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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5761925" data-attributes="member: 21076">I run the campaign Crothian is playing in. His advice is good.Our campaign has had a couple of out of game hurdles that have impacted some of the things I would have liked to have done during ours. I think Kingmaker is a great campaign, but there are certainly areas where more GM preparation can help make it excellent.NPCs. As mentioned before, really take time to develop the NPCs and make sure you get them interacting with the characters. Do this from the beginning. Unfortunately, the NPCs in the campaign I am running are there, but they are very cardboard like. I just haven't developed them as much as I should have. More time and attention spent here would have probably had the single greatest impact at improving our Kingmaker campaign in my opinion.We just went through our first mass combat experiences. The mass combat rules are meant to be fun and are really light. It seems the players in my campaign wanted more depth to them and some of the ways they participated in the mass combat portions were not designed for. I was going to drop in the warpath rules for our mass combats. It had some more depth, though still easy to run. It would have had a bit more movement tracking, flanking and other things to add some spice. But, somethings outside the game put our campaign on a hiatus for about three months and when we came back to it a lot of my time was spent just getting the campaign underway again and I fell back to using the canned mass combat rules.With that said, I almost think some of the players would have been happiest with full on, in-depth mass combat, war game type rules for this portion. Certainly out of scope to be included in the AP and not sure I as a GM wanted to invest that much time in learning a set of wargaming rules for this portion of the AP.Exploration gets a bit monotonous after awhile. I think increased NPC depth would help some of those hooks be intro'ed better though. So the exploration and questing portion could be improved by virtue of that.And finally, make sure you read the whole AP. You will want to drop hints and tie-ins along the way or the final installment will really come of out of nowhere. I am really looking forward to the final installment of the AP as it is full of awesome. But you need to know what is in there to better be able to drop some tie-ins along the way.Kingmaker is a fun campaign and despite some of my shortcomings in running it, I think the players have still had a good time. I have learned some things for my next campaign and what to look for in my next campaign as well. This AP is probably one of the APs that requires more work for the GM to really be successful.</blockquote>

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