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Gm here,

I'm running AoA for a three player party. So far, they've picked up Alak and are in A21 (having already completed the events of A22) and about to level up. The bard has gone to dying 2 previously, but they have been handling it well so far. Alak is a great damage dealer, but I foresee him leaving the party after the events of C8 (as written), unless the party convinces him to stay otherwise. My concern is D3. Any advice for tempering this encounter for a bard, druid/tank, and a ranger w/ animal companion? I'm tempted to place one scroll each of Searing Light and Haste to give them a fighting chance. I've read other posts about this encounter and am trying to take the lessons to heart, but I am worried the loss of 3 actions/round and an additional target will result in multiple deaths.

My options as I currently see them:

1. Give weak adjustments to encounter in D3.

2. Ensure all players have +1 striking weapons and extra scrolls as mentioned above.

3. Have the party at level 5 when they enter D3.

Your thoughts and advice are much needed.

GM here, I've been struggling with prepping the encounters with the Cinders (boggards and charau-kas). Any pointers on how to make the boggards croak seem terrifying or on the tactics for how to make them seem like some semblance of a threat?

Party make up is a Wild Druid, Bard focusing on nonlethal and mental magics, a Ranger with Animal Companion and Alak. All are new to pathfinder with two being new to rpg's in general.

This being a dark dungeon, I want the to endorse a sense of caution and danger about these encounters. Undead are easy enough to make interesting, the kolbolds magics shift things up, (the party's first encounter with hostile casters), and oozes are right of the family bestiary and easy to trick new players into grabbing a magical sword floating in the air. But these boggards...idk what to do with them.

GM here running a campaign with undead and a Bard carrying a whip and a sap. If a zombie is struck with a whip or a skeleton with a sap, and these attacks reduce it to zero through nonlethal means, is the creature destroyed or does it continue to act as if at 1 hp until it takes a point of lethal damage?