Separated GM / Player sessions on Paizos page

[Melchior]

Recently noticed that my GM credits have been located solely under the GM Sessions tab, while the Character Sessions tab only shows the played sessions. As an irregular player, I often have to check on Paizo to determine the exact level of a character prior to signing up for a game. With sessions from both roles, this means I'm using two tabs in the current system. Is there some way to set your profile back to showing both GM and Player credit together, in the same tab? I've been poking around, but can't seem to find it.

[Nefreet]

They've been separated for at least the last 5 years.

You can keep track of your individual characters on their profile pages, and then review your aliases page to see them all at once.

I'd advise against using solely reported sessions. Reporting is irregular and you're more likely to not have everything show up.

[TriOmegaZero]

There is also your sessions tab under your profile page, but unfortunately that view has been broken for the past few weeks(months?). Once they get that fixed, you should be able to see them all in one place. For you, the link is https://secure.paizo.com/people/Melchior/sessions.

[Gary Bush]

It is also difficult to use the system to track levels if you take a slow track on an adventure or two.

Best to use your physical copies of the chronicles.

[Nefreet]

Or a spreadsheet!

[Ferious Thune]

The GM and Player Sessions have had separate sections for a while. What changed is that the GM sessions no longer show up under the characters to which they are assigned. THAT makes it more difficult to keep track of what chronicles are on what character or to doublecheck offline records against what’s been reported. I’m hoping it’s a temporary situation as part of all of the updating they have been doing, and that the records will eventually show back up (like the My Pathfinder Society button). It’s been that way for a couple of months at least, I think.

[GM Lamplighter]

^This. The issue is, if you look at a PC, it only shows sessions played with that PC, and doesn't list GM credits.

[Tallow]

This is also something that Erik Keith and the Web team are working on to fix.

[nightdeath]

I certainty hope and pray that this can be fixed. I have more then 30 chars and it makes it a pain when I need to do cross checking.

[MrBear]

You should be relying more on your chronicle sheets than online reporting to keep track of your characters. The hard copy is what matters, and it's incredibly common for events to leave important seasons unreported. Of the four conventions I've attended this fall, one has shown up reported. The other three, which include GenCon, aren't listed at all. I'm not complaining, mind you. It's just not a perfect system.

The only way to be completely accurate is to have your physical chronicle sheets on hand. Otherwise you're crossing your fingers and hoping that every other gm you've played with reported accurately, every convention you've run at reported properly, and the computer hasn't eaten something that mattered. I don't like those odds.

[Ferious Thune]

It's not so much about checking on site. It's just a lot quicker to click through and search on a few characters than it is to rifle through a couple hundred chronicle sheets. It's true that sometimes things don't get reported, so sometimes you'll have to resort the the chronicles. And you need the chronicles available in some form in case of an audit. But a feature that is supposed to show you what chronicles are assigned to a character that doesn't, even if they are reported, is a feature that isn't working as it should.

Some people might find it easier to keep and search their own electronic records. Some might prefer sorting through the papers. Some of us found the Paizo system useful the way it worked before, and it's clearly a bug the way it is working now.

I figured the team was aware of this. I replied mainly to clarify what the issue is, since Melchior was being told things had been this way for years. Maybe Melchior did just mean the separate player and GM session sections. If so, then yeah, they've been there as separate sections. Though they did change the way they are displayed, and for a while the search on the Player sessions wasn't working (not sure if it's fixed yet).

[Melchior]

Ferious Thune wrote:

The GM and Player Sessions have had separate sections for a while. What changed is that the GM sessions no longer show up under the characters to which they are assigned. THAT makes it more difficult to keep track of what chronicles are on what character or to doublecheck offline records against what’s been reported. I’m hoping it’s a temporary situation as part of all of the updating they have been doing, and that the records will eventually show back up (like the My Pathfinder Society button). It’s been that way for a couple of months at least, I think.

This is my main issue. I was hoping I'd mucked up the settings somehow, and that an easy fix was available, but parsing the responses it seems it's presently system standard. An annoyance that's landed me in a minor bit of trouble by virtue of my assigning a GM sheet illegally.

MrBear wrote:

You should be relying more on your chronicle sheets than online reporting to keep track of your characters. The hard copy is what matters, and it's incredibly common for events to leave important seasons unreported. Of the four conventions I've attended this fall, one has shown up reported. The other three, which include GenCon, aren't listed at all. I'm not complaining, mind you. It's just not a perfect system.

The only way to be completely accurate is to have your physical chronicle sheets on hand. Otherwise you're crossing your fingers and hoping that every other gm you've played with reported accurately, every convention you've run at reported properly, and the computer hasn't eaten something that mattered. I don't like those odds.

I have ten living characters, in separate folders. There can be years between my airing out a given character. The local PFS community is pretty active, first table at the weekly event tends to fill out within an hour. As such, by the time I dig out every physical character folder and manually count the sheets, there's more seats filled in. This can mean I have to skip a play because I couldn't quickly assess if I had a character in-tier (I don't sign up with pre-gens). Also, correct reporting within a week is standard here, so checking my profile actually works. As such, Paizo is usually my go-to for that check-up, I'll open a tab with each of the characters I am reasonably sure could be in the picture, then count sessions. At present, Paizo's page shows the two "kinds" of credit separately, adding to the needed tabs, this is slowing down that check-up more than it used to when the values were listed together.

[TriOmegaZero]

It was so much easier for me to verify if someone had credit on a scenario beforehand. Now I can't easily see if they've played it, and have no idea if they ran it.