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There has been much assuagement from Paizo staff otherwise, but the more and more that gets revealed about the game, the more and more it looks like Pathfinder: We're 5e now!(I like 5e, but not as every game)

As someone who also likes 5e (preferring it to the Pathfinder bloat at this point), the only similarity I see with 5e is that you don't have negative HP, and 0 is the minimum.

If anything, it's completely *unlike* 5e in that it solves (in a somewhat overly complex way) the problem of popcorn healing in 5e, where just 1 hp gets you back to conscious, so that you can stand up on your turn (only spending half your movement) and take your full attack before being knocked back down. Rinse & repeat until enemy is dead.

I enjoyed running the chase in Rise of the Goblin Guild (and the players seemed to enjoy it as well). I think the GM needs to take as much leeway as possible (while not strictly breaking the rules) to have chases make sense and not feel like D&D 4e skill challenges.

It was the first one I've run, but this is what I tried to do to avoid the pitfalls I read about:

• Don't put the chase boxes down. I used squares on a grid map to represent how far along people were and just described the obstacles and let the PCs describe what they wanted to do. In some cases I'd give them a couple options and say how difficult each one seemed.

• If the PCs got into melee combat with their quarry, I didn't use a grid map to show positions. If they were in the same obstacle box thing, I assumed they could get into the positions they wanted.

• Bend the rules a little. :) If a PC managed to grab the reins of a rearing horse, let them ride it! If someone opens or busts down a door obstacle, don't make the other PCs do the same thing.

I can still see it being not as fun for PCs that might not have the skills required for a chase. (Good thing I was the one running a cleric pregen due to small table size. Poor Kyra didn't make it past the first box.) But not everyone has to shine in every circumstance. :p

It's not horribly well-organized, but there are some category pages on PathfinderWiki that have what you're looking for:

Main scenario category page
* Scenarios by tier
* Scenarios by location

There are also season summary pages that have a bit more information, but I don't know of a page that lists every scenario.
* Season 0 summary
* Season 1 summary
* Season 2 summary
* Season 3 summary
* Season 4 summary