Solasta - Dev Update #30

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Tactical Adventures posted a dev update for Solasta, in which they present the dragonborn race:

ev Update #30 - Back with the Dragonborn!

Hey there folks!

It's been more than a year since our last proper Dev Update (which marked the end of our Early Access!), with Solasta gradually growing larger and larger with new classes, races, improvements, a higher level cap and even another campaign. And now as we're close to getting the final classes to complete the roster, we've decided to give you guys a few Dev Updates every two weeks while waiting for Inner Strength to be released! But before that... for those of you who never read our Dev Updates before, get acquainted to a tradition of ours. Cats!

Ye Ol' Dragonborn
Those of you familiar with D&D know that Dragonborns were primarily introduced in the 4th edition (although they were featured in Races of the Dragon
from 3e before that). Long story short: Spellplague happened, two worlds collided, hello Dragonborns welcome to Toril (apologies to all the Faerun historians that I've just offended). However, the biggest mystery when it came to the Dragonborn was... What's their origin?
Are they descendants of dragons (by blood)? Were they created by dragons (by magic)? Are they victims of a spell that turned them into Dragonborns? Do they simply share an older common ancestor with dragons? Turns out, all we have are legends... which is fine with us!

You see, we asked ourselves all these questions to make sure that our Solastan Dragonborn wouldn't go against the very nature of what a Dragonborn should be. Solastan Dragonborns are a little less mysterious than their official counterpart, they are simply descendants of unions between polymorphed dragons and humanoid lineages. Although they were well accepted in the Manacalon Empire, they became very reclusive after the Cataclysm due to a number of reasons. The newly freed slaves did not look kindly upon their former elven masters nor their collaborators (such as the dragonborns) - and their physical appearance would often draw suspiscion from those unfamiliar with the race. And with many grieving their losses from the Sorr-Akkath... So there you have it! In Solasta Dragonborns are rare and fairly secretive, only recently starting to venture back into more civilized lands. With most having completely forgotten about the Soraks, their striking appearance is also less stigmatized than it was in the past.

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Thanks Redglyph!

More information.

 

[Hastar]

It will be interesting to see how the Dragonborn face looks. The other races have some pretty ugly faces. I don't really care about that but many others were unhappy with the graphics.

 

[Arkadia7]

Yea those face graphics in that game were really unpleasant -- I noticed from screenshots and watching youtube videos of the gameplay....unless they were going for the most hideous category....(lol)

 

[Redglyph]

That's always been the game's Achilles' heel. I didn't care either, though.

EDIT: and now I'm wondering how they'll make the lip-sync when dragonborns talk. There can't be many 3D libs for that specific case.

 

[booboo]

I hope they aren't just sorr-akkath in disguise ;-)

 

[rjshae]

Game-play wise, it's a bit of a drawback that they don't have darkvision.

 

[NFLed]

I think I'm in the significant minority that I not only don't care much about how a character looks (as long as it's anything close to what seems realistic), but I also don't care much about having a huge variety of character classes and races. I tend to play through games only once, or a second time years later if it's a good game, and don't need a bajillion character options to choose from as long as there are enough options not to feel as though it's just on rails.

What I want a lot of is interest in immersive story, including interesting characters, as well as fun gameplay.