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Hello Everyone ,

I am having a little bit of a brain blurb at the moment. I am reading over the rules for selecting monsters for an encounter and i think it's just not clicking with me. My assumption is when calculating your party's level it's the average level of the party. so say that they are all the same in this case lets say 4 - 1st level characters, the party level for the party would be 1?

So selecting a creature that is -1 (let's say animated broom) would make it worth 30xp ?

I am probably overthinking this by a lot but like I said I have re-read it a few times and going with the example of the 5th level PCs taking on a 2nd level monster this is what makes most sense. Anywho thank you in advance for the clarifications of these rules.

Hello everyone , I am new to the Pathfinder RPG but not new to RPGs, so i do apologize if this questions seems simple, but having a tough time making sure I understand using skill checks correctly :

As it is I understand when a player wants to see if his character succeeds at doing a certain task he or she must make a skill check. To do so they would roll a d20 and add all appropriate modifiers. This part is common between RPGs that I have played and grasp that part, but here is where I am a little thrown off, certain skill checks such as Disable Device , perception ( as in players searching for traps) and stealth the GM makes. So i guess the questions I have are , 1st off do I understand that correctly ? the GM rolls for these checks?, and 2nd when do you decide when the player or GM would roll for the check? I know it says when you don't want the player to know that they didn't find any traps because there isn't any , or because they rolled too low , or because they don't know how stealthy they are being , but wouldn't you achieve the same effect by using the DC ?

I might be putting way too much thought into this and over analyzing the rule , but if any vets out there could shed some light into this that would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks you!

So I tried searching this question before I asked but couldn't find answer.

Regarding Skill points at 1st level : For a rogue I get 8 + my int mod which is a 0 due to my score being a 10. So using this the number of skill points i should have 8 skill points to spend right ?
Why on some guides do i see that this number has to be x4 ? Was this an old rule or was this in regards to something else ?
Any help would be appreciated

Hello everyone , I just got into the pathfinder RPG recently and I am getting ready to start making my first PC.
So I'm looking to make a Half Elf ranger using the classic ability generation. So when distributing my scores should I make them in tune with my class abilities with the higher being in Wis? I just didn't want to get half WA through creation and find out my scores should have been distributed another way.