What to load? Player versus GM Content?

[danman71]

New user running Ultimate Classic Pathfinder2E ruleset. Going to run Age of Ashes module Hellknight Hill.

I will be inputting PC's and possibly assisting with character creation.

For the Lost Omens World Guide can I safely skip loading the player guide for myself correct? The GM full version appears to include the background, feats, etc so there is no reason I need to load it correct?

For the Age of Ashes Player's Guide I presume I DO need to load it to have access to the backgrounds for character creation access as they are not in the Module.

Just trying to minimize unnecessary loading.

Edit: to elaborate, generally as the GM you don't typically need to load players guides except in the case of the Players Guide for the Adventure Path, correct?

Thanks,

[LordEntrails]

It depends.

The 'standard' practice was that GM modules used to contain all content. But over the last months/year that has changed. So it will depend upon what standard was used when the product was converted. Though I haven't checked, each file should have a conversion notes story entry. Hopefully that would tell you more for the specific product/book.

[PixelCorpse]

I gree, it seems to depend from product to product, and when you play with an xml file the player uploads it sometimes might not even matter.