RPG Setting/Lore Discussion Thread

[nolongeri]

I am curious what is your dragon age character, and also who is your favorite Playable.

I'll start my guy is Lucian
He is a Human Mage
He is a shape shifter Arcane Warrior
He is level 19
He has Wade's Massive Dragonbone armor
He has Spellweaver and a Heavy Metal shield


My favorite Character is Alistair

[Chutzpar]

I finished the game with a mage first, can't... actually remember what I named them, derp. Got to level 19 because I didn't do enough sidequests.
IIRC I was an arcane warrior / spirit healer; the healing was mostly as a backup on the off chance Wynne got messed up in battle.

My new game, well, I'm only level 3! Human noble rogue, dual-wielding my family sword and a dar'misu at the moment, and wearing bog standard cured leather.
Since I've switched to playing it on the PC I don't have any specialisations unlocked, arg. Thinking of taking ranger and duelist.
I'd go assassin/duelist but I'm sort of hung up on staying in-character, and since my character's mostly kind of a robin-hood type at the moment, taking assassin seems Very Wrong.

I love Alistair omg. He's an adorable dork.
Sten's pretty badass too, once you know how to handle him he's easy to get on good terms with, and he's amazing as a damage dealer. He's surprisingly funny, too x:

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Also, I dunno if many other people here play the game, so you might not get much out of this thread. We're too good for them, dude. :B

[GrooveMan.exe]

I've played it a little bit, it wasn't my copy.

I played a City Elf rogue, dual wielding and being a bit of a coward, really. Back attacks really do rack up the damage. Both Alistair and Morrigan are pretty cool when you first meet them; but I can see Morrigan getting very annoying very quickly. If I kept playing I would probably have Subclassed Bard; and then I would be one of my D&D 3.5 Characters. :B

I love how even in the smallest, quickest skirmish you get absolutely drenched in blood, like this was a Mad World X Dungeons & Dragons crossover.

[Chutzpar]

Morrigan, I'm pretty undecided about. I hated her at first, then started to like her, and then went off her again, derp.

There's some details with the ending if you're a woman and romancing Alistair that made me hate her a bit.

She's actually kind of difficult to get to know, I know you can become romantically involved with her if you're a male, but if you're a female even if her approval's high she never seems to really open up.
I guess that's part of her Thing, but it can make her seem a bit.. flat, at points. There's a couple of occasions where she shows - gasp - emotion but they're pretty few and far between so she always seems pretty distant

Also I'll have you know it's Mad World x Dungeons and Dragons x A Dating Sim :B

[GrooveMan.exe]

Oh yeah, Bioware likes their dating aspects.

But I don't think you can date Alistair if you're a male character, so fuck it. =I

[Chutzpar]

Nope! Alistair and Morrigan are both straight.

Zevran's bisexual. If you want to play a homosexual man you get to have a promiscuous elf twink, LUCKY YOU.

TBH, the handling of Leliana and Zevran (both can be romanced by a character of either gender) both bug me a bit.
Zev is bisexual and also MASSIVELY PROMISCUOUS, and Leliana appears to be a lesbian but can still be won over by a male PC.
I mean, I'm not saying there's no such thing as a promiscuous bisexual, or that anyone is 100% rigid in their sexuality, but both bring up Unfortunate Implications, for me.

That said, Leliana is actually quite chaste, you have to have a pretty high approval with her before she'll be particularly intimate with the PC, which I guess makes up for Zev being such a ho.

Hi my name's gillian I will read too heavily into romantic subplots in a videogame WHAT OF IT

[water dog]

i cant remember anythign other than that i fucked morrigan like 1000 times and finished all her lil side quests and i accidentally let the other chick die before beating the game and send it back to blokcbuster because its just another western piece of trash rpg

my average party was me (duh), sten, wynn, and morrigan. sten was a bad ass but i never figured out how to get on his good side

[Chutzpar]

Sten prefers you to speak your mind and be straightforward with him. If you're not assertive then he'll disapprove.

If you put him in his place a lot, his approval goes up wicked fast. Like, +7 approval per conversation.

Not that I guess it matters if you got rid of it :c

[Vipershark]

serious question for chad:
since you dislike wrpgs so much, have you played fallout 3?

[triptych]

fallout 3 was boring as fuq

[water dog]

serious question for chad:
since you dislike wrpgs so much, have you played fallout 3?

yes it was boring as fuq

i fought more raiders in fallout 3 than i fought crabs in ffxi (which isnt a valid joke anymore it kind of was when the gave FIRST came out until about a year after NA release but not really anymore after that at all)

[GrooveMan.exe]

I mostly went around being nice to everyone and beating the shit out of the hacking minigames in Fallout 3 and had fun. I can't aim for shit, but I guess that's what VATS is for. And if you MinMax combat no longer becomes an issue.

I really don't like Bioware's production ethos in general, but Dragon Age wasn't that bad really. Really good dialogue and solid combat. It's just the faux MORAL CHOICES and sometimes the controls that made me grimace.

I need to play a WRPG that's actually Modern Fantasy. All I see is High Fantasy, Space Opera and Post-Apoc. Then again, hardly any games are Modern Fantasy; besides Survival Horror genre (which I don't really play) and the SMT games.

[water dog]

I mostly went around being nice to everyone and beating the shit out of the hacking minigames in Fallout 3 and had fun. I can't aim for shit, but I guess that's what VATS is for. And if you MinMax combat no longer becomes an issue.

I really don't like Bioware's production ethos in general, but Dragon Age wasn't that bad really. Really good dialogue and solid combat. It's just the faux MORAL CHOICES and sometimes the controls that made me grimace.

I need to play a WRPG that's actually Modern Fantasy. All I see is High Fantasy, Space Opera and Post-Apoc. Then again, hardly any games are Modern Fantasy; besides Survival Horror genre (which I don't really play) and the SMT games.

WRPGs never have High Fantasy, just Tolkien Fantasy. High Fantasy is for the japs. Tolkien Fantasy, Space Opera and Post-Apoc are pretty much the whole western market in general. High Fantasy is like... FF5, 9, and 12.

EDIT: nvm high fantasy = tolkien fantasy
im thinking of somehting else it was like... advanced fantasy or something. i forget. but the term was used for basic fantasy settings with technological and magical advancements

[Chutzpar]

I really liked the moral choices in Dragon Age, since they were waaaaay less polarised than in a lot of games
rather than choosing between saving sad kittens and murdering them ruthlessly or whatever, when you get to the castle redcliffe (for example), you have to choose between

Spoiler

killing a child, or killing his mother to save him

. It's a nasty one actually! It's not as cut-and-dry as a lot of moral choices.

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Also High Fantasy is also commonly referred to as Post-Tolkien Fantasy, sooo...

[GrooveMan.exe]

To be honest I *am* making that judgement from what I've played so far.

Like

Spoiler

The whole City Elf deal is that you're going to be put in an arranged marriage, and a human noble crashes the party and ruins everyone's day. I had 3 different saves going where I was a nice doormat, where I basically hated and rejected everyone, and one where I was nice, but had no emotional attachment to my betrothed and didn't care what happened to her.
Because of the way you're railroaded to do a few key things, nothing you do in the opening segment affects anything - it's too early to get Approval ratings. One route will net you a huge fucking pile of money, but the game stops you from collecting it and breaking the game; which was a HUGE piss take.

I suppose outside of those insular circumstances, the moral compass bits mean a lot more.