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The answer to fixing this seems painfully obvious: you make a Half-Breed Ancestry with rules/limitations for any/all cross-breeds. It would probably take up LESS space than putting in two specific ones that don't really work. Then you balance all of the other ancestries to that one.

It does not freeze at once, so they will have to wait for the effect. I suggest you use it as the grease spell, which is not that much higher level, but with a delay.

That's more or less what I was thinking - otherwise we're getting into Minor Creation territory.

It's a quandary. Resource management seems to be crucial in the initial stages of this AP, so being able to make water is a good thing (and having forever-not-freezing water negates a portion of that Survival-check-in-the-rugged-wintery-wilderness feeling) - but being able to shape things out of ice, freeze locks, or make ice spears at-will is obviously a problem.

I'll just say that the water freezes in 1d6 rounds maybe - functioning like an ice sheet, as opposed to Grease per se? Though maybe I'd use the Grease effect if they decided to, say, target an item (ranged touch attack?).

So, considering that this Adventure Path mainly takes place in sub-zero temperatures, what happens if someone decides to cast Create Water? I figure if they cast it into a closed container then it's (probably) all good, at least until it gradually cools - but can my PC's use it to coat things in ice or build ice barriers or cause hail or snow or ... ?

I'd generally default to "a spell can never duplicate the effects of a higher-level spell", but then again ... physics. If I was in sub-zero temperatures and could suddenly produce gallons of water wherever I'd like, I'd expect it to freeze, and I'd expect that frozen water to have *some* effect.

Our general continually insists that we should have a "magic-user registry", and is continually voted down. We also seem to have decided that any prisoners are "Bestow Cursed" into low intelligence to prevent them from using their smarts to break out of prison or sow discord from jail.

I ran my A-Team through Realm of the Felnight Queen already, but I'll look into those other suggestions too. Thanks, guys!

Does anyone know of any pre-existing modules/adventures/paths that could be easily relocated to The Stolen Lands? I'm now running a second team through the area, starting at lower levels - partially to eventually fill kingdom roles, but also because WOW this area has been well-developed by the main team of PC's.

The B-Team is currently level 6, if that helps. And the A-Team is most of the way through Varnhold Vanishing.

My players haven't named the kingdom yet, but our capital city built around the Stag Lord's fort is called Wood Haven. It's not in the woods, but, y'know... ;)

I had bandits steal my PC's horses and gear and leave them stranded in the middle of the map one time. Wasn't pretty. Try that sort of thing!

Honestly, the worst are the wisps ON Candlemere Island - if any of the PC's fail to save vs. the resident fear effect of the tower, the wisps get their Feed On Fear ability, which gives them fast healing 5 (in additional to their already considerable immunities). NASTY.

I'm DM-ing Kingmaker right now, and my players are about 15 months into their kingdom building, so things aren't quite as far along as your game, so...grain of salt advice here:

1. Throw kingdom events at them that increase Unrest. It only takes 11 Unrest before they start losing hexes, and losing hexes hurts. If they're running roughshod over the land and populace for huge profits then there should be lots of Unrest opportunities.

2. Use hex encounters to vary the possibility and price of terrain improvements. In my game the party wizard really wants a caster's tower on Candlemere Island, but I've priced the cleanup operation there steeply, because of the environmental concerns of building on that particular crazy island! ;)

3. You might start having Restov difficulties, in terms of politics, embargoes, or outright war.

4. I've ruled that my PC's have to explore hexes themselves, not just send out their minions to clear it. It keeps their Kingdom Building in check more, I think.