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Thanks for creating this art packets!!It is fairly priced and I have been hoping you would release these. It will save a whole lot of time and make the experience much more enjoyable too. In addition, its worth paying the wonderful artist and computer support folks for the time and energy! Hopefully we see art packets for all the creatures from the various supplemental books.

I just had a thought about why I thought 3 mangy wolves would work.

In Genesys, you have 3 levels of threats: Minions, Rivals and Nemesis. Minions are weak and kind of "one hit monsters" (you use a group of 3-5 minions per PC). Rivals are about equal to the PCs indivudally (one rival per PC) and Nemesis (1 nemesis is a challenge for a group of PCs). It is not a very exact system, for instance I pulled a Star Wars Nemesis and used it in a fantasy game and it was way over powered. The PCs were unable to injury it significantly, (because they could not get past the damage resistence of the creature). The PCs did stop the monster by Critically Hitting it enough so that it was Injuried enough that it could not fight effectively any more and just gave up.

When I was looking at the Mangy Wolves, I was reading a group of 3 mangy wolves as a minion group worth 30XP as a group.
Therefore to make the encounter more appropriate for a larger group an extra Minion group should be added.

I see I have some retooling to do. :)

I'll add just one mangy wolf and see who it goes. Don't want a TPK in the first fight. :)

Thanks everyone for your input!

Hi folks

I am new to Pathfinder in general and am interested in playing P2. I have experience playing lots of AD&D, little D&D5e, Starfinder, Savage Worlds & Genesys/Star Wars.

I will be GMing for a group of 5-6 players. I will be using the "The Fall of Plaguestone" adventure as your test adventure.

Question 1:
I am wanting to adjust the difficulty of the encounters because there will be 5-6 players.

Encounter 1: Mangy Wolves Severe 1
3 mangy wolves (C -1) = 30 XP
1 Caustic Wolf (C +2) = 80 XP

I think I should add 3 more Mangy Wolves (for the character adjustment of 30XP).

Is that correct?

Question 2:
If I was creating an encounter for a 1st level 4 person group, and I wanted it to be a Severe challenge. My XP Budget is 120XP.

I could use the "Sod Hound" Earth Elemental(Bestiary pg. 146), a Creature 3, which on the Core pg. 489 Table 10-2 is a Party Level +3 = 120 XP

or

I could choose 3 Electric Eels (Bestiary pg 142). Each is a Creature 1 which are worth 40XP each. Total Worth 120XP of the encounter, for a party of 4, being 120 XP.

Is that correct?

Thanks for the help.