Scenarios I get, I think. Every year (at GenCon, I think) starts a new season, and there are roughly two scenarios a month. All PFS sanctioned. But...
There are Quests. Looking at the store, there were 13 Quests associated with the Year of The Open Road, the first season under PF2E. There's a few more quests in the same store location, but they look like they're all for PF1E. Didn't find any quests post season one.
Bounties are found under "Standalone Adventures" which would lead me to believe they're not primarily for Organized Play, though I think they're all (or mostly?) sanctioned for Organized Play. There's twenty in there now and another one coming in December. Some of them already have Foundry VTT modules (yay!).
I have a vague memory of a forum post somewhere, or perhaps a blog, that announced that Paizo aren't doing Quests any more, Bounties are now the thing. And Bounties do seem to be ongoing.
Can anyone confirm my understanding, or tell me where I have it wrong?
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You're correct. Bounties are sanctioned for Organized Play, it's just that PCs don't get downtime. They're short adventures (takes about 2 hrs or less) the PCs do in their off time. The chronicles are available for download at the bottom of the product description.
There are also One-Shots that are PFS 2e Sanctioned. Full-length adventures much like a scenario, that take a full session or more to complete.
There are Quests for PFS 1e, but, they're kind of special. Each section takes about 1 hour and there are about 5 or 6 sections in each "quest" scenario.
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Quests were essentially designed as 1/4 of a Scenario. You're working for the Society, you get Downtime, and only a handful are Repeatable. Last I heard, Paizo wasn't planning on releasing any more of them.
Bounties are the odd man out by comparison.
They're all Repeatable, you're not working for the Society, you don't get Downtime, and while you do play them with PFS characters, any consumables you use or conditions you gain (including death) aren't tracked on your actual character.
There's 17 1st-Level Bounties and 4 3rd-Level Bounties. I don't think Paizo has stated whether more are planned (although I think someone stated that there likely wouldn't be any more Level 1s).
With the release of the first Repeatable Tier 5-8 Scenario, I'm hoping we'll see 5th-Level Bounties ^_^
Pity about the one-shots, I kind of liked them.
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I also loved the one-shots. I suspect that the problem was they were not selling well and were not part of the adventures subscription. I played them all and bought them all because I am constantly looking for new adventure-length scenarios for PFS, but maybe the general audience outside PFS was not as interested in these. Frankly, I wish they would come back!
Hmm