One Shot suggestions with 5 pregen characters level 1


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My whole group is changing over from DND, starting to learn Pathfinder 2E, and want to run through an adventure with pregens. I'm finding some 1st level ones, but they all have 4 characters. Are there any with 5? or do I just have to adjust the encounters? Help.


Paizo generally publishes materials for a party size of 4 PCs.

There's a section in the Core Rulebook that explains how to adjust encounters for different party sizes.

CRB, pg 488 wrote:

For each additional character in the party beyond the fourth, increase your XP budget by the amount shown in the Character Adjustment value for your encounter in Table 10–1: Encounter Budget. If you have fewer than four characters, use the same process in reverse: for each missing character, remove that amount of XP from your XP budget. Note that if you adjust your XP budget to account for party size, the XP awards for the encounter don’t change—you’ll always award the amount of XP listed for a group of four characters.

It’s best to use the XP increase from more characters to add more enemies or hazards, and the XP decrease from fewer characters to subtract enemies and hazards, rather than making one enemy tougher or weaker. Encounters are typically more satisfying if the number of enemy creatures is fairly close to the number of player characters.

The Archives of Nethys that I linked to above is the official Pathfinder online resource for rules questions. That particular quote is part of the "How To Build An Encounter" in the "Gamemastering" chapter.

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