I just want to say Thank You to Paizo for another Wonderful blog post!
It's great to see this amazing book on the front page; it really is worth every penny if you're running Kingmaker or jjst like the whole idea of building and running your own kingdom.
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Its a great book, but it does miss a couple of things in the PDF. Not sure if the print copy fixes that. And if it does, it should be in the PDF as well. I speak of the following:
1) Icons for the Hex Map (Village, ruin, etc)
2) Images for the City Grid Map
Sure they are in the Kingmaker AP, but what if you don't own Kingmaker? Other than this oversight, I think this book is fantastic.
Excellent blog post.
Its a great book, but it does miss a couple of things in the PDF. Not sure if the print copy fixes that. And if it does, it should be in the PDF as well. I speak of the following:
1) Icons for the Hex Map (Village, ruin, etc)
2) Images for the City Grid MapSure they are in the Kingmaker AP, but what if you don't own Kingmaker? Other than this oversight, I think this book is fantastic.
The Kingmaker icons for the HexMap are part of the community use world map package. Link
The city icons are not, but you can extract them from the Player's Guide if you don't have the AP.I'm pondering about whether getting this or not. There are already a lot of ideas available on the forums through various house rules for Kingmaker, but does this offer a lot more which is useful and balanced?
Its a great book, but it does miss a couple of things in the PDF. Not sure if the print copy fixes that. And if it does, it should be in the PDF as well. I speak of the following:
1) Icons for the Hex Map (Village, ruin, etc)
2) Images for the City Grid MapSure they are in the Kingmaker AP, but what if you don't own Kingmaker? Other than this oversight, I think this book is fantastic.
The Kingmaker icons for the HexMap are part of the community use world map package. Link
The city icons are not, but you can extract them from the Player's Guide if you don't have the AP.
The community use package is closed to me as a publisher. But you can use them in your own game. We're working on a "develop your own map" supplement where we'll have our own images. Until then, Kingmaker is the place to go for those details.
I'm pondering about whether getting this or not. There are already a lot of ideas available on the forums through various house rules for Kingmaker, but does this offer a lot more which is useful and balanced?
The real "selling point" (God, I sound like I'm a corporate stooge) for this the book is is that it takes all the rules in the books and the best of the internet ideas and consolidated them all into one location. We've gotten permission from Jason Nelson for the "open space development" ideas, allowing you to build stuff other than farms in your country side. Then we expanded the number of options. Like the blog post says, we added castle customization options (like moats, wings, gardens, art galleries, torture chambers, etc).
Plus it has magic items. I went over that in one of the previews, which you can read more about here.
The community use package is closed to me as a publisher. But you can use them in your own game. We're working on a "develop your own map" supplement where we'll have our own images. Until then, Kingmaker is the place to go for those details.
Yes, my reply was more aimed at players & GMs who are free to supplement your supplement with other free supplements.:)
The real "selling point" (God, I sound like I'm a corporate stooge) for this the book is is that it takes all the rules in the books and the best of the internet ideas and consolidated them all into one location. We've gotten permission from Jason Nelson for the "open space development" ideas, allowing you to build stuff other than farms in your country side. Then we expanded the number of options. Like the blog post says, we added castle customization options (like moats, wings, gardens, art galleries, torture chambers, etc).
Plus it has magic items. I went over that in one of the previews, which you can read more about here.
Thanks for the link, I'll be checking it out. :)
I can definitely see it as a handy product then, even for those who have the Kingmaker AP.I'll get the pdf and see how I can use it in my two Kingmaker campaigns.
Already in backorder. Ergh.
The first review is up! 5 Stars! Check it out!
Already in backorder. Ergh.Local game stores are supposed to have them in stock on the 17th. Same price to buy them there, and JBE does free PDFs with the print purchase.
Just a suggestion...
Paizo subscriber discount trumps. :) Besides, I'm sure Dale intends to get more stock in -- pronto.
Book of the River Nations currently has 3 5-star reviews and 2 4-star reviews! I am really glad people are liking this book as much as they are.