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Anyone have issues with the sticky notes or tape leaving residue on the laminated maps?

I just got mine and plan to cover the hexes up. I was going to use scotch tape or painters tape but I'm worried they may leave residue that messes with wet-erase markers.

My PC's just took down the Stag Lord and next month will be founding their kingdom. I found the Kingdom management rules overwhelming the first couple times I read through them so I wanted to make a cheat sheet for Players. I'd love to hear your feedback on the Kingdom Turn Cheat Sheet I made and of course maybe it can help in your campaign.

Kingdom Turn Cheat Sheet

Notes:
* This doesn't cover the War Rules.
* I'm trying to balance too little and too much detail. The goals is to have a one page document that tells the players which activities they may want to take. Then they can either read that section of rules or just declare they are taking that action and let the GM walk them the roll/action.
* I plan to add the activities from Vance and Kerenshara Rule changes but haven't gotten to that yet.

Thanks and Cheers!

PS. I'm not a copyright lawyers so if sharing this is violating Paizo's license in some way I can remove it.

One of my PC's wants to play a noble who spent some time at a college or university. We are playing the KingMaker adventure path so somewhere near the Stolen Lands would be good but the PC is NOT interested in the arts so the Art College in Pitax is not a good fit.

Would love any input!

Good suggestion on talking with my group. Our session zero is tomorrow so I'll talk about it with them then.

Thanks for the heads up on the fact I was looking at a PF1 conversion and the advice on converting. Your wall of text was helpful!

I am using the Pathfinder Kingmaker Bestiary (5E) to run the module in 5E. The book does a great job with the monsters, NPC and traps but advice on converting the skills to use with 5E. It leaves me with two questions. How do I adjust DC and do Critical Success/Failure need to be adjusted?

I founds this blog post which gives the suggesion below for adjusting DCs.

Pathfinder DC -> 5e DC
10 -> 8
15 -> 12
20 -> 17
25 -> 20
30 -> 22
35 -> 24
40 -> 27
45 -> 29
50 -> 32
55 -> 34
60 -> 36

For DCs under 20, just take off 2-3 points of DC. For DCs of 20+, half + 7 gets you really close to the curve.

For Critical Success and Failure which I would like to use with Skill Checks since the module often gives advice on how to handle them I've seen two suggestions. One is to use the Pathfinder 2e rule as written. The other is do adjust a Critical Success to be DC +5 and Critical Failure to be DC -5.

Has anyone else played around with this yet? I don't have a good sense of the range of bonus's Pathfinder 2e characters get to checks so its hard for me to compare the two systems.

* Disclaimer: I'll just include this one time. I hope this is a forum friendly to 5E questions given Paizo's publishing of the 5E Bestiary. Pathfinder 2E looks like a great system but I know it would alienate my group. However, Paizo has such great well written content I'm excited to take advantage of their adaptation.

The party should be level 4 when they get their Kingdom so it'd be pretty easy to just level the Kingdom by 1 after each 4 months during that Initial year.

So the Kingdom hits Level 2 after Turn 4. Level 3 after Turn 8, and Level 4 after Turn 12.

Vance, is that leveling rate based on your amended rules docs? (Which are very helpful by the way. Thank you for all the work you and Kerenshara put into them).

Throughout the book, especially Chapter 2, their are references to rivers and lakes by name. Is there a map that exists with these labeled already?

I found this one from the wiki for the computer game of Kingmaker that looks pretty good but I haven't cross referenced it with the book to make sure the names are correct.

I am GMing Curse of the Crimson Throne. I've a group of three players who have just hit 4th level and I'm looking for ideas for loot to drop in their way.

The characters are:
Shoanti Barbarian (fights with an Earthbreaker)
Fighter (fights with a two-handed sword, uses intimidate skill often)
Monk

I'm planning for the gear to appear as treasure, gifts from NPCs, and marketplace for purchase. If anyone has ideas for good magic gear for such characters I'd love to hear them.

Well, you can turn corners, by first taking a Move action, then Charging in a different direction.

And you can draw a weapon in that first Move if you have a +1 BAB, without shortening your Charge range.

Any other abilities that work as a move action (lots of class abilities and feats) can now be combined with charging....

All in all, I think there'll be a LOT of surprises if you do this.

I'm OK with combining charge with things like drawing a weapon, turning corners or getting up from prone. When I think of action movies and novels I can see all those things happening. I think for the most part the bonus to hit is reasonably offset by the penalty to AC for an action that is still situational.

I'm more concerned about some combo of feats and class abilities that I might not have thought of of if this will this benefit once particular class in some odd way.

One such degenerate move is "if only one square away from a foe back up one square then charge forward 2 squares to get charge bonus". That would definitely fit my new RA-reWritten, but not my RAI.

As a GM I find the charging rules a bit restrictive. I'm thinking of making it a standard action by removing the restriction that says you can only use it as a standard action when you are only allowed a single action. I'd keep everything else the same.

Anyone see any quagmires or unforeseen power shifts I might be creating?

Right; but what started this whole thing was one of Lamm's lambs stole the deck, and then her son died trying to get it back.

I stand corrected. I re-read the paragraph his weekend and my memory was inaccurate.

It didn't come up with my players this weekend but I my explanation would have been that her connection to the heirloom deck allowed her divine its location.

My group leveled at the end of Ch2, then next level was after the battle with Pilts in Ch3.

Caro,

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone I'm fairly new to pathfinder and didn't even realize there were rules for drugs in the pathfinder SRD, since they are not in the core rulebook. D'oh!

Those existing rules for drugs seem perfect for what I want. Though I may end up house-ruling the specific effects...but I hear there's another forum for that.

Cheers!

One of my players want to play a boxer (Barbarian) who uses performance enhancing drugs. I'm looking for suggestions on appropriate benefits and drawbacks from this behavior.

The player found Shoanti Barbarian Chew but he "was hoping for something a little more dangerous"

Ideas?

For references the story is set in Korvosa, so I'm planning for the drug to be made from an alchemical blend of Shoanti Barbarian Chew, qat and pesh.

I started this adventure last night with three

In her boxed text, Zellara says she used her harrow deck to search for Galdren. How? He had it. That's something I picked up on the read-through, but forgot to change, so my players naturally jumped all over it.

Speak from memory so don't crossbow me if I'm wrong but:

ummmm time for me to go buy Hero Lab!!!

Thanks for sharing!!

One of my players would like to play a Lawful Evil wizard who worships Asmodeus. I think this idea could work but I could use some advice on how to keep him hooked into the story.

The player is someone I've played with for a while so I'm not worried about him trying to de-rail the campaign or backstabbing the party. He's generally just interested in the character concept and role-playing someone following the Chelaxian/Asmodeus philosophy. The character would have be a Korvosan patriot with family ties in the city.

Are there instructions somewhere for putting the paper minis together? In particular I'm wondering what weight of card stock works best and what type of adhesive to use.

Nice photos! Thanks for sharing. What is that cool looking clear plastic tower a Red Mantis is standing on in the first photo?

I am preparing to run CotCT and I'd like to paint some minis for it. I know there's no way I'm going to paint a mini for every npc in the story but I'd like to compile a list of all mini's made by paizo for the adventure path anyways. I mostly interested in official minis, but suggestions for substitutions are welcome as well.

I've just started reading Escape from Old Korvosa so you may notice a lack of suggestions for the later modules.

Thanks to everyone for the input!!!

I decided to go with Curse of the Crimson Throne in the end. Hopefully one day I'll also get a chance to play or gm Runelords.

This is Yet Another Which AP thread. I've read most the other threads and from them I've narrowed my choices to RotRL and CotCT. I like a mix of action settings: urban, wilderness and dungeon. I like that CotCT is an urban adventure involving intrigue and RotRL seems to have a lot of positive reviews.

Having read the start of CotCT I get why everyone likes it so much. In particular I liked...

If you've played both could you contrast them for me?

Thanks!

PS Please don't suggest a different AP...it's taken me too long to narrow it done this far!! My brain might pop.