Not quite related but I'd much rather have a limited set of tools that I need to get creative with than a boatload of stuff which are tailored to very specific situations.
I'm more optimistic. Lost Valley would have been released when there was barely any DM content and props in the DM show signs of progress toward a better understanding of how to allow for interesting area design. Its good enough that at this point if they let me customize enemy spell parameters (not the spells, just the parameters), put in more props for verticality (similar to castle walls, though floor raising/lowering by some method would be best), and let adds automatically latch into battle with the same encounter number then I'd feel the only thing holding me back would be myself and not the DM.
I'm not either but I'm much more willing to tolerate it for a small company working off kickstarter. I'd be butthurt if it was a massive company.
That much is true, and the DLC are cheap anyways. I wonder if they'll do the inevitable Enhanced Edition in the near future.
I played a couple other short user campaigns, now running back through the forsaken isle to rebalance the final battle with new creatures, then gonna return to user campaigns. Won't be a major change but the final battle will be different. Lost Valley isn't bad but the faction alignment ended up being clear as mud and my ending was a massive buzzkill for me.
Any you recommend?
what was your party/kits? Barbarians at glance seem like weaker paladins to me... Also require more frequent long rest than casters?
I played Destined to be Loveless which I liked the story, some of it told through enemy/item descriptions and has to be figured out via inference which I loved, but it was made when a lot of features weren't available so the basic gameplay suffers a lot for it.
Barbarian, rogue, cleric and sorceror. Barbarian with decent dex + path of stone is good for only three things- hitting hard, being hard to hit and taking hard hits when they do connect. Path of stone + ac boosting items and feats will make him practically untouchable.
Not at all. One use of rage is enough for each fight, more or less.
how so? it actually lags behind end game when other classes get extra attack while you can still sneak attack once.
You? with caster party?
I usually bring a caster mainly to hear them scream.
There is a mod called Unfinished Business on github that has an enormous amount of new subclasses, multiclassing, and settings. I haven't used it yet, though I will. But its highly likely to be what you want, though using it mid-campaign wouldn't be advised.
Rather than attempting to obtain the license for the worst D&D/AD&D setting ever created, the developers of Solasta would have been better served by acquiring the rights to use the Dragonlance setting, rather than merely ripping it off with the game world overall being vague or incoherent.
Short, delicate, and prone to flee at the first sign of difficulties?
Just like Orcs represent Black people, Gnomes are Jews, and Dwarves are drunk Scots, Elves are Frenchmen.
