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<blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 8312925" data-attributes="member: 3586"><p>One of the troubles with Kingmaker is that once you have your gold and you want to build your kingdom... you start playing a board game. (It's not, but it feels very similar to the games I've spent so much time with over the past 20 years). It's a little sim-city, which is engaging for a couple of sessions and then turns into a bore.</p><p></p><p>The hexcrawl adventuring is fun. The initial building of the city is fun. But after that, you begin to notice how poor a simulation it is, and also how poor a game it is (because there's a lot of maths and not many interesting decisions).</p><p></p><p>The less said about Pathfinder's attempt at a mass combat system, the better. (Most of Paizo's subsystems introduced in APs were really bad - also see the Jade Regent caravan rules!)</p><p></p><p>Running good rulership RPGs is <em>hard</em>. It's not impossible, but my feeling is that it needs a ton of preparation - and it helps if the DM is versed in history.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MerricB, post: 8312925, member: 3586"] One of the troubles with Kingmaker is that once you have your gold and you want to build your kingdom... you start playing a board game. (It's not, but it feels very similar to the games I've spent so much time with over the past 20 years). It's a little sim-city, which is engaging for a couple of sessions and then turns into a bore. The hexcrawl adventuring is fun. The initial building of the city is fun. But after that, you begin to notice how poor a simulation it is, and also how poor a game it is (because there's a lot of maths and not many interesting decisions). The less said about Pathfinder's attempt at a mass combat system, the better. (Most of Paizo's subsystems introduced in APs were really bad - also see the Jade Regent caravan rules!) Running good rulership RPGs is [I]hard[/I]. It's not impossible, but my feeling is that it needs a ton of preparation - and it helps if the DM is versed in history. [/QUOTE]
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