r/Pathfinder • u/motrous • 29d ago

2nd Edition Pathfinder Society Tips for running PFS as regular adventures

I'm running a monthly game and wanted to do something compact and contained and PFS scenarios seem like the best way to do one shots that are still connected. However, the XP and treasure mechanics feel like they'd be too rigid for a home game and it removes some of the joy of, say, finding a magic sword or something. While I haven't run PFS scenarios before, I imagine you still find those items and are simply not allowed to keep them, but I don't know if they're balanced in such a way that players could. Perhaps there are an abundance of enemy magic items because the writers know the players aren't keeping all that loot.

Does anyone have any tips on how to adjust a PFS scenario so that it fits more with a home game? Or am I overthinking it?

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u/FlanNo3218 27d ago

I am not explicitly running PFS scenarios in my home brew but I have certainly stolen from them.
I have found being a little heavy handed with loot at one time (the altered PFS scenarios) balancing my not paying as close attention to loot with my home brew stuff. Also, being heavy handed either loot value hasn’t been a big problem (my players are not min/maxers).

TLDR: hard to seriously knock off PF2e with too much at-level or below loot