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I went into the rules on cartridges and couldn't help, but notice that metal cartridges are considered alchemical.

Pg 141 of Ultimate Combat
Metal Cartridge: These sturdier versions of alchemical cartridges serve as the ammunition for advance firearms. They can hold either bullets or pellets.

Now with that being said, is it not applicable to the Revolver to use such rounds, as it is what they use. If metal cartridges are considered to be alchemical that would show that a revolver with rapid reload and alchemical cartridges would be a "free action" to reload.

The APL of this 9 person party will be 1st because I'm starting the campaign off at that level for the newbies.

I am planning on running a large game of Pathfinder with a player output of approximately 9 people. There are three newbie players that will be joining and I really want to impress them with a challenge. I know a group that large can be difficult to challenge being as how the other 6 are veteran players.

What I want to know is what can I throw at them that will be a large enough challenge without killing them off? I plan to make the newbies play melee or ranged and keep them away from spells for their first time through. I have run large scale games of D&D that weren't a problem, but I didn't know if Pathfinder was different in the aspect of not as challenging monsters?

Be that as it may...I could really use the help in CR calculation for a 9 person party adventure for an epic battle. Thanks in advance.