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Anonymous10/03/25, 10:05No.3853276Kingmaker thread
>Decide to play Kingmaker again
>As an added challenge play it on hard mode this time and try to fully immerse myself in the world and act out every decision as if i was really there and only do things that would make sense from my characters pov
>Follow up on my main Rival and get dragged into war with the kobolds and mites
>Site witht he Mites to get rid of the kobolds
>Die to kobold mages because their aoe flame breath and magic missile are hard to deal with this ealy on in the game and the game just gives out a bunch of enemy encounters
>Side with the Kobold and die because i cant hurt mites without cold weapons
>Decide to explore the land a bit more since a proper adventurer would
>Die to an manticore encounter i cant outrun and escape
What am i doing wrong here?
Am i just this bad at the game?
I remember brezzing through it on Normal mode but now i cant clear the first act
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Anon10/03/25, 10:39No.3853282
It's just a classic case of a game with a reverse difficulty curve, with the game being obscenely hard right at the start because you have zero options and only becomes easier and easier as you progress because you get access to so much bullshit but the encounters don't scale. Every Owlcat game is like that.
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Anon10/03/25, 11:43No.3853292
Owlcat likes to inflate enemy stats and doesn't like to design their encounters much. On normal enemy stats are lowered, from what I remember, and on hard they are increased.
Optimize the party to your best ability, use Turn-Based with formations and constant management and play on Core instead. Or, you know, use Bag of Tricks and tweak the XP curve or gain so that you go out into the world at level 5+ at least.
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Anon10/03/25, 11:57No.3853296
you aren't abusing grease
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Anon10/03/25, 15:15No.3853353
Is this game worth the trouble of doing an Iron man run?
I think it would be fun to do in CRPGs but Kingmaker has so much bullshit encounters early on like the Spider Swarm in the beginning that will assrape you if you arent prepared
You just die and restart and Normaly this is fine its not that there are any consequnces for reloading a save this isnt an old arcade game but somehow it takes me out of the moment to restart a section and prepare for specific encounters by prebuffing and bringin the right items to the fight when i as a character in the world have no idea that im gonna encounter a such a specific fight
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Anon10/03/25, 16:57No.3853389
That's just how Kingmaker is, every time you explore chances are, you'll find some extremely overpowered enemy that's going to rape you to death
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Anon10/03/25, 17:10No.3853394
>play it on hard mode
>What am i doing wrong here?you know what. Dont punch above your weight.
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Anon10/04/25, 04:29No.3853613
Just stack monk ac and crane style on two tanks keep one in front and one in the rear, build the rest how you want really.
I still wouldn't play it again without CoTW and bubble buffs but I get the no mod purism factor, they're just really good and feels integrated.If you want a bigger advantage run less characters, one or two even, and uncheck shared party XP, which is dumb anyway, and a handicap by default since your benched characters are constantly siphoning the XP you earn. They'll get all the XP and level up much faster to get your over the early build gimpness hump.Early game you might have to murder/tragically not be able to save a couple of party members before you get to switching options to be able to reduce party size. It's like that in Wrath but they get auto rezzed at the end of the prologue anyway.
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Anon10/04/25, 10:25No.3853686
Didn't save on my second playthrough after the tutorial. First random fight were three elder mammoth level 12.
>reload
First encounter after beating tutorial are three elder water elementals level 9.
>reload
No random encounter for ages.
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Anon10/04/25, 16:46No.3853790
draw your motivation from that one anon who started a thread some months back and it actually motivated him to finish the game
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Anon10/04/25, 16:47No.3853794
>again
You should the pitfalls of KM, anon. Going up in difficulty is just tedious.
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Anon10/06/25, 01:35No.3854514
Why does this game only have like 1 human male portrait that's actually cool and general enough
So many of the portraits just feel overly specific and do too much to imply a character
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Anon10/06/25, 13:17No.3854739
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>Why does this game only have like 1 human male portrait that's actually cool and general enough
If you need more Human Fighter portraits just go to Pinterest and look for character art
Theres a bunch of artwork out there that fits the game and the site has a search function were it looks for artwork similar to what you entered
I have an entire folder full of human knights now that I use for all my crpg portraits
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Anon10/08/25, 08:57No.3855775
Sex with underaged crippled and scarred elf girls
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Anon10/08/25, 09:16No.3855782
Is that true that Paizo specifically forbid devs to make module editor like in NWN because they were afraid that people would start remaking official campaigns? Or Owlcat was just lazy and dumb and didn't bother to make the game replayable?
Why to even bother to make so many classes and races and not allow people to go balls deep into custom content and stories? You can run through campaign like twice with different builds and choices and then waste a couple of hours in infinite dungeon and that is it.
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Anon10/08/25, 09:31No.3855785
Their system isn't designed for RP. It's built for number-crunching and min-maxing.
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Anon10/08/25, 11:22No.3855808
Vanilla arcane sorceror, sage sorceror or sylvan sorcerer? Which is more fun for a second playthrough?
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Anon10/08/25, 11:27No.3855809
kill all sarenrae cucks
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Anon10/09/25, 12:31No.3856325
>shut the fuck up and make me a sandwich
>she does
>it's pretty good
>98.4% certain there's no arsenic inside
I'd call that sufficient WIS score.
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Anon10/12/25, 16:29No.3857705
How come there be no build planer for this game?
The biggest appeal for this kind of game is the freddom it gives you to build your character and how you can come up with the most ridicoulus overpowered character if you play your cards right
So why do i have to plan my character out with an Excell sheet?
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Anon10/12/25, 19:51No.3857754
Is there any mods that make the kingmaker portion of this game not ass? Like adding more advisors for example?I remember one section of the game one of your advisors gets kidnapped and there's a hidden timer where he can just permanently die. And there's no one to replace him. shits retarded.
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Anon10/13/25, 05:01No.3857900
>What am i doing wrong here?
>play it on hard mode
Anything above normal in an Owlcat game is made for minmax multiclassing and prebattle buffstacking.
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Anon10/14/25, 06:25No.3858380
>Bible says that women should never be in positions of spiritual authority.
Traditionally women were too involved with child-rearing to follow spirituality with the required dedication. Chaste women can be super spiritual and wise (Hypatia; Vestal Virgins; Athena archetype; Virgin Mary [per the concept]). Then again, chaste women are basically men, so your point wraps around.
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Anon10/18/25, 20:34No.3860843
Are any of the comabt manuevers worth it for a fighter?
Trip and Shield Bash look like the best options but they take a bunch of feats to get good and dont do that much
All Shield bash does is give you an additional d6 attack with you shield and it takes a bunch of feats and dex investment to make it not shit since you get a massive debuff for using a secondary weapon without the investments and trip means you lose out on your regular attack so if you dont sucessfuly trip youre opponent you just wasted your turn unless you take a bunch additonal feats and you get pummeling bully so that it does an auto trip attempt after an atack but with both of them youre not doing anything relavant in combat until youre at lv4 or so which is the finale of act 1
I fell like you could take a bunch of other more generic feats like thougness or weapon focus/weapon spec for extra hit chances and more damage or something like iron will for better saving throws which are immediately useful and stay usefull until the endgame
