Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise

Andruil

Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise is set within the Dragon Age universe with a starting point roughly a month past the closing of the Breach. Solas is gone, Leliana is the Divine Elect but has not yet taken the throne, and our Inquisitor is a young Dalish woman named Torrent. No alliance was made with the Qunari (Chargers are alive and functioning), and the mages helped close the Breach as allies of the Inquisition. Further information can be found at http://dreadwolfsrise.wikidot.com/

Roz

I think you might mean http://dreadwolfsrise.wikidot.com/?

Misadventure

Does this use a game system?

3543thrh67

The wiki also is not the most informative for someone who has never played the Dragon Age stuff.

Thenomain

@icanbeyourmuse said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

The wiki also is not the most informative for someone who has never played the Dragon Age stuff.

While I agree, mostly because it looks like the wiki is brand new, I'm also not sure how well someone who has never played a Dragon Age game would fair. I'm guessing they'd be mostly tempted to take it as a Lords & Ladies game.

3543thrh67

@Thenomain I suppose that is true. I doubt people often pick games just because they like the name like I do.

I've wanted to try out the Dragon Age mu*s I see pop up because they seem appealing but I've not seen a wiki that has information for someone dragon age dumb.

Thenomain

@icanbeyourmuse said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

I've not seen a wiki that has information for someone dragon age dumb.

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_Wiki

Mind you, this is like someone asking about the kinds of things that go on in the Trigun anime and being handed a link to TV Tropes.

If you do nothing else, read everything having to do with Dragon Age: Origins, then DA: Awakening. And even then I'm not sure that'll prepare you but it's easier on most people than playing these horribly dated masterpieces.

TNP

Back when GOG had DA:O Ultimate Edition on sale for $8 or so, I mentioned it to someone who then proceeded to rave for 20 minutes about how it's the best game ever. Ok, what the hell. I got it. It's $8. It's one of the best games ever (and I'm so glad I installed the gay romance mod for Alistair because I would marry him).

It came with Awakening and I played that and the other DLC. Then I bought DA2 which is very different from DA:O but also very good. And now I want to buy DA:I. And I'm not a gamer, as a rule. So go buy them.

Ganymede

@Thenomain said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

I'm guessing they'd be mostly tempted to take it as a Lords & Ladies game.

The setting for Dragon Age is very much not Lords & Ladies.

Tinuviel

@Ganymede Unless they set it in Val Royeaux...

Thenomain

@Ganymede said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

@Thenomain said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

I'm guessing they'd be mostly tempted to take it as a Lords & Ladies game.

The setting for Dragon Age is very much not Lords & Ladies.

I know that.

And you know that.

Because we've played Dragon Age.

But if you haven't, how do you introduce some of the delightful nuances on a web site?

What kind of game would people want to default to if you just said, say, "city-state in a pre-Rennaisance world of magic"? I was having problems imagining a quick introduction to the world that wouldn't leave people to hitting a default.

Like Lords & Ladies.

Was my point.

Bananerz

Tips for players who don't know about Dragon Age on joining a Dragon Age based game.

Go buy or borrow any game in that series.
Pester a friend to watch them play.
Watch youtube/twitch re: that game series.
Google it.
Have staff ensure there's a theme page on that wiki which breaks down Dragon Age to it's core, with the particular history/etc being pulled. Give it to your non-gaming friend and see if they can understand it (is it too much? too little?).
Profit.

Ganymede

@Thenomain said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

But if you haven't, how do you introduce some of the delightful nuances on a web site?

This:

A good primer, with easy links.

That's how.

I get you, but the information is available.

Three-Eyed Crow

While I think DA has an interesting setting, it's basically a fantasy pastiche (like ME is a sci-fi pastiche). If you're passingly familiar with fantasy elves and fantasy dwarves and fantasy religion and magic, you can get the vibe pretty quickly. Playing an elf or dwarf or mage would require further reading, but I think you can get by without playing the game. Ideally the wiki will be fleshed out with some basic info for total newbs, though.

Thenomain

@Ganymede

That is awesome.

And Now I Know

@Three-Eyed-Crow

Do you mean Tolkien/D&D Pastiche, or Game of Thrones/L&L Pastiche, or a Witcher Pastiche? Because it's none of these, but closest to Witcher. Videos nonwithstanding, I would say it's pre-Renaissance with heavy classism, a finicky dual-realm magic situation, racism and slavery and other forms of oppression (save little sexism, except as commentary in the Catholicism analogue)... the more I think about it, the main generic blandness is that there are humans, elves, dwarves, and dragon people as Kind Of But Not Really Muslims.

Anyhow.

Off to watch videos.

Ghost

@Andruil I have a question. I see logs with core characters from the video games in them. Are the canon characters from the video games being played as PCs or Feature Characters by staff or others?

Ganymede

@Thenomain said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

... there are humans, elves, dwarves, and dragon people as Kind Of But Not Really Muslims.

How on Earth did you see the Qunari as muslim?

Sure, I suppose you can see their assimilation of other people as indicative of the old Islamic regimes in the Middle Ages, but there is a certain kind of zen-idealism and communist rhetoric to them that I adore.

The Arishok is pretty much my hero, and my go-to- when it comes to my villainous PCs. Because they are very likable villains, until you realize they are Lawful Evil.

Misadventure

So Dragon Age RPG?

Ghost

@Ganymede said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

@Thenomain said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

... there are humans, elves, dwarves, and dragon people as Kind Of But Not Really Muslims.

How on Earth did you see the Qunari as muslim?

Sure, I suppose you can see their assimilation of other people as indicative of the old Islamic regimes in the Middle Ages, but there is a certain kind of zen-idealism and communist rhetoric to them that I adore.

The Arishok is pretty much my hero, and my go-to- when it comes to my villainous PCs. Because they are very likable villains, until you realize they are Lawful Evil.

I love the Qunari. I view them as the extreme side of "Order". Really, with those who are a part of the Qun only taking the name of their station in life and having no identity outside of their profession, their society has cut through all of the unnecessary bullshit other societies do. There's no reason for small talk. No reason for flattery. No reason for poetry. IS simply...is.

It's the ultimate, alien logic. It's a computer without computation. Goals are achieved through direct action, and there is no need for underhanded tactic. Set on a task, complete the task, continue on. Everything else is unnecessary energy spent.

Kanye Qwest

@Ghost said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

@Andruil I have a question. I see logs with core characters from the video games in them. Are the canon characters from the video games being played as PCs or Feature Characters by staff or others?