#if you saw this on the wrong blog no you didn't.

[felassan]

hi! first of all, love your blog, everything is so organized and there's so much info out there about everything and you having this blog makes it easier to find.

so there's something that idk if i saw on this blog or if i made up in my head and maybe you could help? I remember seeing something somewhere about how the devs or at least david gaider didn't understand why so many sided with the mages. do you know anything about that or did I made that up completely in my head?

hello! ◕‿◕ tysm for the nice comment about my blog. I'm happy that it can be helpful!!

rest of post under cut for length.

if you think you may have read it here, could you be thinking of one or some of these quotes from [this] post series? those posts are some notes I made of things which David Gaider said (pls keep that context in mind when reading the below) during some Twitch streams some years ago. as far as I know the original streamed videos are no longer available.

"The experience of a mage in the world isn’t represented or conveyed very well to the player when the player is a mage. The experience of the player when they’re playing a mage or have a mage in their party doesn’t really match up with how the world lore tells them how dangerous mages can be - for example, how they can lose control and so on, we never really have an example of a PC mage struggling with being taken over by a demon. This was originally supposed to be a subplot in DA2 for mage Hawkes, in one of the last cuts. In Act 2, mage Hawke was originally slowly being tricked by a demon in their head that they thought was real, only to realize at the last minute. Mouse the Pride demon in the mage Origin is the only time in the entire series that they really ever properly demonstrated how demons can fuck with [PC] mages. Also, PC templars were originally supposed to have a permanent lyrium addiction that they needed to ‘feed’, but this was scrapped as the system designers weren’t keen on it and felt that it was essentially handicapping the player."

"They managed to keep the Tranquil in. There was a while there where they were going to be cut. At the same time, DG regrets that they couldn’t solve the making of the player more aware of how mages are dangerous, thing. Players could make a cogent argument like “they’re not that dangerous, look at me [mage PC]” and the writers were like “well… yeah, that is fair”. It was a case of showing one thing and the player experience of it being another. DG feels that this made the templars come off worse than they are. DG feels that they are being massively unfair and too extreme in their approach to the problem, but the problem itself is a real thing. He feels that there’s some merit/truth in the argument that mages are oppressed, but he looks at it more like an issue like gun control rather than as treatment of oppressed people, saying that we don’t have an example in real life of oppressed people who can explode into demons and cast fireballs and so on."

"Going into DA2, the team had a long discussion of the themes of the game, the whole ‘security versus freedom’ argument. “Let’s try to understand the motivations of people who do things wrong. Is it possible to feel sympathy for somebody who might otherwise be labelled a terrorist? Is it possible to understand why templars might view the mages with fear?” As a whole, DA tries to encompass villains that have motives we can understand a little better. DG feels that Corypheus isn’t one of these. He’s less a villain and more an antagonist or plot device. There are certain things that they did wrong with the implementation of Cory in the game. Originally in DAI he attacked Skyhold as well as Haven. Cutting the Skyhold attack for example made him seem like less of a threat."

"There are certain spells/abilities in D&D that can make a GM’s life frustrating, such as teleportation, telling the future, resurrection. The fact that death is not permanent, for instance, should be a huge thing that affects society and how the people in it view death. This is why they were thinking stuff like “If every low-level mage in the setting had a skill like ‘Charm Person’, what would non-mages make of that?”"

or maybe something from [here], or an [old post] [random example] David Gaider made on the original official BioWare Forum? 🤔 [the forum was archived by fans on Fextralife] or could you be thinking of something that he said on his old Tumblr? [this] and [this] are links to some Tumblr blogs which archived some of the original Tumblr. it might be worth browsing through those/searching them for "mages" and suchlike in case it turns anything up. :>

apologies if nothing here is pinging as familiar. :<

[clownowo]

been replaying the Portal series I think this is where its heading

[fayzart136]

Me: omg this newest D20 season is incredible, I should draw some Cool and Dramatic fanart of it-

[draws this instead]

[wholesomednp]

That's n... ok sure

[bastianinis]

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In @probablynotamimic's outer wilds/isat fic they (ow protagonist and siffrin) get to have a little voice chat and I'm pretty sure they called hatchy's voice frog like LMAOO

[faaun]

we sang in the aeroplane over the sea tgth ☆

[gamma-rae]

Bloodhound

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rare picture of Eclipse being soft

[womenincomicsminibang]

To all waiting readers and viewers: The Women in Comics Mini Bang is coming to a conclusion! Posting will start tomorrow, October 20th, 2024. We will post a link to the collection (and reblog all posts on tumblr!) starting tomorrow. Thank you to all of our participants for their hard work, and we look forward to doing this again! Keep your eyes peeled for the posting stage!

[birdietrait]

all things go

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What is the best Pete Townshend solo album and why is it "All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes"?

[lunchtimebedamned1997]

If we get to see human Vox and Alastor (respectively obvi) next season I might start foaming at the mouth.

Like - oosufhowhdoahifuh excuse me? Like any of the cast - but especially them? We've all kind of collectively decided what Alastor looked like as a human but people are much more divided on Vox and I simply must know how Viv imagines that pathetic little man.

Oh no... is this the urge to draw... human Vox???

*sighs and adds it to my list of ideas*

[spectascopes]

draw ONE short and fat character from a piece of media as a skinny miss thing and I'm side eyeing. do it to TWO and I know you're just a bitch

[akanposting]

happy halloween from akan and his band of sluts important comrades and loved ones :)

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What is wrong with the people writing the wildbow wikis I don't think they're ok