Solasta: Crown of the Magister (2020)
Solasta: Crown of the Magister is a 2020 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Tactical Adventures.
Built directly on Dungeons & Dragons fifth-edition rules, Solasta cares about the things tabletop players care about: line of sight, verticality, reaction attacks, and the exact reach of a torch. You roll a party of four adventurers, each with a voiced personality, and send them into the shattered world of Solasta to chase an ancient cataclysm before it repeats. Combat rewards planning, with collapsing bridges, toppled columns, and darkness that hides monsters or hides you. The presentation is modest, but few CRPGs render the pen-and-paper ruleset this honestly.
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What is Solasta: Crown of the Magister about?
Built directly on Dungeons & Dragons fifth-edition rules, Solasta cares about the things tabletop players care about: line of sight, verticality, reaction attacks, and the exact reach of a torch. You roll a party of four adventurers, each with a voiced personality, and send them into the shattered world of Solasta to chase an ancient cataclysm before it repeats. Combat rewards planning, with collapsing bridges, toppled columns, and darkness that hides monsters or hides you. The presentation is modest, but few CRPGs render the pen-and-paper ruleset this honestly.
When was Solasta: Crown of the Magister released?
Solasta: Crown of the Magister was released on 20 October 2020.
Who made Solasta: Crown of the Magister?
Solasta: Crown of the Magister was made by Tactical Adventures.
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A few thoughts on Solasta: Crown of the Magister
Solasta plays like a session of tabletop D&D, so the natural next stops are Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which turns the ruleset into a heist caper, and The Legend of Vox Machina, an actual-play party rendered as animated fantasy. For a printed adventure in the same high-fantasy key, Christopher Paolini's Brisingr carries the dragon-and-destiny spirit.
D&D stories that actually play by the rules
Solasta plays fifth-edition rules straight, down to reach and line of sight, so it sits close to actual tabletop fiction. The Legend of Vox Machina and Honor Among Thieves both grew out of real D&D tables. Oathbringer, Brisingr, Wizard and Glass and Redwall trade the dice for prose, but keep the same party-of-adventurers structure and the sense of a world worth getting lost in.
Music heavy enough for the end of an age
Solasta sends a party of four to stop a cataclysm centuries in the making, the kind of stakes these records were built for. The Return of the King score is the reference point for music about a world at its end. King Crimson's debut and Fates Warning's The Spectre Within trade orchestras for guitars but keep the same doom-laden grandeur, and Dimmu Borgir's IX Equilibrium adds a colder, darker edge.