Sprawling Role Playing Goodness! - Pathfinder Kingmaker Gameplay Impressions 

I'ma be mad if this doesn't keep going. Lol.

^^^ THIS

Stopped watching when Dwarf was picked. Dwarves are the fantasy equivalent to zombies in horror games. Done to death and dull as fuck.

Wrath Oranos I feel that way about elves.

Wrath Oranos But all gamers love dwarves! It's a race of short, hairy people who spend most of their time indoors, have no social graces and subsist on a diet of cured meat and beer! It's no different than how I keep seeing a bit of myself in goblins! In all seriousness though, halfling master race.

Wrath Oranos Thats so fucking false i hate you for even thinking it. Zombies are done because they are essentially a GENRE. Elves are more done than all the other common fantasy races combined, go ahead and look around, hell they outnumber humans. I bet thats what you wanted him to pick too. I will fight you on this.

Chase Sandlin thats because its true. Elves are probably 50x more common; no exaggeration. Sex sells and people want their waifus

Pathfinder is so good too, i actually have come to prefer it over DND in recent years.

didn't bought. it's open game licence. but yeah. it's pretty much 3.75

Yeah, paizo didn't buy 3.5. The ruleset for 3.5 was open source, so paizo (and a bunch of other companies) were able to freely publish their own books using those rules. Paizo simply took the original rules and overhauled and refined them.

Too bad pathfinder 2 isn't really expanding on pathfinder more than implementing 4.0 bullcrap. After buying the play test book I don't expect it to live up to its predecessor unfortunately.

2.0 looks like garbage so far. Pretty much 5th ed bullshit in the pathfinder world, will NOT be changing over

the morality system is still better than the typical good vs. evil system too many games have.

Magma Kojote. Mmmmh... True enough, but games without such systems (and with reputation systems instead), much like Tyranny, follow the best path in my opinion.

@@yaumelepire6310 reputation in my opinion is the same as good and evil. Or at least very similar. Because depending how the world is laid out or how the system works you can neutral in one place, good in another or evil in a different location. Morality in my opinion causes players to think of every situation and how that character would think and feel rather than oh I hated this guy from the beginning let's kill him when every other action conflicts with how you set up your character

jordan Crawford. It doesn't work that way in Tyranny though. In that game, you have two metrics to tell how a faction or Archon feels about you: Wrath and Favor, and they aren't exclusive. Your companions have Loyalty and Fear instead, but it's more or less the same thing. You can have the max level in both at the same time for a faction, Archon or companion, and it will greatly impact how that faction reacts to you. And you don't have to act evil to pile on Wrath with a given faction! The Disfavored, one of the armies, will hate you pretty quickly if you choose to conscript the Tiersmen (the collective name of the groups that live in the region you are invading) despite that being arguably more moral than executing them, and the fact that it makes the Conquest easier for them. And Tunon's Court will adore you and be very angry with you *at the same time* if you find loopholes in your application of the law, even if you kill or spare someone for it, which they don't seem to care about. There is no morality in Tyranny per say, just factions and characters with their own interests, wants and dislikes, and that is the way to do it if you ask me.

Tyranny's premise is that evil has already won. So basically you don't have a choice in consequences with morality since you would be fluctuating between lawful evil,and chaotic evil morality concepts. having a reputation only-system is more limiting than other games that have used both

It is definitely not so friendly for the casual player, while veteran players will know right off the back how devastating enemies with the swarm subtype are, and the importance of bludgeoning damage.

Yea, the frustrating thing is that as far as I can tell there is no way to actually examine monster weaknesses in game. You don't see any information about a monster other than their health bar and their action cooldown, and the bestiary only describes the monster, it doesn't say what their weaknesses, attack moves, special abilities etc are so it's basically either go buy an actual pathfinder rule book to look them up, or die repeatedly against them while trying different types of attacks until one works.

Jasta85 The pathfinder pfsrd is a free online source. But you're right. What I would have expected would be an automatic dice knowledge check from every member of the party, and based on the rolls a bestiary entry updating like a pokedex, and certain details about it's entry to be listed and others as ??? until encountered again or discovered via research rolls in a library or something. I hope they let the modders run wild with this game and add more source material to this game.

Jasta85 and maybe some character dialogue in combat talking about certain scripted fights. But maybe that's asking for too much work.

alchemist fire is pretty cheap, just kill some bandits and take their stuff and sell it.

Ichthyodactyl same! I found the Alchemist archetypes pretty disappointing?

Yep.. DOS is with gaming in the future. TB is finally popular again and RTS and Real Time Pause RPGs are stuck in the past. Too bad that many IPs are still going to resort to this lazy system of bumbling clicky real time awkwardness that just doesn't work with more than 1 player character. It works but it's lack on control has tired gamers for too many years.

@@Wolfsheim23 Exactly, you have so much more control, and it adds a new element of strategic thinking. this would allows the game to be more difficult without becoming frustrating. Because, if you raise the difficulty on this awkward real time combat system, you have to pause all the time, and the result is difficult to manage clunky combat.

he was probably playing as an Elf Nerd or something that fight; could be an early game issue if you got a party of 3 and only 2 can fight.

it really depends on which difficulty you are playing. Normal is ok, sometimes it can get tricky, but overall you wont get stuck if you are not new to the genre. If you are, there are still 2 easier difficulty settings.

I learned the hard way that you are supposed to flee some battles. Also learned that you have to use AoE attacks vs spider swarms

I would love a greenskin!

you can import your own portraits into the game. www.en.magicgameworld.com/pathfinder-kingmaker-how-to-use-custom-portraits/

Magma Kojote Nice; still a blackmark for not getting enough dwarf love from the company itself tho.

That's how it should be my friend. ;)

Nop ,the one where you can make them is Pillars of Eternity Deadfire

Ah, gotcha. Hey, SplatterCat, go play Pillars of Eternity and make the cast of critical role! Right meow!