Just curious, are you using the monsters as written in the AP? They changed most of the monsters in this level a lot in the remaster. I was running them as written but a new player just joined pushing my player count to, 6 now I'm considering revamping all the monsters.
I used the monsters as written. If you think the difficulty would be enhanced by converting to the Core version, I would do it bc each PC essentially adds a level to the encounter math. That's less of an issue in this campaign compared to others, especially with the terrain making large parties hard to manage, but you'll still want to keep it up with such a large party.
Just curious, are you using the monsters as written in the AP? They changed most of the monsters in this level a lot in the remaster. I was running them as written but a new player just joined pushing my player count to, 6 now I'm considering revamping all the monsters.
I used the monsters as written. If you think the difficulty would be enhanced by converting to the Core version, I would do it bc each PC essentially adds a level to the encounter math. That's less of an issue in this campaign compared to others, especially with the terrain making large parties hard to manage, but you'll still want to keep it up with such a large party.