Kingmaker - Archetypes Funded
 

Pathfinder: Kingmaker has moved past the Archetype goal and now has a new goal of a new playable race at 1 million.

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Fuck yeah!

Awesome!

This is really nice. I was hoping for it, but did not expect it :D

Seeing the speed of donations has been a real surprise.

You guys might want to check out the gameplay too

Thanks Silver for sharing vid.

Thanks for sharing the video. Wow! This game is looking really good. I have to be careful and not let my hopes get too high. But, i am pretty excited for this.

Watched that stream last night. Went VERY smooth for an alpha.

I guess a few new character build options won't hurt. But I'd rather have more prestige classes.

I have just watched a few minutes of the Twitch stream this morning and oh yes, this looks very much like BG. I'm a little bit hyped now.

Have they announced any kind of timeline for the development? As in, should I do my best to forget about the game for a year or two? It's looking damn good though.

The aesthetic is so ugly. :(
I'm pretty much hyped for the game, but the art style is really not my coup of tea.

That is why almost 30% of the money they make is going to into animation/art. I remember seeing some pie chart with money allocation, but I'm too lazy to search for it :)

The art style is gorgeous to me, but it needs better colors. The darker scenes with green/brown are not too flattering. But the actual artwork, I love it.

P.S. This is now right up on the top of my Wantlist, with ELEX, Bard's Tale IV, D:OS 2 and now this.

They claim it will release by end of summer 2018.

I agree that the aesthetics aren't great, but you can see there is a lot of potential for improvement. One of the problems, in my view, is that the characters are too large in relation to the environments. For example, look at the characters size compared to the trees and large rocks in the game, the characters look like they are gigantic. It just looks "off".

But that could be fixed and I like a lot of the other aspects in the video. Good dialogue and great to see lots of dialogue options, good combat, good monster design, good fantasy ambiance overall. They are getting a lot of the most important details right. I just wish they had more money to work with, like, how far can a million dollars go really, not sure if that is enough to make a top class isometric rpg.

Well, it's pretty obvious they didn't start from scratch with the Kickstarter, they seem to have a lot of the groundwork done already. As I understand it the money from the crowdfunding campaign is more about icing, the cake would have been done anyway.

Sitting at $871,880 with 4 hours left, I think they might even reach extra companion with paypal.

I didn't have time to watch the whole thing so just quickly skipped it through but it looks great! I'm getting hyped up.. damn. It's got just about everything I was hoping for. I don't mind the art direction but yeah I agree with Fluent that it needs a little more colour (come on, it's a fantasy setting, it can look a bit more vibrant!)

By the way, Codex launched their own fundraiser for Pathfinder: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index…-never.116991/

Is there a chance Watch will organise something similar?

Pathfinder needs 24K in last 3 hours to get next goal. They probably already have it with Paypal included but you never know.

It's only in alpha. Let's see what it looks like once it nears beta. I like the art style far. Reminds me of BG.

90 minutes to go and only 3k left to reach the new companion. Holy crap, I think they are gonna make it and without the paypal.

They made it.

Holy crap, they did too! Might even meet $1 mil with Paypal. Congrats to Owlcats!!!

New stretch goal: Hellknights is our next stretch goal, they will be unlocked when funding reaches $1.1M

From the AMA:

"Will pre-ordering with paypal from owlcatgames.com help reach stretch goals? And how about reaching further stretch goals after the kickstarter has officially ended?"

"Yes, it will, and we plan for further stretch goals from pre-orders. Keep in mind that after Kickstarter campaign is over, pre-order prices will change."

What are Hellknights? Obviously not the race they were talking about. A joinable faction?

Seems like another class, here's the extract from KS update:

Sounds like a archetype for paladins, I don't see a reason to make that its own class.

I assumed it may be a separate class, because wasn't the archetype stretch goal funded at 800K?

Read my post again. Slowly this time.

Thanks for being a smart ass. I did read it again and my question still stands. They will add 3 archetypes per class with 800k stretch goal. So I don't see why you think it may be archetype.

Hellknights are a Prestige Class in PnP.

Edit:

and of course a Faction^^

There is a Nation in Pathfinder that has a Pact with Asmodeus, the Ruler in Hell and they have their Chapter Houses there. They travel abroad to enforce Order - and spread the Influence of the Devils as a Sideeffect.

There are various Orders of Hellknights, some are specialised in hunting Monsters - keep in Mind that Devils are no Monsters, they are the Avatars of a perfect orderly Society - others in burning Books or torturing Dissenters.

They are the Guys who hunt down Brigands and put their Heads on Stakes - and put the Heads of Pickpockets and Peasants that don't pay their Taxes right next to them.

Some Rulers invite them in the hope that they help them with Rebels or Monsters or some other Problem, and once they are there they build a powerbase and don't leave again - but they will hunt down the Bandits, they will unbribebable fight the Crimelords, they will remove the pesky Elves that hamper the Logging of the Forest, they will enter Districts where the City Watch fears to enter and will cleanse them with Fire….

Some Hellknights even worship the "Goddess of Paladins" along with Asmodeus, evil Alignment is not required to join them - but it helps; lawful Alignment is required.

If you don't dissent you can have a ok live under the Hellknights, wich is a better Live then a lot of People in Golarion have.

Ok, as a prestige class it makes more sense.

I guess you should then read it 3rd time and you might understand it then.

Archangel, the real question is, how does this stack up to Demon's Age??? :D :lol:

Both games are unfinished so I cannot tell. But the alpha version of PF:KM from what was seen so far looks better than late alpha version of Demon's Age I played.

My Problem with Kingmaker is that I don't like a single of the introduced Companions; a Problem that I have with most of modern Games; with the Exception of the Cast of Mask of the Betrayer and Drakensang: River of Time I didn't like a single Companion in a Game in the last 10 Years or so… I will only pledge if they introduce the Option to create your Party Members.

I'm pretty old now, I don't want to waste time with People I don't like anymore; IRL and in Games :)

I agree Fenris, I played BG1&2 in multi player so I could make every one of my party members. I do not know why companions are so popular. I am trying to replay Dragon Age but the companions are starting to annoy me.

Hehe, yeah, I replayed the BG Series to Death, usually with selfcreated Charas, but in BG 1 and 2 I could create parties that I like from the offered NPCs.

Sometimes I changed their Classes and Alignment (I changed Jaheira regulary to a NG Ranger/Cleric, I imagened a Druid far more distanced then Jaheira, Law of Nature and all that, Jaheira was to soft hearted to be a 2E Druid for me^^) but the Companions of BG had Class; Jaheira, Edwyn, Vicionia, Minsc, even Imoen with her broken Dove Shtick was acceptable.

And there were a lot of Charas that were not annoying: Safanna the femme fatale, Garrick the hopeless romantic, Dynaheir the exotic Know-it-all, Kivan the Avenger, Coran and Eldoth, both womanizers, yet so different…

There was no BG Companion that was uninteresting… but there where a few wich I really enjoyed to set up a horrible Demise :D

Because companions have their own story and quest (line).

Sometimes it's retarded filler added to a game only to prolong it's playtime, sometimes it's so great it feels better than the main story itself.

It doesn't work when the Companions just annoy you… I want to strangle every D:OS Companion at the Moment I met them, I wouldn't travel with the Dragon Age People except of the Dog, I even want to bitch-slap Magnus in Arcanum, and as a Dwarf he should accept this and not leave the Party just because I tell him when he is wrong, and what the Fuck are this Hipster People in POE ?