Game News Solasta: Crown of the Magister Dev Diary - Combat & Action Economy

[Gyor]

The feats look interesting. Both BG3 and Solasta felt the need to make their unique cantrips. What does that say about how WotC handles cantrips.

 

[Thac0]

Oh and some math on why Dual Wielding Fighting is bad for any class that wants to fight melee:

Damage from a fighter with Sword and Board lvl1 1d8+5 = 9.5 damage
Damage from a fighter with dual wielding lvl 1 2x(1d6+3) = 13 damage
Dual Wielding with feat lvl 1 (only Vhuman) 2x (1d8+3)= 15


Sword and Board lvl 5+ 2x(1d8+6) = 21
Damage from a fighter DW lvl 5 3x(1d6+4) = 22.5
With feat level 5, feat from level 4 3x( 1d8+3) = 22.5
With feat lvl 5 (Vhuman) 3x (1d8+4)= 25.5

With the feat you also get +1 AC, so you are only 5% easier to hit than a shield wearer, compared to 10% without the feat. So its only somewhat acceptible if you play the strongest race Variant human for two weapon fighting feat at level 1. And even then you get outdamaged by Two Handed weapons all the time, and by Word and Board after level 11 with 3 attacks. And while 15 average damage at level 1 is really impressive, at level 5 you only deal about 5 damage more per turn than a Sword and Board fighter.

 

[purpleblob]

How good is the class building without multiclassing with D&D 5e?

 

[Thac0]

How good is the class building without multiclassing with D&D 5e?

Unexciting. When you dont multiclass the game is very well balanced, but there are very few decisions to make.
You can choose your spells. You can usually choose one subclass/specialisation per class. You can choose feats at levels 4 and 8 if you forgo raising your stats. You can choose your weapons on a martial, although this usually has very little consequence.
Its the reason why I am much more excited for BG3 than for Solasta, cutting multiclassing is dumb in 5e.

 

[Tom Baker's Arse]

To hell with this 5E horseshit -- why doesn't some smart-arse young dev team make a Gold Box-like game implementing the glorious 2e ruleset in a Greyhawk campaign setting ? We seriously need Greyhawk. Not this generic pigshit that is being churned out these days.

 

[Decado]

The game looks good except the interface. Modern ui's designs really lacks any charm at all. I'd wish developers would stop going for that crap or at least offered an alternative.

This is the only critique I can level so far -- the UI looks like an app to pay your fucking phone bill. Aside from that, unironic day one purchase for me.

 

[Spectacle]

To hell with this 5E horseshit -- why doesn't some smart-arse young dev team make a Gold Box-like game implementing the glorious 2e ruleset in a Greyhawk campaign setting ? We seriously need Greyhawk. Not this generic pigshit that is being churned out these days.

Neither 2e rules nor Greyhawk can be used without a new license from WotC, and you can forget about them licensing a new 2e game.

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

Wands generally dont exist in 5e. Magic weapons are super fucking rare and you cant use a wand as a main weapon since it will crumble to dust under heavy use and there is no way to magically refill them.

While wands cannot be used as weapons--almost all wands, rods, and staves regain charges daily at dawn. If you use the last charge, you roll 1d20. On a 1, the item is destroyed. It's a way better implementation than 3E. No more hording.

 

[Tom Baker's Arse]

To hell with this 5E horseshit -- why doesn't some smart-arse young dev team make a Gold Box-like game implementing the glorious 2e ruleset in a Greyhawk campaign setting ? We seriously need Greyhawk. Not this generic pigshit that is being churned out these days.

Neither 2e rules nor Greyhawk can be used without a new license from WotC, and you can forget about them licensing a new 2e game.

I'm 70. I don't have much time left on this giant ball of smut. More and more, I am getting my RPG fix from my two weekly tabletop groups (Greyhawk group, and Pathfinder group). The bottom line is that CRPGs are just plain shite these days. I can get so much more enjoyment in the realm of my mind on the tabletop.

 

[Thac0]

Wands generally dont exist in 5e. Magic weapons are super fucking rare and you cant use a wand as a main weapon since it will crumble to dust under heavy use and there is no way to magically refill them.

While wands cannot be used as weapons--almost all wands, rods, and staves regain charges daily at dawn. If you use the last charge, you roll 1d20. On a 1, the item is destroyed. It's a way better implementation than 3E. No more hording.

That however leads to very weird gameplay where wands are used up until they are at 1 charge, and then stowed until they atleast rise to two charges again. I would prefer if you could still cast spells with empty wands and that is where the destruction roll happens.
However since wands are super rare in 5e, and the recharge rates go from 1d4-1 to 1d4+1 there is absolutely no way to use a wand as a main weapon.

 

[Spectacle]

Wands generally dont exist in 5e. Magic weapons are super fucking rare and you cant use a wand as a main weapon since it will crumble to dust under heavy use and there is no way to magically refill them.

While wands cannot be used as weapons--almost all wands, rods, and staves regain charges daily at dawn. If you use the last charge, you roll 1d20. On a 1, the item is destroyed. It's a way better implementation than 3E. No more hording.

That however leads to very weird gameplay where wands are used up until they are at 1 charge, and then stowed until they atleast rise to two charges again. I would prefer if you could still cast spells with empty wands and that is where the destruction roll happens.
However since wands are super rare in 5e, and the recharge rates go from 1d4-1 to 1d4+1 there is absolutely no way to use a wand as a main weapon.

Well, if you happen to find a Wand of the War Mage, you can use it as a focus and get +to hit on all your spell attack rolls. That's as close as you get to using a wand as a main weapon.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Dwarvophile]

To hell with this 5E horseshit -- why doesn't some smart-arse young dev team make a Gold Box-like game implementing the glorious 2e ruleset in a Greyhawk campaign setting ? We seriously need Greyhawk. Not this generic pigshit that is being churned out these days.

Because Greyhawk requires more writing skill while Faerun is more of a longboard. Greyhawk is les detailed and I remember it as a place where it felt like the whole world could collapse in the time of a campaign while Faerun was more about petty intrigues between local lords.