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Hi all,
We started playing the Kingmaker campaign over 2 years ago in PF-1. We have been adjusting the base adventures greatly and even have replaced them with other modules, some of which are home made. Also the Kingdom Building part we have modified greatly, so that it fits our gameplay style.
We were a bit disappointed about the Lore of the setting, so I started making a document myself to help players and new players.
It has become an enormous document of over 100 pages. It’s partly based on official Paizo material, partly self-made and partly of the many online ideas of other DM’s (like that of Redcelt). It has almost become a fully fledged campaign setting for my players… and is still undergoing modifications based on player-ideas.
Now, I want to share it with you. Possibly you can use it for your game. If you have questions or suggestions, I’d love to hear them.
All the best! Nicholas
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Beautiful. This is great work. I’ve been scanning through, paying particular interest to areas I want to incorporate into my game. Learning a lot I didn’t know. Marveling at how much you have flushed out. Bravo! And thank you for sharing. Continuing to read and scan. Very much appreciate your efforts.
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Beautiful. This is great work. I’ve been scanning through, paying particular interest to areas I want to incorporate into my game. Learning a lot I didn’t know. Marveling at how much you have flushed out. Bravo! And thank you for sharing. Continuing to read and scan. Very much appreciate your efforts.
Hi lacker, thank you very much, but I also incorporated the ideas of others. I greatly enjoyed combining all the bits and pieces into one overall setting and hope I tell the total story in such a way that it gives players a solid basis for roleplaying.
So, if you have any questions, suggestions or see inconsistencies, please let me know.
Nicholas
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Good to has some free Brevoy and the North adapted campaign stuff out there for PF1e Kingmaker, Nicholas the ex-Paladin. ;)
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The background document is amazing and very well done! :)
I would like to download the document as a PDF file but it's not working. Is it a matter of permissions at the GoogleDocs end or do I have to do something at my end?
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The background document is amazing and very well done! :)
I would like to download the document as a PDF file but it's not working. Is it a matter of permissions at the GoogleDocs end or do I have to do something at my end?
Hi Bellona, I had such problem before too. The only reason I can think of, is that the size of the doc is rather large, that PDF'ing it is difficult or prone to errors. Even a zipped file is 156MB large.
You might consider making a copy. After that, cut it in parts. And make PDF's from these parts.
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Last week I made a new version on the chapter concerning House Rogarvia (chapter 11). Not finished yet, but something new to read.
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The pdf option might not work but the epub option should still be functional, if that helps, Bellona, Nicholas the ex-Paladin. ;)
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I love the document, lots of cool information in there, that i think will help my upcoming game. If you dont mind me asking, how did you make the cool frames for the character images for the houses, id love to implement that into my game
Short answer: I didn't make them. I found them through Google images.
Mentioning the source of every find defeats the purpose. I'm a Dutch productmanager with an active family life, working spouse and plenty of stuff on my hands, besides running a campaign as a DM .... and finding some time to make a campaign setting on the side. I have to make technology and other people's handiwork work for me ;-)
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I'm very happy with your compliments and hope you can use it for your campaigns.
You help me the most by asking question about the content or by making content-related remarks. Thanks !
The current 'table of contents' of the document is :
The Kingdom of Brevoy
(chapter 1 ) BREVOY at a glance 6
(chapter 2 ) The DUKES of Brevoy 10
House Surtova 10
House Medvyed 12
House Orlovsky 13
House Lodovka 14
House Garess 15
House Lebeda 16
House Rogarvia 18
The Barons of the main Houses 19
(chapter 3 ) The SWORDLORDS of Restov 20
(chapter 4 ) The city of RESTOV 25
(chapter 5 ) POLITICS in Brevoy 29
(chapter 6 ) RELIGIONS & politics 33
The Duchy of Rogarvia
(chapter 7 ) The Barons of ROGARVIA 40
Manilius 41
Reynic 42
Brunwald 42
Kamiński 43
Velaryon 43
Alyrion 44
Wustlav 44
Baltric 45
Krushenko 45
Romanowsky 46
Harte 47
Other important factions 47
Horáček Town 47
Monastery of the Four Broken Beasts 48
The Fanged Legion 49
(chapter 8 ) The city of NEW STETVEN 52
(chapter 9 ) POLITICS in Rogarvia 56
Royal House Rogarvia & its Iobarian origins
( 10 ) The wilds of IOBARIA : of Cyclops & Dragons 61
( 11 ) House ROGARVIA 65
Choral Rogarvia 65
The Rogarvian Kings 67
House Rogarvia & Dragons 68
The Fanged Legion 70
( 12 ) The VANISHING & Skywatch 73
The River Kingdoms
( 13 ) MIVON & its swordlords 78
Government 79
Mivon city 80
Mivonese Factions 82
The Mivonese Houses 84
( 14 ) PITAX 89
( 15 ) Other River States 91
The Players & The Stolen Lands
( 16 ) The STOLEN LANDS 97
( 17 ) The player’s Barony 103
( 18 ) INVESTORS in the PC Kingdom 107
Political investors 107
Economic investors 110
Religious investors 112
Non-investing factions 115
Servitors of the First World 116
The First World
( 19 ) The First World of the Fey 120
( 20 ) The Eldest 127
( 21 ) The Thane 134
( 22 ) On the Origin of Gnomes 137
APPENDICES
APPENDIX 1 : running of a mediaeval fantasy setting 139
( 1 ) THE USE OF SPIES 139
( 2 ) RULERSHIP IN TIME OF MAGIC 140
( 3 ) LAW ENFORCEMENT 143
( 4 ) BREVOY BAN ON CERTAIN MAGIC 146
( 5 ) DEGREE OF BREVOY POLITICS 147
APPENDIX 2 : KINGDOM BUILDING RULES 149
(1) ECONOMY INCOME 149
(2) EXPLORATION & TRAVEL 149
(3) ENLARGE DOMAIN 150
(4) DOMAIN DEVELOPMENT 150
(5) CREATE SETTLEMENT 151
(6) CONSTRUCT BUILDINGS 151
(7) TRADE ROUTES 156
(8) KINGDOM RELATIONS 158
(9) KINGDOM SIZE 159
APPENDIX 3 : MASS COMBAT WITH ARMIES 160
APPENDIX 4 : SERVANTS FOR THE COUNCIL 163
APPENDIX 5 : MAPS OF THE REGION 164
Damn. That is a truly aweinspiring peace of work there. Kudos - I'm definitely going to be stealing some of that for my KM campaign. While I love playing around with nobles and politics, I've never put together something this detailed, on so many different houses - I tend to just make things up as I go along. This is definitely something I can use.
Thanks Canarr ! If you have certain parts that you like, feel like using it and have suggestions/questions: please let me know
I will make an update tot the document soon.
I skimmed the first few pages and saw that you included a picture from Rise of the Runelords as a location near the Stolen Lands. That’s like setting up a trap for unwary GMs. Unless a GM knows ALL the material Paizo has ever published, they will never be sure what arbitrary transplants like this you have made, and that might impact their world in the future when they come to run this material.
Very poor form.
Too bad my work didn't pass your scientific peer review.
Hi all,
We started playing the Kingmaker campaign over 2 years ago in PF-1. We have been adjusting the base adventures greatly and even have replaced them with other modules, some of which are home made. Also the Kingdom Building part we have modified greatly, so that it fits our gameplay style.
We were a bit disappointed about the Lore of the setting, so I started making a document myself to help players and new players.
It has become an enormous document of over 100 pages. It’s partly based on official Paizo material, partly self-made and partly of the many online ideas of other DM’s (like that of Redcelt). It has almost become a fully fledged campaign setting for my players… and is still undergoing modifications based on player-ideas.
Now, I want to share it with you. Possibly you can use it for your game. If you have questions or suggestions, I’d love to hear them.
All the best! Nicholas
Quite impressed with your work, and will read through the whole document soon. This stands as a definitely useful resource, puts plenty in one place, and I can see what you have focused upon (Investors in the PC kingdom was nice).
I too was a little unsatisfied with the lore, and have been building up more for monster realms, fallen Dwarven kingdoms, and the Iobarian and lycanthrope connections. More factions as well gives more connections to pcs and something more for them to dominate or work with later. Brunderton as well I think should be more connected to the setting, and I made another small Brevoyan settler town, NE of Restov.
Most impressive. You have saved me time for the two groups I will be running through Kingmaker and smaller adventures, and I can build upon this.
Damn. That is a truly aweinspiring peace of work there. Kudos - I'm definitely going to be stealing some of that for my KM campaign. While I love playing around with nobles and politics, I've never put together something this detailed, on so many different houses - I tend to just make things up as I go along. This is definitely something I can use.
Yeah, definitely saves time for others there.