Pathfinder’s most-popular campaign ever returns in this massive new hardcover compilation updated to the latest Pathfinder rules! In this new, revised version of the classic Kingmaker Adventure Path campaign, the Stolen Lands have long been the domain of bandits and monsters, but no longer! Your party has been granted a charter to explore these wilds, defeat its dangers, and build a brand new nation. Yet not everyone will welcome you as new neighbors, and powerful supernatural forces have their own plans for the region. Can you defeat your kingdom’s enemies and become leaders of one of the greatest new nations in the world?

Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path

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Kingmaker is set in the River Kingdoms of northeastern Avistan. Avistan is a continent on Pathfinder's main world, Golarion. Avistan is also of the most populated areas on the planet!

The Kingmaker Adventure Path is a six part, series of connected adventures that when combined create a full Pathfinder campaign.

Podfinder gives you a Player's guide to Kingmaker, including lore and character build info so you are ready to take on this Adventure Path!

So You Want To Play... Kingmaker

fantastic adventure, it's the main one I run as I have had about 4 games of it going at once.
that being said there is 2 fall off points when players tend to drop. first is when the kingdom stuff begins to happen as the system for kingdom building is a huuuge mess. it's basically put your character sheets away and let's do some spreadsheets type of bad.

the second fall off is around lvl 10ish when the game really focuses on kingdom stuff for a good chunk.

also the game really starts to fall off around that time as well. as there is a lot of content for the first 10 levels but not as much for the remaining 10.

it's a good adventure path but just note you are in it for the long haul. from the 5 I started only 1 of them stuck through to the end. they are about to finish and it took about 2 years.

great adventure path but I would recommend if running it as a gm, really look at lvl10 and above as the content they give is not much, so adding stuff is going to be very needed here.

jtters

Kingmaker is an amazing and immersive adventure path, allowing you to take on the role of an adventurer delving into the wilds and establishing civilisation. There are many opportunities for RP and combat, with many interesting NPCs and enemies to encounter. The adventure balances the exploration, combat and roleplay well with an interesting kingdom building mechanic on top.

Skett

A great sandbox to play in. There are issues with kingdom building mechanics but it's a very fun adventure that involves tough choices and interesting decisions.

Nick

This module is a classic and I've run the first chapter of the Pf2e series (adapted for Pf1e) for two different groups on FGU and Foundry. It was fun and Pf players are pretty solid and knowledgeable about the game, though it was perhaps harder to find players for, I do have the 5e Bestiary conversion and may run it as a DND adventure in the future.

First the good news: this is a long, detailed, complete adventure path that escorts your PCs along the path of building a new kingdom.  You start as low-level adventurers fighting bandits, and you proceed to carve a new land out of the wilderness.  Along the way there's an overarching story line with a lot of detail, but also a lot of room for a GM to improvise if that's your thing. 

The neutral news: it's long and much of it is a sandbox.  So running or playing this is a commitment.  And if your players don't like sandboxes, or get decision paralysis easily, this may not be a good choice.

The bad news:  the kingdom-building mechanics are kind of a mess.  On the positive side, they don't really kick in until the PCs are 3rd or 4th level.  So my suggestion would be to run a few sessions and, if your players like it, ask around for some of the home rules and hacks that people have developed -- or run the "Kingdom in the Background" option, which the adventure does support.

Doug M.

A very unique setting where you are not just an adventurer, but get a chance to build and lead your own kingdom with a fantasy army composed of warriors, priests, mages and more.

Ekscom

I am both a player and a GM for this right now. It’s a really intriguing story full of great moments with NPCs and players. It is a sandbox, leaving a lot of room for the players and the GMs to make it their own which I think is great. It’s a full AP designed to get you to level 20, so having a committed group to play with his a huge help, but there are so many ways naturally for another player to drop in. The kingdom rules are pretty intimidating upfront and can take a lot of time in session. We just use our chat to plan it out between sessions then breeze through it pretty well. It is an incredibly fun setting that I would recommend to any TTTPG fan to try. Plus the PF2e system is better than any other system for highly customizable characters that feel versatile, powerful and narratively driven without sacrificing competence in other areas.

Elijah

A campaign that thrives on player's agency! Kingmaker is a real long term commitment for both players and GM. The mixture of hexploration, combat and roleplay makes for a very balanced campaign. 

GMs have to be ready to do a lot of work, though the framework is pretty well built the nature of the campaign calls for customized scenes and events to make the Kingdom feel actually alive. 

Narratively Kingmaker for 2e is a significant improvement over the original 1e Adventure Path. Better introduction for the PCs and some foreshadowing of the BBEG makes the campaign flow seamlessly.

The Foundry module is an amazing piece of art, tech integration and love. So if you like VTTs you'll love it. 

There are some cons to the campaign too. The Kingdom rules are mediocre at best, slow, and not play-tested, following them RAW can easily end in a doom spiral that destroys the kingdom. If your group enjoys spreadsheets and strategic games I recommend looking at some of the hacks available to fix the most glaring problems, if your group doesn't like that kind of game, use the "Kingdom in the background" information present along the module and turn the kingdom management into a narrative element of your game.

In conclussion, if you're willing to put in the work, Kingmaker is the kind of campaign players will rave about around the table for years to come.

Pablo

I quite like Kingmaker, in theory. It needs, like many Adventures/Modules a little adjustment, the storyline and hexcrawl play is very good, but I have restructured how a lot of the content is delivered and engaged with. I love the wide range of NPCs, and they provide a lot of interesting options for the players to interact with and connect with if your players are into that.

The kingdom Building rules, should be great... and they are now that i've been heavily homebrewing and changing them. Unfortunately, the AP ran out of time to test them and they don't work out of the box very well. That being said I love the idea and I love playing the "Civilzation/Sim City" style play that it provides.

Dyer

Kingmaker is definitely one of the most in-depth and classic adventure paths of Pathfinder. Brought over from Pathfinder First, this module includes all the three things that make any campaign: exploration, roleplay, and combat. However, the only reason I didn't give a full 5 stars is because some things didn't get the proper playtesting needed. Though there are fixes to it, that doesn't diminish how difficult it can be to a new GM running or even new players with the camping activities. They can be removed; however, it would take away from the full experience of what it has to offer.

AndeGM

The main content of this Adventure Path is good. It's a very fun sandbox for your players, has a lot of freedom to insert your own content, and offers a good hexcrawl. If it were presented as that alone, it would be an easy five stars. Unfortunately Paizo decided to tack an untested and unfinished kingdom-running mechanic onto this perfectly excellent adventure, and for that it gets dragged down to three stars. Simply trying to engage with this mechanic is not worth it - it sucks up your time for a minigame that is totally disconnected from your characters, and is ridiculously mechanically broken. But worse than that, even if the kingdom mechanics worked perfectly, they'd still be BORING. And there's no greater sin a TTRPG can commit than wasting your time on boring trivialities. 

tl;dr: highly recommend IF you find a GM who totally removes or rewrites the kingdom mechanics into something interesting.

Clarissa

The module is great! The issue is that the kingdom running takes too much session time, but running kingdom running is the selling point of the module,

The Kingmaker Adventure Path has long been considered one of the most ambitious campaigns in Pathfinder history, and the Pathfinder 2E version delivers a refined, expanded, and modernized experience. Running from level 1 to 20, this version enhances the beloved kingdom-building mechanics, updates encounters to fit PF2E’s dynamic action economy, and adds a wealth of extra content, including new quests, expanded companions, and integration with both the base game and Pathfinder’s newest rulesets.

The Good:
✅ True Open-World Gameplay – Kingmaker remains the premier sandbox adventure in Pathfinder. Players are given near-total freedom to explore, claim land, establish alliances, and wage war at their own pace. Unlike most adventure paths, this one doesn’t guide you through a rigid narrative—it lets you shape your own legend.

✅ Revamped Kingdom Rules – The Kingdom Management system has been completely reworked for PF2E, striking a balance between strategic decision-making and streamlined play. The revised mechanics allow for smoother kingdom turns, better integration with character skills, and a clearer progression system that avoids the book-keeping nightmare of the original. It’s still crunchy, but now far more engaging and accessible.

✅ Massive Expansion & Quality-of-Life Improvements – The new and updated content is incredible. The Companion Guide adds NPC allies as fully fleshed-out followers, and new encounters fill in some of the original’s narrative gaps. The addition of random events, more structured downtime options, and side quests makes the world feel more alive than ever.

✅ PF2E’s Tactical Combat Enhances Encounters – The three-action economy breathes new life into the campaign’s combat. Many fights that felt static in older editions now feel dynamic and challenging, with better balance across levels. The variety of hazards, monstrous threats, and rival factions ensures that no two battles play out the same.

✅ Supports Multiple Playstyles – Whether your group enjoys combat-heavy adventuring, political intrigue, kingdom development, or exploration, Kingmaker lets you do it all. The sandbox nature of the game encourages player-driven storytelling like few other campaigns in Pathfinder.

The Not-So-Good:
❌ Steep Learning Curve for Kingdom Rules – While improved, the kingdom-building mechanics are still complex. They demand long-term planning and strategic thinking, and some groups might find them overwhelming or too slow. DMs should consider adjusting complexity based on player preferences.

❌ Pacing Issues If Players Aren’t Proactive – The open-ended nature of Kingmaker means that groups who aren’t used to self-driven play may struggle to stay engaged. Without a clear villain constantly pushing the narrative forward (at least in the early game), it’s easy for players to lose direction if the GM isn’t proactive in introducing challenges.

❌ Length & Time Commitment – This is a massive campaign, with dozens of quests, random events, and kingdom turns. While this is great for long-term groups, it may be too much for players looking for a shorter adventure path. A campaign that spans from level 1 to 20 requires a major commitment from both GM and players.

❌ Some Legacy Content Shows Its Age – While most of Kingmaker has been modernized for PF2E, some older story beats and encounters still feel like holdovers from an earlier era of adventure design. A skilled GM can adjust pacing and add more roleplaying depth where needed, but expect a few moments that might feel a little ‘classic Pathfinder’ in their structure.

Final Verdict:

Kingmaker for PF2E is the ultimate long-form sandbox campaign, offering unparalleled freedom, tactical combat, and deep kingdom-building mechanics. The updated ruleset, expanded content, and enhanced companion options make this the best version of Kingmaker yet—but its complexity, length, and reliance on proactive players mean it’s best suited for groups who enjoy a high degree of player agency and long-term strategic planning.

If your group is looking for a legendary Pathfinder campaign where they can build a realm, make allies, and conquer threats on their own terms, Kingmaker is second to none.

Darren

The premiere experience for Sword and Sorcery sandbox adventures. The most player agency driven Adventure Path for Pathfinder 2e, filled to the brim with mysteries and hooks for your players to discover and unravel. While I personally think the kingdom building rules need some work, there's plenty of fan supplements that are easy to find that uplift those elements of the campaign to the high standard the rest of it consistently hits.

The Kingmaker Adventure Path presents a full-length campaign that chronicles the rise of a new nation—a kingdom built and ruled by your player characters! Face off against bands of bloodthirsty bandits, deadly and dangerous monsters, and mysterious menaces from other realities as you fight to claim the Stolen Lands as your own. Will you rule with justice and mercy, or will you become the very monsters you fought to oppose? In the Kingmaker Adventure Path, the destiny of the world’s newest nation is yours to decide!

Kingmaker

Pathfinder 2e

You have been awakened to the power of the mind, tapping into your very will to manifest your magic. Master of both conscious and subconscious, you embody the very concept of "anything is possible if you can think it". Your mind perceives the hidden truth of the world, and it is your instrument, tool, and weapon against the dangers within it.

Psychic

You are both warrior and mage: arcane power wielded not only beside, but intertwined with, that of your unyielding weapon. From book to battle you practice the art of practical application, imbuing your strikes with the power of your spells and giving your enemies the best - and last - show of their lives.

Magus

The strength of your fist flows from your mind and spirit. You seek perfection, honing your body into a flawless instrument and your mind into an orderly bastion of wisdom. You're a fierce combatant renowned for martial arts skills and combat stances that grant you unique fighting moves. While the challenge of mastering many fighting styles drives you to great heights, you also enjoy meditating on philosophical questions and discovering new ways to obtain peace and enlightenment.

Monk

You are a master of artistry, a scholar of hidden secrets, and a captivating persuader. Using powerful performances, you influence minds and elevate souls to new levels of heroics. You might use your powers to become a charismatic leader, or perhaps you might instead be a counselor, manipulator, scholar, scoundrel, or virtuoso. While your versatility leads some to consider you a beguiling ne’erdo- well and a jack-of-all-trades, it’s dangerous to dismiss you as a master of none.

Bard

You are an emissary of a deity, a devoted servant who has taken up a weighty mantle, and you devoutly pursue a cause that holds you apart from those around you. You have powerful defenses that you share freely with your allies and innocent bystanders, as well as divine power you use to end the threats your deity opposes.

Champion

The power of nature is impossible to resist. It can bring ruin to the stoutest fortress in minutes, reducing even the mightiest works to rubble, burning them to ash, burying them beneath an avalanche of snow, or drowning them beneath the waves. It can provide endless bounty and breathtaking splendor to those who respect it— and an agonizing death to those who take it too lightly. You are one of those who hear nature’s call. You stand in awe of the majesty of its power and give yourself over to its service.

Druid

Fighting for honor, greed, loyalty, or simply the thrill of battle, you are an undisputed master of weaponry and combat techniques. You combine your actions through clever combinations of opening moves, finishing strikes, and counterattacks whenever your foes are unwise enough to drop their guard. Whether you are a knight, mercenary, sharpshooter, or blade master, you have honed your martial skills into an art form and perform devastating critical attacks on your enemies.

Fighter

You are a master of the elements: fire, water, air, earth, wood, and metal are at your beck and call. Channeling energies through your body from the elemental planes, you conjure them to hand, and then outward, blasting your enemies with raw elemental power. As you grow, so too, does your connection to the elements, and from there you may attain true mastery over them.

Kineticist

You have embraced the genius of rapidly-propelled projectiles. Whether powered by explosive gunpowder or the mechanical heft of a crossbow, you steady your aim and track your targets across the battlefield. Distance is but another ally, and when the battle is over and the smoke clears, you are already staring down the sights at your next target.

Gunslinger

Your dreams become reality through clever determination and peerless wit. With your hands, you manifest impossible contraptions and devices with each astounding breakthrough. Every invention unique, every experiment a failure in any hands but your own. You are a one person industrial revolution.

Inventor

You seek to uncover the truth, doggedly pursuing leads to reveal the plots of devious villains, discover ancient secrets, or unravel other mysteries. Your analytical mind quickly formulates solutions to complicated problems, and your honed senses identify even the most obscure clues. Wielding knowledge as a weapon, you study the creatures and dangers you encounter to exploit their weaknesses.

 Investigator

You are skilled and opportunistic. Using your sharp wits and quick reactions, you take advantage of your opponents’ missteps and strike where it hurts most. You play a dangerous game, seeking thrills and testing your skills, and likely don’t care much for any laws that happen to get in your way. While the path of every rogue is unique and riddled with danger, the one thing you all share in common is the breadth and depth of your skills.

Rogue

You are the anchor of a mighty eidolon, a powerful creature from another world. Without you, it could not remain here, and so through friendship, servitude, or something deeper, you share a connection with your eidolon that is unlike any other, and your lives - and your adventures - are forever intertwined.

Summoner

Many warriors rely on brute force, weighty armor, or cumbersome weapons. For you, battle is a dance where you move among foes with style and grace. You dart among combatants with flair and land powerful finishing moves with a flick of the wrist and a flash of the blade, all while countering attacks with elegant ripostes that keep enemies off balance. Harassing and thwarting your foes lets you charm fate and cheat death time and again with aplomb and plenty of flair.

Swashbuckler

You carry a mystical implement that, in combination with a lifetime of study of ancient traditions and esoteric lore, is used to bring forth any foe's bane. Your peculiar knowledge of the deepest and most forgotten archives is weaponized as you bring to bear that which your enemy fears the most, be it a superstitious emblem, a forgotten religious icon, or a specific word or phrase. Everything has a weakness, and you can not only find it, but also turn it against them when it matters most. 

Thaumaturge

You are an eternal student of the secrets of the universe, using your mastery of magic to cast powerful spells. You treat magic like a science, cross-referencing the latest texts on practical spellcraft with ancient tomes to discover and understand arcane magic. Yet magical theory is vast, and there's no way you can study it all. Most wizards learn through formal schooling, with their curriculum informing a specific rubric, although particularly driven researchers sometimes piece together their own theories.

Wizard

Some rangers believe civilization wears down the soul, but still needs to be protected from wild creatures. Others say nature needs to be protected from the greedy, who wish to tame its beauty and plunder its treasures. You could champion either goal, or both. You might be a scout, tracker, or hunter of fugitives or beasts, haunting the edge of civilization or exploring the wilds. You know how to live off the land and are skilled at spotting and taking down both opportune prey and hated enemies.

Ranger

Rage consumes you in battle. You delight in wreaking havoc and using powerful weapons to carve through your enemies, relying on astonishing durability without needing complicated techniques or rigid training. Your rages draw upon a vicious instinct, which you might associate with an animal, a spirit, or some part of yourself. To many barbarians, brute force is a hammer and every problem looks like a nail, whereas others try to hold back the storm of emotions inside them and release their rage only when it matters most.

Barbarian

Deities work their will upon the world in infinite ways, and you serve as one of their most stalwart mortal servants. Blessed with divine magic, you live the ideals of your faith, adorn yourself with the symbols of your church, and train diligently to wield your deity’s favored weapon. Your spells might protect and heal your allies, or they might punish foes and enemies of your faith, as your deity wills. Yours is a life of devotion, spreading the teachings of your faith through both word and deed.

Cleric

You command powerful magic, not through study or devotion to any ideal, but as a vessel or agent for a mysterious, otherworldly patron that even you don't entirely understand. This entity might be a covert divinity, a powerful fey, a manifestation of natural energies, an ancient spirit, or any other mighty supernatural being—but its nature is likely as much a mystery to you as it is to anyone else. Through a special familiar, your patron grants you versatile spells and powerful hexes to use as you see fit, though you're never certain if these gifts will end up serving your patron's larger plan.

Witch

There's no sight more beautiful to you than a strange brew bubbling in a beaker, and you consume your ingenious elixirs with abandon. You're fascinated by uncovering the secrets of science and the natural world, and you're constantly experimenting in your lab or on the go with inventive concoctions for every eventuality. You are fearless in the face of risk, hurling explosive or toxic creations at your foes. Your unique path toward greatness is lined with alchemical brews that push your mind and body to their limits. 

Alchemist

You didn't choose to become a spellcaster—you were born one. There's magic in your blood. Perhaps a divine influence blessed one of your ancestors, a forebear communed with an ancient, primordial entity, or a powerful occult ritual performed long ago influenced your lineage. Self-reflection and study allow you to refine your inherent magical skills and unlock new, more powerful abilities. The power in your blood carries a risk, however, and you constantly face the choice of whether you'll rise to become a master spellcaster or fall into destruction.

Sorcerer

Your conduit to divine power eschews the traditional channels of prayer and servitude—you instead glean sacred truths and great mysteries embodied in overarching concepts, whether because you perceive the common ground across multiple deities or circumvent their power entirely. You explore one of these mysteries and draw upon its power to cast miraculous spells, but that power comes with a terrible price: a curse that grows stronger the more you draw upon it, which you might uphold as an instrument of the divine or view as punishment from the gods.

Kingmaker

So You Want To Play... Kingmaker

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