HI,
I'm an experienced GM but mostly not at Dnd. I haven't gmed Dnd since 2nd edition.
That being said,
I'm checking the "rules" regarding severe, extreme, encounters
I have a group of 5 pcs playing PF2 doing some homebrew stuff. Now, I must admit that 1 npc died because they kept doing long rests between fights. ( Maybe that means these are actually challenging ? I don't know ) But they seem to complain those fights are not.
So my question to you is :
1 - Should I count Animal companions when I budget encounters xps when using the budgetting system.
2 - I find monsters in the bestiary have very non interesting abilities. They either emulate PCs abilities or they're kind of meh... Nothing is " combat changing ".
3 - I'm not really interested in putting 1 big monster ( like I did once and they fled which was what I wanted ) because this makes fights boring to them.
Mob was level 6 they were level 2 ( Encouter boss + 4 level mean extreme ) . They keep missing because of High AC and getting hit by monster, I feel this is wrong way to do things.
Also do you have tricks to do mooks ? I mean I'd like a more pulpy feel without putting Level -3 or -4 monsters that don't hit the PCs.
Something more threatening but fall quickly.
Please share your advises/experience.
Thanks
Best Regards
