Venture-Captain, Nebraska—Bellevue
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OK, this is more a question on bounty structure.
As GM for a group playing for PFS credit ....
When I give out 1 hero point to each player,
Do I let them pick up the free school items?
Do they slot or use boons?
Do they get to apply the bonus hero points for GMs with Glyphs.
Are these closer to campaign mode of an AP, where as a GM I have more leeway AND players happen to assign credit to a PFS character?
OR
Is this still a Society game (albeit introductory/streamlined, 1st level) with all the corresponding rules from the guide?
Perhaps this question will be addressed in the Guide next week, but would appreciate some feedback.
Thanks.
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I believe the answers I've seen are
a) Yes 1 hero point per player at the beginning of the session
b) No school items
c) No boons/slot
d) No bonus hero point from GM Glyphs
Its still society legal characters and direct assignment rather than campaign mode.
But I can't find anything definitive to quote.
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Note that as of the new PFS2 2.0 guide these are now run in campaign mode as a sanctioned adventure.
[...Quests and Scenarios are written for PFS campaign...]In addition to these, several of the other adventures Paizo produces have been sanctioned for society play. All of these are published for a wider audience than the Pathfinder Society campaign, so such adventures often include a short, downloadable sanctioning document that details any special considerations for running the adventure for organized play, as well as Chronicles for the individual volumes.
[...AP's and Adventures...]
Bounties: Short one-hour adventures aimed at introducing new players to the game or representing what characters do in between Pathfinder missions. Bounties are sanctioned for use in the Pathfinder Society campaign. As a sanctioned adventure, bounties do not give down time.
Sanctioned adventures operate in Campaign Mode, which does not use Pathfinder Society rules. GMs set the rules on character creation and may freely modify the encounters and story. Sanctioned adventures award a Chronicle which may be applied to Pathfinder Society characters as outlined in the sanctioning documents. Sanctioning documents reside on a product’s description page at paizo.com.
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So does this mean that someone bringing their PFS character to the game can use all of their consumables without having to mark them off their actual PFS character?
You can't bring a PFS character, it's campaign mode only.
You could bring a character that's identical to one though and use all of their consumables, not that you can have much at level 1.
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I'm assuming a lot of GMs are just going to run it like a regular PFS scenario (meaning just bring your PFS character if they are level 1, with whatever gold and stuff they have). So the answer is that you can use whatever consumables you have, your character can die, and none of it affects the PFS character you assign it to?
On the plus side, it looks like people could run some bounties for the playtest classes and still give out chronicles.
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To correct myself...In the latest blog it was clarified that the 2.0 guide language was misleading and bounties are NOT run in campaign mode when playing for society credit
Bounties - These adventures are not part of the Pathfinder Society line of scenarios/quests, but they are produced by the Organized Play team. Thus we are able to auto-sanction them at time of production instead of issuing sanctioning documents. It is our intention that Bounties run at Society events are for PFS legal characters. GMs running Bounties outside of Society credit can choose to run in PFS mode or Campaign mode. We’ll get this language updated in the Guide shortly.
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To correct myself...In the latest blog it was clarified that the 2.0 guide language was misleading and bounties are NOT run in campaign mode when playing for society credit
Bounties - These adventures are not part of the Pathfinder Society line of scenarios/quests, but they are produced by the Organized Play team. Thus we are able to auto-sanction them at time of production instead of issuing sanctioning documents. It is our intention that Bounties run at Society events are for PFS legal characters. GMs running Bounties outside of Society credit can choose to run in PFS mode or Campaign mode. We’ll get this language updated in the Guide shortly.
Misleading is not the word I would have used... but I'm grumpy.
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Misleading is not the word I would have used... but I'm grumpy.
I think it would have been nice to run these in campaign mode. It would have given a chance for both players and GMs to have a little more freedom in builds or design but still get credit for it for those who only have 1 to 2 hours a week of play time available.
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Misleading is not the word I would have used... but I'm grumpy.I think it would have been nice to run these in campaign mode. It would have given a chance for both players and GMs to have a little more freedom in builds or design but still get credit for it for those who only have 1 to 2 hours a week of play time available.
You can always play them however you want, just not for PFS credit.
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You can always play them however you want, just not for PFS credit.Misleading is not the word I would have used... but I'm grumpy.I think it would have been nice to run these in campaign mode. It would have given a chance for both players and GMs to have a little more freedom in builds or design but still get credit for it for those who only have 1 to 2 hours a week of play time available.
That's always the answer. It should have a little quick reply button hard coded, lol.