Kingmaker - New Stretch Goal

Pathfinder: Kingmaker has reached its extra story chapter goal +mac/linux versions and now has a new stretch goal of Goblin companion at 900K.

Dear Pathfinders,

Extra story chapter is funded!

Thanks to your incredible support, we have just reached the stretch goal that will expand original Pathfinder Kingmaker AP story! O_o there was a dеmonic laughter just heard in the owlcats cave - narrative designers were celebrating the ability to weave new secrets into the game plot...

And what is more, those of you who pray Mac & Linux will not need to change your deity - Pathfinder: Kingmaker will be available on your sacred ground.

The result of the campaign so far exceeds our initial dreams, you can't imagine how excited we are that your help allows us to make our game so much bigger and better. We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to each and every one of you!

With the extra story chapter funded we are happy to present our new stretch goal:

900K - Extra Companion

and here we have the special tale about our new companion from our Narrative Designer Chris Avellone.

The Goblin's Tale

The goblins of Golarion have a bad reputation, to be sure. Of course, that's usually the perspective of someone who hasn't spent much time around goblins and has never seen the positives goblins have to offer.

For example, goblins can be especially devoted. Whether to their four goblin hero-gods, or to you. Of course, their attempts to earn your favor can be much like the family cat leaving dead animals on your door step, except it might be someone's fingers. Such is the way with our goblin hero Nok-Nok, which is much like the sound his skull makes when his tribesmen beat it with clubs. (Which happened enough that he was mistaken for a drum at times.) He's not only eager to help, but he's incredibly effective in tormenting your enemies until they beg for mercy - or a swift death.

At the start of Kingmaker, however, Nok-Nok's fallen on difficult times - very difficult times, as his tribe intends to use him as a sacrifice. You're the only one who can save him... and as far as Nok-Nok is concerned, your arrival is divine proof that he's destined for greatness. He should know, because as he explains, he's the fifth goblin god, and you've earned his favor.

As it turns out, Nok-Nok aspires to be more than a warty, scabby head-drum - he is convinced that he is a deity-to-be. He's just having some difficulty making anyone else realize it. He can recite many tales of heroics and can expound at great length on how he's bravely fled from dogs, how he set fire to his own hair when he couldn't find firewood (he neglected to cut it from his head first), and how he's learned how to block kicks and punches by using his head as a shield. And that's just the beginning of his legendary journey to greatness.

Nok-Nok is a skilled thief. He excels in scuttling about, valiantly stabbing enemies in the back, and setting off every trap in the area (so much so, Nok-Nok's attempts to disarm a trap come very close to being literal - the trap usually threatens to dis-arm him). He does, however, have an incredible resistance to pain, attracts an unusual coterie of "pets," and embraces various junk and trinkets you find on your journey as if they were hard-won trophies of his heroics.

If you lend him a helping hand, Nok-Nok's quick to call you family - play your cards right, and he might even let you be among his worshippers of Nok-Nok (the Fifth, or in his words "the Fith" or sometimes, in other's words, "the Filth").

Hail to the kings!

Owlcats.