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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 8005339" data-attributes="member: 5834">1. Prep Time: The monsters work at nearly all levels with appropriate challenges. So you can pull something out of the bestiary or run a PF2 module as written if the PC level is right and party size about right. The only modification I've made for a 6 person party is occasionally increasing hit points for BBEGs by 25% per party member above 4. There has been no need increase the offense or defense of monsters in PF2 against appropriate level enemies.Generally speaking enemies of about the same level of the party along with minions two or three levels lower can be a good challenge. A BBEG 2 to 3 levels above the party is an effective enemy with or without minions.2. GMing: Monsters hit hard and can take a PC from max to zero in a round or two requiring combat healing. Hazards can be dangerous and have good explanations for how they work often including alternate methods of disarming them.Main difficulty for you as a GM of new players is all the rules. There are a lot of little niggling rules like handedness, what actions can be used to do what, out of combat healing with medicine, dying and wounded conditions, lots of little weapon rules, magic changes like incapacitation trait and four different levels of saving throw for each spell usually, and a lot of little rules to remember.I suggest running it the best you can to start and keep it as simple as possible for your players. Then read and work in rules as you learn them. No use trying to follow every little rule while you learn the new system or worrying about missing a few. Game still works fine if you miss or write out a few rules. Combats are still dangerous if you don't specifically get changing hands right or forget an action rule or learn you need expert perception to spot a hazard rather than just trained. Learn as you go and GM to keep the game flow feeling natural and fun. The more you play the more you'll remember the rules and can decide which ones you want to press and which ones you don't want to worry about.</blockquote>

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