New group to Pathfinder and Kingmaker

[shinzakei]

Hello everyone,

I have been playing 3.5 for many years and my old group fell apart do to two of the players fighting in real life. Anyhow I started a fresh game over at the local game store. I grabbed the pathfinder book after hearing it was a sort of 3.75 dnd. After all i don't want to play 4e, i hate the changes.

Well i love pathfinder and i picked up kingmaker 1 0f 6 and the kingmaker maps as well as kingmaker 4 of 6 (don't ask). Tomorrow I am ordering the rest of the kingmaker set. My group loves kingmaker they like the freedom of play and the idea of building a kingdom. Its a lot of fun we have played two 12 hour days this last month with it. Anyway I am loving the pathfinder changes and the campaign setting.

BTW kingmaker Map Folio thick laminated rocks and works great.

p.s. Pathfinder is taking off here like crazy, the first day i placed new players for pathfinder wanted signs at the game store two weeks before i started. Well 12 players showed up and even more the over the last few months. I am running 5 players and well me the DM right now, i had 8 players but i had to cut back. Anyway 3 other pathfinder groups have started up at the game store now so there are about 25 pathfinder players in the area the store can't keep the books in stock.

[Kolokotroni]

Hi, and welcome to the boards and pathfinder!

I am glad you are enjoying kingmaker. My group is enjoying it as well, its definately different from previous published adventures i've played. I am also surprised the kingmaker 1 offered 24 hours worth of gameplay. But i guess it's possible given the open nature of the campaign, if you explore every inch of the map, I imagine it might take a while.

[W E Ray]

Welcome to the Boards!

Kingmaker is getting really popular but, so far, it's only about my third favorite of Paizo's Adventure Paths after Rise of the RuneLords and Legacy of Fire. Curse of the Crimson Throne is also supposed to be awesome but I'm not reading it and trying hard to avoid spoilers so that , hopefully soon, someone can run it for me.

[shinzakei]

Kingmaker 1 of 6 is huge, giving that the players are all pumped to be starting their own kingdom. They are checking every spot on the map. This gives a lot of random encounter chances as well as tons of gaming events built into kingmaker. The lower half of the map doesn't have any map points on it. So i have added a bunch of new places filling in events. I think my party will be lvl 5 to 6 by the time we move on to kingmaker 2.

p.s. My only problem is that the party knows they will be building a town. Their characters don't know yet and they have been pushing the meta game facts. I have to keep a close eye on them and make sure they don't get ahead of themselves.

[legallytired]

The lower half has map points in the second volume of the AP. The party should be around level 4 when they move on to the second part. As written anyway.. Kingmaker is quite easily modified but what happens in the second part is intertwined with kingdom creation so proceed with caution!