James Jacobs wrote:
DIY-Immortality wrote:
Hi James I’m a huge fan of you and Paizo’s work and just decided to join the forums after reading them for a while. I’ve had something bugging me about pathfinder kingmaker lately and I’m curious if you know the answer to it. Sorry if it’s been asked before but now that the cult of the dawnflower has been retconned out does that change any of the companion backstories in pathfinder kingmaker I know that Kanerah and Kalikke and to a lesser extent Tristan all mention them at some point would that just be a canon difference between the games and the tabletop or is there potentially a new explanation in the kingmaker hardcover?
It doesn't change the backstories in the computer game, because I can't go in and code things and time travel.
But when I went in and developed the companions for the upcoming hardcover Kingmaker Companion Guide I made a fair number of adjustments to all of their backstories to mesh better with the setting as a whole, yes.
Just as Owlcat took some liberties and some creative choices with how they presented the world in their computer game, I've taken the same liberties and choices in adapting content from the computer game to print. Not everything that works for a computer game works for a tabletop game, after all, and I wasn't able to comb through the literally millions of words of dialogue and text in the computer game, so had to trust Owlcat to get it mostly right as far as canon is concerned. They did a GREAT job, but there are things that I would have done differently, and in creating the new 2E Kingmaker, I have done differently.
AKA: Just as players of the original Kingmaker found surprises and differences waiting them in the computer game, players of the computer game will find surprises and differences if they play or read the 2nd edition version of the Adventure Path.
Thank you for the response I’m really excited to see your take on the companions I was especially partial to Harrim and Jaethal so it’ll be interesting to see how they were changed to fit the tabletop game better. Was there any companion you found particularly interesting?
