Pathfinder: Kingmaker Beneath the Stolen Lands Basics

Publish date: 2024-07-29

The basic rules for the Beneath the Stolen Lands DLC. No tips on how to do well, mininal (but some) spoilers, just the rules about what happens on each run so you’ve some idea how it all fits together.

Guide to Beneath the Stolen Lands DLC

Beneath the Stolen Lands Rules

This covers the standalone DLC Dungeon only, there are already plenty of great pages on the version of the tenebrous depths that appears in the main campaign.

The hub area

A new run always starts in the same hub area, which offers the following:

Your first port of call is usually to use the dragon to bring your party up to strength. You have enough gold for 3 more party members, but can usually grab a 4th if you sell some of your starting scrolls and potions.

The “rest” table only works once per level of the dungeon. Going back to the dungeon and reloading the hub won’t refresh it – once you use that rest it’s gone until you clear another level of the dungeon.

The small table won’t contain anything on your first run, that’s okay.

The dungeon

The dungeon is procedurally generated and follows most of the rules for the main game. There are only a few differences to note:

So long story short: Have a few characters with high perception and run them along the walls becasue secrets could be anywhere. When you defeat a story boss you won’t see another one so if you want to keep progressing it might be time to retire and start a new party. Or you can keep going to try to find their relics.

The “once per floor” rest at the big table upstairs does not accumulate, if you don’t use it before going down a floor you just miss a rest. Similarly you don’t have to take a rest for beating an elite group immediately, but if you go downstairs you can’t come back for it.

A new run

When your run is over you can start a new run. This will take some data from your previous run and use it to create a new game. A few notes on that:

So the metaprogresson is along three axis:

  • Get to a deep dungeon level to give your next group a good boon.
  • Beat minibosses to make the shop more and more useful over consecutive runs.
  • Collect relics. You need all of them to finish the DLC, absolutely nothing in the game tells you this, but this is your main objective if you want to know how it ends!
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