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I'm running the AP at my local store and keep adding players. At this point, I have 7, with an 8th saying she will come to the next game(she's been coming regularly to our SFS games) and a 9th who has committed and cancelled a few times.
Players are 4/5 through book 1 and are about to move onto the final map.
I'm doing milestone leveling, so not tracking XP.
For combat, I'm just scaling all the encounters - doubling the number of each type of monster, etc. or doubling the minions and keeping one boss.
I think for the finale of the book, I'll double and add adv simple to the boss so it's not just a cakewalk for them.
That seems to be working for the encounters, but I'm worried about treasure and leaving them too far behind on the WBL curve. I don't know how critical that is in PF2, but there is time for me to adjust if I know the importance/how to do it. They already get some extra loot from extra monsters/NPC combatants gear, so it's mostly just the random hey, there's 5 scrolls buried here things.
Does what I'm doing make sense?
It makes some sense to me, on the other hand i would never played with a group as large as that, i have done it in the past (D&D 3.0) and ouch!
You would be better (if you had the time) to do two 4 person groups.
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While I don't have an answer for you (I haven't run it yet) my first thought is you are a trailblazer for this type of group! Embrace the learning curve of a new system and share the results with us who can learn from how your group advances. I think all of us are eager to see how P2e plays at the table.
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Yes I do believe you should be giving out more loot/treasure.
Page 510 of the Core Rulebook goes over the basics.
If a party has more than four characters, add the following for each additional character:
One permanent item of the party’s level or 1 level higher
Two consumables, usually one of the party’s level and one of 1 level higher
Currency equal to the value in the Currency per Additional PC column of Table 10–9
So yes it might take a bit more work. You would need to figure out where each level is within the AP (though the table of contents in each AP has a good sidebar about each levels content which is useful) and add in appropriate treasure as noted above for each level/section.
Well if you have double the players you can just double most of the loot. The only stuff that won't cleanly double is the loot off of NPCs, especially bosses. But that's now a much smaller portion of WBL than it used to be.
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The play at the table is great! It is getting a bit unwieldy with so many players, so we will probably discuss splitting at our session tomorrow, but I know one player is moving away after the new year, so we might just tough it out. I'll make sure that everyone understands the trade-offs - more PCs means less screen time for each of them.
Other than the loot, I've got the how do I physically fit everyone at the table, but I'll let them continue to sort that out.
Is there a WBL table in the new CRB? I don't remember seeing one, but certainly could have missed it.