I am still pretty new to Pathfinder Society and just started in the playtest. I played a lot of AD&D growing up but stuff like Society play is new to me. I was informed of the fact that you cannot repeat adventures unless it has the "repeatable" tag recently in Society play. I knew of this but I was informed that this is not per character but completely covers all characters. From what I understand now you can't complete a non-repeatable adventure even on a different character.
Is this correct? If so how can I ever get another character levelled up at all if I die or dislike my current one? Following the current average two adventures a month for the next year, you could only have twenty-four adventures to do and only a very small per cent of them repeatable. This is even more important given the lack of options currently and the slow process of approving them for society play. Is there any way to remedy this if you have some adventures spread between two different characters? Does this restriction stay in effect if that character dies?
I am not trying to seem difficult but nothing about this after it was explained to me seems to make any sense. Please tell me this isn't so or that there is a way to at least fix this!
Thank you ahead of time for your responses.
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That is indeed true. The Guide to Organized Play Replay Rules are pretty clear about that. Don't worry though, with two adventures a month, as well as the quests and sanctioned modules that are going to be coming on line, there will be opportunities to grow multiple characters over time. The start of a new system always struggles with content, and the Paizo team is working really hard to make more content for us as quickly as possible.
While waiting for new content I suggest trying some Pathfinder 1st Edition Society, or perhaps some Starfinder Society. Both campaigns have much more content while PF2 is just starting.
Venture-Lieutenant, Finland—Turku
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It can be a bit rough at the beginning, but as Michael said, you could try some 1st edition pathfinder society and/or starfinder, depending on your local lodge (gaming group).
In addition, you can mitigate this by GMing adventures - you can receive credit for each adventure Twice, once for playing it, once for GMing it. In addition, if you GM often, you'll earn a few replays too.
That being said, it'll can still be rough to level a completely new character if something happens to your first one. I'm sure the organized play leadership realizes this, and hopefully they are working to ensure you can get back to the game and/or create multiple characters.
One thing that can potentially help with this, are modules and adventure paths once they get sanctioned. We don't know for sure what it will look like for 2nd edition yet, but in 1st edition, you could play/run a low level module, and get chronicle sheets to immediately get your character up to level 2, 3, 4, or even 5, since those tend to give enough xp for multiple levels.
In short, GMing will help, we'll need to wait for more content or play first edition/starfinder. Our lodge actually runs all 3 systems at the same time -last week we had starfinder, monday we had 1st ed, thursday we have 2nd edition.
Thank you for the replies.
I understand how hard the folks at Paizo are working and I appreciate it. I just feel like if this is the way society works maybe the first few months should be repeatable scenarios only so people can explore the new system and get used to the rules and get a little more additional books before folks start losing content to play permanently. I just don't see the logic behind this. It is my fault for not seeing the rules as written and logiced it out incorrectly in my own head.
As a side note will the errata changes have any effect on this? I specifically avoided playing the alchemist because of the confusion in some of the rules and weights.
I will have to endeavour to find other ways to get caught up and play with friends again then. I do like the idea of the sactioning of the adventures as I am running a small sporadic home game of Plaguestone.
Thank you all again for the information and clarification.
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In PFS1 I maintained 38 characters, and leveled nearly a dozen above 12th. Two reached 15th. And I maybe played/GMed 80% of the content.
In SFS I have 15 characters, including a 10th level Soldier, and they're only on Season 2.
You should be able to accumulate the same opportunities in PFS2. It just takes time to get going.
