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Alternate Building Strategies

Gamers agree that building a Casters Tower and push MIE right off the bat is you basic optimal plan to fund rapid expansion. As far as role playing, that sort of cheeze is distasteful.

It looks like a viable, though much slower strategy would be to tightly constraint hex expansion, building numerous small stat boost buildings to assure decent BP generation via income rolls. Assuming no particular time crunch on kingdom building, I suppose that's fine. Lots of brothels, smiths, tanneries, etc not as hard to stomach.

Other than that I see my PCs just sort of running amok in character trying to build a balanced, realistic sort of city and kingdom, but winding up the woeful victim of the rules and events.

Am I missing something?

Thanks.

I'm building a Paladin of Erastil for Kingmaker and he will be primarily an archer with with high Dex and Charisma. Strength will be 12-14.

I am having trouble deciding on a melee weapon.

My considerations:

Given Erastil portfolio, possibly some weapon with it roots in a farming implement.
Or maybe an axe of some sort if I take the woodsmen approach. Or something akin to a boor spear.
As an archer I may not want to carry a shield, so maybe a two handed weapon.
I do have some trouble envision running about the forest with bow out and a glaive strapped to my back. Easier to see if it on my horse, but that maybe leaves still the question of unmounted melee.

I suppose I am weighing thematic and mechanical considerations.

Thoughts?

This is probably picking a nit, but where does the initial encounter take place? When I read it I assumed that the party would likely have just left on the inns after an evening of socializing when the come across the beleaguered cleric. Of course, the cleric is returning to to the temple from the orphanage, so we know his path. Sadly, none of the named inns are any where near this path. Has anyone moved the inns? Added a different hook? Worried about this detail in the slightest?

Thanks.