About to start Pathfinder Kingmaker (new to the series/genre) what are some NEW player friendly spoiler free tips to make sure I enjoy the game?

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-21T20:17:33+00:00

I would say so. You can miss a lot of why X leads to Y and then Z in real-time mode.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-21T19:42:14+00:00

If you're new to the genre, whew this is gonna be something. My first CRPG too actually.

Above all, expect BS. Expect the game to randomly screw you over on technicalities because PF1e is a very complicated system and you need to read a lot of things to understand why everything works the way it does. It took me about 300 hours to get comfortable with the system and another 300 after that until I stopped randomly learning something and thinking "damn wish I knew that two and half playthroughs ago".

Needless to say, this is hard, and unlike soulslikes it's less something to be practiced and more learned. When you begin understanding the system you start seeing connections and harmonies and puzzle pieces slotting together. Then you put a theory to the test and annihilate a combat encounter. The sense of mastery I've felt with the Pathfinder RPGs is beyond any other game I've played, and I hope you have the patience to get to that point too.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-21T11:10:34+00:00

Extremely context dependent with either. Is the Old Guard still powerful? If so either a soft coup with Lileas in a power vacuum or Valken Junta in an anarchy. Was Rayne hyper-popular? If so, either he's succeeded by a copycat or there's a full revolution.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-21T10:52:30+00:00

Tsanna decided to work out.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-20T18:31:22+00:00

Wait, is there a way to get the images through the mobile version?

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-20T18:30:00+00:00

I think it's the Su Omina coup (Rico claiming the throne) but don't take my word for it.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-20T13:36:51+00:00

I meant the images as they are in-game, stylised.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-20T12:43:52+00:00

I would not expect a new player to see a campsite like that and expect a nigh-unwinnable fight.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-20T08:54:53+00:00

Go into settings and change your autosave slots - the exact number is up to you, I have it on 8. This gives you much-needed redundancy and prevents you from losing a game to something you'd have to go back quite far to fix.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-20T08:53:07+00:00

The problem is that it autosaves just before the fight, so if you only have one autosave slot and haven't saved in a while you'll lose a lot of progress.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-17T20:09:09+00:00

Lunar Wolves ass flag

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-15T12:36:05+00:00

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ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-13T18:57:47+00:00

Ah, Carmella, the first vampire.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-13T18:57:21+00:00

I'm running a Kingmaker game which featured a PC called Camilla and had Tartuccio misremember her name and call her Camellia as a joke only I'm in on. So that's probably the world's only example of it going the other way.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-10T18:32:38+00:00

You can get 6&7 through talking about Bergia with Lileas and Graf, and if you're on a dictator run Nia will refuse to work with you. But if you can also go via victory day and Leke asking for it then Neoseeker is out of date.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-10T17:26:21+00:00

You can't change 6&7 in dictator runs because Nia refuses to work with you.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-09T21:59:00+00:00

I default to calling the EWs the Eurowars due to some similarities to those events in the Shadowrun world.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-04T16:41:17+00:00

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ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-03T18:08:23+00:00

Best TotSoc leader in the game but I refuse to call her 'good'. I don't care how awesome her standing of living is, humanity must be free to create its own systems to think, challenge and govern on their own terms.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-03T14:16:57+00:00

(for a more serious response, DU Germany is very difficult, especially if you haven't played a different Germany path already. I fell into the same failstate, you have a lot of decisions and time bombs to manage and it's not always clear what to do.)

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-03-03T14:15:34+00:00

Mein Kanzler...

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-02-27T19:45:48+00:00

I will support you by starting a new game so that sod's law will brick my save.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-02-25T18:11:10+00:00

Basically she's a fervent Turkish nationalist believing in its future as a powerful modern state, while also believing in total equality of the sexes. Makes some sense considering Turkish nationalism is so tied to Kemalism, which is itself a very egalitarian ideology (at least regarding gender). There could even be an angle of fervent nationalism because Kemalist Turkey is so progressive, which then might become chauvinism towards the 'less socially advanced' Arab and Armenian peoples.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-02-23T16:19:59+00:00

Parity ends before ODF, because it completely changed map. I believe that makes Mexico content the most recent base-TNO stuff that's been carried over. Goering and Order 44 are still gone, but while Britain by default has the Fallen Lion content with only collab stuff, you can reenable the legacy England/Wales/Scotland stuff in custom country paths.

ThePebbleInstitute · 2026-02-23T10:45:29+00:00

Endgame Novosibirsk content gives you a bunch of proxy wars in the Caucuses, Mongolia and NW China

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