{"id":9263,"date":"2021-08-02T00:50:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T00:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2021-08-04T09:39:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T09:39:54","slug":"solasta-crown-of-the-magister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/solasta-crown-of-the-magister\/","title":{"rendered":"Solasta: Crown of the Magister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much like Icewind Dale<\/a>, Solasta<\/a> is a low-level D&D<\/a> campaign focused primarily on combat.<\/p>\n

While the implementation of the 5e ruleset<\/a> is remarkably good, particularly in regards to movement and reaction abilities, the game suffers from a lack of party diversity; you can only have 4 party members, there’s no multiclassing, and the Barbarian, Bard, Druid, Monk, and Warlock classes<\/a> aren’t available.<\/p>\n

There’s also something of a lack of equipment variety, party due to this being a low-level campaign (meaning relatively little money with +1 enchantments being the norm) and partly because a lot of stuff is locked behind Faction relationship levels<\/a>. So you kind of need to use crafting<\/a> to get the most out of whatever party composition you go for.<\/p>\n

I ended up playing through with a party consisting of sword\/shield Paladin (never do this), a 2H-Spellblade (decent-ish), a Marksman (okay), and a Shock Arcanist (pretty good).<\/p>\n

As it turns out, having a Paladin use a shield is a terrible idea for the simple reason that nearly all of their spells<\/em> need a free hand to cast (2H weapons are fine since you can temporarily hold them with one hand). The Spellblade meanwhile suffers from a severe lack of defensive and melee-touch spells, but ends up remarkably mobile for a Fighter. Ranger is useful mainly for the Goodberry and Hunter’s Mark spells (the Marksman specialization didn’t add much)… although running a Greenmage might be a better idea in the end… and I have no complaints regarding Wizard’s Shock Arcanist variation.<\/p>\n

Putting aside mechanics we now come to the game’s primary flaw: Its storyline. The plot is… generic at best, while the character interactions and dialog in general are atrocious<\/em>. Fortunately, unlike in Iron Danger<\/a>, you don’t actually have to pay attention to any of that and can easily skip through it all.<\/p>\n

So is the game worth picking up? If you like turn-based D&D combat and are willing to sort through a bunch of Mods<\/a> to enhance variety, then by all means. If you want roleplaying choices and engaging developments however it would be best to avoid it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much like Icewind Dale, Solasta is a low-level D&D campaign focused primarily on combat. While the implementation of the 5e ruleset is remarkably good, particularly in regards to movement and reaction abilities, the game suffers from a lack of party diversity; you can only have 4 party members, there’s no multiclassing, and the Barbarian, Bard, Druid, Monk, and Warlock classes aren’t available. There’s also something of a lack of equipment variety, party due to this being a low-level campaign (meaning relatively little money with +1 enchantments being the norm) and partly because a lot of stuff is locked behind Faction relationship levels. So you kind of need to use crafting to get the most out of whatever party composition you go for. I ended up playing through with a party consisting of sword\/shield Paladin (never do this), a 2H-Spellblade (decent-ish), a Marksman (okay), and a Shock Arcanist (pretty good). As it turns out, having a Paladin use a shield is a terrible idea for the simple reason that nearly all of their spells need a free hand to cast (2H weapons are fine since you can temporarily hold them with one hand). The Spellblade meanwhile suffers from a severe lack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[24,28,121,120,473],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-video-game-related","tag-dungeons-dragons","tag-fantasy","tag-rpg","tag-tactical-rpg","tag-third-person-perspective"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t