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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Plemmons" data-source="post: 1305486" data-attributes="member: 1287">From all the various comments I've heard since KoK came out, I'm guessing that "flavor" is mostly just a matter of taste.  (Hey, was that an pun?  Hmmm...  Still sounds true.)  It appeals to some people but not to others.However, I would recommend to new KoK readers that they NOT sit down and try to read the campaign setting sourcebook from start to finish.  It really is a detailed gazetteer/history book, and I think that makes it more difficult for some readers to get through.  Instead, try this a few times - flip randomly through the book and plunk your finger down somewhere on a page.  Read that section, and see if you find something that makes your mind wander over all the adventure possibilities.  Then try it again.  And again.  Watch this - I'll do it myself (Honestly!) and see what we get...Okay, I landed on page 53, column 2, and the paragraph about racial tolerance in the Principality of Pekal.  Not really adventurous.  However, if I look at the paragraphs immediately above, there's info about the war with the Kingdom of Tokis, border skirmishes, and wizards being supplied as a permanent corps of the army.  Now I've got an idea - get the PCs hired to serve in the Pekalese army, to fight some guerrila raids and border skirmishes.I'll try it again...This time, I landed on page 95, column 2, and the "Government" descriptor for Shrogga-pravaaz, City of Giants.  Sounds interesting...  This paragraph discusses the current mayor, a kobold shaman named  Shosan-haasav, who answers to the kobold chieftain, Drossen-malak Traaggar.  The mayor enforces his will by a combination of spell power and loyal followers.  As a last resort, he can call upon the wrath of the kobold chieftain, but Traaggar has been known to side against a mayor before and throw him to the lions in the city's arena.Sounds like flavor to me!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Not exactly true - humans are certainly prominent ('cause we breed like rabbits compared to other races), but they aren't alone.  For example, the dwarven kingdoms of Draska (p123) and Karasta (or "Irontop," or the "Refuge of Exiles", page 69) are both detailed, as are some elven cities such as Lathlanian (p31), Doulathanorian (p67) and Cilorealon (p97).  Not to mention the two hobgoblin kingdoms of Ul-Karg (p155) and Norga-Krangrel (p84)!</blockquote>

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