FormCritic wrote:No question, the player characters have many tricks to pull out of their sleeves in Pathfinder. The system is not as lethal to characters.
I imagine it has a lot to do with the game master.
Very True!
A lethal GM can be a lethal GM in any game system.
But Pathfinder Society modules are written in a strict format (i.e. So many CR @ level encounters, so many CR+1 @ level encounters, and maybe a CR+2 @ level encounter that cannot be right after a CR+1). And it's because of that strict format that people aren't challenged as they could be...
I really don't have a suggestion on how to deal with that though... that's the rub... Unless maybe someone like Erik wrote a grinder-type module where the risk-reward was sufficient, but then again it would have to be run by Erik. Because if you get a softball-judge to run it, I don't think it would have the same feel (or lethality...).
Sorry for the ramble...
[CR - Challenge Rating (All monsters/traps/etc. have a challenge rating)]
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