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SzasTam wrote:Thanks for the reply and for helping me! I'm from Brazil and I don't communicate very well in English. Sorry if I posted in the wrong place.All forums are confusing to a person new to them. You manage much better in English than I would in Portuguese.
SzasTam wrote:Everything became clearer to me with your explanation. I come from 5ed D&D and there is a north of how the GM manages the game session with regard to the number of encounters in the day (along with lair actions and the lair rule) are the only things I liked about D&D.I have played Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, D&D 2nd Edition, D&D 3rd Edition, and D&D 4th Edition, but I was too busy being a Pathfinder GM to join a D&D 5th Edition game, so I learned about 5th Edition only from reading about it. Thus, I had to read about lair actions just now at Dungeons & Dragons: Understanding Legendary & Lair Actions.
To mimic lair actions in Pathfinder 2nd Edition, customize the creature to give it abilities that interact with the lair around it. For example, most dragons have a Frightful Presence ability that makes most people near them temporarily frightened, like the adult magma dragon has Frightful Presence (aura, emotion, fear, mental) 90 feet, DC 30, so that anyone within 90 feet has to make a DC 30 Will save to avoid becoming frightened for a round. A creature that seems dominant in its lair could instead have Frightful Presence in its lair rather than at a fixed distance. Either drop another ability to make room for the lair-based ability, or increase its numbers (usually by +1 for just one level, hit points go up by around 10) because it becomes a higher-level creature. Use Table 10-5: DCs by Level to set the DC.
I'll get a little more system experience before customizing my bosses. I've played D&D since the board game, but I fell in love with Pathfinder 2. The system is beautiful and works well, and Golarion is getting more and more attractive. I'm starting a campaign in the eye of the dread, using the undead and the whispering way people. My party has a paladin and a priest of Sarenrae, as well as a barbarian and a rogue. I'm really excited to get back to GMing. Being a father took me away from my favorite hobby for a while.