Can my current vanilla game party make it through HoF?

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So, then I should keep the weapon with Exectioner's Eyes in my off-hand and use a Keen weapon in my main hand?

 

Yes, if the weapons have about the same base damage to begin with.

Otherwise the one with more oomph gets the main hand.

 

Bastard's Son is a great offhand weapon and exec. eyes negates the penalty for having a large offhand weapon as well due to the +4 hit (both hands) at least in the beginning.

Yet there are better weapons later on (bast. sword 'Cold fire' O_O!) and I prefer a more suitable weapon in the offhand as well (goblin slayer dagger or brilliant short sword).
To be honest, there are more penalties for using 2 large weapons than otherwise, cause your strength bonus (+damage) is halved and round down and you get nonetheless always only 1 attack per round with that specific weapon. Critical hits are nice to have, but a weapon which deals 'always' an additional 5d6 or 6d6 elemental damage is way more powerful...

e.g. my dualwielding cleric (18/1 fighter @end of 'normal' campaign) contributed 39% experience to the party (4 ppl)

(another penalty might be the +2 enchantment, there are several enemies you can only hit with +3 or higher or bypass their DR completely)

Besides, I don't get the idea of this character, 1 pal/1 monk/x cler is fine to begin with, if you plan to use him as 2nd healer - else he will get access to better spells very late in HoF (draw upon holy mighty & holy power are both very nasty selfbuffs ^^).
But on the other hand the Monk level are usually only good for a tank/decoy, not really for a damage dealer. Cause you need to push his wisdom sky-high to get the armor benefit but on the other side it lacks 'some' damage....

just my 0.02$

 

If I have mutliple PCs withat least 2 levels in Paladin, which provides Aura of courage(+4 bonus vs fear for party members). Do the bonuses stack? I have the Guardian in mind...

 

I have read somewhere the auras effect on party members do not work at all though the actual aura holder will indeed be immune to panic. however, a single casting of the level 1 remove fear spell will totally negate the guardians passive panic effect as well as the worg collar you found in the prologue.

it was always a tough choice to take that second paladin level because fear immunity is really nice but there are many ways to get this effect without devoting a precious character level to it.

fear immunity sources includes : chaotic commands, exaltation(?), mind blank, worg/houndstooth collar, remove fear, resist fear (level 2 arcane spell that was for reason disabled in the vanilla game).

 

I have the Worg Collar on my Cleric. He was good. ButI casted the Remove Fear spell and still had my Half-Orc Barb/Fighter running for the hills. That is prety crappy to know that the Aura doesn't help the party. My next questions was going to be if it affected Summons as well... oh well.

 

aura of courage and worg collar will make it so you will not actually roll a will save, it will just say you were unaffected.

other forms of fear immunty still forces you to make a roll and a roll of 1 will mean you still get feared/panic-ed.