Myself I would prefer to play at a 7-person table than a 3-person table. I don't remember too many 7-player tables, mostly home games where there everyone had a +1 or +2 (significant other or child/children) and not easy to tell someone to go home or sit on their hands.
I have seen a tea ceremony set. I have never seen milk in pfs. Just last week someone in my party used powdered milk to try to identify an invisible opponent. There was also tea in the adventure. But no alcoholic beverages :(
In a three player game, if the pregen the GM runs gets killed, does the GM's PC die as well?
Can a 4th or 7th level pregen still be used to create a 1st level character with 500 gp, 1 xp? This seemed like a good tool for recruiting players. If it's another thing that changed its like we are purposely creating rules to deter pesky and annoying newbies from joining the society, is that the master plan?
This is just a horrible decision. Most pregens are played by new players who don't have a character at an appropriate level. Sub-optimal PCs played by players with sub-optimal tactics. Now when 7th level Kyra dies, your other character hundreds of miles away suddenly dies of a heart attack. Really really stupid. Because of this many pregen deaths will end up being hand-waved. So you are creating a rule a lot of people will just end up breaking, never a good idea.
If I'm at a convention, if I sign up for three slots of GM I should be able to run the same mod 3 times instead of having to run three different mods. It would greatly reduce my prep time and make me better at running that specific mod. But the rules discourage this from happening. At which point possibly I'll say screw it and not DM any mods instead.
What I've found is that the ones with 'hard mode' tend to be the hardest ones already before the adjustment, they actually could use an 'easy mode' instead. Sometimes 'hard mode' can just be 'play the optional encounter' which many times tends to be the hardest one.
Would it be fun however to have a new campaign - Unchained PFS - where only Unchained characters are allowed and Unchained optional rules used? :)
I think a vocal minority screamed 'we want harder mods' while the silent majority thought everything was ok. The vocal minority won and some of the silent majority may have voted with their feet after the first few mods this year. If you take your role-playing PCs vs your roll-playing PCs there's a good chance you'll get wiped. |
