leo1925 wrote:
As a player of kingmaker (just finished 5th book), i can say that there are very few skill challenges other than the Perception and knowledge rolls.
Now as to what to play, i have to submit the idea of a medium sized cavalier (since most of the AP is outdoors) and you are only going to suffer very little on the boss battles (which are indoors but most rooms are quite big).
Also the wizard (and any nuke type character) can do very very well in kingmaker due to the one encounter per day thing, in that logic i also recommend a barbarian (aslo a nuke type) and i can tell you that you can assume that you are going to be raging nearly every round at every fight.
Also because at the first 5 books there is nearly no magic challenge, i think that your group can be well and ok even with very little magic.
Our party:
1)Switch hitter human ranger (me).
2)dex-based TWF human rogue.
3)waste of space human cleric / at 10th level the DM let him re-make his character and now it's just a not-so successful human battle cleric/holy vindicator of iomidae.
4)(buff eidolon) gnome summoner at the first book and for half of the second, the player changed him because the character was too strong for kingmaker (remember nuke)/ at the half of the second book the summoner was changed for an elf wizard evoker/blaster/ after the third book the wizard was changed to a magus because player wanted to see the new class.
As a final note let me tell you that:
At the first 5 books, even we didn't have anyone who could cast a single spell that game would have been pretty much the same. (with only exception having the rogue activate wands of cure light wounds).
I have been looking at Cavalier. being a game of thrones fan is just makieing it hard not to go all Dathraki on this
