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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Owlbrarian" data-source="post: 8046964" data-attributes="member: 7024999">It is super stressful especially when we have to have people come over to service things. Honestly at this point I feel like I understand people who are afraid to be around other people better.Ah cracking the rock. Honestly there is part of me that wishes I just had skipped this part of the adventure. Paizo adventures are designed so that in theory people can come in from the middle and more or less play from there. So you could play in book 3 of the adventure path without too much issue. Because of this they rarely reference stuff from previous adventures. Because of this Tidewater Rock is just sort of an afterthought, and becomes a bit pointless since the PC’s get another island at the end of book 2.Add on to that the encounter with Lady Smythe isn’t all that interesting in of itself made this section a little blah. Though you know what makes things exciting?Screwing up your conversion levels!Lady Smythe and Royster were a level higher than they were supposed to be.You might think one level? (and yes level not CR or Challenge everything in PF2 is based on levels) That doesn’t sound too bad.That one level meant that I almost killed Mirielle the entire encounter went from being a fairly even one to a lucky crit or two away from being a TPK. Honestly it is kind of refreshing that it is pretty easy to turn the “challenge knob” without resorting to shenanigans like I often had to in 5th edition. Though on the flip side it can have unintended consequences where for example I made a custom monster using this site (<a href="https://monster.pf2.tools/" target="_blank">PF2e Monster Tool</a>) and used “extreme AC” on accident. This means for that level it has very high AC.To the point that when I used the monster because it also happened to be 2 levels above the party they could only hit it on a 16 or better.Oops.Still I rather err on the side of finer control than looser when it comes to creating challenges. I got pretty good at balancing encounters in 5e by the time I stopped playing it though it was all from gut feelings based on the group rather than math.Overall while at first I felt kinda blah about the encounter, the party splitting up with Nasha separating from the group and climbing on the side of the tower was lots of fun. So I guess I ultimately am glad we did this encounter even though in a lot of ways it was sort of pointless. I suppose they can do a whole “Lord of the Seven Kingdoms thing…”“Lady Miirielle. Captain of the Lady’s Purr. Lady of the Rock and Ruler of the Island of Empty Eyes”</blockquote>

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