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I must be the most confused GM ever in Pathfinder 2e.
I ran a game this weekend for a table of three - all 3rd level. The scenario was set for 1-4 level. This created a Challenge Point rating of 12 (3x4CP), which meant that we add one level 1 pregen and came out to 14 CP.

Base
Level PCs CP Pregens CP adj.
1 2 <8 2 lvl 1 pregens +4
2 8+ 2 lvl 3 pregens +8
3 <12 1 lvl 1 pregen +2
3 12+ 1 lvl 3 pregen +4

As a group of 3 lvl 3's & lvl 1 pregen I ran within the 3-4 level range with no modifications. Did I do this right as the OPGuide seems contradictory to me?

Sorry -- I have been searching the vast forum and cannot find my answer. I read the Guide which confuses me;

2. Determine the Level Range

Parties with challenge points of 15 or less always play in the lower level range. Parties with 19 or more always play in the higher level range.
(They have 14 CP, but they were at level 3)

Parties with 16-18 play in the higher level range only if they have 4 or fewer PCs. If they have 5 or more PCs, they play in the lower level range. This allows small parties of high level adventurers to play in the higher level range, while large parties of low level adventurers play in the lower level range.
(So less then 4 players in the higher range, yet the CP was 14, which means they play in the higher range? Or the lower range with 14CP adjustments???)

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3. Adjusting the Adventure
Once you’ve determined the level range and Challenge Point total (this seems to contradict each other), apply the proper modifications to the adventure to provide a fair challenge.

Level Range: Nearly all encounters list two different sets of creature statistics, one for each of the two level ranges the adventure is designed for. ...

Scaling: Within a level range, the scenario will also contain instructions for adjusting the difficulty of the scenario based on the PC’s Challenge Points.

The scenario kicked their a$$ - A PC's mount died and the whole party faced a TPK in the second encounter listed as "moderate". Only the pregen cleric did not go down and saved everyone with healing every round.

Afterward, I was told that I should have adjusted the encounter for the lowest CP in the level range chosen, which would have been 19CPs (the party was only at 14CP recall). CP 19 added at least one more or removed one monster adding in two that made the encounter stronger.

Did I run this wrong? If so, how? Do I just run by CPs and ignore level ranges? At which point do you run unscaled encounters?

Has anyone else been having problems buying items off the website?
For the last week, I have been attempting to purchase the Advance Player's Guide. I add to My Cart and go through the 1-2-3 boxes to the red "Place Order" only to get redirected to another "Place Order red button page without the 1-2-3 boxes.

The charge appears on my bank account but has taken about a week to be removed from pending. I'm trying to buy a PDF - I did not think it would take over a WEEK to buy a PDF.

Anyone else? Is there a website issue?

I want my rogue to be between an explore/face type of character. (I was thinking Solo or Croft type).
She is currently 3rd level with trap finder and ranger dedication; what advice would be for a good 4th level feat?

Thinking about a 20 point rebuild option for a smuggler with feint options and maybe the additional ranger archetype.

Open to suggestions, please

Do all consumables refresh after an adventure?
I am looking at buying a Potion of Invisibility, would that allow once a game?

Second, how many consumables does your school provide at the start of an adventure? A fifth level PC gets only one like a first level?

I want to make sure my understanding of the Bargain Hunter skill feat is correct.
In PFS Organized Play, I can make an Earned Income check with Diplomacy instead of being limited to Craft, Lore, and Performance.

I can also purchase gear by making a Diplomacy check to reduce the cost in addition to making Earned Income? For every item, such as if I want to by a +1 sword for 35 gp, make a BH check, the item is reduced to 31 gp and I also get the 4 gp as Earned Income.

I am not sure what else this feat can provide in PFS otherwise?

Hi, really dumb question.
When playing, do I use the online guide as official or the store/published PFS guide for rules on how PFS works? Are they the same, or does a conflict in one supersede the other?

Thank you

Hello,
I am trying to make a 1st level character that was in training to be a Knight of Lastwall. Are there some sources I can get about the Knight's day-to-day prior to the Whispering Tyrant destroying the nation?

What I am really curious about are two things:
1. Were there specific classes they had to be? EG only Paladins or War Priest; no Rouges, Wizards, so on.

2. Were the Knights conscripted like the Night Watch in GoT or was the force all volunteer? Seems that would have a hard time finding enough volunteers for such a dangerous border.

My idea is a dwarven spirit barbarian, but don't know if that really fits into the lore/cannon of P2e.

Thanks!

Hiya - Question about selling items in Pathfinder Society 2e.

What are the rules for selling standard equipment in PFS 2e that you have back to a "store" to upgrade or just coin back?

Second, if I buy an item, like a Dagger +1, off a chronicle sheet then want to upgrade or change the weapon to a Shortsword +1, do I pay the difference, sell the item back, just lose the item..so on.

Thanks, Fellows!!

Hello, sorry if this has bee discussed elsewhere.
Is the Lost Omens the world building or setting book for 2e?
Thank you,

I am just starting with PFS with the release of 2E. I never felt I had the time or ability to jump into 1E PFS (traveling in US Army) and, after playing D&D AL, enjoyed Organized Play. Dropped out of GMing AL after noticing that no one needed to keep records on anything to cheat, but I still run Numenera’s Cypher Play.
I am trying to wrap my head around the 2E PFS. Got the general gist of character creation and played twice with pre-gens.

1. I thought the whole of the PFS economy is silver pieces? The ending sheets list GP Gained, but should this be SP Gained instead?

2. Is the “Welcome to PFS Boon” still in use for 2E? I see a lot of references to it but cannot find any details on the webpage.

3. The Reputation/Fame/School things…. This has me confused. Been reading the webpage. Let me see if I am correct or if someone would kindly correct me.
Each adventure I get Boons awarded from the sheet. I can use that with another GM – got it.
Then each PC starts with 3 points when they to place in Scrolls, Spells, or Swords “PFS schools.” Depending on how they put the points into “PFS schools,” they can select from the one-two-three points of each “school” for a starting consumable magic item to aid them on the quest. There is also a “general school."

4. Reputation and Fame – I am lost. You *have to choose* one of the 4 major or 2 minor Factions at the start of a quest, even in PFS Scenario 1-01, that shows all four/six factions? Or do you choose and gain the Rep during the adventure?

5. Can you change the Rep gained from a pre-gen to another Faction once you have built a character?

6. I am not sure what Fame is or how that works differently then Reputation.

7. Seen Repeatable and Faction tags on adventures. Does the Faction tag mean I must be in that Faction?
If I follow, the Boon to quest for the Faction, getting Rep for them, cost 4 Reputation *in that Faction*, how can you champion them? It seems like a chicken-and-the-egg problem – need Rep to get the Boon to get Rep.

Thanks! Looking to try out my first PFS built character.

(Thank you for reading the long post. I am sure I’ll have questions about Downtime too.)