KickStarter Knights of the Chalice 2 Thread - Augury of Chaos

[Mortmal]

Doesnt work for me , psionist get nuked before even being able to land one tornado most of the time. Anyway even if i manage it, i guess next one are even worse.

Not sure what to tell you, once I figured out just how powerful tornado blast was I was able to clear most of the main room with one scroll and I centered the other one on Pizarra for a OHKO and took out most of her friends on the cliff. I used one earthquake spell and then the rest was just old fashioned fighting and spells to pick off survivors.

Managed it but its really roll luck, that's poor design encounter , if you dont get her down first round it's over. Also noticed when she join she's level 10 ,party members are 8 to 7 . It was probably intended for a full level 10 group.

 

[Jasede]

We can do it, boys. We just have to keep at it. I believe!

 

[Rpguy]

Doesnt work for me , psionist get nuked before even being able to land one tornado most of the time. Anyway even if i manage it, i guess next one are even worse.

Not sure what to tell you, once I figured out just how powerful tornado blast was I was able to clear most of the main room with one scroll and I centered the other one on Pizarra for a OHKO and took out most of her friends on the cliff. I used one earthquake spell and then the rest was just old fashioned fighting and spells to pick off survivors.

Managed it but its really roll luck, that's poor design encounter , if you dont get her down first round it's over. Also noticed when she join she's level 10 ,party members are 8 to 7 . It was probably intended for a full level 10 group.

Yeah a lot of things seem that way, for example you find so many ingots and gems but you can't possible use them all with the low amount of gold you have because you spend it all on leveling

 

[Rpguy]

Doesnt work for me , psionist get nuked before even being able to land one tornado most of the time. Anyway even if i manage it, i guess next one are even worse.

Not sure what to tell you, once I figured out just how powerful tornado blast was I was able to clear most of the main room with one scroll and I centered the other one on Pizarra for a OHKO and took out most of her friends on the cliff. I used one earthquake spell and then the rest was just old fashioned fighting and spells to pick off survivors.

Managed it but its really roll luck, that's poor design encounter , if you dont get her down first round it's over. Also noticed when she join she's level 10 ,party members are 8 to 7 . It was probably intended for a full level 10 group.

So with what party you made it with?, I'm thinking of restarting because I don't have a psionic...

 

[Mortmal]

Doesnt work for me , psionist get nuked before even being able to land one tornado most of the time. Anyway even if i manage it, i guess next one are even worse.

Not sure what to tell you, once I figured out just how powerful tornado blast was I was able to clear most of the main room with one scroll and I centered the other one on Pizarra for a OHKO and took out most of her friends on the cliff. I used one earthquake spell and then the rest was just old fashioned fighting and spells to pick off survivors.

Managed it but its really roll luck, that's poor design encounter , if you dont get her down first round it's over. Also noticed when she join she's level 10 ,party members are 8 to 7 . It was probably intended for a full level 10 group.

So with what party you made it with?

Still paladin, gladiator barbarian, bishop, psionist ,mageknight, and erzimon. If i'd redo it i probably go with 2 melee and 4 casters.

 

[Jasede]

What domains on your Bishop?
There's a recruitable paladin with 26 Cha.

 

[Mortmal]

What domains on your Bishop?
There's a recruitable paladin with 26 Cha.

Aberration for tentacle monster, turning , and celerity.

 

[Jasede]

Is the Aberration still useful? Or is falling off?

 

[Jasede]

Tip for others:

Every fight in this is lost on turn 1. Give everyone decent to high dex and improved initiative or be doomed to reload.

 

[Dickie]

There's a thread about the difficulty on the real forum. It seems to mainly be about the cultist fight before the oubliette. Several people seem to be using the easy mode, not realizing it's a trap.

I made it past that fight, but shortly after is nothing but slaughter. What the hell? I am feeling completely demoralized by this game.

Even lowering the difficulty you're usually facing higher level enemies, as in casters 2 levels above yours, with no concern for saving resources.

I finally won, then the game crashed. lol

The Greater Salamander is, shall we say, a beast. He's listed as a CR 8 BY HIMSELF, which means that he should be a reasonable encounter for four level 8 characters, and I have two level 5s in the party.

Keep in mind that encounters in 3.5e are designed around the CR/EL system which assumes that you would tend to fight around 4 battles of your equal EL and then rest for the night.

http://www.heroicfantasygames.com/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=832

 

[The Red Knight]

Also noticed when she join she's level 10 ,party members are 8 to 7 . It was probably intended for a full level 10 group.

Several people seem to be using the easy mode, not realizing it's a trap.

Is there a noticeable difference in the XP gain with the easy mode on/off? Maybe the penalty is always on even if you have the setting disabled? Or the penalty is always there on top of the easy mode doubling it?


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Edit: Also I love the various QoL features in the module editor. Hotkeys, list filters, NPC list with "locate NPC on map" button...

 

[Tweed]

Good thing these hints are here, math is not my strong suit.

 

[Tacgnol]

Not that I'd personally use the easy setting, but it does seem a bit counter intuitive shoving an XP penalty on it.

The reward for not using it should be the satisfaction of beating the game as intended, I don't really see any need to penalise people who want to use it.

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

So uh, i was thinking of making a full caster party... Like 6 sorcerors or 6 warlocks? What do you guys think?

 

[Tweed]

I think you'll be very unhappy once you clear the first fight in chapter 3, if you manage to do so.

 

[Jasede]

I think good luck with the magic immune enemies, hope your summons are strong enough.

 

[Noddy]

Chapter 3 opener down. Did it exactly the same the way as everyone else, burned throug high level scrolls and gibbed the bitch before she could summon her invincible ice gimp. Killed her cos i don't want her fucking me in an even more retarded fight down the line.
Gonna go give the book of the dead to the witches now. What could possibly go wrong?

Has anyone checked how much charisma changes prices? I'm so fucking poor and wondering if taking a bard would've helped.

 

[Dickie]

You guys got any gold you can spare? I need a few level-ups. Anything helps.

 

[Jasede]

Go sell your gems, pleb...

 

[Mortmal]

Is the Aberration still useful? Or is falling off?

It's still usefull ,it scales at BAB +19 at level 10 6X 1D6 and 150 hp . Bishop is viable most of the time.

 

[Lilliput McHammersmith]

After trying my hand at module building I can understand why things are so glitchy. The scripts are fairly complex. They seem a bit out of my expertise at the moment. I'm having fun making maps for it though.

 

[Noddy]

Go sell your gems, pleb...

Turns out you ~8 diamonds to recruit the paladin. Hoarding pays off again.

 

[Jasede]

By the way, Mantis can't wear armor, but they start with a leather armor equipped... if you remove it it's -2 AC forever. It's probably an exploit to keep it equipped, though.

 

[Mortmal]

Seems chapter 3 fights are much easier than the first fight, barely had to reload a few time.

 

[Tweed]

Used up the merchant campfire, no clue if there's anymore on the level or not and I still have a ways to go.

The belt of the lion enchantment doesn't seem to be working so that might be gigantic waste of gold. If it's suppose to be activated there's nothing in the menu and I just assumed it was always on. If you convince the formians to fight on your side they give you some boots of haste after the battle.

Oh wait nevermind it works fine, just have to make sure to activate the charge attack from the menu, for some reason I assumed it just always did it whenever it could.