To be clear: As a GM you already have lots of wiggle room. A scroll of resurrection buried with an ancient soldier - because no one realized it's value as it's in some obscure language that the cleric barely understands (knowledge religion) but can work out how to cast it? Perfect. Of course - sometimes the dice just want to murder your party, and that is where the previous advice stands. In fact - after doing this a bit, you don't have to always go beyond 2ish encounters for an adventuring day, as just the threat of more will stave off the Nova problem - making balancing the game much easier overall. Purposefully go a little heavy on the first or second - and dial back the 3 / 4th and only have a 5th if necessary. Instead of tuning each combat - tune the days encounters as you go. Consumable items like scrolls for casting the resurrection exist. How much gold do you throw at the party.īeyond this - tools like Hero points exist.

how much they have to search the world for them / earn them through quests and loot.

How easily can parties just buy magic items vs.

And while it has a gold cost - how costly a ressurection will be counts on two things: without really trying, and the moment they try. You get to a point where THE WORST caster basically performs like the most optimal fighter. a whatever caster that just shows up with a handful of spells. fighter and what happens in a 1vs.1 or if you fail to use sufficient tactics, or you have an optimal fighter vs. Well - to start with: Go look at a mid level caster vs. I'd love to hear what this awesome community has to say. I'm not sure if this would break the system of pathfinder. Both I'm and player alike can be more daring and bold with the game which would make for more fun epic games. This system allows for some wiggle room on the end of the I'm and a cushion for the players. They are instead left at 0 hp but stable. These point have other uses such as making rolls slightly better after the fact without rolling, or healing your self a bit.īUT, the most important use of these fate points (and the one I'm focused on) is that if the player dies they can 'Burn' a fate point to permanently lower their maximum. The players can use a fate point to reroll and base die roll (for 40k it's a d100 for PF a d20) and they must keep the new result.

This is a number of points each player gets before the campaign starts and they refresh to the max (usually between 2 &5) each season. So in co junction with running pathfinder I also play in a campaign my friend runs using the system Dark Heresy 2) from the 40k universe.

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