Pathfinder Kingdom Custom Rules

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Basics

Lets start with the basics. Kingdoms contain 3 things that are very important to

keep them running. Those are: Resources, Buidings and !otabe peope.

There is aso a "ourth thing that mosty try to stop a kingdom "rom running.These are caed #haenges and wi aso be touched on brie$y.

Resources

% kingdoms use & basic resources to keep themseves "unctiona. Theseresources are very abstract, but that's mainy to keep it manageabe. They are,in no particuar order:

Population:The most important resource "or any kingdom are the peope thative in it. (ithout peope, it woudn't be a kingdom, it'd )ust be an undiscovered

widerness. !obody wants to rue one o" those, so *opuation is a very importantresource.

Food: +aving peope is great, but uness they're undead or something, you'regoing to need "ood. Large pots o" and in your kingdom are ikey devoted to"armands and what you can't grow, you' have to trade. " you have enough"ood, your peope wi be we "ed and happy. " you don't have enough "ood, yourpeope wi become hungry or maybe even starve.

Materials: -verything "rom umber and stone to hammers and nais beongs inthis category. aterias is a the stu/ you need to buid and maintain keystructures in your kingdom. (ithout materias, your in"rastructure breaks downand your kingdom wi be unabe to produce whatever it is that it normayproduces.

Luxuries: !obody wants to ive in a kingdom where they ony get water andbread and have to seep on a stack o" hay. Lu0uries are what di/erentiatecommoners "rom nobes and city "ok "rom dirty peasants. The more u0ury akingdom has to o/er, the more peope wi come to admire its spendour. " youdon't have enough u0uries, peope get angry.

Weapons: % those peope packed cose together make "or prime targets as "aras 1rcs and 2obins and other pests are concerned. ortunatey, peope can armthemseves to de"end themseves and the rest o" your ands. (eapons arere4uired to 5ed "u scae armies, and are aso pretty use"u to dea with oca

bandits, marauding gobins and other minor threats.

%nd that's it. These & resources are a you have to worry about as a new ruer.-verything ese your peope can hande themseves and we're not going to worryabout it. 6ust make sure you produce enough o" these basic resources and yourpeope wi be happy and your kingdom wi prosper.

Buildings

Kingdoms are "u o" buidings. t's what makes them kingdoms. +owever, there'sreguar buidings where peope ive, sma time shops, the itte market, andthere's the real buidings, ike the Tempe o" the -dar and the 2rand Barracksand the 7niversity o" the 7ndying.

(e' assume that the common "ok are more than capabe o" buiding paces toive and work in and "ocus on the big structures. -ach kingdom has a number o"


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de5ning structures. Those structures that give an entire city its name, or areknown throughout the word.

-ach kingdom can possess a imited number o" these specia buidings, and theyprovide specia bonuses to the kingdom and its ruers. -ach o" these speciabuidings has a eve to determine )ust how awesome it is and provides a number

o" bonuses. These can either be bonuses to production or bonuses to skisavaiabe in the kingdom. ore on skis ater.

Buidings re4uire aterias to "unction8 i" you don't have enough to keep themmaintained then they stop working. 9o make sure you have penty.

!ew buidings can be produced and buiding eves can be upgraded i" you haveots o" spare materias. This can be a worthy endeavour, since each eve addsanother bonus to the buiding.

Notable people

%s a payer character it shoud be a "airy common idea that some peope are

more important than others, but when you ook at it ceary, there's reay 3categories. There's the big ones, the main attractions, the ones the wordrevoves around, those payed by the peope at the tabe, and then there's theitte ones, the "aceess minions o" evi and good, the poor "armers and essernobes.

But in between them in a third cass o" peope. They're not big enough to bestars o" the show, but they're big enough to be important to the kingdom. Theseare the !otabe *eope and they are a vauabe resource to your woudberuers.

-ach kingdom has a imited number o" them, and they provide invauabe skis,knowedge and genera e0pertise to your kingdom. 7se them wisey, they mightbe the di/erence between your kingdoms "a and its success.

!otabe peope can occasionay change, when one dies, "as "rom grace orotherwise stops being o" great importance to your kingdom. These are !*#s thepayers can interact with and that have a name, a history and a personaity. Theyare the "ace o" the kingdom, in a way.

Challenges

!o kingdom ever e0ists without riva kings trying to invade it, marauding orcstrying to destroy it, cunning cutists trying to subvert it and greedy merchantstrying to se it. (hy, without chaenges ike these, running a kingdom woud bea very boring thing;

ortunatey, in ep, the payers can personay get invoved and sove #haenges to thekingdom. 1r they can )ust make the kingdom dea with its own issues as best itcan8 whatever they pre"er. >ou don't get to be a kingdom i" you can't dea withsome gobins, a drought, a $ood and a "ew pagues.


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These chaenges are provided by the


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Setup

>ep, a kingdoms have a eve. % sma hamet with some "armands around it

might be a eve 3 Kingdom ?using the term oosey@ whie at eve 3A your

Kingdom might span 3 di/erent continents on panes and be inhabited by

miions upon miions o" peope. The eve o" a city increases i" the payers put

enough work into it.

9kis

Kingdoms aso provide skis. (hie a sma woodand ream o" -ves might be

your best bet "or knowedge on how to grow pants and herd animas, the

neighbouring


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1nce you assign the abiity scores, add those bonuses to the appropriate skis.

!e0t, you need to determine the primary skis "or a kingdom. +ow many you

pick e0acty doesn't reay matter, but & or G is probaby enough ?pus

pro"ession@. The kingdom gets a H3 bonus to these skis.

(hen this is done, you have the basic ski bonuses set. +ow you add the bonus

"or Buidings and !otabe *eope wi be handed ater.

The ast thing we need to do is determine the resource "ocus o" the kingdom.

Kingdoms can't have a bonus to *opuation, but shoud have a bonus to o" the

other F resources. or e0ampe8 a kingdom o" pains and "orests coud get a

bonus to ood and aterias, whie a kingdom centred on a mining compe0 "u

o" ron and 9iver coud get a bonus to Lu0uries and (eapons.

Buidings

!ow, ets ook at the primary buidings that aready e0ist in the kingdom. (e'

hande buiding new ones ater, but most kingdoms aready have a "ew when the

payers are put in charge.

The kingdom can have a ma0imum number o" important Buidings e4ua to ha"

the kingdom's eve ?a Gth eve kingdom can have up to 3, a 3Ath eve kingdom

coud have E&@

-ach o" these buidings has a 9iIe ranging "rom E to &. Larger buidings re4uire

more aterias to support, but aso provide more bonuses. -ach buiding needs a

number o" aterias e4ua to its 9iIe each JturnJ ?more on turns ater@ to"unction. (hen not enough aterias are avaiabe, then a number o" bonuses

shut down. or e0ampe, i" a 9iIe F Buiding is ony given aterias to maintain

it, o" its bonuses woud shut down unti it receives aterias.

(hen buiding a new kingdom, try to keep the siIe somewhat ow. This gives

payers more opportunities to e0pand these buidings. " you incude a 9iIe F or &

Buiding, make sure that it's something they've known about8 at those 9iIes you

shoud be taking about the best known #oeges and 2uids in the word ?at

east@

or each 9iIe o" a buiding, assign one bonus to the buiding. % bonus is either a

H3 bonus to a ski, or a H bonus to the production o" a resource ?ood,

aterias, Lu0uries, and (eapons@

*roduction bonuses can stack, ski bonuses do not.


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This coege provides some o" the 5nest 5re mages in the kingdom. n addition to

being a repository o" knowedge on the %rcane %rts, it aso provides the kingdom

with arge numbers o" wands and staves o" 5ery power.

Bonus: H3 bonus to %rcana, H production o" (eapons

#egran$s Lu%ber %ill [Sie & building"

This umber mi is run by the prospector %egran, a young ha"e". t's we known

"or its production o" 5ne umber that has aided the construction o" many

buidings around the kingdom.

Bonus: H production o" aterias

'he #pothecar( [Sie & building"

This apothecary is sta/ed by two "riendy


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%varian is an -ven Ranger who )oined the kingdom when it was sti young. +e is

an e0porer and has more than once been the 5rst to arrive with news o"

invading hordes o" 2obins or 1rcs.

9kis: 9teath, *erception

-bus the .ri%

1bus is a +a"1rc, though smarter than most. +e serves the kingdom as a

constabe, eading the miitia o" its capita. 1bus is sowy getting od, but he can

read criminas ike a map and is terri"ying, both to his men and the genera

popuace.

9kis: nsight, ntimidate

*roduction

%right, with the 5na bonuses to skis determined, the notabe peope )otted

down and the buidings known and eveed, it's time to determine the cities'

production. %s we aready know, there's & resources.

The 5rst o" those is very easy to determine. *opuation ?the resource@ in a

kingdom is e4ua to the eve o" the kingdom. 9o a eve G kingdom has G

*opuation and a eve 3 one has 3 *opuation. !ote that these are ?obviousy@

not actua peope, )ust an abstract representation o" them.

These peope can be put to work and produce the other F resources. %ny unit o"

*opuation can be used to produce either units o" a "avoured resource, or E unito" a norma resource.

or e0ampe8 i" you seected ood and aterias as your "avoured resources "or

your pains and "orest kingdom, then a unit o" *opuation coud produce ood or

aterias, or E Lu0uries or (eapons.

>ou can move *opuation around the various resources between turns, but

Buidings produce a 50ed resource.

(hen assigning the *roduction, keep in mind that the kingdom has an upkeep it

needs to pay to prevent bad things "rom happening. This upkeep e4ua E o" the

kingdom's eve in ood and E3 o" the kingdom's eve in Lu0uries ?round down@.

9o ets say our &th eve kingdom is good at producing ood and Lu0uries and

has a singe buiding that increases ood production and the +ea ski.

(e coud arrange *roduction as "oows:

ood ?"avoured@ E0 ?*opuation@ H ?Buiding@ ?upkeep@ H per turn

aterias 3 ?*opuation@ ?upkeep@ HE per turn


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Lu0uries 0 ?*opuation@ E ?upkeep@ H3 per turn

(eapons HA per turn

That means we' be producing some good "ood, and ots o" u0uries, but the

kingdom wi have no weapons to de"end itse", which might hurt it ater.

These e0tra resource we produces are necessary to "end o/ #haenges and

upgrade the kingdom. Keep track o" e0cess goods8 these are gathered in a store

and can be spent "rom there. -ach turn, the ood store woud rise by points,

giving the city e0tra ood in case they'd be unabe to produce at some point, or

"or it the popuation rises, or they need it "or a #haenge, or want to trade it.

!ow that we handed this, it's time to move on. Lets start by getting this

Kingdom on track and earning how to dea with #haenges;


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9o, now that we've done the basic setup "or a kingdom, it's time to put the party

in charge. ortunatey that's the easy part8 )ust hand over the keys and you're

good to go.

But, as the party is handed the keys, they' aso 4uicky earn )ust why the

peope o" this kingdom were so eager to put them in charge...

#haenges

Kingdoms are constanty chaenged. % chaenge come in many "orms8 it coud

be hostie creatures, a hostie kingdom, a pague, a natura disaster, a bad

harvest, intrigue, trade issues, magica caamities... anything reay.

They )ust a have a "ew things in common: you don't want them in your

kingdom, and they're going to cost you a ot to get rid o".

The basics

Lets start with the basics. -very chaenge needs a 9iIe. This 9iIe determines

)ust how big an e/ect etting the #haenge go or "aiing it has on the kingdom.

9iIe can range anywhere between E and &.

Letting chaenges go unchecked might increase their 9iIe, making them harder

and harder to get rid o".

There are two basic ways to dea with a chaenge: you can supress a chaenge,

or you can de"eat it.

(hen you supress a chaenge, you don't e0pend as many resources or run as

much risk, but the chaenge remains "or ater. This is a good way to dea with

issues that you can't dea with immediatey but are too dangerous you et run

unchecked.

(hen you de"eat a chaenge, it is removed competey, not to threaten your

kingdom again. (e, at east not "or the time being.

To supress a chaenge, you can either spend Resources on it or ro a check.

To de"eat the chaenge, you can either send !otabe *ersons, or et the party

hande it themseves.

9upressing a #haenge

>ou spend one point o" Resource per 9iIe o" the chaenge per turn. 9o a 9iIe 3

#haenge woud cost 3 Resources per turn to supress. The resource used must

make sense ?as per Roepay@

Bribing an 1rc war camp with ood makes itte sense "or e0ampe, but you coud

pay Lu0uries to bribe them. %ternativey, you coud spend (eapons to get more


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patros out to persuade the 1rcs not to attack anything, but not get them to

eave.

" you wish to ro a check, then you must ro a number o" ski checks. The e0act

detais o" how checks work "or a city are e0pained in the ne0t chapter. The

number o" checks you must make is one success"u check per 9iIe o" the#haenge. " you "ai, you can ro again, as ong as you haven't hit the imit yet.

These checks must make sense story wise, but can be pretty much anything. or

e0ampe8 it is possibe to use ntimidate on the 1rc camp to convince them not to

attack, or you coud use 9teath to sneak in an ki the chie" to throw the camp

into temporary disarray, at east unti a new chie" is "ound ?in the ne0t turn@

9uppression ski checks are aways edium


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that 9iIe & #haenge to their kingdom is not )ust a "ew 1rcs raiding the country,

it's an entire +orde; %nd that earth4uake isn't )ust a bit o" shaking and a gap

across the road, it's an entire city that vanished into the 7nderdark and a the

nasties crawing up to tear the kingdom down;

Rampant #haenges

" you are unabe to supress a #haenge and aso "ai to de"eat it, a #haenge wi

run rampant. This has nasty e/ects on your kingdom, but sometimes it can't

reay be avoided.

% rampant #haenge wi reduce production o" your resources by a tota o"

points per 9iIe category ?so production "or a 9iIe E #haenge and N points "or

a 9iIe F chaenge@

9ince these come "rom your production "or this turn, this coud end you up with a

negative stock, which means your kingdom coud be in troube.

(hat resource is taken depends on the type o" chaenge, but shoud make some

sense and be e0pained be"orehand. % "amine woud destroy ood production "or

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#'/ and S0ills

9o, here we are again, and this time we're going to dea with the passing o" time

and using o" 9kis. %s you know "rom the second chapter, each Kingdom has

certain skis that it can use. -ach kingdom is good at di/erent things and as a

ruer, your party can put a that knowedge and e0pertise to very good use.

+owever, any kingdom can ony suppy a imited number o" e0pert sages and

great dipomats at a given time. 've mentioned turns be"ore, and ' tak a bit

more about them now.

The %T7

The passing o" time in this kingdom system is measured in %T7. t stands "or

%rbitrary Time 7nit and was chosen very speci5cay because we don't want to

make the time passing in the kingdom more important than the time passing "or

the payers.

%s many peope aready know8 vehices in a movie trave at the speed o" pot and

kingdoms in a


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aking ski checks

%s said, the number o" e0perts and sages a kingdom can put to use is imited. n

"act, it's imited to one ha" the eve o" the city in uses per %T7. That means that

during any given %T7, a eve N city can make F ski checks, whie a eve EO city

coud make O ski checks.

n addition to these checks, during each %T7, each payer can aso make a singe

ski check that bene5ts the kingdom. n addition, he can make as many ski

checks as he damn we peases during any adventures he has, but these can't

be used to command the kingdom.

This means that making a check to suppress or de"eat a #haenge counts

against this imit, as does the upgrading o" Buidings, trading with neighbours,

increasing the siIe o" the kingdom and raising armies. But more on that ater.

or now it is merey important to keep in mind that the number o" checks youhave avaiabe are imited.

%so, we spoke o" the !otabe *ersons be"ore. -ach o" these can be used once

per %T7, but it's not an e0tra ski check. >ou can send a !otabe *erson aong

whenever you use a ski that the !otabe *erson has. The !otabe *erson grants

a H3 bonus to that ski check.

9o "or e0ampe, when you want to supress a chaenge ike a pague descending

on your crops, you coud make a reguar +ea check with the kingdom's bonus, or

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stone connected directy to your main ibrary coud be a great way to get some

4uick boosted Knowedge checks, "or e0ampe.

(hen you are on a #haenge, you can aso ca in the hep o" a !otabe *erson

during the mission. " the !otabe *erson succeeds at his check, then this wi

reduce the 9iIe o" the #haenge by one ?and the adventure shoud changeaccordingy@ but i" the check "ais, the !otabe *erson wi be paced in great peri

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% o" these things re4uire a number o" ski checks to per"orm, suppied by the

kingdom's ski imit and the party's own ski checks per %T7, as discussed in the

previous chapter.

Buildings

(hen a kingdom has enough spare aterias, it can upgrade or produce

buidings. Keep in mind that the city is imited to one buiding per two eves o"

the city, and that a buiding cannot be upgraded above 9iIe &.

(hen the party order the construction o" a new buiding or the upgrade o" an

e0isting one, they must 5rst describe the structure ?name, new "unction,

anything ese they want to share@ and the new bonus it wi give.

!e0t, they need to make a number o" ski checks to produce the structure. These

ski checks are determined by story needs and can be anything that makes "or

an interesting bit o" story ?deaing with stone shortages, convincing an importantarchitect to hep, deaing with strikes, whatever you can come up with@.

(henever a ski check is attempted ?success"u or not@ one unit o" aterias is

removed "rom the kingdom's stores. " there are no aterias e"t, then work

cannot continue.

Buidings ony re4uire aterias in upkeep after they're "uy competed.

The number o" checks re4uired to produce a Buiding are e4ua to twice the new

9iIe. That means that a new Buiding re4uires checks whie a 9iIe & buiding

woud need EA.

The #heck


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" the kingdom reached an even eve, a its skis increase by E ?to account "or

the new ha" eve bonus@ and another !otabe *erson rises in the kingdom. There

wi aso be a new sot "or a Buiding.

'rading

9ince each kingdom produces ony o" the F resources at doube speed, it might

be bene5cia "or kingdoms to trade. The party can set up a trade route with

another kingdom.

This takes F ski checks at edium


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This chapter is speci5cay meant "or the ou coud ro a dA and add a chaenge on a EA or ess, "or e0ampe. 1r $ip

a coin.


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" a #haenge is aowed to run rampant, make a saving throw "or the kingdom. "

it "ais the throw, that #haenge's siIe increases by E ?uness it's at & aready@

Ro "or each #haenge, so that payers are 4uicky "orced into action or see their

kingdom ruined.

(hen the party eaves the kingdom to its own devices to pursue a di/erentstoryine, you shoud use that time to make some updates to the kingdom. (hen

the party comes back, remove some o" the current !otabes and Buidings,

maybe upgrade the kingdom eve, and remove some od #haenges that proved

boring and repace them with some new ones. >ou shoud aways make the party

come back to sighty more troube than they e"t the Kingdom with to give them

the "eeing that they coud've done it better themseves ?and so they have

something interesting to do on their return@


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-0ampe #haenges

+ere's a ist o" e0ampe chaenges. They're mosty )ust keywords with some hints

on how to supress them. Remember that you can come up with whatever you

ike, and payers can do the same thing, so it's very open. >ou don't even need to

design the speci5cs and the adventure unti the payers decide they' dea withone personay.

Creatures:

% roving war band has set up camp in the kingdom, threatening to oot border

towns. ?9upress8 Bribe with u0uries, increase patros, threaten, assassinate

eader, intercept and stop scouts.


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(orkers go on 9trike ?9upress8 whip them back to work, hire immigrants to pick

up work, increase wages temporariy


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>17R K!2


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9kis: %s chie" e0porters o" wood and buiders o" ships, 9kogen gets a H bonus

to %thetics and


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are pre)udiced against +a" 1rcs and envy their prominent position in the ogging

company, issues are "ew and "ar between.

Leve structure. *roduces Buiding aterias, Bonus to !ature

'he Wharf

The whar" produces mosty the sma ships that 9kogen uses to transport its

produced timbers to other cities. +owever, it is arge and capabe enough to

buid arger vesses as we and has on more then one occassion buit ships o"

war on re4uest o" nearby cities and kingdoms.

Leve E structure. Bonus to


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%ssociated skis: ntimidate, nsight

*roduction and stores

9kogen thrives on the production o" good 4uaity wood, and has an agreement

with the city o" Karas to trade e0cess wood "or additiona "ood as we asweapons, which the kingdom does not produce, but needs to "end o/ gobins and

other threats.

*opuation avaiabe: G

ood upkeep: 3

Buiding upkeep: 3

Lu0ury upkeep:

ood production: ? pop@

Buiding aterias production: G ?3 pop@

Lu0ury production: ?E pop@

(eapons production: A ?A pop@

Trade agreements: Trading Buiding aterias "or ood with Karas. Trading E

Buiding aterias "or E (eapons with Karas.

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ood income: HE ?H prod, H trade, 3 upkeep@

Buiding aterias income: H ?HG prod, H buiding, 3 trade, 3 upkeep@

Lu0ury income: HA ?H prod, upkeep@

(eapons income: HE ?HE trade@

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9tores:

3 ood stored

F Buiding aterias stored

A Lu0ury aterias stored

(eapons stored


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They survey their new ands, and wi 4uicky note the "oowing issues. 9ince we

intend to get the *#s invoved in saving the kingdom, we' need enough -vents

that it ooks ike the kingdom wi be in dire straits without them.

9o, as we start there are F events going on, 3 minor ones and a serious issue.

Sie 9 challenge: 'he goblin raiders

%though the 2enerics "ought o/ the main 2obin raid, they've set up another

warcamp in the area. This time eaving the more protected #asport "or what it is,

they've set their sights on


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%n investigation is started by the city watch to ook into what is happening.

9kogen ros 9treetwise, succes"uy. % guardsmen comes upon the corpses o" the

missing woodcutters, who appear to have been sain by a ey creature o" sorts.

Knowing roughy where the creature resides, the oggers go back to work,

avoiding the direct area around the creature's air. 9kogen is down o" its 3

checks this %T7, and the chaenge is surpressed.

The 2enerics aso attempt to reduce crime in the sums by putting up a

temporary guard post in the sums that they sta/ with a "ew permanent

guardsmen. This wi temporariy stop crime, even though they can't reay miss

these guards. *aying a buiding materia "or the temporary buiding, the

chaenge is supressed.

Lasty, the 2enerics decide to tacke the issue o" the 2obin raiders themseves.

They decide to head out and de"eat the 2obin chie" in combat themseves. %s

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The 2enerics decide to send out


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7sing some o" their e0cess weaponry to arm some capabe sodiers, they spend

(eapons to suppress the chaenge "or the time being.

They aso send out a oca merchant to Karas to negotiate prices. They ro

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