Retraining with Credit

[SodiumTelluride]

I have a gunslinger 4/occultist 1 who has two module Chronicles to apply (worth 3 XP each). I would like to retrain the occultist level, since it turns out there's an errata that makes the battle host archetype useless to this character, as well as prestige into lantern bearer (which requires a +5 BAB and some skill ranks). What's the most correct way to go about this?

a) Retrain the occultist level at character level 5, apply the two Chronicles, choose two levels of lantern bearer. End result: gunslinger 5/lantern bearer 2.

b) Apply the two Chronicles without choosing a class, retrain the occultist level at character level 7, take two levels of lantern bearer. End result: gunslinger 5/lantern bearer 2.

c) Apply the two Chronicles, choose two gunslinger levels (or any base class) since I don't qualify for lantern bearer; retrain the occultist level at character level 7. Since PFS does not allow a character to retrain base class levels into prestige class levels, those extra levels are stuck. End result: gunslinger 7.

d) Something else

[Starglim]

Do you already have enough Prestige and gold available to retrain a class level immediately before you apply the two chronicles? I would think you could do that (option a).

If you need resources from one or both chronicles, you'll have to apply them in a complete and legal way (not option b). You apply the chronicles one at a time, so the result might be either option c, or a combination of c and a.

[Nefreet]

You can't Retrain non-Prestige Class levels into Prestige Class levels, so it'd have to be a).

That's not a PFS restriction. It's a Pathfinder restriction.

[SodiumTelluride]

I do have enough Prestige and gold to retrain before applying the Chronicles, so that isn't a concern.

Honestly I assumed a) was the least likely answer here. Don't Chronicles have to be applied as soon as they're earned?

[Nefreet]

If you're not applying the Chronicles now... Then you're not applying the Chronicles now.

Right?

I don't understand the question.

[Ragoz]

Just record the retraining on the chronicle before the modules. The retraining rules reference being completed during downtime between adventurers and therefore chronicle sheets.

[Nefreet]

SodiumTelluride wrote:

Don't Chronicles have to be applied as soon as they're earned?

They have to be applied in the order they're received, but you can still make purchases, sell equipment, spend Prestige and so on for each Chronicle.