KickStarter Knights of the Chalice 2 Thread - Augury of Chaos

[Jasede]

Well, generally speaking it will average out, the HP, over 20 levels. Getting all your bad rolls early sucks though.

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

yeah I'm sure it will average out eventually, still that doesn't help you if you wind up with a literally unplayable character for a melee tank which he was supposed to be. Also would averaging out not be easier by just giving avg HP rolls in the first place? Game really needs a max and avg HP option in the settings.

 

[Noddy]

 

[PrK]

Six times. Having the Warlock bitch join 100% corrupts my game. Nothing that can be done other than kill her.

Had the same bug, beat the fight again and killed her for the tome.
Now the question is, is it worth it to get trickery domain for my bishop on lvl up just to copy the book? What do you gain, because I tried giving the real thing and it seems pretty worth it if you intend to fight the coven.

 

[Rpguy]

Well, generally speaking it will average out, the HP, over 20 levels. Getting all your bad rolls early sucks though.

If the game rolled once and gave you the result you would say it is average but what it really does is roll twice and keep the higher result so you actually get more than average hp per level. So in theory cheating and editing your HP to be average is actually making you weaker.

 

[anvi]

You can get this now if you get it off his website or something? How is it so far?

 

[Rpguy]

You can get this now if you get it off his website or something? How is it so far?

You can't get it now. You will need to mail Pierre asking for it, whether he agrees or not is up to him.

Game is pretty great, apparently every encounter is impossible until you beat it.

 

[Rpguy]

Congratulations Noddy. Can you share your party composition and what do you think about them? ( would you change anything / which classes are good/bad )

 

[Latro]

use spoilers please

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

I like the NWN HP rules:
At levels 1 through 3, a PC gains base hit points equal to the maximum possible roll of the hit die associated with the class being taken. At higher character levels, the number of base hit points gained is equal to a roll of the hit die, but with the provision that rolls under half the maximum are re-rolled. Thus, if a level 3 PC gains a level of fighter, the PC will gain between 5 and 10 base hit points (inclusive).

 

[PrK]

You can get this now if you get it off his website or something? How is it so far?

You can't get it now. You will need to mail Pierre asking for it, whether he agrees or not is up to him.

Game is pretty great, apparently every encounter is impossible until you beat it.

Let's just say that Pierre's descriptions of the module on his site (Come out victorious in highly-tactical group combat against overwhelming odds and Experience a highly-rewarding, never-seen-before level of challenge) are not empty boasting.

 

[Tweed]

Let's just say that Pierre's descriptions of the module on his site (Come out victorious in highly-tactical group combat against overwhelming odds and Experience a highly-rewarding, never-seen-before level of challenge) are not empty boasting.

That ain't no shit, every battle is an achievement. A group of pathetic knight wannabes achieve nearly godlike power in the span of a few days wandering around some sewers under a village, how the fuck has this village even survived with the kind of nightmares roaming beneath above it?

 

[Jasede]

Oh, I forgot to share this screenshot:

Level 11 Mantis, ladies and gentlemen:

16 attacks. At level 11.
20 with haste.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Wonder why Pierre would remove the "max HP rolls" option from the first game. No good reason for it.

 

[Jasede]

Pierre was worried it might be too easy with that option.

 

[Noddy]

Congratulations Noddy. Can you share your party composition and what do you think about them? ( would you change anything / which classes are good/bad )

No worries mate i'll write it up in a bit. Fucking knackered right now.
Say this though: that lad who wanted to run five wizards and a cleric?
A true orcacle.

 

[anvi]

So basically no trash fights? Every battle a legit puzzling encounter? I am dying to play this.

 

[Jasede]

Unintended side-effect of Mantis blender: many High Sewer fights end before reinforcements spawn in, costing you XP.

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Unintended side-effect of Mantis blender: many High Sewer fights end before reinforcements spawn in, costing you XP.

unacceptable, the missing xp should be awarded as bonus xp in that case, you should complain on discord that things are dying too fast

 

[Mortmal]

Bishop is good but you are missing spells like mass remove negative levels, and the single target one comes to late . The other draw back is you need very high cha to make turns usefull, a cleric just need high wisdom so you dont sacrifice anything you max that and have very hig spell DC. In Kotc 2 every classes that requires to be good in more than 2 stats must not be taken. I dont see why pick warlock either , rather have one pure wizard and one psion.

So I've noted. Scrapping the bishop and putting back the cleric, going to swap the warlock for a second psion. Cleric will be healing, but I dunno what other domain to put on, magic isn't really all that helpful though I did kick a lot of ass with freebie boosted magic stones.

So the final kobold party that shall finally go n to victory shall be:

Kobold Gladiator x2
Kobold Psion x2
Kobold Cleric
Kobold Red Wizard

I wouldnt use gladiator on anything else than half giant for trip , or mantis for multiattack with every weapon proficiencies . If you want to make a thematic kobold party maybe it should be the 5 wizards one cleric .

 

[Tweed]

I wouldnt use gladiator on anything else than half giant for trip , or mantis for multiattack with every weapon proficiencies . If you want to make a thematic kobold party maybe it should be the 5 wizards one cleric .

Well of course you wouldn't, but that was never the point. This is almost the exact same party that took me to the front gates and I would have made it past if everyone had been 18+. Besides, there's too many enemies in the game with too much SR for pure magic and forgoing psionics would be suicide.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

You can no longer equip a two hander on the mantis +anything without Oversized two weapon fighting. You equip 1 two hander and that's it.

Bastard swords are a likely exception, just as they were in KOTC 1.

 

[Rpguy]

You can no longer equip a two hander on the mantis +anything without Oversized two weapon fighting. You equip 1 two hander and that's it.

Bastard swords are a likely exception, just as they were in KOTC 1.

Bastard swords are two handers, no difference. You put a bastard sword in your mantis main hand and you can't put any other weapon, not even a dagger. Once you get oversized TWF you can equip 4 bastard swords, no problem.

 

[anvi]

How is it for bugs and UI and stuff?

 

[Rpguy]

How is it for bugs and UI and stuff?

The worst bugs have been fixed in the latest version. The game rarely crashes now.