Solasta: Crown of the Magister

forced death in that first fort ambush is a bit odd..
I have a paladin and cleric.. and 3 scrolls of revivify..

ha. noticed the bonus action spell restriction. something people not familiar with the obscure 5e rule might be confused about. as theres no tooltip for it.

"when casting a spell as a bonus action, you can't cast any spells as an action or reaction, unless its a cantrip during that same turn. "

so in game, you might cast cure wounds for example, then get the bonus action prompt, then be confused why it won't actually let you cast any of the bonus action spells.



should be able to end concentration spells at any time. I haven't figured out how to do that yet. specifically other peoples turns.

Can end concentration by clicking the circle on the character portrait, seems only on that character's turn though.

Also this is near the end of the game but still a bit nuts. Picked up a +2 ring after this screenshot so could be 30 ac but decided to put it on the cleric to make her AC 24

One big complaint is the player characters are an atrocity. Its almost impossible to make a decent looking one.

reavor said:

Yeah the character models are horrible, the dialogue and most of the UI. I get that they try to include some party banter but it comes off as incredibly stale. This was never gonna be some hot shot AAA competitor title, so why not play it smart and have good text-based dialogue instead of trying to voice act everything and as such make it generic and downsized? Not even PoE games or Pathfinder tried to do everything with voice acting, and they could afford to pay good voice actors and have them read tons of lines. It plays clunky, like really, have me go to inventory while looting a box? highlighting with ALT instad of the universally used TAB? ugh.

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They could have a limited array of decent PC models. They were actually better during the early access. Not sure what happened to make them all horrible.

Anyway aside from models game is well done. Voice acting is great but the models are so bad its gonna tank sales unfortunately.

Yeah the ending was pretty lame. I went and hit up a few custom dungeons after, there are a few really good multi tier collections out already. I am currently waiting for the Sorcerer to be released then will do another playthrough with it and the barbarian class mod.

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I just finished this earlier today and felt it was a good game.

It's extremely obvious that it's a low-budget game, but I was legitimately impressed with what they were able to accomplish with such a small team and very little money to work with. The mechanics of the game are fantastic and they did a excellent job of adopting the 5e ruleset, but the game isn't without its flaws. Some of which are just a product of having a shoestring budget. However, some a few of the flaws could have easily been avoided. For one, I really feel that the writing could have been A LOT better. I can accept and even understand shitty voice acting because it's a very expensive element of game production, but some of the writing was so 'tropey' and canned, it made me cringe a few times. Though I suppose that some of the sub-par writing may be a consequence of the game being developed by a French team.


All in all, I'm shocked (and pleased) at how well this Kickstarter project turned out. I don't know what the total development cost was, but it wasn't much. The KS campaign only raised about $290k. Despite that, the game is better than 90% of all D&D PC games ever produced. The game was definitely worth the $30 I paid and I hope the development team decides to make a sequel or similar D&D project with a real budget.

If these guys had just $10 million, I have no doubt they'd create an EPIC Iso-RPG.

Total drop the ball on this game. Incredibly bad itemization. The PC character models are such that it impossible to make a decent looking character.

Sad because with better art direction and sane itemized / crafting this could a classic. Everything else is quite well done.

Shmoopy said:

Total drop the ball on this game. Incredibly bad itemization. The PC character models are such that it impossible to make a decent looking character.

Sad because with better art direction and sane itemized / crafting this could a classic. Everything else is quite well done.

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I can agree with you that the itemization was not great. Also, I really dislike magic item vendors, especially those with magic items as powerful as the items that were available to be purchased. I did like what they were trying to do with the faction system and integrating it with crafting, even though it wasn't handled well either.


The models were definitely bad, but are not aware of the budget this game had? It was almost nothing. Shitty models/cut-scenes on shoe-string budgets are a given. The Kickstarter didn't even raise 300k... The game is masterpiece with that taken in to consideration. It's also a $30 game, at retail. Your expectations are really out of line with the reality of the project.

As I said in the post above yours, if this team had a proper budget, I believe they'd make an incredible D&D game. Certainly better than 90% of the trash WoTC/TSR has licensed over its history.

My major complaint is the writing. It was ok in some areas, but inexcusably tropey and cringe in many cases. The writing for dialog doesn't cost much and this game really should have leaned much harder on the story knowing they were going to fall short in areas (like graphics) that simply cost too much to compete with major studios.

So co-op multiplayer and a whole new campaign DLC

Yeah I got it yesterday.

It is okay. Certainly no game of the year, but I'll play it when bored