Knights of the Chalice

$19.99

Release Date:: Aug 23, 2019
Developer:: Heroic Fantasy Games Dot Com
Publisher:: Heroic Fantasy Games Dot Com
Platforms:: Windows

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About This Game

Knights of the Chalice is a 2D RPG with turn-based combat for Windows. The game uses the OGL 3.5, the set of rules at the root of Dungeons & Dragons 3.5, a role-playing game from Wizards of the Coast. Create a party of four adventurers, explore the Crimson Coast of Mindrel and fight valiantly against the evil Council of the Slaver Lords, domineering Giants, fiendish Demons and scheming Dragons.

Turn-based, party-based tactical combat similar to that found in the old Dark Sun Shattered Lands game made by SSI and in Troika's Temple of Elemental Evil.
User-friendly interface. Launch a charge, full-attack or coup-de-grace with a single click - the computer will automatically look for the best option available.
Well-developed artificial intelligence. Enemies act as a group and use special actions like Grapple or Charge and tactics like taking a five-foot step before casting Maximised Fireball.
Omnipresent help files and clear in-game feedback (a feature also found in Temple of Elemental Evil) on the results of each dice roll, saving throw, attack roll, modifiers, etc.
175 magic spells, most of which were taken from, or inspired by, Wizard of the Coast's open game content. The list of spells is available from the developer's website.
Craft your own weapons and apply enchantments like Wounding, Speed, Flaming Burst and Keen. The lists of weapon enchantments and feats are in the developer's website.
Multiple-choice dialogue allowing you to resolve situations in unexpected ways.
A large campaign largely inspired by the classic Dungeons & Dragons modules Scourge of the Slave Lords and Against the Giants.
Enjoy collecting 100 Steam achievements designed to challenge the best tacticians.

Free Demo/Tutorial: this is a unique adventure.

A haunted forest. Strange ruins. The villagers call this place “Devil’s Lair”. The ruins may be dead, so they say, but the sinister, malevolent creatures that lurk underneath most certainly are not.

Tightening your packs, you reflect upon this. The devil’s lair, Hah! How could any self-respecting adventurer shy away from the golden opportunity? In this short adventure, the player characters are pre-created and start at level 3.

For more information, please visit the developer's website. Thank you for reading!

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User Reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

1 user reviews

100%

Positive

User #089584 english

47 hrs at review

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(Follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42150626-Jarl%27s-Game-Treasury/]my curator[/url] for more reviews like this) Knights of the Chalice is a great little D&D adventure using the OGL 3.5 rules and offering plenty of challenging encounters to fight your way through. It's all combat, with a little exploration that can lead to optional areas with usually harder fights that offer valuable rewards. In my review of Knights of the Chalice 2, I said that I consider it the best implementation of D&D 3.5 ever put in a computer game. KotC1 isn't quite as complete as its sequel, giving you only three classes (fighter, wizard, cleric) to play with, but there's still a large toolbox of spells at your disposal and the encounters are incredibly fun to fight. While challenging, KotC1 is much easier than KotC2, so I'd recommend newcomers to start with the first game. I've seen some reviews claim the difficulty to be unfair, so I'd like to address this. It's true that KotC is not an ea...