I am considering picking up the Kingmaker path and running a group through it but I had a question. There are six "scenarios" included in the Kingmaker campaign, and the recommended levels escalates rather quickly. My question is: Will characters just run this campaign and meet the required level ranges as they move forward, or will we need to supplement with other adventures between?
It may be a very silly question, but I am newer to GMing and have yet to run a full adventure path as a GM or player.
Each of the six adventures provide the characters with about the right level of experience to start the next section.
No additional adventures are required.
Kingmaker is interesting in that each book includes a number of little quests that can be fleshed out more if the PCs ever fall behind in XP
Excellent; so it's specifically designed to take a team of adventurers from Point A to Point B through the one adventure path. Sounds like a blast!
I am interested in Kingmaker because I understand it gives one of the characters an option to be King. Sounds fun!
However, does anyone have any tips on the level of: 'If you were going to run just one adventure path before you died, which would it be' type of thought process.
It will be mostly a group of younger players who seem to mostly drift towards combat focused events, and are slowly coming along with the RP aspects.
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I would suggest Mummy's Mask or Shattered Star as a Point A to Point B type of AP. Kingmaker is very open ended. Better described as getting 10 minor points, to do in any order you feel works best. They lead you to a major point. Once they are done you get 10 more minor points that lead you to another major point, and so on.
So far my group has finished books 1-4 and will finish book 5 this sunday. The AP is exploration heavy, and the PCs receive XP for exploration. I have not had to add any encounters for them just to "top them off". But I have added encounters for backstory. You can always just tell them to level
I love Kingmaker. Its a great AP. But I would agree with Christopher Woldridge. It is an open-ended AP. So for a group of combat-focused, younger players, I would also agree with Mummy's Mask, Shattered Star or possibly Giantslayer are better choices. The kingdom part of Kingmaker has a decent amount of paperwork involved and beyond micromanaging the building of your kingdom, there is not a whole lot of actual rulership in the AP.
The more I think of it, the more I recommend Giantslayer since it is very tropey and you are introducing your players to the tropes.