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[fadingembers]

"My romantic partner paused his pursuit of capital for a day so he could experience joy for a moment in his finite life. I am offended and judgmental."

[redluminous]

Chitan and some Krils

[kassical]

⤷ Vinyl | Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

[kassicalart]

It does not take a genius to know what I have kept on playing :) after drawing Victor I wanted to do these two as well

Maybe Rex next, I just gotta pick him up from The King first!

[werewolfetone]

If they won't make another elder scrolls game in a timely manner can they at least release a skyrim dlc which allows you to side with the forsworn and kill everyone

[mythpregftm]

Related to my stud post... I have a few bg3 stories in mind, but my real fantasy is Durge breeding his party. This giant of a warrior getting the majority of his followers drunk on his cock, breaking in their holes. Helpless against his cursed seed, they fall pregnant, one by one...

Just.. an adventurer surrounded by their conquests, lovers with huge bellies, satisfying his urges through sexual hedonism. By the end, he's created an army of his own

[pinehutch]

Okay so my Thing about Dragon Age is this:

Ten years ago, I was in constant extreme pain as I worked my way towards a rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis. I had spent the previous year working 12-18 hour days most days, between an unsustainable volunteer job and my daytime career. Sometime that fall, I started noticing that my hands were locking into fists while I slept, and that the fatigue was never getting better, and that walking was really hard, more days than not.

I tried to work through it, that first awful year. I mostly did, too. I had weeks when I couldn't walk unassisted, and months where I was sick all the time because we were trying different meds. I called the rheumatologist in tears more than once, feeling hopeless and like a failure because I couldn't tolerate some of the easier drugs. And in between it all, I worked.

On the days that I couldn't work, and if my hands would let me, I played Dragon Age.

I'm stubborn, and I don't usually watch or read or play things that other people recommend until the time feels right. Spring 2014, I needed something that would be immersive enough that it could distract me from my body but that wouldn't require too much complex problem solving. I needed gaming, and some very trusted people had recommended Dragon Age to me before, so I started Origins in March and by July I had played through Origins and DA2 and all the DLC I could get. Inquisition came out that fall, and I was hooked.

(It also was one of the first ways that I learned to distinguish between healthy pain and warning sign pain: I learned to put the controller down before my hands would be so irritated I couldn't use them at all the next day.)

So there I was, having the worst year of my life (at that point), and I got to fill up my brain with lore and distractions and become a hobbyist expert in the historiography and folklore and religion and politics of something that was entirely made up. I could invest, mentally and emotionally, but I didn't have to fix anything real, including my own unfixable problem. I just had to learn, and to play.

Dragon Age brought me into video games for grown-ups, and it brought me back to fiction writing. The first short story I had written since high school was DA fic. I came back to writing poetry, the love of my life, a couple of years later.

My life doesn't look that different from the outside vs what it was 10 years ago. I'm working out whether or not I'm okay with that; making big changes in your life is hard when you're chronically ill and have adhd and you work a complicated job with a lot of responsibility, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't try. I had expected that my general weariness would stretch over into a kind of Dragon Apathy - that there would be news and I'd say 'oh, nice,' and then go back to work and the other little agonies.

Instead, I'm delighted? Surprised? Fond? Something I loved and that I needed during a really difficult time is here, again, while I'm anticipating another sea change. The thing that brought me some happiness, some wonder, and some escape can do it still, maybe.

Anyway. I collect my favourite DA stuff at @free-smarcher. I always roll a rogue on my first playthrough. (In real life I'm a giant brain on a giant, clumsy body; my fantasy is being able to go undetected.) I love Varric Tethras because he's a highly-accomplished fuckup with too many responsibilities and because he's bad at his personal life.

When Veilguard comes out I will almost certainly, at least once, play it until my hands seize.

[sybilius]

This is no doubt something of a high matter of taste but I really do love when a narrative video game actually gives you limited options to modify the player character, especially their flaws and shortcomings and history. Something about the sense of being trapped in another person's decisions really amplifies the sense of tragedy, and also makes me feel more free to roleplay as that character rather than gravitating towards a self insert. And of course it allows the authorial voice and intentions to feel stronger which is usually what I love most in a video game.

[frick-yes-dragons]

they should invent hobbies that aren't absolutely terrible for your back

[crabfisher]

learning

[toournextadventure]

Would the story be set in the BG world or like a modern fantasy/supernatural world?

Maybe Reader could be a monster/bounty hunter sent after Karlach but ends up going home with a big red puppy instead.

Or perhaps rivals were they fuck with each other all whilst Karlach shamelessly flirts with a grumpy Reader..

Oh definitely BG world, there's so much fun and potential with it. Like, there's ALL kinds of possibilities that could be had.

Like, catch BountyHunter!Reader looking for Karlach, only to end up with the both of them ending up in this situation

Reader just instantly goes "fuck it, wanna play dead and share the bounty?" and it turns into a Dragonheart-level scamming plot across Faerûn

[redluminous]

A delightfully accurate depiction of Palpatophora glyphodorsalis from Another Crab's Treasure (2024), making this the third video game I've seen to feature an occlupanid.

[kassical]

Let's head out!

[kassicalart]

been playing more fallout new vegas and i love victor sm (fisto and ed-e are a very close second and third though!)

thx for digging my courier out of a shallow grave 👍

[werewolfetone]

Ofc all elder scrolls worldbuilding is like this but the awesome mythic hero of the reach who the evil forsworn (who live in secret mountain hidey-holes and attack the settlers who took over their land a long time ago) love in skyrim being called faolán by birth is crazy. and is there also a red hugh o'neill buried somewhere in the reach then since apparently we're doing this now