About PF2e Toolkit

Who Runs This Site

PF2e Toolkit is built and maintained by Manik Biradar, a software developer and Pathfinder 2nd Edition Game Master. It is a one-person project, not a company or a content network. Every tool, every table, and every word on this site was written and checked by me.

I started running PF2e in 2023 and hit the same wall most new GMs hit: encounter building in this system is arithmetic. Before every session I was flipping between the XP budget table, the creature XP table, and a party-size adjustment I could never remember, then doing the sums on a notepad. I built the first version of the encounter calculator for my own Thursday game because I was tired of getting it wrong at the table.

The rest of the toolkit grew out of problems I actually hit while running games — forgetting to decrement Frightened, losing track of the round, guessing at a DC for an improvised skill check. If a tool is here, it is because I needed it myself first.

You can reach me directly at manikbiradar365@gmail.com.

How the Numbers Are Verified

Every value these tools rely on is transcribed by hand from the Pathfinder 2e GM Core and cross-checked against Archives of Nethys, the official free rules reference. Nothing here is scraped, auto-generated, or estimated. Concretely, that means:

• XP budgets use the official party-of-four baselines — Trivial 40, Low 60, Moderate 80, Severe 120, Extreme 160 — with the per-character adjustment applied for parties larger or smaller than four.
• Creature XP follows the level-difference table: a creature four levels below the party is worth 10 XP, a party-level creature is worth 40 XP, and a creature four levels above is worth 160 XP.
• Hazards use the same level-based XP scale as creatures, with simple hazards worth a fraction of a complex hazard at the same level.
• DCs, creature benchmarks, and conditions come from the GM Core tables for level-based DCs and creature building, and from the printed condition rules.

If you find a number that disagrees with your rulebook, that is a bug and I want to hear about it. Tell me which tool and which value, and I will either fix it or explain the discrepancy.

What You'll Find Here

• Encounter Calculator — build balanced encounters on the official XP budget
• Hazard Calculator — fold traps and hazards into that same budget
• Initiative Tracker — track order, HP, AC, and all 39 conditions in live play
• DC Reference — Difficulty Class lookups by level and adjustment
• Creature Stats — building benchmarks for NPCs and homebrew monsters
• XP Tracker — party experience and level progress across sessions
• Random Encounter Generator — auto-built compositions that hit a target budget
• Encounter Adjuster — nudge an existing encounter to a target difficulty
• Encounter Analyzer — action economy and threat spread breakdown
• Strike Calculator — hit and crit odds across the Multiple Attack Penalty

New to encounter building? Start with the GM encounter guide, which explains how the budget system works before you touch a calculator, or check the FAQ for the questions that come up most.

How This Site Is Funded

The tools are free and will stay free. There is no account, no paywall, and no premium tier. Hosting and domain costs are covered by the ads on the page. Under Paizo's Community Use Policy I am expressly prohibited from charging you for this content, so advertising is the only way the site pays for itself.

Ads are never placed inside a tool's controls or results, and no content on this site is sponsored or paid placement. Which ad partners are involved and what they collect is spelled out in the privacy policy.

Your Data Stays on Your Device

Every tool runs entirely in your browser. Encounters, initiative order, and XP logs are saved to your browser's local storage — they are never uploaded, and I have no way to see them. That also means clearing your browser data clears your saved work, so write down anything you need to keep between sessions.

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