KDM Episode 7: Settlement Phase and Party Building

Settlement Phase Deep Dive

Now that I know KDM is really going to be my thing, I need better long-term storage and organization. Time to clean up this table.

Crafting Session

Building with our resources:

• Two Lion Guitars
• King Spear
• White Lion Coat
• Three organs through the Organ Grinder

Character Updates

Sophia - Got more weapon proficiency boxes checked. She’s our fist and tooth specialist.

Theren - Choosing bow proficiency. Got Timeless Eye (perfect hit on 9 or 10). Aged up for weapon proficiency.

Kip - Choosing spear since I’m making the King Spear. Got Crazed (perfect hit gives +1 insanity).

Clinestra - Got Mighty Strike (perfect hit +2 strength). Choosing guitar to upgrade her scrap sword.

The Perfect Organ Gamble

The baby from intimacy has a perfect organ. Rolling for the organ grinder - if we get a 6+, he gains +10 hunt XP, power-leveling him instantly.

Rolled an 8. He jumps through multiple age milestones:

• +1 permanent luck
• +1 strength
• +1 movement
• Another +1 luck

He’s critting on 8s with nothing else. Monster.

The Weapon Proficiency Problem

Wait - he doesn’t have enough fights left to actually master a proficiency. By giving him all that hunt XP, he can only get 6 weapon proficiency points total.

He’ll be our ringer - if the main archer dies, this guy can pop in with the death mask and crit on 4+. But I won’t use him in regular hunts because it hurts our mastery progression.

Population Management

Using Clinestra as matchmaker with intimacy events. She’s deaf but has the Matchmaker ability. Going to rotate her in and out to keep getting survivors.

Settlement at 8 population now. Want to hit 10 for safety margin.

Final Party Loadout

• Sophia - White lion cloak, lion headdress, bone club (can pounce now!)
• Kip - Death mask + catgut bow (our crit fisher with +1 luck)
• Theren - King spear, rawhide armor
• Alexios - Lion guitars, ready to deal damage

This session took about 1.5 hours of real time. If this were a weekly thing, set aside 2-3 hours to get through a hunt phase every session.

Next up: the Screaming Antelope!

Transcript

Okay. Otherwise, I got to clean the table up. It’s It’s gotten pretty crazy. Um, I’m going to, now that I know that this is really going to be my thing, I need to set up some long-term storage solutions and and better organization. Uh, I’m going to build two line guitars.

I did have a hide in my settlement resources. King Spear, the White Lion Coat, and then I have three organs I’m going to send through the organ grinder and and see what happens with that. So, Sophia, uh, nothing really too crazy here. She just got some more boxes checked. Another weapon proficiency.

Theren, he’s going to choose the bow. He’s our bow guy. He got Timeless Eye. He gets a perfect hit on a nine or a 10. Um, and he also Oh, yeah.

He he just drew up fighting arts for the role for weapon proficiency. Uh, he also aged up for his age. Uh, that’s why I gave him weapon proficiency. Duh. Kip.

Um, I just chose spear with her cuz I’m going to make the king spear so she’ll have the spear. Uh, she got crazed. Perfect hit is a plus one. Insanity. Alexios, he didn’t do anything last time.

And Clemstra, so she got mighty strike. Perfect hit. Whoops. Uh, I can’t read my writing. Perfect hit gives a plus two strength, I think.

Yeah, perfect hit plus two strength. And she chose the guitar cuz she’s going to upgrade her scrap sword to the guitars. Um I Okay, so uh I I made character sheets for all the characters and this is the guy that was born from the intimacy. We have a perfect organ and I was reading this and if we get a six uh he gets plus 10 hunt XP which will like kind of maybe hopefully power level this guy. I don’t really know what’s going to happen but he’ll get I think it takes him like somewhere around here with a quick quick eye look.

So he’ll get like five or six hunts left. So, I’m hoping that we we get this. Uh I rolled a nine off camera, but now I’m trying to get it on camera. It was meant to be. So, we just got an eight.

Uh but I was in the zone rolling. So, uh I just wanted to to actually get it on camera. So, that’s pretty cool. So, we’re going to see what happens with that. Okay.

So, in my head, we don’t have a tank yet. We just have a ton of DPSers, and I don’t know if we’re necessarily going to start playing with them right away just because we don’t have like any shields or or anything like that. But uh I’ve picked bow. I’ve picked fist and tooth. I’ve picked guitar.

And I’ve picked a spear. So I think I’m going to pick shield with him. Uh that would just leave sword, whip, axe, and club and dagger, which I just don’t even have any of those. I mean, I have a sword, but I’m not going to be using it anymore. So I think like the whip looks like it’s an actual tank weapon, but I don’t have one made.

I don’t have a shield made, so it’s kind of a toss up there. Um, so I don’t know. I think I think I’ll run shield. Uh, just because I don’t even know if I’d build a whip ever. We’ll see.

So, he’s going to go shield. Let’s roll. What? He gets a one. Oh, wait.

It’s 2d10. Let me reroll a 10. Wow. He gets plus one permanent luck. That’s pretty cool.

That’s pretty crazy. So now, so he gets plus one luck. What? We’ll add that in. Plus one luck.

And now we just we just essentially trigger all all the ages. So now it’s just another 2d10 roll. Wow, he’s rolling hot. 15 a plus one strength. Uh, another 2d10 roll.

Oh, that’s a low one. Plus one movement. And then lucky elder 15. Another luck. So this guy’s this guy’s gonna be pretty lucky.

So he’s he’s just with nothing else. He’s critting on eights. That’s pretty cool. All right, back to it. Actually, I’m going to give him bow proficiency and I’ll give the other guy who did have the bow shield proficiency.

I’m going to switch that up. Okay. Wait, so I was just thinking about it. He doesn’t have enough fights left to actually master the proficiency. So, I got to keep the other guy Bow and his proficiency I think essentially doesn’t matter anymore because he’s not going to be able to master it.

So, that’s something to think about. Okay. So now using him to level up a weapon weapon proficiency actually kind of hurts us because those are hunts that’s going to take weapon proficiency XP away from a character who would be able to master something uh if you’re following what I’m saying. So, by I’m not going to go back or anything, but by giving him all that hunt XP, like yes, it does make him stronger to run in and like join join the group, but by if I were to play him, I’m only going to get one, two, three, four, five. I’m only going to get six points of weapon proficiency.

So, that’s a character that’s just not leveling a weapon proficiency for the group. So, I think um I might I’m going to probably keep him how he is cuz like he’ll be critting if I if I have to if my archer dies and I put him in with the death mask, he’s going to be critting on four plus. So, I think I’m going to keep him at the settlement and he’ll be like the ringer where if if my main somebody in my main party dies, he can pop in as the archer, I guess, because I just feel like if I start playing him, I’m going to myself long term because I won’t get weapon master, you know? I and there’s a lot of things that can happen, but I think giving myself the most opportunity to actually hit a weapon mastery is going to be >> actually I went to do the augury with my points. Uh, and I think instead I’m just going to save up my organs and cuz I don’t want to risk losing them if I roll one to a three.

Uh, roll on the table. Nobody has three or higher understanding right now. So, I think I’m going to save those organs to try to do a barber surgeon. Okay, after rethinking things, I gave her Clayra. I gave her a shield proficiency.

Uh, I’m going to switch up a lot of her gear and stuff. So, don’t worry about this over here. She has this matchmaker ability. And so I think because that she’s my matchmaker and my settlement is so low that I’m pretty much going to be fighting with her every other fight because I think I pretty much especially now like I have four endeavor that I don’t I don’t think I have anything I can really use on right now. I need her to do the intimacy event so that I can keep getting more survivors.

And since I have the survival of the fittest uh or protect the young, um I picked protect the young cuz I don’t want anybody to sit out. Uh I’m pretty sure survival of the fittest is probably like the better one to take. But uh I think I need to just keep any chance I get to do intimacy. I think I need to be doing especially because I don’t have to like I I can just pop it with her. So that’s I got to rethink things.

It sucks that she hits so hard. Like she just got lucky dice which maybe is just in my head, but she definitely she’s rolled way more natural crits. So I think we got to do like I don’t have any shields made. So uh by her sitting out every time now that’s going to delay my shield progress. But again I don’t have any made.

Uh I don’t I don’t know when I’ll be able to make any. And we got lots of fighting to do. So I think this is the move. So, she’s going to be like a rotating party member that’s in and out and we’re going to do an intimacy event. Okay.

So, we’re running through intimacy event. I’m going to use the guy that got all that hunt experience from the from the organ. So, that way him sitting out on a hunt, he’s probably going to be sitting out anyway. So, these two are my partners. I get to roll uh I get to roll twice.

Roll twice and pick one. All right. So, well, there’s a six and there’s a four. So, a six is Oh, they they both fall into the same thing. New survivor is brought kicking and screaming into the world.

The settlement gains plus one population. So, we just get another guy. Pretty straightforward. Okay, we’re up to eight now. Um, and to determine the gender, I’ve just been rolling odds or evens.

Uh, so I know that’s going to be a male, but I’m not going to put the name in yet until we make this sheet. Um, I think I really wanted to get to eight in case I had like my whole party gets wiped out. I can go in with another party. So, I I really want to try to avoid going below eight. I think 10 would make me feel better.

Um, I think 10 would be just a good number. So, I’m going to keep going. I don’t I’m not going to like always use the intimacy thing, but uh when I can, I think I’m going to take advantage of it. So, now we have one person who’s not made and five other sheets to make our party with. So, I’m going to make make a party, get everybody equipped, and I think we’re going to call that video.

We’re going to reunite these four. Uh, but I do need to think through my gear loadouts now. Oh, and also, I played this wrong. I don’t know if I did it last night, but I definitely did it earlier. I forgot that plus one speed doesn’t mean you get plus one movement.

That means you get to roll one more dice when you attack. So, that’s that’s also a pretty big deal. So, I’ve been this is my first time playing it, doing it blind. I think I’m doing okay, but definitely made some mistakes in the beginning. So, learn from those mistakes.

Made some final changes. So, Sophia’s here. She has white lion cloak. Swap out the rawhide. So, going to be able to use rawhide headband if I need to.

And lion headdress. So, now she can pounce with that bone club. uh over to the so this guy was our bow guy, but now he’s going to be the guy with the spear and I did that because Collide has plus one luck now. So now she’s going to be the one that uses the death death mask with the ranged and I’m thinking about ditching bone darts so I can put rawhide armor on her and not have any affinities. And I think I’ll probably put bone darts on somebody else.

Uh the only person who has room for it is Sophia, so I didn’t even really use them last time. So, uh, I think we’ll put bone darts on Sophia. And then this is our our new guy. He’s never gone out. Actually, he’s gone out once.

Yeah. Yeah. This is guy. He sat out last time. He is going to have the guitars.

I He doesn’t have weapon proficiency yet, but I’ll probably make his guitars now. Uh, that we don’t have any guitar weapon proficiencies. Is that right? I don’t know. I think it’s right.

But uh but we’ll see what happens after. So this is the team we’re gonna go fight the analopee with. Um I’m gonna get the table cleaned off the rest of the day. Uh this is my busted up rusty tripod, but I’m going to get the table cleaned out the rest of the day. And if you’re wondering why like this video, this video is probably going to be pretty long, but if you’re wondering why that’s all the the KDM I got to play today, like that took like an hour and a half of like real time to go through.

So that’s like a full session. So, like if you were this is like a weekly thing, I would definitely set aside probably like two or three hours if you wanted to get to a hunt phase every time. Just food for thought. >> Okay. >> And get all the figures built the next round.

I think new new monster, new figures. I’m going to build them in these loadouts. Should give me plenty of room to customize other use the other sculpts for other stuff later. Very exciting. Thanks for watching.

See you tomorrow.