KickStarter Knights of the Chalice 2 Thread - Augury of Chaos

[Mortmal]

Did my survey. I better start planning my characters now.

Same thats a very large party, LOT of theory crafting possible. Probably will spend one hour in the character creator alone, long t time since that happened in a game.

 

[PrK]

Surely you mean an hour per character, right?

 

[Mortmal]

Surely you mean an hour per character, right?

I am a very experienced DM, one hour for a party is plenty enough.It's still D20 , heavily homebrewed of course, but it's known territory to me.
Now here i am refreshing the mail box hitting repeatidly F5...

 

[AdolfSatan]

So, what parties are you planning? I think I might go with:

CLERIC guardian half giant

PALADIN whatever (someone's gotta tank and after seeing how useless the warrior became in late game for kotc1 I'd rather have someone who can cast stuff too)

PSION stygian human

WIZARD (+raven familiar/moon of meril for xxxtra SICK enchantment bonus) stygian human

BARB/MONK wind mantis but also tempted to do:
SORCERER stone mantis (extra armour bonus will make life easier) with moon of juron for extra arms at level 15. Early game will be extra hard probably tho

Not sure what to do with the sixth.

 

[Dickie]

So, what parties are you planning?

Six female wild halfling monks with improved grapple and greater grapple.

 

[Rpguy]

Fighter is awesome in KOTC2 IMHO.

My party:
Lightning drake fighter
Dwarf Cleric
Kobold Rogue
Mantis Druid
Elf Wizard
Human Death knight

 

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[Mortmal]

Fighter is awesome in KOTC2 IMHO.

My party:
Lightning drake fighter
Dwarf Cleric
Kobold Rogue
Mantis Druid
Elf Wizard
Human Death knight

Hmm i'd rather use the mantis as fighter, or even better rogue since it strike with 4 light weapons , 4X backstab maybe ? Does the mantis druid wildhsape and keep her 4 attacks however ?

 

[Rpguy]

Fighter is awesome in KOTC2 IMHO.

My party:
Lightning drake fighter
Dwarf Cleric
Kobold Rogue
Mantis Druid
Elf Wizard
Human Death knight

Hmm i'd rather use the mantis as fighter, or even better rogue since it strike with 4 light weapons , 4X backstab maybe ? Does the mantis druid wildhsape and keep her 4 attacks however ?

Druid can't wild shape and doesnt have animal companion in KOTC2

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

Did my survey. I better start planning my characters now.

Same thats a very large party, LOT of theory crafting possible. Probably will spend one hour in the character creator alone, long t time since that happened in a game.

An hour? I intend to dedicate a whole evening in character creation.

 

[Mortmal]

Fighter is awesome in KOTC2 IMHO.

My party:
Lightning drake fighter
Dwarf Cleric
Kobold Rogue
Mantis Druid
Elf Wizard
Human Death knight

Hmm i'd rather use the mantis as fighter, or even better rogue since it strike with 4 light weapons , 4X backstab maybe ? Does the mantis druid wildhsape and keep her 4 attacks however ?

Druid can't wild shape and doesnt have animal companion in KOTC2

yes i've just read it, so to use fully the mantis the best seems to be rogue and monk. I think i'll add to those two an elf female bishop(undeath and abberation domain), there's a lot of sexism in kotc 2 male and female have different stats, and i see only female elf can reach 20 charisma. Then a generalist wizard or spec in conjuration for utilities , cant go wrong with that, maybe a summoner or necromancer if they are available.

 

[AdolfSatan]

4X backstab maybe ?

Seems a bit overkill for regular enemies and since there's this:

Sneak Attack: Extra damage dealt in melee to an enemy who has lost his dexterity bonus to AC, or is being flanked. This ability only works if the enemy is not immune to critical hits.

it won't work against the most OP.

Fighter is awesome in KOTC2 IMHO.

Took a closer look at it and indeed it seems more viable than kotc1 warrior, perhaps I'll use it as an excuse to have an elf for its detect secret abilities.

Might switch the paladin for a champion and make it a halfling too.

 

[Noddy]

Literally had my party saved to a .txt for at least a year.

Drake Fighter
Fighters get the wade in feat turning a Full attack into a standard action.
There's a feat to turn Drake breath into a move action.
There's also a shit load more breath feats and figters get a shit load feats.
Seems pretty good.
Gonna dual wield skewering picks eventually.

Mul Samurai
Just want to play around with vorpal scythes and sams get +crit.
Don't think it should be hard to get to 6x crit with a scythe which means vorpal should be going off for 360 damage.
Complete overkill but should be fun.

Mantis Storm Warrior
Want some extra damage per hit to combo with mantis extra attacks so rouge/death knight/SW/MK seems like the obvious picks.
Went with the SW cos i'm a bit worried my divine caster is going to get gibbed every fight.
Gonna call her 'Da Carpenter' and give her 4 light hammers.

Sylvan F Bard
Free action buffs seem cool but mostly taking to see how the skills work.
Probably poking at people with a reach weapon.

Stygian Red Wizard
Fireball spammed my way through KOTC so gotta try again in the sequal.
Human to play around with all the extra wizard feats. The evoc ones look nutty too.
Honestly seems pretty retard good post transformation.

Halfling F Psychic Healer
Should probably be a sorc but i want all the spells in a first run.
Insanely multi attribute dependent so halfling seems good.
Also get's +ac which is nice cos she's gonna get bullied.
At least the wizard gets SR. She's just gonna get her tiny holes tentacled.

 

[Dickie]

yes i've just read it, so to use fully the mantis the best seems to be rogue and monk.

Want some extra damage per hit to combo with mantis extra attacks so rouge/death knight/SW/MK seems like the obvious picks.

I think painted (+2 Str) or stone (+1 natural AC) mantis Gladiator could be interesting. Since the mantis can't wear armor, the AC bonus for no armor would be nice. Gladiator also gets a feat to let the mantis equip bigger weapons.

Armour Mastery: Gladiators benefit from special Armour Class bonuses. When wearing heavy armour, the AC bonus is equal to +1. When wearing medium armour, the AC bonus is equal to +2. When wearing light armour or no armour, the AC bonus is equal to +4 at level 1, +5 from level 4, +6 from level 8, +7 from level 12, +8 from level 16 and +9 from level 20.

Oversized Two-Weapon Fighting: You can dual wield two-handed weapons or use them with a shield. In this case, attacks made with a two-handed weapon suffer a -2 penalty to the attack roll. A Mantis can use the feat to wield two two-handed weapons at -2, or four one-handed weapons at -2, or four two-handed weapons at -4. Requires: Superior Two-Weapon Fighting, BAB 6.

Get some extra damage for those many weapons.

Combined Fighting Style I: When wielding weapons from different weapon groups, you gain a +1 bonus to melee attack rolls and melee damage rolls.

Combined Fighting Style II: When wielding weapons from different weapon groups, you gain another +1 bonus to melee attack rolls and melee damage rolls. Requires: Combined Fighting Style I, Level 9.

 

[Dickie]

Mantis Storm Warrior
Want some extra damage per hit to combo with mantis extra attacks so rouge/death knight/SW/MK seems like the obvious picks.
Went with the SW cos i'm a bit worried my divine caster is going to get gibbed every fight.
Gonna call her 'Da Carpenter' and give her 4 light hammers.

I was looking at the Storm Warrior, but I wonder how easy it will be to get/craft shock weapons, since crafting is more limited in KotC2 compared to the first one, since it requires fancy diamonds.

 

[Tigranes]

I'm realising that just by adding class options to this game KOTC2 will take at least 4x as long to play through as KOTC

 

[Rpguy]

Looks like it won't happen today.

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[Iluvcheezcake]

6 sorcerers or 6 necromancers

 

[Mortmal]

yes i've just read it, so to use fully the mantis the best seems to be rogue and monk.

Want some extra damage per hit to combo with mantis extra attacks so rouge/death knight/SW/MK seems like the obvious picks.

I think painted (+2 Str) or stone (+1 natural AC) mantis Gladiator could be interesting. Since the mantis can't wear armor, the AC bonus for no armor would be nice. Gladiator also gets a feat to let the mantis equip bigger weapons.

Armour Mastery: Gladiators benefit from special Armour Class bonuses. When wearing heavy armour, the AC bonus is equal to +1. When wearing medium armour, the AC bonus is equal to +2. When wearing light armour or no armour, the AC bonus is equal to +4 at level 1, +5 from level 4, +6 from level 8, +7 from level 12, +8 from level 16 and +9 from level 20.

Oversized Two-Weapon Fighting: You can dual wield two-handed weapons or use them with a shield. In this case, attacks made with a two-handed weapon suffer a -2 penalty to the attack roll. A Mantis can use the feat to wield two two-handed weapons at -2, or four one-handed weapons at -2, or four two-handed weapons at -4. Requires: Superior Two-Weapon Fighting, BAB 6.

Get some extra damage for those many weapons.

Combined Fighting Style I: When wielding weapons from different weapon groups, you gain a +1 bonus to melee attack rolls and melee damage rolls.

Combined Fighting Style II: When wielding weapons from different weapon groups, you gain another +1 bonus to melee attack rolls and melee damage rolls. Requires: Combined Fighting Style I, Level 9.

Seems mantis is mandatory for melee, SW monk rogue, gladiator, i dont see any reason to pick any other races, stone seems best . So sneak attack wont work on immune to crit, still that will be an excellent minion cleaner. For mage type obviously stygian human.

 

[Rpguy]

Mantis can't wear armor, that's a big minus, also they have low int so that's a problem for rogues, I prefer kobold rogue for the ability to wear armor and the extra spell power, you only lose 1 extra attack.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Rogues cast spells now?

 

[Rpguy]

Rogues cast spells now?

in 3.5 rogues are pretty useless against creatures immune to sneak attack/critical hits like all undead/elementals/plants/oozes etc. in pathfinder they fixed it by letting them sneak attack almost everything. Pierre's solution is to give rogues magic.
You will find many differences in KOTC2 classes compared to 3.5, they all got big buffs, some got some feature removed. ( This shouldn't come as a huge surprise if you played KOTC1, where for example your Clerics and Wizards casted spells without memorizing them )

 

[curds]

All this party build talk is making me very

 

[Dickie]

Seems mantis is mandatory for melee, SW monk rogue, gladiator, i dont see any reason to pick any other races, stone seems best . So sneak attack wont work on immune to crit, still that will be an excellent minion cleaner. For mage type obviously stygian human.

I like the idea of having a mantis gladiator who's not focused on a single weapon group who uses ALL the random weapons I pick up.

The stygian human was my choice for Psionicist. There's so many good feats that getting four of them at level one is nice.

I've only narrowed down those two. Maybe a stillfinger (+1 ranged attack rolls) halfing ranger, but bows automatically add strength to your damage rolls, so maybe not. It's so many choices.

 

[Mortmal]

Mantis can't wear armor, that's a big minus, also they have low int so that's a problem for rogues, I prefer kobold rogue for the ability to wear armor and the extra spell power, you only lose 1 extra attack.

yes i forgot the spellcasting part of the rogue in kotc 2 so kobold probably better for that however a mantis wield 4 weapons those are upgradable there's even a pic with +3 shortsword, the kobold bite will never upgrade. Mantis int is still 6-14 not a huge disadvantage, rogue doesnt get many spells anyway . Going for Mantis gladiator ,mantis rogue , mantis monk , Stygian wizard, elf bishop and elf psi healer. I need to max cha on bishop for the turns and domain summon. On psi healer i guess pretty any race with balanced stat works.