Hi, this is my first post here. I was the ranger in this campaign, yes the one doing 80 damage a round (theoretical max was 116 but thats not important)
Anyway, first of all I would say that I don't think kingmaker was the AP for us, we all know our way around D20, 2 of us being 2nd ed vets the other two having a fair amount of experience of 3rd and 4th. We knew what we were doing and couldn't really help but build effective characters. personally though I didn't agree with the crafting explosion.
Second, my character pretty much wrote itself, i would have to take pointless feats like iron will multiple times or go down the opposite combat path to the one I am specializing in to not be effective.