So I just ran the first encounter with some pregens to get a feeling for the difficulty. It was quite doable however some questions arose while doing the encounter.
The description says that the golem got hit by a fireball trap to little effect, however in the description of its immunity to magic it is stated that whenever it is targeted by fire magic it takes 6d8 damage instead of the normal effect.
I have two questions regarding this:
1. The description implies that a spell does not have to hit, targeting is enough which would make this creature insanely susceptible to fire cantrips.
2. When it has a weakness to fire magic, the description from earlier that the fireball trap had little affect should be flatout wrong as the fireball gets "empowered".
I played the encounter so that the effects (fireray and produce flame) had to hit to deal damage. Not sure if that was correct.
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The only way i found to address this in the scenario was to focus on its magic immunity as its defining feature. In addition I decided to ham it up a bit by having the guards, clearly not knowing what they are talking about, describe what happened, with the picture of them describing the creature leaping out of the way of the trap as his "resistance" to fire.
One note i will make is the six player adjustment may be fine mathematically but was very unsatisfying for the players as suddenly they needed 12s or 13s to hit (even vs TAC) so the first 2 rounds no one hit the golem including with a ray of frost (slowed by the way had almost no impact on the fight except for negating the 3rd attack. Tactically it would have made sense to move the fight outside at that point but no map preventing the players from taking advantage of that scenario)