So I've got a player that would like to play a tabletop game but we cannot find a group in the area. I have started acquired the Rise of the Runelords adventure path, and have been itching to run it.
Now he's a relatively new player, and it's an adventure balanced for four PCs. I figured I'd run it without converting monster stats to pathfinder, while letting my player use a 25 point buy and the gestalt system for his character (he wants to make a fighter/inquisitor of Desna). Think this would work?
Alright, I'll work in some support, maybe via Shalelu, in the earlier games, and encourage him to take Leadership for the cohort at level 7.
RotL is pretty hard. The biggest problem won't be PC power, but action economy. A group of 4 has 4 actions per round, a group of 2, even with gestalt, still only has 2 turns. That's the huge issue to be careful about.
It also lets monsters focus fire more, and if you only have two characters and you have to waste an action to heal.....lookout. Maybe make casting healing spells a swift action always for the two characters?
Well, he has expressed a desire to be pretty methodical and crafty about his combats. He wants to set ambushes and build traps and come up with other ways to level the playing field in ways I usually don't see, so I'd like to see how that all plays out.
