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

[Fedora Master]

So, about those faces...

 

[ERYFKRAD]

So, about those faces...

They're still German.

 

[Fedora Master]

So, about those faces...

They're still German.

I have it on good authority that they're in fact Br'ish

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

So, about those faces...

 

[mediocrepoet]

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

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[ERYFKRAD]

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[Artyoan]

Published this. My take on a highly randomized, six man party, attrition-based combat campaign. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3331210438

Still a work in progress as I'll be adding more levels to it. Currently goes to level 13. Eventually I'll make enough to go to 20 unless I get severely burned out. Will be slow going though as I'm gonna take some breaks here and there.

 

[Alienman]

In Solasta campaign maker, is it possibly to slow down XP gain, to keep low levels longer?

 

[Artyoan]

In Solasta campaign maker, is it possibly to slow down XP gain, to keep low levels longer?

Yes. If you make custom monsters then you can set the Challenge Rating value to 0 which means it will give no exp. In hidden quests and dialogue the dungeon maker can either give flat experience amounts or level the player to whatever level specified. In this campaign, monsters give exp on kill but it is irrelevant. The exp that matters is granted on advancing to the next location.

Edit: I guess it would be relevant if you play with less than six characters. Though I expect that to be rare. I could drop everything but undead to 0 since turn undead can kill based on the CR. Unfinished Business mod allows for changing exp rates too.

 

[onemananadhisdroid]

Reminds me that I still haven't played Palace Of Ice. Does it have an overland map again to "explore"? Liked Lost Valley, actually. edit: Just bought it.


Overall the game reminded me of SSI games of yore in general: Just a simple setup, here's your D&D, go. Plus you didn't need to engage with walls of unedited text and neverending Wraths Of The Trash Mobs just to make a campaign made on a finite budget more epic than LOTR, War And Peace and Doctor Zhivago combined. Nothing that will be remembered as one of the GOATs. But also nothing that tests your patience around every bloody corner.

 

[ferratilis]

Age of Decadence looks like a graphical tour de force compared to this.

 

[onemananadhisdroid]

Age of Decadence looks like a graphical tour de force compared to this.

Vinceful thinking.

 

[Artyoan]

Reminds me that I still haven't played Palace Of Ice. Does it have an overland map again to "explore"? Liked Lost Valley, actually. edit: Just bought it.


Overall the game reminded me of SSI games of yore in general: Just a simple setup, here's your D&D, go. Plus you didn't need to engage with walls of unedited text and neverending Wraths Of The Trash Mobs just to make a campaign made on a finite budget more epic than LOTR, War And Peace and Doctor Zhivago combined. Nothing that will be remembered as one of the GOATs. But also nothing that tests your patience around every bloody corner.

It does have a world map. And it let dungeon maker campaigns use the world map as well.

 

[Litmanen]

Hey guys, I'm doing my usual RPG rounds to figure out what to play next after finishing Pillars of Eternity II.

While I'm trying to translate that fascinating shit called World of Chaos and playing Baldur's Gate 3 in co-op, I decided to restart (for the tenth time) The Witcher 2. But I'm really fed up with action games that require remembering and pressing 200 buttons. If it's going to be action, it better have a Gothic(or Divinity II)-style combat.

So, I've thrown myself back into my beloved turn-based isometrics. Nice and easy for old folks like me.

Considering I'm playing BG3 in co-op on Honor Mode, and generally don't find it too challenging (excluding some fights, like the githyanki inquisitor who, at level 6, totally kicks my ass), what difficulty level should I choose for Solasta? 'Cataclysm' feels a bit 'over the top' to me.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Hey guys, I'm doing my usual RPG rounds to figure out what to play next after finishing Pillars of Eternity II.

While I'm trying to translate that fascinating shit called World of Chaos and playing Baldur's Gate 3 in co-op, I decided to restart (for the tenth time) The Witcher 2. But I'm really fed up with action games that require remembering and pressing 200 buttons. If it's going to be action, it better have a Gothic(or Divinity II)-style combat.

So, I've thrown myself back into my beloved turn-based isometrics. Nice and easy for old folks like me.

Considering I'm playing BG3 in co-op on Honor Mode, and generally don't find it too challenging (excluding some fights, like the githyanki inquisitor who, at level 6, totally kicks my ass), what difficulty level should I choose for Solasta? 'Cataclysm' feels a bit 'over the top' to me.

Give authentic a try. Then scale up. Honestly you're pretty set once you hit level five irrespective of difficulty.

 

[Litmanen]

Hey guys, I'm doing my usual RPG rounds to figure out what to play next after finishing Pillars of Eternity II.

While I'm trying to translate that fascinating shit called World of Chaos and playing Baldur's Gate 3 in co-op, I decided to restart (for the tenth time) The Witcher 2. But I'm really fed up with action games that require remembering and pressing 200 buttons. If it's going to be action, it better have a Gothic(or Divinity II)-style combat.

So, I've thrown myself back into my beloved turn-based isometrics. Nice and easy for old folks like me.

Considering I'm playing BG3 in co-op on Honor Mode, and generally don't find it too challenging (excluding some fights, like the githyanki inquisitor who, at level 6, totally kicks my ass), what difficulty level should I choose for Solasta? 'Cataclysm' feels a bit 'over the top' to me.

Give authentic a try. Then scale up. Honestly you're pretty set once you hit level five irrespective of difficulty.

Thank you, I'll.

The thing is that I know D&D 5 can be quite easy for the players but, yeah, as you said, maybe is better to give it a try on "authentic"

 

[Fedora Master]

Age of Decadence looks like a graphical tour de force compared to this.

Vinceful thinking.

And then the camera pans to your potato-faced Br'ish band of misfits.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Age of Decadence looks like a graphical tour de force compared to this.

Vinceful thinking.

And then the camera pans to your potato-faced Br'ish band of misfits.

Jealousy does you no good, krautski

 

[Robber Baron]

Honestly
How hard is it to mod in attractive faces

 

[Artyoan]

Honestly
How hard is it to mod in attractive faces

I regularly check the solasta discord and only as of the last week has anyone with the required expertise come along to investigate how to insert new models into the game. Though they seem to want to focus on new weapon models first. I'd personally prefer new weapons/armor over faces since custom portraits can be used and cutscenes don't occur in custom campaigns. Hopefully they are successful.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Don't mind Fedora. If you had to get up every day and see his face in the mirror, you wouldn't want to gaze at the same unholy mess in your games either.

 

[Litmanen]

How does it works with the DLCs?

I have seen I can play Palace of Ice importing my main campaign save, where I'm supposed to reach level 10. is this DLC normally thought for a level 10 (to 12) party?

What about the other campaign I see there (The Lost Valley, Caer Falcarn, Dun Cuin)? Do I have to create new characters and start from level 1? What about Dun Cuin that says Level 5-10 (or something like that)? Do I start with a level 5 party?

Thank you, guys!

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Palace of Ice is intended to be played with an imported party from the base campaign, since it follows that plot and assumes the party begins at about the level at which the base campaign ends.

The Lost Valley is intended to be started with a party of level 1 characters, rising similarly in level over the course of it as in the base campaign.

Haven't played the other two myself, but it seems that Caer Falcarn is a shorter campaign intended to be started with level 1 characters rising to level 4, who can then be imported into the similarly-brief Dun Cuin campaign.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Palace of Ice is intended to be played with an imported party from the base campaign, since it follows that plot and assumes the party begins at about the level at which the base campaign ends.

The Lost Valley is intended to be started with a party of level 1 characters, rising similarly in level over the course of it as in the base campaign.

Haven't played the other two myself, but it seems that Caer Falcarn is a shorter campaign intended to be started with level 1 characters rising to level 4, who can then be imported into the similarly-brief Dun Cuin campaign.

The difference here is that Palace of Ice imports the save from Crown of the magister so some decisions taken there also get some airtime in Palace of Ice.
Whereas with all custom modules, you get the option to export the characters at the end of the module. So that's how you can have the same party transferred from Caer Falcarn to Dun Cuin.
Alternatively you can manually level up characters in the character roster for all those modules that want a higher level party at the beginning.
Honestly Litmanen, Dun Cuin and Caer Falcarn are absolutely unexceptional linear modules. Just straight dungeon crawls, Caer Falcarn didn't even have towns with NPCs. You're better off playing lost valley instead.