Posts made by Akurel

Guestave? Gueston?

Smoke and Shadow also did/does the FC thing. I don't understand the trend, but apparently its a thing.

@Kanye-Qwest The events of DA:Inquisition would actually be a decent in game canon setting to do it in. Have the players app in as those agents performing all of those war table missions or the ones that never hit the table. Other interesting time periods or settings (for me at least) would be the Ferelden War of Independence or a Game of Dwarves. Or hell, be mercs running around the Free Marches.

On the note about canon characters I can tolerate them. I understand the appeal, but would never want to play one.

@Thenomain Perhaps this thread needs a drinking game for when anyone uses the word pastiche.

@Thenomain I always saw it as having more in common with extremes in Theravada Buddhism or Hinduism if we must make a religious analogue. Individuals are encouraged to separate themselves from desire and are locked into a caste (admittedly through evaluation than through birth). If we are speaking of governments I am inclined to see it as communist as Ganymede said or perhaps Qin legalist. The developers can "say" its Islam, but really the only thing that matches up is the idea of Exalted March as Crusades and the Qunari on a form of Jihad. So I'd be inclined to say they just called it Islam because the Chantry is a Catholic Church expy, but the Qun has little in common with the Islamic Caliphates.