Question about running Incident at Absalom Station for SFS

[Partizanski]

Is it correct that it is the entire book that is sanctioned?

In the PFS AP's there were usually only certain parts/dungeons that needed to be done.

I just want to verify that that is omitted because it is expected that the entire book be ran.

[Shaudius]

Yes, the whole book is sanctioned.

[WalterGM]

Yup, it's a noted change from PFS. I believe Thursty mentioned it on a Facebook post a while back. The good news is that Dead Suns is a great AP, so you just get to enjoy it longer ^-^

[Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan]

So, when running it for credit, but NOT as part of a full campaign in campaign mode, how should you run it?

Level 1or 2 SFS characters all the way through?

I’m less concerned that a level 2 character may overpower the earlier parts of the module than I am that a level 1character might get owned by the encounters intended for level 2 characters.

Thoughts?

[Freedom Snake]

Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan wrote:

So, when running it for credit, but NOT as part of a full campaign in campaign mode, how should you run it?

Level 1or 2 SFS characters all the way through?

I’m less concerned that a level 2 character may overpower the earlier parts of the module than I am that a level 1character might get owned by the encounters intended for level 2 characters.

Thoughts?

You're exactly correct and your concerns are well-founded. Having done run this in both modes, I can tell you the party of 4 level 2's and 2 level 1's ran as written almost TPK'd on the final boss. The thing that saved them was

Spoiler:

the fact that they were able to convince the operative that attacked their ship earlier to join them in stead of murder-hoboing it.

I would strongly recommend a full table for this for you average table. Some highly optimized tables would probably do fine, but flavor-built parties may not survive as well as crunch-build parties.

FWIW, having run the first two parts of Temple of the Twelve in event mode (i.e. not campaign mode) the party of 6 has had zero issues so far. Not even close to any issues. We're running part 3 of it on the 30th and hoping the chronicles are released by then so that the characters aren't locked out, but the party went into it knowing that even though it's sanctioned, a lack of a chronicle sheet means their characters are locked out.

[Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan]

Thanks