#anyway dragon age origins is good

[deadrocks]

I have seen a fair amount of sort of criticism-of-criticism regarding the Dragon Age series that either boils down to or states outright that the early games weren't actually that good and only seem so due to nostalgia. For myself, though, I will have to disagree. I just played through Origins again and I think it still holds up. It isn't perfect, something which the videogame scholars of this very website have been expounding on for over a decade, but it's pretty fucking good. Well-developed NPCs, fantastic acting, a main quest path that repeatedly asks the PC how far they will go for the power to stop Armageddon. Enough bleakness to make the threat feel real, enough humor to keep the darkness from becoming overwhelming. Combat isn't even bad. It's kind of ugly, but many fans have put in real work to mitigate that over the years. A game worth revisiting, or playing for the first time.

On the other end, Inquisition is still a huge fucking drag for me. I got like five hours in this week and I want to punt that game out a window.

[araneapeixes]

My dragons have aged again and I'm replaying Origins. here's my warden Ailea, and also a comparison doodle of my first warden from 8 years ago

[housederiva]

This started out as something for the vn im making but I drew the face and realized it was a whole ass different man so Lucanis Dellamorte be upon ye

[cheriboms]

[spite] has entered the chat >:P

[itseghost]

sketch of my warden :] really enjoying origins so far

[beaulesbian]

It would've taken extraordinary skill to layer the involutions on this artifact. What a waste of talent!

[saltlordofold]

warden-commander Aedan is So Done you guys ft Anora and some Cousland armor ✌️

[mabaris]

“men are always willing to believe two things about a woman: one, that she is weak, and two, that she finds him attractive.”

truly insane to have a character say this and then make them actually attracted to men in any capacity. btw.

[attractthecrows]

solavellan this solavellan that. my favorite way to interpret dalish heroes is as mirrors.

you're Mahariel. your life is over because of a mirror.

You are the mirror of Garahel. Tamlen is the blighted mirror of you. You, the hero, are a reflection of what has been and should never have been. The blood spilled and blackened over a millennium in the name of corrupted once-gods.

you're Merrill. your life is forever altered because of a mirror. you are a reflection of the pride and the folly of your Keeper, of what a Dalish mage should be, and should have been all along.

you are Lavellan. you are the Inquisitor, the lynchpin of fate, both a reflection and avenue of change - like an eluvian. you are the reflection of Mahariel. you are the reflection of your clan. you are the reflection of Ameridan. you are a reflection of Corypheus, caught in a cycle older than either of you. you are a reflection of the elvhen heart and soul. you are, unknowingly, the reflection of Fen'harel, and you will drag the world kicking and screaming into it's new fate and future.

you are, more than anything else, a mirror.

[corseque]

I'm just laughing... like in the scene after the big signal fire battle where everybody gets betrayed and dies, you're there with Alistair trying to figure out what to do, and there just happens to be an elven goddess right there, saying, "ah yeah, that sounds good" "no that sounds stupid" "that might work" "oh that sounds like a plan to me"

Flemythal I love you

this game series is about getting pep talks from ancient deities and rising to the occasion

[atticusfinchismydog]

I think there are a lot of good faith criticisms you can have about DAV, but I have seen so few. I'd like to point out that DAV got left holding a pretty hefty bag, as both DA2 and DAI did not address DAO in any significant way that allowed for meaningful integration of lore states, not did DAI successfully incorporate DA2; the Hawke appearance was a disaster that boiled the character down regardless of how your Hawke handled Kirkwall. I definitely think that DAV should have handled DAI's lore better; nothing was in the way stopping them from doing so and the inexplicable 8 year time gap still makes no sense and I've completed the game. All the choices from DAI seem moot as a result of centering the game in the North and hand waving the south with blight, which is deeply frustrating. At the same time though, I don't think any introduced plot lines from DAO or DA2 would have made a lot of sense here, given the distance in time between the games within canon. HOF content should have been dealt with sooner. DA2 stuff was already scrambled by DAI. I understand avoiding it and I really think it was a damned if they do, damned if they don't situation.

[minweber]

Well, thank you, Veilguard, for supplying me, for the next few years, with something over which to agonize how great it could have been if just about everything about it was different - or, as it is better known, The Essential Dragon Age Experience.

[sotc]

I FINALLY BEAT TRESPASSER AOUGHHHHH i am feeling so much. I LOVE YOU DORIAN. I LOVE YOU SOLAS. I LVOE YOU BLACKWALL. I LOVE YOU COLE. I LOVE YOU JULEIC. I LOVE YOU TRESPASSER MUSIC. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE MY INQUIZZY AGAINNNN

[emmavakarian-theirin]

the way it kinda just dawned on me we're never seeing alistair again

[breadedsinner]

Dungeons & Ages & Dragons: Alistair

This is where I try to build all the playable characters from the Dragon Age series in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. The goal is to match their in-game abilities as best I can, while maintaining their general spirit and keeping them semi-viable for play. I will detail my decisions best I can, so even if you don’t agree with my choices, you can understand why I chose them.

Since the games have some flexibility with build, I will focus on starting abilities, abilities shown in cutscenes, etc. Ultimately the builds will be based on what I think the character’s role is.

Standard point array, I will mainly keep to the official books, but I may stray once or twice.

Yes I’m aware there’s already a Dragon Age Tabletop Game.

Character sheets were created with More Purple More Better: you can download for free or pay what you’re comfortable with: https://www.flapkan.com/

Full characters sheet with breakdown here!

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[rin-hanarin]

I've had some Zevrans in my wips for months, I think I'm done.

I was thinking about this one specific fun thing about him and it's the fact that lore-wise he could kill you, but wasn't actually trying, and also ended up in a situation where pretending that he's a shitty assassin is more profitable. Then the Blight ends and he's like "Yay :D" and proceeds to murder the shit out of other Crows for ten years like it's nothing, like? Sir? That's very attractive, actually.