Commissar Draco
Codexia Comrade Colonel Commissar
Numbers on a spreadsheet man. Just make em bigger. Then at most a different ending slide. Not really much to it.The decisions AFFECT things. Would you accept a necromancer undead workers? If yes, the population will not like but you will speed up the progress. Gain more ARCANE points but lose points in community since people will not like
Most decisions are pointless however, some of the decisions aren't. For eg, you need high ARCANE if you plan to play as a wizard, so your merchants can sell more powerful scrolls. Having golems in your capital cuz you researched it is also amazing.
I prefer deal with a more local, like a citadel or a fort, instead of manage an entire kingdom, but that is just my opinion...
You cant be king and adventurer but you could be baron of small keep and do such stuff while appointing competent steward and then spend your life doing adventuring for your Liege or Knight Order but if you really want to rule you would be busy 24/7 doing statecraft and touring your vassals, even hunting back then was done to train yourself for war and gather salted meat for armies. This game would be much better if the gnome got baron title (the place is really at least county side btw) and thus needed to do the boring administration stuff. The quests, exploration, fights and so on are really fun you still can fail if your dumb ass companion fail to many checks which is in Commissar opinion really bad choice on Developers part.