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Hello!

Player managing my group's campaign via Chemlak's masterful spreadsheet tracker. We're generally using the Ultimate Rulership (UR) rules, but sometimes reverting to Ultimate Campaign (UC) for some pieces (i.e., we're not a fan of the alternate edicts [for holidays, promotion, etc.], so we're just adding the special edicts from UR and keeping the others from UC the same).

Anyways, I have a couple questions I'm hoping folks can help me with. I'm using a second spreadsheet of my own design to plan for future months between gaming sessions, to help things go smoother. I then check the results of what I come up with against Chemlak's, do make sure I'm doing things correctly. I've hit a couple bumps in the road a few months in.

Building new city districts - My interpretation of the UC rules is that preparing a second city district can only be done after the first city district is (completely) full. Then, per UC, you pay the preparation BP, just as though you were building "a new settlement", so in the case of hills, it would be 2BP and would take a month. Does "settlement prep" take the place of one of the hex improvements that you can do that month, or perhaps does it take the place of the number of settlements you can create that month, or perhaps it doesn't count against either? However, per UR, as near as I can tell, you do not need to do any preparation, so no wait time, only costs 1 BP to add a district and it can be done once the first district is half full. Am I on the right track so far?

Settlement consumption - Per UC, I believe consumption for settlements is 1 BP per district, regardless of the "fullness" of the district. UR, however, is more granular, going from 0.5 BP (round down) for a village, 1 BP for a town (one district half full or less) and 2 BP per district for a city/metropolis (regardless of how full the subsequent districts are). Assuming I'm right so far, something strange seems to occur when I hit month 8 in the URule spreadsheet; I go from 1 city consumption to 2, even though, by my count, I still only have one district with 16 lots full, so we're still technically a town, not a city. Then, in month 9, we go from 2 city consumption to 3 city consumption. I still only have one settlement and I only have one city district. Did I miss something? My forecasted build order is below; not looking so much for optimization advice on the forecast, so much as guidance for why the settlement consumption is higher than I would have expected it to be.

Month 1 - Stockyard
Month 2 - House and Tannery
Month 3 - Baths
Month 4 - Brickyard
Month 5 - Stable
Month 6 - Dance Hall and House
Month 7 - Temple
Month 8 - Assembly
Month 9 - Graveyard and Crematorium

Hello all,

I am just starting into book 2 of Kingmaker and am exceedingly excited to get into the kingdom building. I've easily spent 100+ hours reading and rereading rules from different sources such as Ultimate Campaign and Ultimate Rulership, both of which the GM is pulling from (given the amount of reading I've done, I'm giving a little input). The downside is that some things I remember coming across are escaping me. I could swear that somewhere there were rules written for if you decided to have your PC spend the whole month ruling, rather than just the obligatory one week. I thought it gave something like a +2 to the kingdom score you contribute, or perhaps doubled your bonus. Can someone help point me to where I would have read that (assuming such a rule exists)?

Hello all,

First off, I apologize if this is blatantly obvious, but I'm having a little difficulty in figuring this out. This weekend at Con of the North will be my first foray into PFS, though I host a group of friends who have played different home-brew Pathfinder campaigns on-and-off for a few years now.

In my excitement to start getting into Society play, I came across adventure path books. I'm curious to know if they are suitable for Society play; I envision that my group will start playing Society at our weekly game night, so I am curious to know if these books would work, or if they would be only for non-Society play.

I found some specific books at Half-Price Books on sale pretty cheap, so I'd pick them up if we could use them for Society play.

Council of Thieves
Legacy of Fire
Serpent's Skull

Then there's also these Campaign Setting books. Any relevance to Society play?

Castles of the Inner Sea
Artifacts & Legends

Again, apologies if this is posted somewhere; I'm happy to look this up if someone can point me in the right area.

Thank you!