are fully PFS-complaint and "they can't be involved otherwise in organized play." Those characters get the XP.
3) Non-PFS Compliant play: I feel like this is the one most people (myself and my local groups) do. It allows us to play characters built outside the rules of the Allowable Resources but still provide some benefit within the PFS structure. Based on your comment that their characters are "custom rules based characters" then this is the one they're doing. Those characters can't go into normal PFS play so the chronicles get applied to any other PFS-compliant character.
Yes, to apply a chronicle from 1 or 3 above to a PFS character, (s)he must be at the correct level for the published tier on that chronicle. So, as an example, the second chronicle from RoW is "The Shackled Hut" at Tier 5-7. You and your players can apply this chronicle to any character of level 5 thru 7. Of course, you can also hold the chronicle until a character reaches the minimum level of the chronicle, in this case 5th.
