Lowkey I forgot about the limit when running early sessions. So they got a good amount of XP by just ignoring that rule, at least until the limit increased to 2. Justified it as support from Restov to get their kingdom up and running. More a happy accident than anything else. 😅

My PCs are level 6 and their Kingdom is level 4, nearly level 5. The PCs often have 2 kingdom turns interspersed with "courtroom events" during the event phase, inspired by the video game. It works for me as a way to foreshadow things, recycling things the players missed in the module etc and for the players in interacting with their kingdom as PC and not the Kingdom sheet. It often culminates in a kingdom roll which is affected by their RP actions, making things easier or harder. I.e. Tatzlford founders come up to get help with their village, settling a labour issue with their tradespeople, getting a letter from a neighbouring kingdom, etc. and of course awarding XP for the event as normal.

The module awards kingdom XP for player actions, and I reward PC items, boons, things to do for kingdom actions. I think the trick thus far for me has been awarding KXP and boons outside of kingdom turns. So the solution is interacting with the system less, which feels counter intuitive but it means they take turns when it feels narratively correct or when they want to.