Combining Kingmaker and RotRL

[Coledar]

I've been collecting the Adventure Path since the beginning, but my group's extremely irregular meeting schedule has forced me to shelve them all. Kingmaker has sparked my interest in running a PF game for my group, but I also love the "grand majesty" concept they were going for with the RotRL path.

I was thinking of combining the two adventure paths, allowing me to update and use RotRL with PF rules and meld it into Kingmaker. The original idea behind all of this was brought on by the different Runelords and their possible solutions to the end of Thassilon. The basic idea would revolve around a new area of land reappearing on Golarion. This new area of land is in Varisia and is the ancient land of Cyrusian (the domain of pride). To escape the pending disaster, the Runelord of Pride (master illusionist) Xanderghul used epic level illusion magic to warp reality around his realm and make it a demiplane for a few thousand years. All the living inhabitants of his realm were used as fuel for this massive spell, so besides the Runelord and his direct servants, the area would be deserted. Any monsters or creatures encountered would either be recent migrants, undead, or constructs (the last two being immune to the spell cast).

The Kingmaker part would be the PCs going to this new land with a group of settlers and trying to make a kingdom there. The RotRL part would be the rebirth of Xanderghul and his attempts to reassert dominance over Golarion.

It's still in its infancy, I'm looking for feedback or potential problems with this idea. I'm fine with the amount of conversion involved, I used to make my own campaign worlds and could never find one that I liked enough to use(until PF). Let me know what you think please.

[ziltmilt]

Coledar wrote:

The Kingmaker part would be the PCs going to this new land with a group of settlers and trying to make a kingdom there. The RotRL part would be the rebirth of Xanderghul and his attempts to reassert dominance over Golarion.

It doesn't sound like you're using the Runelords AP. But, if you did, the Kingmaker rules would likely fit well with the conclusion of Hook Mtn Massacre, where the party finds themselves in charge of a keep.

[Coledar]

Well the Sandpoint 1st adventure part of Runelords would come after the 1st part of Kingmaker. So the goblin attack, etc.. would be on a town that the party had helped set up and worked to establish.

That way there's a motive for their defense of this place besides "We're the good guys and this is what we do." More like, hey, I built that granary, someone put out that fire. I admit there's a certain amount of flexibility required to merge the two APs, but I think it's doable.

Hook Mtn Massacre was going to probably merge with the Vanishing of Varnhold. Maybe as a precursor to it.

[Greycloak of Bowness]

I'm planning something like this but with the KM storyline inserted after the end of Hook Mountain Massacre when the players get control of Fort Rannick.

I'll offer the PCs a charter from Magnimar to rule the Rannick Marches with the title of Baron with the stipulation that they do not make war on the Sanos Gnomes or the people of Ilsuria and that they to not extend their domain more than 25 miles (2 hexes) east of the Skull River so as to not get too close to the Korvosan domains.

I originally pitched the idea here (with links to some mapping I did):
Here
Here for austerity is a link to the eventual archived version of the above link
And here

Having now read the first 3 KM adventures, I am thinking that I will run the adventures as Pathfinder using slow xp progression.

I'll poach KM #1 for side quests, and I will up the power in KM#2 and KM#3 to fit after Hook Mountain with the Fey encounters happening in the Northern Sanos Forest and/or the Shimmerglens and the Varnhold Vanishing events happening SW of Ravenmoor (or with Ravenmoor being subbed for Varnhold maybe, depending on the shape of the PCs domain).

Then the Fortress of the Stone Giants attack is directed at the PCs' capital and that's as far as I have gotten.