Hey hey people!
It's been forever and a half since our last News, hasn't it? Sorry for the radio silence, the Tactical Adventures' crew has been toiling over the past year on our next game - which we still won't announce for quite some time.
But that's not why we're here today! No? No! We're here to celebrate the 3-year anniversary of Solasta's 1.0 launch! And what better way to do that than bringing back the much-coveted Solasta Campaign Sourcebook. You heard that right, we've partnered with Modiphius Entertainment & Rookery Publications to publish a Revised Campaign Sourcebook including all the new subclasses released post-launch, totaling a number of 41 subclasses all adapted to Tabletop!
We'll talk about all that more in detail below, but before that... It's dangerous to go alone, take this.
Look at those ferocious little furballs. That's at least 1d4-2 slashing damage per claw.
Pre-order your Sourcebook here!
Don't need me to tell you more about the book itself before you start throwing money at the screen? Head over Modiphius' website to pre-order yours! But before you do so, here are a few things to keep in mind.
- If you already own a physical copy of the Solasta Sourcebook through Kickstarter, Modiphius kindly provided us with a discount coupon that you should have received by mail, be sure to redeem it when you checkout. Careful, this offer runs out on Sunday, June 16th!
- Pre-ordering gets you the PDF version of the Sourcebook immediately, for no additional cost.
- Shipping is estimated to start around September, to which you have to add a few weeks of transport depending on your country.
- Price: Approximately 35 GBP / 41 EUR / 45 USD
- Link: www.modiphius.net/pages/solasta
What if I want to just buy the PDF separately?
- The PDF will be sold separately at a lower price when the Sourcebook is released around September, so if you only want the digital version (or pay a little less) you will just need to wait a little more.
What does UK/ROW & NA means in the preorder buttons?
- NA = North America
- UK / ROW = UK & Rest of the World
- Make sure you select the right region for you as this will lower the shipping fee!
With that out of the way, let's dive into the specifics of the book!
What is a Campaign Sourcebook?
Let's start with the basics because not everyone may know what a Campaign Sourcebook is! Solasta Revised Campaign Sourcebook is a collection of information and illustrations going over the lore of the world of Solasta, its timeline, its people as well as gameplay content such as subclasses and monsters that are specific to its setting. It even has a little art section at the end where you can see very early works from the team while we were doing research.
Here is the table of content below so you can have a better idea of what it offers.
What's new in the Revised Sourcebook?
With all the classes and subclasses released over the years after the 1.0 launch of Solasta, we decided that simply reprinting the original Sourcebook wouldn't feel very complete as it was written during Early Access and only featured the 6 original 1.0 classes: Cleric, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue and Wizard.
Since then, we added the other 6: Barbarian, Bard, Druid, Monk, Sorcerer and Warlock - as well as an additional subclass for each with the Lost Valley DLC. So we went back to the drawing board, worked hard to adapt all of this new content to Tabletop with the precious help of some long time community members... and thus was the Revised edition born.
From 17 to 41 subclasses, all rebalanced for Tabletop, increasing the size of the book from 180 to 196 pages! Thanks again to Stunfisk, IlliteratePig, Lathaon, M.S. and Stardust for helping us in that long and arduous task. The process of making Solasta has always involved our community, and that shall remain true for the tabletop book as well.
Making a Sourcebook - Behind the Scene
For so long, we've had many of you asking us where you could buy the Sourcebook - and every time we had to shake our heads in muted sadness, shaking our fist to the heavens and burying our silent screams inside our inability to give you an answer. Okay that may have been a little overdramatic. Fact of the matter is, Tactical Adventures a video game studio first and foremost - and a fairly small one at that. Between working on DLCs, fixing bugs, adding content for the Dungeon Maker, porting the game on Xbox and PS5, starting to build on our next title... We have very little time on our hands left.
And so, side projects like the Sourcebook (although much beloved by the team) are not the priority, especially when they are of that size. Even if we have the source files, we're talking about negotiating with printers, working out a deadline, finding a platform to sell the book, coordinating transport of goods to the warehouses, international shipping, dealing with customs, customer support when a package doesn't arrive.. And that's not our main line of work, so we are not experts on the matter. My work time be looking at me like, "that's a lot of damage"!
However, as the communication around Solasta slowed down with the release of our last DLC Palace of Ice, plus the fact that we haven't announced our next title yet, your favorite (right? right?) Community Lead Myzzrym suddenly had some spare time to start making that wish into reality. We started adapting the subclasses, Rookery Publications joined to help with the files and modifications, and finally Modiphius came in clutch to handle all the rest - printer, shipping, organisation... All of this making it possible for the Sourcebook to finally be available again, purchasable both online and in local shops like we always dreamed of, and both in physical and digital format!
And that would not have been possible without your support. To you, our faithful players who love Solasta no less than we do, we thank you from the bottom of our heart once again.
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Article by Tactical Myzzrym
