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<blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 6063446" data-attributes="member: 3586">Have a look at my <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?326977-Prepping-for-Pathfinder-Kingmaker-(spoilers!)" target="_blank">Kingmaker</a> thread for some of my experiences running it. The series has a lot of problems; not least that the actual kingdom-building system isn't really that hard to break. It's fun for the 2nd and 3rd adventures, after that it becomes irrelevant.The mass combat system is dreadful. Thankfully, it's only used in the 5th adventure, and not for very much of that.The exploration of hexes is interesting only for the first 3 adventures. In the 4th, the writer actually forgot to include them and so they were kludged in later - they can mostly be safely ignored or handwaved, as they're not a threat and (mostly) uninteresting. The 5th doesn't really have them at all.I'm about to run the 6th adventure, and it looks fun, mainly because it isn't a Kingmaker adventure - it's a standard Paizo adventure that just ends the series (and totally ignores that you're ruling a kingdom).Cheers!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MerricB, post: 6063446, member: 3586"] Have a look at my [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?326977-Prepping-for-Pathfinder-Kingmaker-(spoilers!)"]Kingmaker[/URL] thread for some of my experiences running it. The series has a lot of problems; not least that the actual kingdom-building system isn't really that hard to break. It's fun for the 2nd and 3rd adventures, after that it becomes irrelevant. The mass combat system is dreadful. Thankfully, it's only used in the 5th adventure, and not for very much of that. The exploration of hexes is interesting only for the first 3 adventures. In the 4th, the writer actually forgot to include them and so they were kludged in later - they can mostly be safely ignored or handwaved, as they're not a threat and (mostly) uninteresting. The 5th doesn't really have them at all. I'm about to run the 6th adventure, and it looks fun, mainly because it isn't a Kingmaker adventure - it's a standard Paizo adventure that just ends the series (and totally ignores that you're ruling a kingdom). Cheers! [/QUOTE]

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