Solasta Solasta: Crown of the Magister Thread - now with Palace of Ice sequel DLC

[Cat Headed Eagle]

I'm not a fan of them hiding half of the game's classes behind a paywall though...

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.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

And done with the crown of the magefag campaign. Had fun but no urge to replay it.
Gonna either try Lost Valley with a party of barbarian, paladin, fighter and ranger or take a crack at Artyoan's modules.

 

[Artyoan]

And done with the crown of the magefag campaign. Had fun but no urge to replay it.
Gonna either try Lost Valley with a party of barbarian, paladin, fighter and ranger or take a crack at Artyoan's modules.

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.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I played a couple other short user campaigns

Any you recommend?

 

[lukaszek]

And done with the crown of the magefag campaign. Had fun but no urge to replay it.
Gonna either try Lost Valley with a party of barbarian, paladin, fighter and ranger or take a crack at Artyoan's modules.

what was your party/kits? Barbarians at glance seem like weaker paladins to me... Also require more frequent long rest than casters?

 

[Artyoan]

I played a couple other short user campaigns

Any you recommend?

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.

Working on Depths of Darkness, which just came out, and should get to level 5 for exporting characters at the end, to then import them into Shadows over Brightreach. Heard nothing but good things about Shadows over Brightreach too.

I've been looking for modules with more story elements but I actually have an itch to make a pure combat campaign with somewhat randomized maps/vendors/combat.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

what was your party/kits?

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.
Until the very last round of combat in the game, he stayed consistently above 60% hp.

Also require more frequent long rest than casters?

Not at all. One use of rage is enough for each fight, more or less.

Sneak attack is broken as fuck though, damn.

 

[lukaszek]

Sneak attack is broken as fuck though, damn.

how so? it actually lags behind end game when other classes get extra attack while you can still sneak attack once.
Although at the beginning, when you can re stealth and shoot bow, it is amazing

Barbarian, rogue, cleric and sorceror.

You? with caster party?

anyway you are going to enjoy no caster ones, I did in both campaigns. No need for heals when your paladin and ftr cant get hit. Id do whole maps without resting - I always like to limit them

 

[Parabalus]

Found blade warlock to be very effective, 2h attacks for deeps, with high level spells always.

Repulsing blast also destroys spiders, they are immune to shoves, but still get knocked back into the abyss by eldritch blasts.

The +1 spell item costing 17k is hilarious though.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

You? with caster party?

I usually bring a caster mainly to hear them scream.

 

[Gahbreeil]

I'm playing the base game only as a wizard/leader, paladin, rogue, cleric team and the game is brilliant! I really like everything about it except for the setting and plot and I am usually a Real-Time with Pause kind of a person. It deserves an easy 7/10

by the time there is a slight spoiler.

by the time the party ventures upon the quest to find the second gem.

The interface is intuitive and the division of the map into tiles with altitude layers is genuinely brilliant. You can even fly around. It deserves a place just beside the Temple of Elemental Evil as the best Turn-Based Western Role-Playing Games.

If it was set in the Forgotten Realms this game would be a 9/10 for me. Also, I wish there was dual-classing.

 

[Artyoan]

I'm playing the base game only as a wizard/leader, paladin, rogue, cleric team and the game is brilliant! I really like everything about it except for the setting and plot and I am usually a Real-Time with Pause kind of a person. It deserves an easy 7/10

by the time there is a slight spoiler.

by the time the party ventures upon the quest to find the second gem.

The interface is intuitive and the division of the map into tiles with altitude layers is genuinely brilliant. You can even fly around. It deserves a place just beside the Temple of Elemental Evil as the best Turn-Based Western Role-Playing Games.

If it was set in the Forgotten Realms this game would be a 9/10 for me. Also, I wish there was dual-classing.

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.

Anyone finding Solasta to be stale should check it out. And then check out user campaigns.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

If it was set in the Forgotten Realms this game would be a 9/10 for me.

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.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I'm tempted to give Lost Valley 10/10 solely because I am not running out of elves to kill. So many elves especially in the secret prison.
Honestly it's got a better plothook compared to the crown of the magefag, and the jungle vibes is nice.

 

[Sykar]

Why do you hate elves?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Why do you not?

 

[Larianshill]

Elves are a stand-in for the white race

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Nah they're a stand in for hippies at best.

 

[Trithne]

I like Elves, and I still hate Elves.

Around Elves, Watch Yourselves.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Elves are a stand-in for the white race

Short, delicate, and prone to flee at the first sign of difficulties?
What did they mean by this?

 

[mediocrepoet]

Elves are a stand-in for the white race

Short, delicate, and prone to flee at the first sign of difficulties?
What did they mean by this?

Just like Orcs represent Black people, Gnomes are Jews, and Dwarves are drunk Scots, Elves are Frenchmen.

 

[Artyoan]

So I'm thinking of making a small 'campaign' that has no story, no dialogue, just combat and gold economy. Central hub town, randomized vendors, randomized locations, and randomized encounters within those locations. Random loot drops, skill checks on props for random loot/gold. But restricting long resting so it uses the attrition system. Starts at level 1. Maybe 2.

Vague ideas of how I'd build it. But probably quicker to make without having dialogue. Just a ton of map making mostly, with hidden quests to randomly select them.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I'm tempted to give Lost Valley 10/10 solely because I am not running out of elves to kill. So many elves especially in the secret prison.
Honestly it's got a better plothook compared to the crown of the magefag, and the jungle vibes is nice.

And not long after a room full of elf casters.

 

[Sykar]

Why do you not?

Waste of time.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I'm tempted to give Lost Valley 10/10 solely because I am not running out of elves to kill. So many elves especially in the secret prison.
Honestly it's got a better plothook compared to the crown of the magefag, and the jungle vibes is nice.

And not long after a room full of elf casters.

Done with Lost Valley and Caer Falcarn. The dungeon thing wasn't anything special. Lost Valley was definitely more endearing than Crown of magefag. Guess once I'm done with Dun Cuin it's finally time to take a crack at custom maps.
If the OC is 6/10, Lost Valley is 6.5/10. (Real lost valley rating 11/10 will bully all the elves again)
The dungeon maker is kinda deceptive though. You think you're making a huge area but it barely spans three screens when you take it for a spin.