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I actually have a question about the Soul Eater, it seeks out the party arcane caster and would probably try to attack him in the night. With a +30 stealth at night it seems impossible for whichever player on watch to see him coming. The most obviously deadly action for the Soul Eater to take is to just coup-de-grace the arcane caster. How does that work with the on-guard character finding out in the middle or after the coup-de-grace and also with the difficulties of a full round coup-de-grace fitting between the suprise round and 1st round? How would this scenario play out? Would the rules work out in a way to prevent this?

My problems with how that would play out made me think of being lenient and letting the coup-de-grace go through but if it kills the wizard having the Soul Eater do the soul drain automatically so if they kill it within 30 feet he will come back at -1hp. Anyway I want to know the official rules before changing it to my own purposes.

I am starting Kingmaker in a month or two and I have a few questions.

1. I understand the campaign is balanced for random encounters in terms of experience but are the random encounters also supposed to give random loot or is the loot in the book already enough to keep them roughly on par with the Character Wealth by Level. Assume no magic crafting and no pulling money from the kingdom for this one otherwise it gets too complicated.

2. There is a lot of talk about the Civil war in Brevoy but I don't see anything in the books about it actually occurring or what the sides would be. I can see how it could (and at some point probably will) happen but am I correct that it is outside of the official scope of the campaign?

3. Is there any official limits on the armies you raise? Such as small towns creating massive armies, small armies with high class levels appearing out of nowhere, or an army of mages coming out of a city without even a library? I could always stop things too ridiculous myself but I was wondering if there was anything official I could work off of.

4. Is there any reason to have a standing army? It seems like you can raise an army in no time which seems unrealistic. Also it leads to the largest kingdoms having no armies in peace then pumping out massive armies in a week.

Thank you for the help, I like to have as much of an understanding as possible going into a game.

Do the NPCs in Hook Mountain Massacre get a share of the loot and experience from the fights they participate in? If the fights are planned to be harder in order to make up for them having the extra NPC wouldnt they be worth more XP and possibly loot in addition? Do they only get experience and not loot or the other way round?

So when I was looking up some specifics of how spells with durations in rounds specifically lasted I found the rules seem to cause odd results when followed exactly with some spells.
From Combat Section "Effects that last a certain number of rounds end just before the same initiative count that they began on."
This sounds like it ends between your initiative count and the preceding initiative count. Ending slightly before your turn seems to have odd effects with certain spells and abilities.

With time stop lets say you roll a 1 and get 2 rounds. This means for 1 set of actions you would be unable to effect others but it would end just before the second set of actions letting you throw any spells you wish on that second set of actions.

With the Evil Eye Witch hex if they make the save it lasts 1 round meaning if you did not cackle on the turn you placed it you would be unable to cackle on the following turn to extend it as it has already ended.

Any 1 round condition or effect if you had a higher initiative modifier than the character that placed the effect on you you would be able to delay until that initiative count when it has ended and still act before that character due to your higher initiative modifier winning the tie. This one may fail due to not knowing exact initiative counts.

Am I understanding the rule right? Is it something that was clearly not intended to work this way and we should try to follow the author's "intentions" whatever they are?
Thank you for any help.