Death during a Season 5 Scenario.

If you had a PC die within the first encounter of a season 5 scenario, and said death reduced the party to four people, do you adjust the other encounters accordingly or no?

Nope.

It depends on the party.

How so, LazarX? I'm sidin' with Rob on this one.

How so, LazarX? I'm sidin' with Rob on this one.

If the party of four with the loss is in my judgment almost certain of a TPK if they continue as they are, (and I'm judging player skill as pert of the equation) I will make the adjustments to the module for a four player party. Point is to CHALLENGE players, that means giving them some risk of success.

I don't think that's allowed, LX.

If the APL is between the sub-tiers, that would switch them from high sub-tier to low. Would you give them high-subtier gold for the encounters they fought high, and then low-subtier gold for battles they found after you bumped them down?

If you get the sense that continuing forth is going to be a party wipe, see if the remaining players agree. If they do, quit. But I don't think we're allowed to bump parties up or down sub-tiers. or turn the small-party adjustment on or off, depending on whether we feel they need more or less challenge.

Not that I agree you make changes but they are not saying changing the subteir but using the 4 player vs 5/6 player modifications.

Obviously changing subtiers is out of question. but the other modifications aren't necessarily something you do at the beginning of the game. I have no idea whether there is an official stance on this or not, and it could change a lot of things in most scenarios.

Finlanderboy, please correct me if I'm wrong. (It's possible!!)

The way I understand the current rules, if you have a party of 5 or six PCs with an APL of 5 in a Tier 3-7 scenario, they play sub-tier 6-7 with the small party modification. But a party of 4 PCs with an APL of 5 plays in sub-tier 3-4, without the small party modification.

If you adjust on the fly, where do you stop? If there's only three players left alive, does the GM bring in a pre-gen from off-stage? Play by the rules of the campaign, guys.

You are absolutely correct.

But what I thought the OP was suiggesting is if they have a table of 5 people properly leveled. One of them dies. So now the rest of the encounters you use the 4 player modifications.

I would argue it is whatever you start with.

Finlander is correct in what I was asking. I figured you just stayed with what you started with, but wanted to make sure.