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Pathfinder 2e: is it RAW or RAI to always take 10 minutes and heal between encounters?
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<blockquote data-quote="ReshiIRE" data-source="post: 8413545" data-attributes="member: 7031231"><p>Great perspective to have. It does seem particularly rough to have a level 4, severe <a href="https://2e.aonprd.com/Monsters.aspx?ID=41" target="_blank">encounter</a> early in an adventure path (assuming they were all level 1). I admit without experience I am somewhat scratching my head at the adventure path samples I've seen emphasising a bit more severe or extreme encounters than I would have expected - it seems to me that more encounters should be on the low or moderate side, with severe encounters being rarer (and perhaps not appropriate for level 1 or 2) and extreme encounters being only one or two per campaign.</p><p></p><p>It would also be interesting to know what character classes your players were all running - that monster seems particularly nasty if you don't have enough range to kite it for low-level encounters.</p><p></p><p>My opinion from everything I've read and reading the system on paper is that the system should work but that I think the adventure / encounter designers in Paizo do not quite understand how best to take account of trival/low/moderate/severe/extreme encounter scale and put too much emphasis on the higher half, rather than the lower half. This, combined with unclear guidance and not taking into account the specific of creatures, leads to cases of extreme player frustration.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ReshiIRE, post: 8413545, member: 7031231"] Great perspective to have. It does seem particularly rough to have a level 4, severe [URL='https://2e.aonprd.com/Monsters.aspx?ID=41']encounter[/URL] early in an adventure path (assuming they were all level 1). I admit without experience I am somewhat scratching my head at the adventure path samples I've seen emphasising a bit more severe or extreme encounters than I would have expected - it seems to me that more encounters should be on the low or moderate side, with severe encounters being rarer (and perhaps not appropriate for level 1 or 2) and extreme encounters being only one or two per campaign. It would also be interesting to know what character classes your players were all running - that monster seems particularly nasty if you don't have enough range to kite it for low-level encounters. My opinion from everything I've read and reading the system on paper is that the system should work but that I think the adventure / encounter designers in Paizo do not quite understand how best to take account of trival/low/moderate/severe/extreme encounter scale and put too much emphasis on the higher half, rather than the lower half. This, combined with unclear guidance and not taking into account the specific of creatures, leads to cases of extreme player frustration. [/QUOTE]
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