Solasta: Crown of the Magister -- Character creation guide

So, you've decided to try out Solasta: Crown of the Magister. While the game does let you select premade characters for your party of four, you can create your own. The process is actually fairly detailed, and you can spend an hour or so trying to see all the options for min-maxing. In any case, here's our Solasta: Crown of the Magister character creation guide to help you with everything you need to know about races, lineages, ability scores/attributes, skills, personalities, proficiencies, backgrounds, feats, and more. Note: For more information, check out our Solasta: Crown of the Magister guides and features hub. Solasta: Crown of the Magister guide - Everything you need to know about character creation We're going to discuss a lot of facets of character creation in Solasta: Crown of the Magister. As such, I've divided this guide into multiple sections. You can refer to the pages below for the parts that you need help with: Races, lineages, and classes Backgrounds, origins, and character personalities Ability scores: Dice roll vs. point-buy system Skill proficiencies and languages Leveling up and selecting feats Note: For class, subclass, spells, and build guides, you can read the ones we have for the Cleric, Paladin, Ranger, and Wizard. Choosing your character's race, lineage, and class As with many CRPGs, selecting your character's race is the first important choice you'll make in Solasta: Crown of the Magister. Below, you'll see the details for each of the game's races (ancestries). There are also lineages or variations of a particular race. You'll notice bonuses to certain ability scores (attributes) such as strength, wisdom, and the like. Race Lineage 1 Lineage 2 Dwarf 5 movement +2 CON Dwarven Resilience: Saving throw advantage and resistance to poison damage Proficiency: Battleaxe, handaxe, warhammer Hill Dwarf +1 WIS +1 HP per level Darkvision Languages: Common, Dwarvish Snow Dwarf +1 DEX Proficiency: Heavy crossbow Darkvision Languages: Common, Dwarvish Elves +2 DEX Fey Ancestry: Saving throw advantage; immunity to magical sleep Darkvision Proficiency: Perception skill Trance: 4 hours of meditation are enough to rest High Elf 6 movement +1 INT Proficiency: Longsword, shortsword, longbow, shortbow High Elf Cantrip: Choose a wizard cantrip; uses INT Language: Common, Elvish, and one more choice Sylvan Elf 7 movement +1 WIS Proficiency: Longsword, shortsword, longbow, shortbow Proficiency: Survival and Athletics; Survival advantage when hunting Languages: Common, Elvish, Dwarvish, and Halfling Halfling 5 movement +2 DEX Brave: Saving throw advantage against being frightened Lucky: Reroll if you roll a 1 Halfling Nimbleness: Move through the space of a creature that's larger than you Island Halfling +1 CHA Languages: Common, Halfling, and one more choice Rope Dancing: Advantage on DEX checks (Acrobatics) Marsh Halfling +1 CON Languages: Common and Hafling Swamp Affinity Darkvision Half-Elf (no lineages) 6 movement +2 CHA; increase two other ability scores by 1 point each Bonus Skills: Choose any two skills Darkvision Fey Ancestry Languages: Common, Elvish, and one more choice Human (no lineages) 6 movement +1 to all ability scores Languages: Common and one more choice Humans are definitely the most generic of the bunch. I guess it's an Average Joe/Jane thing since humans only get +1 to each ability, but don't particularly excel in anything else. Likewise, you'll notice that certain races have the Darkvision perk. This is actually integral during your run since lighting plays a huge role when you engage opponents in battles. You're at a disadvantage when you try to attack enemies in dimly lit or dark areas, but Darkvision helps alleviate this. Moving on, let's talk about class picks. This screen shows you additional bonuses, skills, and proficiencies that each class has. This is also where you can change a character's starting weapon loadout. Let's pretend that we picked a Rogue. All right, in the next section of our Solasta: Crown of the Magister character creation guide, we'll talk about backgrounds and personalities. Backgrounds, origins, and character personalities Choosing the background or origin of your character in Solasta: Crown of the Magister will affect certain skills, weapon/armor proficiencies, and languages. For instance, if I choose a Rogue with a Sellsword background, that character will have proficiency in Athletics and Intimidation checks, medium armor, and an extra language. Meanwhile, the Spy background gives proficiency when it comes to Stealth and Deception checks, Nature and Poisoner's Kit crafting, and two more languages. Note: Ideally, you'll want your party to have a Wizard due to the class' amazing AoE spells and proficiency with the Manacalon Rosary and Arcana skill used in crafting primed items. If you don't have one, then you can choose the Academic background for the Manacalon Rosary proficiency. Perhaps another important aspect is that backgrounds will determine the sidequest that your character can undertake as you play. For example, the Philosopher background has an NPC asking you about the nature of good and evil. As for the Aristocrat background, you'll have to deal with an inheritance and squabbling heirs. Lastly, you'll also notice the personality flags that can be selected. You can choose two main ones and two additional ones. These mostly determine the disposition of a particular character such as when having banter or when responding to queries. This isn't a strict alignment system that'd make party members leave if you'd a bad guy (that doesn't happen in Solasta: Crown of the Magister). It's just additional fluff. Anyway, it's time to talk about the ability scores or attributes in the next section of our guide. Ability scores and attributes: Dice rolls vs. the point-buy system Solasta: Crown of the Magister has six ability scores, also known as attributes or stats in other RPGs: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. Each class tends to prioritize a select few ability scores, and the panel on the right even shows you which ones to take. For instance, a Rogue should go with DEX, followed by CON and INT as priorities. Dice Rolls The first method of allocating your points is via the dice roll system. Simply roll six dice, then assign them manually or click "optimize" to make it automatic. You can also keep rerolling dice until you get ideal values (i.e., getting an 18/18/17/15/12/12 roll or something like this that can be assigned). Point-buy system Then, there's the second method, the point-buy system. The default value gives you 27 points to allocate to each stat. However, if you click on the "free edit" button, you'll get an unlimited number of points. You'll be able to allocate them to have ability scores reach their nominal caps. It makes for characters who'd have an advantage in these checks due to high values right off the bat, though it's also a bit cheesy. All right, let's move on to the next part of our Solasta: Crown of the Magister character creation guide to deal with proficiencies, skills, and languages. Skills, proficiencies, and languages The next screen shows you the skill and proficiencies that you can boost for your character. Values that are fairly low are kind of useless when your party needs to get checks for them, so you'll want some peeps who can specialize in particular roles. Take a look at the columns from top to bottom and you'll notice that ability scores/attributes govern a particular skill (i.e., CHA handles Persuasion, Intimidation, and the like). Ideally, you'll want to have the following in your party: Athletics (STR) - This determines the jumping distance of characters. You'll need Athletics for exploration since it allows you to traverse the map, picking up loot on ledges, or pushing obstacles to create new paths. Stealth (DEX) - Stealth is very important since you want to be able to scout a room or a hallway without getting detected. This allows you to prepare and reposition accordingly before doing a surprise attack. Arcana (INT) - Having a Wizard already helps you here. Arcana is used since it aids in crafting weapons and armor with the Manacalon Rosary. Insight (WIS) - If you pass an Insight/WIS check during cutscenes, you can determine the success rates of dialogue choices. Deception/Intimidation/Persuasion (CHA) - Speaking of dialogue choices, these are the three options that are presented to you at particular points in the game. There aren't a lot of these, and having an Oath of Tirmar Paladin will probably cover all your needs. Since we're talking about dialogues already, take a look at the bottom of the screen to see the languages. Some are already unlocked based on race, whereas others can still be selected here. Likewise, don't forget proficiencies in certain utility items such as Smith's Tools and Poisoner's Kit (crafting) and Thieves' Tools (opening locks). Note: See if a skill option has a small icon. It means that these skills aren't actually used in Solasta: Crown of the Magister's main campaign, meaning these skills are fairly useless. This also applies to certain languages since you won't need to translate the speech of a specific race type during the main quest. Anyway, go ahead and finalize your character's identity (looks). That's it, you've completed your first custom character in Solasta: Crown of the Magister. Don't forget, we still have a couple of facets to discuss, namely leveling up and acquiring feats. Solasta: Crown of the Magister is available via Steam. For more information, check out our guides and features hub.

Solasta: Crown of the Magister — Character creation guide

Solasta: Crown of the Magister guide – Everything you need to know about character creation

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