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Sorry, but this blog post comes off as completely disingenuous and has me unconvinced that this won't lead to more changes in the future. This is still causing the team at AoN to hastily remove useful content from their website. Do better Paizo. Reinstate the agreement.

Arkadious wrote:

Kingmaker 1e had numerous problems with the grids with maps not being properly aligned, which extends all the way to Book 6.

I've noticed that some of these grids have been fixed for the 2e release but there are other maps, such as Floor 3 at the House at the Edge of Time, which have not been fixed.

This makes it rather difficult for usage on Virtual Tabletops and just plain annoying when printing them out for in-person play.

Is this an oversight, and is there a chance that maps may be corrected in the future for later prints or digital releases?

Other than that, loving the new version of Kingmaker and I cannot wait to see what Paizo has in store for 2023-2024.

It was a necessary evil. Building this took a LOT of money and a LOT of time, more than we anticipated, and so we had to make some tough choices. At one point, ordering all new maps for the entire book was considered, but that would have been far too expensive—especially considering that we had to make that choice at the height of the pandemic when shipping and paper costs and a lot more were in a place that made it a distinct possibility we'd have to maybe cancel the entire thing or delay it for many years rather than one or two.

So we ended up going with the original maps for the most part. We did what we could to address issues with them (the biggest one being a horrible pritner error in book 5 of the abbey), but not all of them got that treatment.

We have no plans to adjust the maps for future reprints of Kingmaker.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little disappointed, but I completely understand why Paizo has done what they've done. Art is expensive and costly, and when you consider the cost of one map and then multiply that cost by x times, it ends up being quite enormous.

We really appreciate the effort that has gone into this AP, and I'm thankful Jacob that you take the time to communicate with the community about the questions we have.

Have a good day! :)

Arkadious wrote:

Kingmaker 1e had numerous problems with the grids with maps not being properly aligned, which extends all the way to Book 6.

I've noticed that some of these grids have been fixed for the 2e release but there are other maps, such as Floor 3 at the House at the Edge of Time, which have not been fixed.

This makes it rather difficult for usage on Virtual Tabletops and just plain annoying when printing them out for in-person play.

Is this an oversight, and is there a chance that maps may be corrected in the future for later prints or digital releases?

Other than that, loving the new version of Kingmaker and I cannot wait to see what Paizo has in store for 2023-2024.

Just for my own edification, is it the ol' grid squares are uneven, making it impossible to line up against the grids in VTTs?

Some of the grids are uneven, and others are misaligned between sections or separate rooms of a map.

Hi, I don't know if this has been answered already but will there be revisions of the PDF version released at later dates that correct things such as typos etc. For example, reading through it I noticed page 255 mentions Daeodons as being in Pathfinder Bestiary 6 but they were released in Pathfinder Bestiary 1.

Loving the 2E version of Kingmaker. Big fan of the 1E release and the video game, and have been using the 2E versions of the maps for my Kingmaker 1E campaign.

Do all intelligent undead have souls, or just specific types? I've been looking for information regarding this topic for a few days, and the lack of it has been driving me up the wall. Hahaha :)

If a PC who died, were to be brought back to life as, let's say, a skeletal champion using something like Create Undead, they really wouldn't be brought back as themselves now would they?

If I recall correctly, Pharasma and her psychopomps really hate all undead and the creation of them. In a campaign where the players are being revived by other members of the party as intelligent undead, if those intelligent undead still had souls, Pharasma would eventually send a psychopomp or two to eventually return them to the cycle of souls right?

Reprinting the Kingmaker adventure path would be awesome. I know that you're already working on the Anniversary Edition, but just being able to physiclly own the original AP would just be the best.