KickStarter Solasta: Crown of the Magister - 5E OGL turn-based RPG with verticality - now on Early Access

Somehow they received government money that apparently covers the budget "necessary for the preproduction and production phases, until the launch of its first game": https://presse.bpifrance.fr/bpifran...elargissement-de-son-champ-dinterventionnbsp/

Google translate:

 

It's not dead, Jim?

In b4 the french gubmint goes through the game with a fine comb, looking for any crimethink and unrealistic standarts for women or something.

 

Officially announced. Solasta: Crown of the Magister, party-based, turn-based RPG with vertical explorations (flying and climbing!) and environmental interactions. Sounds very cool!

Coming to Kickstarter soon.

https://www.solasta-game.com/

 

Hell, yeah! A party of six would be better, but four is doable. Already shaping up to be better than Baldur's Gate 3.

From the video:

"To us, a good table top game treats all players as equal. The party is not one hero and his followers."

These guys get it.

 

From the website:







And from the trailer:

 

This looks promising.

 

It looks very much like Moria sections from LotR movies was a big influence.

 

signature material right there

 

Looks interesting. I hope the verticality guff is consistently applied and not just a gimmick.

 

From their forums, someone asked:

"Do you want to use turn-based combat or 'classical' system?"

Turn-based combat is the classical system.

 

Heh, a playable demo is coming "soon":

Community manager answered: https://forums.solasta-game.com/replies/13

 

Epic store?

 

Some bits from the forums and Discord:

https://forums.solasta-game.com/replies/6

"a town"

Sounds like this will be very much focused, carefully scoped RPG as this is their first production, probably something like "a game about traversing brown-colored vertical dungeons."

 

A town, and dungeon.

Just like Wizardry.

 

That is all you need to make a great game. Wizardry and Diablo 1, as examples.

 

Yeah. This gives me the impression of a D&D version of Diablo I with some environmental gimmicks. I'd buy that.

 

So like original D&D?

 

Yeah, because Diablo is the epitome of party-based TB RPGs.

 

And who said that?

 

From forums:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1096530/discussions/0/1642041106350932770/#c1642041106353553667

I guess this will be interesting comparison to BG3 on implementation of (almost) same ruleset.

https://forums.solasta-game.com/replies/16

And from Disco party:

(I wonder if he heard something about BG3, but I guess it's not hard to guess Larian will try to do that.)

 

If this game doesn't let me place a Grease spell near a ledge and watch as enemies slip and slide to their deaths I'm going to be massively disappointed.

 

On the subject of verticality, one example in computer role-playing games that comes to mind is the 3DO Might and Magic installments, which had the Fly spell. The party could ascend vertically in order to navigate elevated, hard to reach locations, and of course use missile weapons and spells to bombard the enemy on the ground. A more apt analogy for a dungeon crawler might be Demise:Ascension, featuring a monolithic underground game-world and likewise had a powerful magic flight spell. This ability proved crucial in exploration, even traversing between the hierarchy of levels.

The environmental interaction of Solasta is not such a big selling point for me. Regardless, the developers have already described scenarios where the three dimensional terrain is used to escape monsters who cannot access areas where the characters go, or to gain the advantage of elevated position in combat. Within the context of party-based adventuring first, it will be interesting to see how it works in an isometric game.

 

"If this game doesn't let me place a Grease spell near a ledge and watch as enemies slip and slide to their deaths I'm going to be massively disappointed."

I'd laugh if you cast that spell, and then one of your characters fails their dex save and slips and slides over the cliff instead.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

 

I hope the party creation tool will allow us to pick multiple of the same classes. Having to play with the same party every time would get boring.

 

Post this on their forums, that's a good idea . Here its not likely they will read it.