PFS adventure, non-PFS play, adjust treasure?


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So I have been planning on running an adventure path in the near future and it seemed that other then a series of artifacts that is core to the story (Shattered Star), the treasure seems to be a bit light. At the end of the adventure I noticed that the characters are supposed to receive points for Pathfinder Society play, and it sounds like those points can be spent to purchase some items or benefits. Since I hadn't planned on running the game with the PFS system would it be reasonable to add some more treasure to the adventure to make up for the loss of the point spending? I have no idea if the points are figured into the treasure amount for the adventure.

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If you are referring to Fame/Prestige, I don't think that detracts from expected loot. On the high side, you can use 2 prestige to pick up an item worth 750gp, and an adventure path gives 4 prestige and 1 full level in XP. The first part, "Shards of Sin" is for characters between 3-5, and awards 4800 gp in Society Play according to the chronicle sheet. However, it is only locations B1-D15. What is listed on the chronicle sheet for purchase is usually(in the older adventures anyway) what you would have found during the adventure. I am seeing something like 23k-24k gold on the chronicle, divide out by 4800 is 5 "players" (legal table size is 4-7 if I remember correctly). There very well could have been regular or masterwork items worth enough to bring that up to 6 players, I haven't looked at the actual adventure in a long time. I remember one high level adventure that was just like "and 6k gold worth of masterwork items of various kinds in this room." Which I adapted to be racks of weapons to be used by one of the enemies with Telekinesis...
Anyway, if the player picked up two wands for 750 each, that would be an increase in loot of 30%, or 6300 gp total. If the loot is under that mark, maybe drop a few wands or make the partially charged wands full.


Hmm, thanks for the breakdown. So I might just add a bit extra. I really don't want to stack yet another set of rules on the table to deal with the fame/prestige system.

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