Junior Adventurer's Guild - November: Dragon Age: Origins

[logincrash]

The G in RPG stands for TURN. Games have turns. No turn? No game.

Is football not a game then?

[maidenhaver]

The G in RPG stands for TURN. Games have turns. No turn? No game.

Is football not a game then?

Football is a commercial.

[J1M]

The G in RPG stands for TURN. Games have turns. No turn? No game.

Is football not a game then?

1. Football is a sport.
2. Turns in football are called downs.

[rusty_shackleford]

low iq lizardbrains think in sequential turns, they can't visualize asynchronous apples

[Tweed]

low iq lizardbrains think in sequential turns, they can't visualize asynchronous apples

[logincrash]

1. Football is a sport.
2. Turns in football are called downs.

"Did you catch the big sport last night?"

[J1M]

1. Football is a sport.
2. Turns in football are called downs.

"Did you catch the big sport last night?"

The joke is that I agreed with you. Twice.

[TKVNC]

low iq lizardbrains think in sequential turns, they can't visualize asynchronous apples

When I'm required to actually think of a solution in the moment, I panic and just start screaming tbh

Only Turn-Based games can stop me from stamping my feet.

[Jordy]

Can't we all just be friends and enjoy turn based games together?

[Finarfin]

Can't we all just be friends and enjoy turn based games together?

First part yes, second part no.

[Finarfin]

Beat Awakening

[Finarfin]

Beat Golems of Amgarrak

also

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wtf was that ending? So that Harvester was just one of dozen? Why was this not expanded upon?

[Oyster Sauce]

Beat Golems of Amgarrak

also

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wtf was that ending? So that Harvester was just one of dozen? Why was this not expanded upon?

It's a monster of the week episode.

[fkirenicus]

wtf was that ending? So that Harvester was just one of dozen? Why was this not expanded upon?

It was, at least sort of. Ending of DAE.

[Finarfin]

Completed Witch Hunt. Went with her through the Eluvian

[Finarfin]

Also sucks that I can't use the Dragon Age Keep anymore. I don't want to use the default HOFs from the website.

[logincrash]

Completed Witch Hunt. Went with her through the Eluvian

I'm so used to her Sacred Ashes trailer appearance that she looks weird to me unmodded. Her eyes are tiny in vanilla.

Also sucks that I can't use the Dragon Age Keep anymore. I don't want to use the default HOFs from the website.

DA2 doesn't require Keep and just imports your DAO save directly. I believe Inquisition has a fan-made world state editor app (which is basically a save editor but with only the world state variables shown).
I remember having to download the 5 hour trial version of Inquisition, porting my manually entered Keep world states, making a whole bunch of saves with different characters, then using those saves with the pirated full game back in 2015. That was a real pain in the ***.

[Reichspepe]

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Remember when Bioware made normal human dialogue?

[Finarfin]

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Remember when Bioware made normal human dialogue?

Remember when Bioware made a-normal non-human dialogue?
**** me, Oghren is a hoot. Favorite Companion next to Morrigan and Wynne.

[Jordy]

tfw you're pwning the deep roads and get too cocky without saving recently

[logincrash]

Remember when Bioware made a-normal non-human dialogue?
**** me, Oghren is a hoot. Favorite Companion next to Morrigan and Wynne.

The voice actor for Oghren also thinks it's his favourite character he's ever voiced and he even plays as him in a DnD game with his buddies.

[Finarfin]

Remember when Bioware made a-normal non-human dialogue?
**** me, Oghren is a hoot. Favorite Companion next to Morrigan and Wynne.

The voice actor for Oghren also thinks it's his favourite character he's ever voiced and he even plays as him in a DnD game with his buddies.

Funny, I always thought Steve Blum's favorite role would've been Wolverine, but based if it's actually Oghren.

[logincrash]

Funny, I always thought Steve Blum's favorite role would've been Wolverine, but based if it's actually Oghren.

He just thinks (or used to think, at least) that Oghren is ******* funny. His homegame PC Oghren would get ******-drunk and had a piglet pet that he had a questionable relationship with. So, it was a character he could let go and goof off with, I guess.

[Red7]

You know, most games it generally doesn't matter and mostly I play male half-elf bards (NWN/ToEE) or warlocks (NWN2), but DA in particular I feel was written in a way that suits a female protagonist best... Every game (up to DAI, I have for OBVIOUS reasons not played DAV!) , except maybe DAO/DAA (the Morrigan plot etc. is also quite good. I have played that quite a few times with a male mage as well).
Especially if metagaming/one knows the lore/what happens (and I dare say I do; I don't think I've played any game so many times as I have played DAO).
And in the case of DA2, one doesn't want Anders to force gay sex if you answer him politely.
The Solas twist at the end of DAI Trespasser is quite cool, but since "Trick" Weekes has stated that "we did not want Solas to be either gay or bi to avoid tropes about such people being evil" or some such nonsense and they instead made him "racist" and straight, the only real option to get a real good ending with DAI is to have a female elf inquisitor. Look it up on youtube, if you haven't seen it.

Not saying the stories wouldn't hit home so to speak, but still, wouldn't it be quite tragic being a male inquisitor who shares a deep friendship with Solas having the twist and its consequences unfold? I'd say so.
Also, being a woman in all those stories feels wrong to me even if I you could only play as one or if it was a woman playing the game, as it just doesn't fit for me for the "roles" to not be fulfilled by men. Which yes, is a real world conviction I transfer over to the DA world, even though it has cringe pseudo gender equality in its lore. In DAO at least, most positions were comprised of men where they should be, with women being in the minority.

Most importantly, playing a woman and romancing a man is... kinda gay to me

I played all origins and at least tried them all with both genders. Quite sure DAO was written with male Cousland as a main protagonist in mind. The rest was added latter, so, even if you do get recognition here and there of all others and they are well written even, the flow of the narrative is not as smooth.
With that said, my personal canon - female mage (Solona Amell) works - well enough as game has enough refences to both gender and class. (Absolutely blows in Witch Hunt, though)

DA2... Well, I like to have Carver with me, and Amell family is more important than Ferelden's royalty there, so, it works well as continuation for the mage story (if we forget the absurdity of Hawke being mage). Gender did not feel important, though.

DAI was the first game where women had more romance options than men (that was even a sale point, or at least a sale pitch). Aside from Solas they all were quite meh but, yes, female protagonist (preferably mage again for additional tension with Chantry) feels like default.

1)how much tension u prefer for choking during rape?
2)how big is your second chin and how strong my grip would have to be to overcome the fat folds?

[Jordy]

Probably a skill issue but I keep getting wiped by this one Darkspawn group in the Deep Roads and I don't want to skip them. It's putting me off loading up with the little time I have.

[Oyster Sauce]

Probably a skill issue but I keep getting wiped by this one Darkspawn group in the Deep Roads and I don't want to skip them. It's putting me off loading up with the little time I have.

Any chance you can inch up and not pull the entire group or just pull them around a corner to neuter their mages?

[fkirenicus]

Probably a skill issue but I keep getting wiped by this one Darkspawn group in the Deep Roads and I don't want to skip them. It's putting me off loading up with the little time I have.

Any chance you can inch up and not pull the entire group or just pull them around a corner to neuter their mages?

Also, the Deep Roads is probably the hardest of the faction quests. You might want to save that for last. Level 15+ (I generally do it around 18 or so).

[Jordy]

Probably a skill issue but I keep getting wiped by this one Darkspawn group in the Deep Roads and I don't want to skip them. It's putting me off loading up with the little time I have.

Any chance you can inch up and not pull the entire group or just pull them around a corner to neuter their mages?

Yea I think that's the play. I did try a couple of times but failed. Perhaps using a bomb to start wasn't the best idea.

Probably a skill issue but I keep getting wiped by this one Darkspawn group in the Deep Roads and I don't want to skip them. It's putting me off loading up with the little time I have.

Any chance you can inch up and not pull the entire group or just pull them around a corner to neuter their mages?

Also, the Deep Roads is probably the hardest of the faction quests. You might want to save that for last. Level 15+ (I generally do it around 18 or so).

My worry is if I leave now some of the quests I started will be locked off when I come back.

[fkirenicus]

My worry is if I leave now some of the quests I started will be locked off when I come back.

Hmm, OK, I *don't* think that should be an issue, provided you don't go to Anvil of the Void (because at that point you risk not being able to return except by finishing the whole Deep Roads questline). If you have done Orzammar and her quests (for either Bhelen or Harrowmont) and ventured into the Deep Roads proper, you should be able to finish Aeducan Thaig, Caridin's Cross, Ortan Thaig and Bownammar/The Dead Trenches without risking to miss anything or lock yourself out of quests.
The main part where that is a danger is while you are deciding to help either Harrowmont or Bhelen, if memory serves.

Also, if you have trouble with darkspawn: bring MoMD - Mages of Mass Destruction. If not playing a mage yourself, Wynne or Morrigan or both. Remember: you do not actually need line of sight for Inferno or Blizzard, just sayin'... Also, some spells cast in the correct order can produce quite spectacular results. Just don't be anywhere near the area of effect yourself...

[J1M]

Probably a skill issue but I keep getting wiped by this one Darkspawn group in the Deep Roads and I don't want to skip them. It's putting me off loading up with the little time I have.

Crowd control key enemies, like spellcasters. (Crushing Prison, etc)