PF1 Encounter Difficulty vs. PF2 Threat Range

[WormysQueue]

I'm just trying to wrap my head around possible differences in the encounter design between PF1 and PF2. And the question that has come up: How does table 12-1: Encounter Design from PF1 CRB translate into table 10-2: Encounter Budget from PF2 Bestiary. Both tables give 5 (differently named) encounter difficulties and I'm wondering if it's just other names or if there has been a shift.

With an example: An encounter against 2 PF1 hobgoblins(CR 1/2) would be a CR 1 encounter which is an average encounter according to table 12-1.

My question now basically is: What is the equivalent in PF2 :

using 2 hobgoblin soldiers 1 for an xp budget of 80 (moderate threat)

or

using 2 weak hobgoblin soldiers 0 for an xp budget of 40 (low threat)?

Thanks,
Wormy

[Captain Morgan]

WormysQueue wrote:

I'm just trying to wrap my head around possible differences in the encounter design between PF1 and PF2. And the question that has come up: How does table 12-1: Encounter Design from PF1 CRB translates into table 10-2: Encounter Budget from PF2 Bestiary. Both tables give 5 (differently named) encounter difficulties and I'm wondering if it's just other names or if there has been a shift.

With an example: An encounter against 2 PF1 hobgoblins(CR 1/2) would be a CR 1 encounter which is an average encounter according to table 12-1.

My question now basically is: What is the equivalent in PF2 :

using 2 hobgoblin soldiers 1 for an xp budget of 80 (moderate threat)

or

using 2 weak hobgoblin soldiers 0 for an xp budget of 40 (low threat)?

Thanks,
Wormy

The latter. Level = CR, as a general rule of thumb. It gets a little wonky with those old fractional CRs, but you should be able to suss it out now that they have added monsters with levels below zero.

[WormysQueue]

Captain Morgan wrote:

The latter. Level = CR, as a general rule of thumb. It gets a little wonky with those old fractional CRs, but you should be able to suss it out now that they have added monsters with levels below zero.

Thank you. I wasn't sure because of the different wording ('moderate' sounds more "average" in my ear than 'low'), so I wanted to have this clarified.