So at my last Con, I won a boon chronicle that let's me give the character I apply it to 1xp per scenario that I've played/run from seasons 4 & 5 during my career. I thought this would let me start a character around level 5 or 6, but as it turns out, I have a total of 30xp available from this boon, enough for level 11. PFS typically retires once reaching level 12. What's more, re-reading the boon, it makes no mention of gold, so this 11th level character would only have 150gp to spend on equipment.
Thus, I'm going to save the character I'd originally planned to use this on and just play them from 1. That still leaves the question of what to do with this boon?
Should I apply it to a 10th level character to boost them to 20 and not worry about it? Or should I create a new character and just wing it?
And if I do the latter, any suggestions?
My understanding is when you get the character to 12 and he retires, that's basically it. Mostly you play the high level stuff for fun. What you could do is use it on slow progression and make the character the level you want. The gold stinks, seems off to me.
The boon does not give you XP. You get to check off boxes on the boon based on whether or not you earned XP by playing each of the scenarios from those seasons, and depending on how many you have checked off, you get another benefit that is much smaller than a free 30XP.
Okay, that seems a bit more in line with previous boons I've recieved.
Check the box below for each of the Pathfinder Society scenarios below that you have played with any character or run as a GM, earning 1 XP in the process. If you have checked at least 10 scenarios, the character which this boon is assigned gains the basic boon reward associated with that season. If you have checked at least 20 scenarios, they also gain the elite boon reward.
The way it's worded and punctuated, it seemed like in the process of checking boxes you earn 1 XP.