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Kingdom Come: Deliverance II roleplay

Blood & Banners RP is a free Kingdom Come: Deliverance II roleplay server (KCD2 RP), played through KCD:MP, the fan-made multiplayer mod. It is set in and around Kuttenberg in 1403, and you live one character there among other players.

The launcher is new and not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC": choose More info → Run anyway. It talks only to www.bloodandbanners.net, and fetches the official KCD:MP client from GitHub, checked against its published SHA-256.

What is KCD2 multiplayer roleplay?

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II has no official multiplayer. The KCD:MP mod adds it, and on a roleplay server the point is not to win a match but to play a person. You choose a name that fits fifteenth-century Bohemia, you speak as that person, and you live by what they would do. Out-of-character talk has its own channels; everywhere else, you are your character.

Kingdom Come suits it well. The combat is slow and deadly enough that a drawn sword means something, the towns and the countryside are real places, and a groschen is worth earning. Add other players and every merchant, guard, thief and lord can be a person with their own plans.

Blood & Banners RP: a Kuttenberg roleplay server

The realm runs on its own game mode, built for role-play first. What you earn, own and break stays earned, owned and broken: when you log out, your character keeps where they stood, what they carried, their horse and their skills. Nobody is handed a story. You find work, make friends and enemies, swear to a banner or raise your own, and settle disputes with words, coin or steel. The server is on the official KCD:MP list as play.bloodandbanners.net:7777, with 1000 places. The realm is open now: 0 of 1000 souls inside.

How to join the KCD2 roleplay server

1. Own the game

   Kingdom Come: Deliverance II on Steam, the Microsoft Store or Epic, kept up to date.

2. Register your character

   Register here with a first name and a family name, a trade or a place, such as "Jan Kovar" or "Mikulas of Rattay", and write a little of who they are. The staff read every application before you can play. You must be 16 or older.

3. Download the launcher

   Download the Blood & Banners RP launcher and open it. The first time, it fetches the official KCD:MP client for you and checks it.

   The launcher is new and not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC": choose More info → Run anyway. It talks only to www.bloodandbanners.net, and fetches the official KCD:MP client from GitHub, checked against its published SHA-256.

4. Sign in and play

   Sign in with your character name and your website password, and press Sign in and play. The game starts on our server and lets you straight in.

Already have the KCD:MP launcher? Use your registered character name, find Blood & Banners RP on its server list or join play.bloodandbanners.net:7777 (our page on kcd-mp.com), and give your website password in the game's box. The joining page has every detail.

What there is to do

• Factions and heraldry. Found a house, a guild or a band for 500 groschen, with ranks, wages, rights and coffers. Design its coat of arms here and hang its banners in the game. Factions ally and declare wars with a stated cause, and hold towns and keeps. See the factions.
• Trades and crafting. Twenty-two trades, from woodcutter and miner to physician, herald and night watchman, each with ten levels. Forge by hand at the anvil, brew potions by the book, and follow the grain from field to mill to bakery. See the trades.
• An economy and a bank. Coin in your purse can be stolen; coin with the money-changer cannot. Hourly wages, the Crown's tax, trading posts that pay more for goods carried far, an auction house, and taverns of your own with a barkeep to sell for you.
• Property and housing. Buy a house, shop, tavern or market stall at its own door, or rent an inn room. Cut spare keys, keep a strongbox, furnish it, and pay the upkeep each week. See the property market.
• The law. Crimes others notice put you on the wanted roll with a bounty. The watch arrests and fines, the cell and the pillory wait, and the courts try those accused, sometimes by combat.
• Citizenship. Rise from Settler to Patrician by the hours you live in the realm and what you hold.
• Quests. Townsfolk with work to give, quests for one, co-op quests for up to six and group quests for three to twelve, and jobs posted by other players on the notice board.
• Tournaments and duels. Bouts at the lists with wagers, duels to the yield, to first blood or to the death before witnesses, archery contests, and sieges on Wednesday and Saturday evenings.
• Hunting and fishing. Hunt with a licence, track legendary beasts with a price on their heads, and fish the rivers for record catches and three legendary fish.
• The website. A forum, a public page for every citizen, a live map of who holds what, a weekly broadsheet and badges. The guide explains every system.

A lethal blow wounds rather than kills. Struck again while wounded, you die and wake at the infirmary, which costs coin and time, but your character lives on.

The rules, in short

1. Stay in character. Out-of-character talk goes in /b and /ooc, and only there.
2. No killing without a reason your character would stand behind. A wounded enemy is a choice: finishing them is murder in the eyes of the law and of the staff.
3. Value your life. When a blade is at your throat, act like it.
4. Wars between factions need a stated cause and a day's notice. Sieges only at their appointed hours.
5. No exploiting bugs, cheats or third-party tools. Report bugs to staff with /report.
6. Respect other players. Harassment, hate speech and real-life threats mean a permanent ban.

Read every rule before you set out.

The community

Talk of the realm happens on the forum: help for newcomers (even while your application is read), faction recruitment, in-character letters and character stories. There is also a Discord. The staff keep the peace and answer tickets, and the server is kept by its players' patronage.

Questions about KCD2 roleplay

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Blood & Banners RP is a community server. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II belongs to Warhorse Studios and Deep Silver; KCD:MP is a fan project. Neither is affiliated with this server.