Scaling Pre-Printed encounters


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I'm considering running a game at a local game store to see if there are any local players interested in doing a longer PF2 campaign. Since this would be an open game and new to everyone I just want to use plague stone as a quick and simple start point. I don't know how many people I might get though so I was wondering if anyone has seen or uses any quick rules of thumb for more than 4 players? Add 1 critter per player, add X amount of hit points to single encounter creatures, etc. And visa/versa if I only ended up with 1 or 2 but they still wanted to give it a go can I easily downgrade encounters or is it just best to add in NPC characters to round out the 4? I've poked around a bit on the forums and the SRD but didn't find any answers I liked. Any input and/or ideas are welcome. Thanks!

Exo-Guardians

The CRB has advice for this kind of situation in the Game Mastering chapter. Not sure if AoN includes that chapter though.

EDIT: looks like it does. see here for adjusting encounter difficulty and here for adjusting treasure.

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