Updated the art pack with 130 new tokens, now covering all races, as well as better class art, to show more of the exotic races: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14P67kzFH0dJw2Ek0zetZORcXkRar_7cC/view?usp=sharing
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KickStarter Knights of the Chalice 2 Thread - Augury of Chaos
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Updated the art pack with 130 new tokens, now covering all races, as well as better class art, to show more of the exotic races: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14P67kzFH0dJw2Ek0zetZORcXkRar_7cC/view?usp=sharing
CryptRat
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Should work via Kickstarter.
you can try contact him per PM on his website.
http://www.heroicfantasygames.com/Forums/viewforum.php?f=8
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Did you try the method that was mentioned earlier ITT?
If you backed through Kickstarter and you have an account on his site you can log in to the customer page and the game should be there. If you don't have an account you can request a password reset using the email you used to back the Kickstarter.
In my case I didn't receive an email because Pierre got a mail error when trying to send it to me. Perhaps a problem with t-online.de or whatever. In the end he told me my password per PM on his site.
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Killed the shark shaman, got an achievement, the 3 items on floor are kinda useless ( amulet of natural armor +1 ) but there is a secret alchove, inside there was an easy math riddle, a bag with 10 inventory slots, a really nice robe and a secret message/puzzle that seems crazy hard, it is the one with the strange symbols but there are 0 hints / known letters! What could it be?
That works? It kinda fucks with the savegame for me.
benzine
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I'd consider the sprites later priority, because unless you spend time editing the module it's hard to get past a few spots that keeps crashing, and that's a giant no-no.
Custom portraits work!
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Pierre mentioned that he'll fix bugs, but I think we all assumed that. Has he mentioned whether he plans to rebalance the game? At least change the Easy mode to give +4 init and +4 on strength checks and no XP penalty. That way, I can get turns, and not get grappled/swallowed or stuck in web for 3 turns in a row. Having to waste one turn breaking free is bad enough.
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He said he is going to implement an option ( but that could be months from now ) that will give you an extra feat every odd level ( like pathfinder ) instead of every third level.
The module needs a full encounter rebalance, not merely a buff to player stats. As I said, I'm playing with cheat engined all 18s and that's not nearly a good enough advantage to offset the sheer buttrape you're confronted with.
The main issues are:
- you always have suboptimal equipment as you have to run with whatever you can find/buy from a pitifully small amount of merchants, who only have a very limited inventory; there is no generic merchant who can sell you generic non-magical versions of weapons and armors so if you design your characters around certain weapons, you're shit outta luck until you find one such weapon; my dual-wielding gladiator had to use a two-handed flail until I finished all the sarcophagi because I simply didn't have any one-handed weapons before that (other than one longsword for my sword-and-shield fighter); merely having an NPC that can sell you generic weapons of all types would fix that
- in some fights, enemies get surprise rounds and fuck you over, like the minotaur wizard who's already super strong at the level you face him at, but with his surprise round he can throw a web at you and there's nothing you can do to prevent him from doing it because no matter how good your initiative, he gets a free turn before you even act
- enemies are always higher level than your party, and usually they outnumber you, too, so you always fight with the cards stacked against you, and then you don't even get an opportunity to rest between these fights; usually, there'd be some low to medium difficulty encounters to soften you up and drain your resources, followed by a hardcore encounter that makes you use everything you have left; here, every encounter is like that; it would help to either downscale the level of some opponents, or reduce their number
- in addition to using up your resources (HP, psi points, spell slots), many enemies have stat drain or even level drain (that fucking vampire) attacks which make subsequent fights even harder, which creates a doom spiral of being ever less prepared for ever more difficult encounters
- there are a few encounters with particularly nasty circumstances (the underwater fight, the fire cave fight) where the environment harms you every single turn while the enemy is immune, and you're also forced to go into this with only two characters; if you don't have the right classes, these fights are impossible, and even if you do they're exceptionally difficult
None of this would be fixed by an easy mode that adds +2 to every player stat or something. The fights would still be fundamentally unfair by giving the enemy way more tools than you'll ever have.
The main issues are:
- you always have suboptimal equipment as you have to run with whatever you can find/buy from a pitifully small amount of merchants, who only have a very limited inventory; there is no generic merchant who can sell you generic non-magical versions of weapons and armors so if you design your characters around certain weapons, you're shit outta luck until you find one such weapon; my dual-wielding gladiator had to use a two-handed flail until I finished all the sarcophagi because I simply didn't have any one-handed weapons before that (other than one longsword for my sword-and-shield fighter); merely having an NPC that can sell you generic weapons of all types would fix that
- in some fights, enemies get surprise rounds and fuck you over, like the minotaur wizard who's already super strong at the level you face him at, but with his surprise round he can throw a web at you and there's nothing you can do to prevent him from doing it because no matter how good your initiative, he gets a free turn before you even act
- enemies are always higher level than your party, and usually they outnumber you, too, so you always fight with the cards stacked against you, and then you don't even get an opportunity to rest between these fights; usually, there'd be some low to medium difficulty encounters to soften you up and drain your resources, followed by a hardcore encounter that makes you use everything you have left; here, every encounter is like that; it would help to either downscale the level of some opponents, or reduce their number
- in addition to using up your resources (HP, psi points, spell slots), many enemies have stat drain or even level drain (that fucking vampire) attacks which make subsequent fights even harder, which creates a doom spiral of being ever less prepared for ever more difficult encounters
- there are a few encounters with particularly nasty circumstances (the underwater fight, the fire cave fight) where the environment harms you every single turn while the enemy is immune, and you're also forced to go into this with only two characters; if you don't have the right classes, these fights are impossible, and even if you do they're exceptionally difficult
None of this would be fixed by an easy mode that adds +2 to every player stat or something. The fights would still be fundamentally unfair by giving the enemy way more tools than you'll ever have.
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Can't you just craft what you need?, you can even do it on the first room
Isn't crafting only possible when you trade with an NPC?
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Yes, you can trade with the cleric in the first room, I don't know about the rest of the game, I haven't got far.
Lilliput McHammersmith
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Yeah but they take all your equipment, so it doesn’t even matter haha.
benzine
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I always stormed in so I have no idea 
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Don't you get it back later? Yanos tells you he is hiding your gear not destroying it. Pretty sure everything taken from you is recoverable.
Yes you get it back after the crypt fights, but that means having to beat
- the minotaur if you don't manage to pass a ridiculous 20 DC spot check
- the mimics and animated portcullis
- the elementals that spawn when you pick up the book
- the undead in the five sarcophagi, which includes ghosts that can drain your STR, mummies that can drain your CON, a vampire that can drain levels, and a fucking bone dragon
beforehand.
Reinhardt
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Is this creature even realize that even with slightly less strength minmaxed female fighter is still in ubermensch territory?Looks like the SJWs already arrived to shit on KotC2's monocled design decisions:
tl;dr: someone who claims not to be a rabid progressive gets overly emotional about KotC2 giving different stat bonuses to male and female characters, and when I defend the game's decision he calls me a retarded troglodyte.
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