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Hello!
I ran both levels of the box set and had no problems so I decided to include it on my online PFS game and discovered an issue.
I already ran the upper dungeon with PF Society players and was going to wait until they were level 2 to start the Lower dungeon because the last encounter is way too hard (my previous experience) for level 1 characters but reading the free handout for the Society, I noticed that it says that BOTH levels of the adventure are level 1.
It's fine to level the PCs in the middle of a regular game and the box set even tells you to level them before the last two or three encounters but PFS Society characters cant do that.
I think the last encounter is way too hard for level 1 PCs and if without it the second dungeon loses some of its fun. I was planning to use challenge points to make the second dungeon more appropriated for level 2 PCs but now I don't know what to do. Has anyone had this issue and how have you resolve it.
Thank you
Venture-Lieutenant, Finland—Turku
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Expanding that answer a bit - Instead of using PFS characters, you play it using beginner box's pregens/characters, and you can level those up in the middle of the game. For both floors that the players complete, they earn 1 chronicle sheet per floor (as per the sanctioning document on the product page: Beginner Box) and both of those chronicle sheets must be applied to a level 1 PFS character. They don't have to be assigned to the same character, though.
(As a sidenote - since it is played in adventure mode, death of the player characters do not have any effect on the PFS characters. The last encounter is... Notoriously difficult, depending on how the GM plays it, but if accident happens and some of the characters die, the PFS characters still get full credit for the floor)