Kingmaker Player's Guide (2022)

This article covers the Pathfinder Second Edition Kingmaker Player's Guide. For the Pathfinder First Edition equivalent, see Kingmaker Player's Guide (2010).

Kingmaker Player's Guide, a Pathfinder Adventure Path player's guide by James Jacobs, Jason Nelson, and Victoria Jaczko, was released on September 23, 2022. The Player's Guide is, by far, the longest Player's Guide ever published by Paizo.

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With the Kingmaker Player's Guide, all the rules your players need to create characters, kingdoms, and armies are presented in a spoiler-free and cost-free context. This player's guide contains details and advice about:

Character suggestions, including recommendations for alignments, ancestries, classes, languages, skills, and more that are well suited for this Adventure Path.

New backgrounds to inspire your character's connections with the region, be they a noble or outcast, patriot or pioneer, brigand or sword scion!

Fully detailed rules for building kingdoms and settlements, including kingdom sheets to help you stay organized and several sidebars highlighting NPCs who might come to live in your lands and offer you unique opportunities for adventure.

Rules for building armies and playing out warfare encounters—a quick and simple method of running mass combat during downtime play.

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