If you don’t know, it expects you to learn, and this is why there are now tooltips in the game encouraging you to save your game a lot. It’s even perfectly representative of the kind of game Pathfinder Kingmaker is to spring this kind of enemy on the player at level one: it relies on you knowing its systems and enemy types in order to beat a given encounter. In hindsight, now that I know the game, all of this makes sense. The more you fight it, the weaker you get. And because these are poisonous spiders each attack drains your stats, which is how the Pathfinder system represents poison.It only does 2 points of HP damage, but - again - you’re level 1. Because it’s a swarm it can hit multiple characters at once with every attack.Only AOE spells and abilities will damage it, and since you’re level 1 you don’t have any of those yet. It can’t be targeted by single-target spells either.What good is a longsword going to do against a house spider? It can’t be targeted by normal weapons.This is a collection of normal, regular-sized spiders, and it wiped out my entire party because: And it was at this point that a new enemy appeared: a scuttling collection of dots that, when moused over, revealed itself to be a “Spider Swarm”. Cut my way through the first couple of waves. ![]() ![]() So I went to this cave, which was, somewhat predictably, full of giant spiders. Berry hunts are how you work your way up the adventuring ladder. ![]() Not exactly glamorous stuff, but hey, you’re a Level 1 Adventurer, and you don’t get to battle gods and dragons until level 17 at least. Once you get into the game proper, though, the very first side quest you’re given is to retrieve some berries from a cave for a hermit alchemist. Still, it looked very attractive and had an outstanding interface that actually tried to break down all of the 3rd edition bullshit in a halfway understandable fashion, and I quite enjoyed the first hour of the game where you do the tutorial in a mansion that’s under attack by assassins. Specifically it’s an offshoot of the 3rd edition D&D rules, which I’ve intensely disliked just about everywhere I’ve encountered it (both Neverwinter Nights games and both KOTOR titles) for reasons that I’ll explain later in the review. It’s an isometric fantasy RPG in the style of Baldur’ s Gate that’s based on an obsessively literal adaptation of the well-regarded Pathfinder variant of the D&D ruleset. I’ll admit I didn’t have the best start with Pathfinder Kingmaker.
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