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Knights of Pen & Paper 2

Platform(s): Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Genre: RPG/Strategy
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
Release Date: May 14, 2015

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'Knights of Pen & Paper 2' Here Be Dragons Expansion Announced

by Rainier on Dec. 14, 2015 @ 8:58 p.m. PST

Return to the dicey world of Knights of Pen & Paper for a new turn-based adventure, where players get to take on the role of players, and also of the game’s encounter-designing, rules-laywering GM in a fully customizable party.

Danger, intrigue, death, role-playing, and roll-playing will return when Knights of Pen & Paper 2.

Prepare to inhabit a world of chivalry, class warfare and off-beat pop references. Knights of Pen & Paper 2 is a turn-based, retro style, pixel-art adventure full of danger, intrigue, death, and saving throws!

Players assume the role of a group of teenagers, playing a classic pen & paper RPG to overcome dicey situations. As both party and game master, they get to assemble both their characters, and the challenges they will face.

Select among mighty classes like Wizard, Thief or Warrior; proud races like Dwarf or Elf; and snark-slinging players like Goth, Lab Rat or Rocker. Choose quests and combat encounters, delve dungeons, craft powerful items and watch in horror as your muscle-packed barbarian rolls a one on his body check.
Together, face the greatest threat the campaign world has ever faced: The new rules edition.

The new Here Be Dragons expansion will bring a new story, new features, and enough jokes to fill a bag of holding. Developed by the favorable-disposition NPCs at KYY Games, “Here Be Dragons” also finally enables players of Knights of Pen & Paper 2 to play as the in-game Knight class, making the game title more accurate and therefore better.

Knights of Pen & Paper 2 offers players the chance to organize a party of virtual friends and play a pen & paper RPG that requires neither pen nor paper. The upcoming expansion will see the in-game party returning to their roots and undertaking a classic RPG quest for high-level characters, as they seek out and slay the ultimate monsters known to game-kind. Included for all players alongside the new expansion are the new in-game class and the extensive bestiary, allowing fans to stalk their favorite monsters.

“Here Be Dragons” will feature:

  • New Locations and Quests: Guide a high-level party on an epic quest to return to their roots and undertake the ultimate in classic RPG objectives: Dragon-slaying
  • New Class: The Knight – Now more than just a word in the game title
  • New Player Type: Let the fastidious Bookworm join your game table and make use of her obsessive in-game research
  • The Bestiary: Discover details about the assorted baffling creatures of Paperos
Knights of Pen & Paper 2 “Here Be Dragons” will be available in early 2016.

Key Features:

  • A Game of Throws: Face the whims of the d20 in an overhauled combat system, new crafting and loot, dynamically generated dungeons, and a variety of nail-biting saving throws
  • Entirely Too Many Gaming and Pop Culture Jokes: Seriously
  • The ultimate role-playing simulation - again!
  • Fully customizable party, from the players to the game room.
  • Expanded equipment- and crafting systems.
  • JRPG-style, turn-based combat full of tactical options.
  • All-new campaign featuring dozens of pixel-art locations and bundles of sidequests.
  • Dynamically generated dungeon raids.

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