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Getting ready to run part 2 of the Dragon's Demand for PFS and I'm not sure that I'm understanding something.
Am I supposed to run the actual auction or just the combat portion?
If I run the auction, do they keep the items bought at the auction?
Normally, if the Chronicle sheet states something like "You did X in the game and now get this awesome boon...", then if the player(s) did X, then they get the boon. "Day at the Auction" states something like that -- "...you bid on and won an exceptionally rare item...". The problem that I have with this is that just above that it states "Choose one of the following boons and cross the other off..." Which kind of makes it sound more like the player did (but didn't really) do the thing in question.
Does the GM get both boons? :)
And I still don't get the 4th Chronicle sheet. If the players/GM go through the "non-sanctioned" scenarios, they're supposed to get this sheet. But there's three different "subtiers" and by the time the players complete the whole thing, they should be well past these levels. So do they get all three? As they reach those levels? Or do they only get one of these gold rewards?
It just doesn't seem all that clear to me...
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Check out paragraph 2 under the section entitled "Receiving Credit."
From the sound of your post, I assume you are only running the sanctioned portions of the module. If so, the fourth chronicle sheet does not apply. The fourth chronicle sheet is only awarded if you play the entire module as detailed in paragraph two of the section entitled "Legal Pathfinder Society Characters."
HTH
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Moff, the purpose of the 4th chronicle is to reward groups for playing the entire module by giving them some extra gold,xp, and prestige. When you play in campaign mode, you give the entire stack of chronicles to the players at the end, and they choose which tier to take the 4th chronicle at. It helps bridge the gap depending on whether the character was level 1,2, or 3 when it got the first chronicle, and/or had other module or GM credits waiting that have to be shuffled in.
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From the sound of your post, I assume you are only running the sanctioned portions of the module. If so, the fourth chronicle sheet does not apply.
I get that, but I still would like to know better how that's supposed to work.
Moff, the purpose of the 4th chronicle is to reward groups for playing the entire module by giving them some extra gold,xp, and prestige.
Ok, so they get XP and Prestige as well? That wasn't very clear. Do they get the full 3 XP, etc for the 4th sheet? And just to be clear, PFS characters CANNOT be used when doing the Alternate method -- but that also means that anything goes -- all this is happening outside the character that these sheets would be applied to. So I can run this with a group of friends, they can literally make any character they want without regard to any PFS restrictions and at the end, I hand them a stack of Chronicle sheets that they can then apply to any PFS character they'd like (assuming it's the same one) and this happens all at once. So they can literally apply four levels to one character all at one time. Am I understanding that right?
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Yes, the fourth chronicle sheet awards the PC with three experience points and four prestige points at either 2nd, 4th, or 6th level with the corresponding amount of gold. Thus a PC with these four chronicle sheets can advance four levels.
The PFS rules are merely a subset of all the rules. You can play the module in campaign mode with PFS characters if you like - or not. As GM you set the limits when playing in campaign mode. For example, when I ran this for a group of four players I limited the players to a 15-point buy and only allowed use of Paizo books published before the release of the module with the exception of the Dragon Slayers Handbook.
Furthermore, it is entirely conceivable to play the module with a PFS-legal character in campaign mode, get the four chronicle sheets and apply them to an identical character - but one that has a PFS character number! Granted the PFS character may not be at the same level as the PC that completed the module, but the player will have had the enjoyment of playing their "PFS character" outside of PFS play for several levels and can make any adjustments they see fit as they apply these chronicle sheets to their PFS character.
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Thanks for the information, but I'm still wondering about this...
Getting ready to run part 2 of the Dragon's Demand for PFS and I'm not sure that I'm understanding something.
Am I supposed to run the actual auction or just the combat portion?
If I run the auction, do they keep the items bought at the auction?
Normally, if the Chronicle sheet states something like "You did X in the game and now get this awesome boon...", then if the player(s) did X, then they get the boon. "Day at the Auction" states something like that -- "...you bid on and won an exceptionally rare item...". The problem that I have with this is that just above that it states "Choose one of the following boons and cross the other off..." Which kind of makes it sound more like the player did (but didn't really) do the thing in question.
Does the GM get both boons? :)