PFS1 - GMs attaching chronicle sheets to their characters

[Markuus Brightsteel]

The last version of the 1e PFS Role Playing Guide just says that GMs "any GM who runs a scenario gets full credit for that scenario to apply to one of her own characters".

Mechanically, how does this work, if the GM has already played (as a player) that Scenario? Or if they've already GM'ed that scenario?

Example 1: I've been to a PFS event and enjoyed {scenarioFoo}. At our "home PFS environment", I GM my friends through {scenarioFoo}. Can I apply {scenarioFoo} to a second character (ie, the character I use for our home-game rotation, so that it stays at the same level as the rest of the group)?

Example 2: A GM has five PFS characters that they use when not GMing. They spend a weekend, say, GMing {scenarioBar} four different times. Do they get a chronicle sheet from each of those GMing runs that they can apply to one of their five characters? (Obviously never twice to the same character, and obviously in this case, one character is potentially left going without).

[Monkhound]

To answer your questions and a bit more:
- For any single scenario you can have one chronicle as a player and one as a GM
- You get a chronicle only for the first time that you GM a scenario, unless the scenario is an evergreen/ repeatable
- You can never have multiple chronicles of the same adventure on the same character regardless of how you received the chronicle
- You can use Replays to replay and get a chronicle for a scenario multiple times as a player but not as a GM

[Markuus Brightsteel]

OK, that's fine. Mostly I was curious about Example 1 because it's the situation I was personally finding myself in. As I mentioned in a different thread, we've started running a PFS1 campaign as our "home campaign", and I wanted to make sure that -- if I run a session of something I've previously played -- that I wouldn't have my "home campaign alt" lagging behind because it wouldn't get credit.

Thanks!

[Pirate Rob]

Monkhound wrote:

To answer your questions and a bit more:

- You get a chronicle only for the first time that you GM a scenario, unless the scenario is an evergreen/ repeatable

That is not true.

You can only get a chronicle sheet once for GMing a non repeatable, but it doesn't have to be the first time you GM it.

[Monkhound]

Fair, though in most cases people will likely do the first time they run :)

[chibikami]

Monkhound wrote:

- You can never have multiple chronicles of the same adventure on the same character regardless of how you received the chronicle

they really need to make this clearer, I understood it as you could get credit for a character once as a player and once as GM

[Petronius]

chibikami wrote:

Monkhound wrote:

- You can never have multiple chronicles of the same adventure on the same character regardless of how you received the chronicle

they really need to make this clearer, I understood it as you could get credit for a character once as a player and once as GM

You the player can get one Chronicle for playing and one for GMing.

You simply cannot apply those two to the same character, which is what the bit you're quoting says.

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PFS2 Guide wrote:

Game Masters earn GM table credits and Achievement Points each time they GM an adventure. You can earn a Chronicle for GMing once per adventure (unless the adventure has the Repeatable tag), typically the first time you GM the adventure.

PFS2 Guide > Core > Being a GM > Concluding an Adventure > GM Chronicles

PFS2 Guide wrote:

One Chronicle per Character: Each character can only earn one copy of a Chronicle for any single adventure. You cannot replay an adventure for credit with a character that has already received credit for that adventure.

PFS2 Guide > Core > Playing an Adventure > Before the Adventure > Rules for Replaying

You can earn additional Chronicles from playing by using Replays, as others said above.

[Petronius]

Sorry, I was sent a direct link and didn't see this was a PFS1 question. I think I assumed otherwise since there was talk of clarifying.

The Guide and other procedures for PFS1 are unlikely to get further updates or clarifications, as the 1e PFS program is no longer actively producing new adventures.

We volunteers on the Guide Team will take a look at making sure the rules as clear as possible in the PFS2 and SFS2 Guides, though. So thanks for the nudge!