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Eris235
joined 1 year ago
I've never run the beginner box, but I've done several PF2e APs.
As written, a lot of the encounters are hard. Many many encounters are tpk bait if the player's don't play optimally; without perfection, a bit of bad luck can turn the tide.
I don't like to fudge things mechanically for the players, but I do play the enemies dumb much of the time, especially like, animals. Even then, there's quite a few encounters I've looked over, and applied the 'weak' template to some enemies during my prep.
The balance on PF2e is great, but razor thin at times. This does mean that you should be able to follow the math on enemy level vs party level fairly easily, and see how rough you want the encounters to be.
Also, I'll ditto the other comment, that having someone with the medicine skill is invaluable. I've never used the iconics, but it does seem weird that you said so few have the medicine skill.
This is the way, you sweet summer child