“Here Be Dragons” Adds New Story with High-level Areas and Quests, Plus Actual Knights… Finally
Paradox Interactive, a publisher and developer that never meta-game it didn’t like, today announced a new expansion for Knights of Pen & Paper 2, the turn-based RPG about turn-based RPGs.
The new expansion, titled “Here Be Dragons,” will arrive soon for Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs, and iOS and Android devices, bringing 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. “Here Be Dragons” will be available on all devices in early 2016.
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” Features
- 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 rolls with the following features
- +2 to Impress: The retro adventure makes the leap from simulated 8-bit graphics to simulated 16-bit graphics, providing players with twice the bits
- New Racial Feats: Customize your party members by choosing players such as the Goth or the Rocker, classes such as Wizard or Thief, and for the first time, races such as Dwarves and Elves
- 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