P1 for 3 PCs

[SparqMan]

Has anyone already created or come across a 3 PC conversion for P1, or any of the P-E published adventures?

I've been disappointed with my ability to modify published encounters for my party of 3 PCs. Either the encounters lose their flavor because of missing monsters, or the monster count remains by they are lowered to far in difficulty to keep the encounter interesting.

 

[Zaphling]

What i do is like this.

1. since the regular encounters are meant for 5 people. Keeping them as is means a hard encounter for them.
2. If they will be fighting a single Elite with no other allies. Keep it that way. Or you can add 3-4 minions.
3. Just subtract 2 monsters from a standard encounter, but at least have minions in the final edit so that the pcs can think they are always the underdog instead of 1:1.
4. If solo. Keep it that way. Don't add anymore minions or other monsters. Unless you don't want it that way.
5. MM1 monsters have way too low damage rolls even brutes. Increase their damage die by 1, or you can add 25% to the damage modifier. Lower all defenses by 1 as you see fit. Then lower all HP by 25%.

Hope that helped.

 

[SparqMan]

Those are my general techniques...just hoping someone out there has already done the extensive legwork that I can steal. Er, borrow. =)