Hi guys.
Just finished my GMing my first SFS scenario, "The Commencement." Now I have to make some chronicle sheets, and a question came up.
One of my players didn't have a level 1 handy and played Navasi, the pre-gen envoy. He made up the character later, and the character he intended to apply it to ended up in another game.
* Is it legal for him to apply the sheet to this character if that character is still in another game?
* If not, is it legal for him to wait and apply the sheet to that character after the other game is finished?
What should I do here? Thanks in advance.
Venture-Lieutenant
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Hi guys.
Just finished my GMing my first SFS scenario, "The Commencement." Now I have to make some chronicle sheets, and a question came up.
One of my players didn't have a level 1 handy and played Navasi, the pre-gen envoy. He made up the character later, and the character he intended to apply it to ended up in another game.
* Is it legal for him to apply the sheet to this character if that character is still in another game?
* If not, is it legal for him to wait and apply the sheet to that character after the other game is finished?
What should I do here? Thanks in advance.
So playing a pregen is legal and should be applied to a character at the time of completing it, unless you are playing a tier of which you do not have a character.
In this case you have 2 options:
Option 1: Take 720 credits and apply it to a new level 1 character.
Option 2: Apply it to the character "played" when that character becomes appropriate tier.
In both cases you have to decide what character this is going to be applied to at the time the game is played.
In your case there are a couple of questions:
1. Was your playthrough of the commencement completed at the time your player started another game? If so he applies the chronicle before the chronicle for the next game. If not, his character is stuck and cannot start another game and receive credit for the current one.
2. Is the second game also the Commencement? While the Commencement is repeatable you cannot repeat it with the same character and therefore cannot get two of the same chronicles for the same character.
If either the above cases cause an illegality to happen, it is simple enough to fix. Since the player played a pregen at your table, you and your player can work out what character to apply the chronicle to that is a legal character for your game, including one that may not have been created yet.
In general players should be given chronicles immediately after completing the appropriate scenario, module, or adventure path in question. A character that starts and adventure is stuck until it is completed, meaning they cannot use the same character to begin another adventure until the previous one is completed. This includes if playing a pregen the character that the chronicle sheet is being applied to.
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There's two answers to this question, one that's more legal (his new PC must be his -702 since he's playing a game without the chronicle sheet from the first session applied), and one that IMHO is correct.
I would give him the chronicle sheet from your game now for him to apply at the conclusion of his current game, but make sure he applies them in order (yours first) after his current game is done.
Not giving him a chronicle sheet at the conclusion of his first game was your mistake, he shouldn't be penalized by it. So fix it and move on. This results in the best player experience which as far as I'm concerned is the golden rule, especially a first time player.
Of course I'm by no means an authority on this, if you're really concerned you should bring this up with your venture captain or whatever venture officer is overseeing the event. You won't get an authoritative answer on the forums, just opinions.
And for now on, issue chronicle sheets at the conclusion of the game so players aren't put in this situation.
Not giving him a chronicle sheet at the conclusion of his first game was your mistake,
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I am giving him a chronicle at the end of the game. The game just ended and I am making up the sheets now, but we are resolving which character # to put on the sheet, which is why I made this post.
The thing is the character he wanted to apply the sheet to joined another game part way through this game.
The games in question are PbP BTW, if that's causing the confusion. The games themselves can take a month or more by PbP. So after our game started he created a character and began playing in another game. That game is still ongoing.
PbP makes things a little weird because of the length of time it takes.
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Ugh, PbP.
Then you have no choice, the Guild Guide clearly disallows playing a character in two separate games at once.
The pregen credit from your game goes to his -701, and the game he joined halfway through must be his -702. There's no other way to handle it.
On the upside, he'll have two PCs with XP that he can play in two separate PbP from here on out.
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Correct.
You cannot be in more than one PbP game with the same character number at the same time. A PbP game is like a face-to-face multi-session game: your character is occupied until the game concludes.
While not common, these things are not isolated to PbP. It is entirely possible to play 45-minute long sessions of a single scenario during your lunch hour day after day until you finish. Or any other such arrangement. The Starfinder Society Roleplaying Guide covers this on page 11.
OK guys, thanks for the clarification.