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Hey everyone,
I thought that this was relevant, so I have here a blog post about running my kids on 5th edition. It may be old hat by now, but we've had a blast with it. We went from Pathfinder to 5th, and the transition could not have been smoother or more successful. I'd say more, but the blog says it all.
Do any of you run campaigns for your children?
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Running a campaign with my son and one of his friend.
At age 11, they start to be able to synergyse their abilities and use basic strategies. While the maths of 3e/Pathfinder were not above their grade level, all those perksy +1 here and -2 there were dragging things down. 5e fixes that.
Monsters are easier to run in 5e, but I find that encounters were easier to gauge in Pathfinder. My players either dance through the encounter or I have to deus ex machina what would otherwise be a TPK. There's only two of them however, this makes things more swingy...
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The 5e CR system seems definite at lower levels to me. A CR 1 encounter is a serious encounter for a 1st level party.
When it comes to PF, CR 1 encounter for a 1st level party is a walk over. It is when you get to +1 or +2 that you have to be careful. You may just have to make sure you run 4 characters total, even if you have NPCs, and judge the CRs as lower in 5e.
You may just have to make sure you run 4 characters total, even if you have NPCs, and judge the CRs as lower in 5e.
I was thinking of that, and/or allowing the beastmaster Ranger to use its pet as an independent character (with a few more hp).
Maybe grant the animal companion extra hit points through an ability similar to the abjurer's arcane ward ability?