Posts made by Kanye Qwest

@Arkandel You fool. L & L is never drama free! They are high school relationship drama + titles.

@Ganymede
Seems like they knew it would be a problem, since they scheduled it during a huge thing that would hopefully keep people occupied, and didn't at all acknowledge they were starting the limited availability scene.

@deadculture's defense of this is hilarious to me.

It's ok, @Sunny. They are at least all owning up to the fact that they are being giant assholes. Get a snocone, shake the haters off, and find a fun game to play.

Let me just throw this out here: If you are waiting two years to resolve a plot because you are "trying to let players figure it out", you have not done a good job of storytelling. At all. At /all/.

@surreality You don't always have to make masterpieces. "Studies" can be just as impactful as a meticulously finished piece, and are vastly more important for artistic development.

@Arkandel That was pretty delightful. I don't even want to find citation in case any of that is not truly Van Dammed.

I'm finding I like seeing people get excited about roster characters I make (or help to make) almost as much as I like playing the awesome characters myself.

Yes. Creative writing and improv are both 'arts', and RP can be both those things.

My issue with RP is that it is usually in a setting not your own, and so it feels to me a bit like an expenditure of creative energy with nothing 'lasting' to show for it, if that makes sense. Fun, though!

*edited because there's a pretty big difference between "improve" and "improv", STUPID BOARD SPELL CHECK.

@Ganymede
man. Imagine a game just set in Kirkwall or wherever just focusing on the Mage-Templar war? Endless possibility.

@Coin said in Dragon Age: Smoke & Shadows:

@Kanye-Qwest said in Dragon Age: Smoke & Shadows:

Shut your whore mouth, I would never hurt Varric. Even an imposter.

I've never played Dragon Age so your psychotic love for a fictional character means nothing to me.

[picture of Varric getting shivved a la Robb in The Red Wedding, which I don't have, but which you will now imagine because that's how brains work. Aren't they awesome?]

As a surprise even to me, that doesn't bother me at all. Maybe because he's a dwarf and picturing a Frey stooping down to slit his throat is kind of humorous.

@Thenomain said in Dragon Age: Smoke & Shadows:

@Kanye-Qwest

I'm with you, Ms. Qwest, but now it's a matter of supposition. If the Hawke siblings are doing anything other than being mercenaries, you can call them out on it. I've seen book characters work very well. Even Orisno and Merdith are locked into their roles, and we can shine a spotlight if something goes wrong.

I still agree that having players for these characters is probably not a great idea, but they deserve the chance to pleasantly surprise us.

Nothing against the players, and I honestly wouldn't want to be like "HEY get your ass back in line as a scrub mercenary, how dare you try to have fun" to any player. The issue with this is that if player 1 is Hawke and player 2 is random_person, I mean, who is more likely to succeed at Doing the Thing? We all know how Hawke did the thing. It's not like Hawke's going to try to do the thing and a GM will say "LOL no that would never work", since we saw it work.

You're right, it's entirely possible that I would be pleasantly surprised. The issue is that, for me, I love the source material so much, and would be so amped to be playing in the setting, that the possible disappointment would be exponentially more disappointing to me. I want it too much.

Not like this.

Not like this.

@Coin said in Dragon Age: Smoke & Shadows:

This would all be moot if the game were PvP, of course.

You can all just get together, gank the FCs, and move on.

<.<

Shut your whore mouth, I would never hurt Varric. Even an imposter.

@Thenomain said in Dragon Age: Smoke & Shadows:

Even a Level 2 Hawke who is schlepping around cheap goods for the Cartel?

Yeah, because like Ark said, we all suspect that no matter what staff says or their good intentions, the events of the game are going to pivot around that character, since the game is set during that characters time of massive influence in Kirkwall. It's a great story, but if I was going to take part in a Thedas world I'd want it to be much more along the lines of the warden's story, or the inquisitor's, where it really could be anyone.

Yeah, the game's in an early beta and already the FCs are taken? I'd feel a lot better about it if they'd at least held those characters for game opening, so that people could "audition".

I guess. Actually, no, I don't think I'd ever feel ok with someone rping Hawke while I was playing Random_Apostate_001.

You're also setting yourself up for a LOT of staff overhead with that. If you want a roster of throwaways, you'll constantly be restocking them. And if you aren't putting good work into them (as I sure wouldn't for a roster full of throwaways), are they really a good example of what you expect out of CGs?

My actual concern is not that Staff-run plot will be all about the FCs, but more these two points:

1. Who are these people? I would probably weep if I ran into Varric in a game and he was unfunny or terse or (absolute worst case) trying to have sex with people.
2. Even if Staff isn't focusing on the FCs, it seems very likely /players/ will be. Why would anyone come join my random card game if Fenris and Hawke walk in and shout that they want to play Wicked Grace?

@Dragon
It's not a bad idea, but then why are you setting the game during DA2, in Kirkwall? That's not a faceless inquisitor or warden you can make any number of ways. That's Hawke's story, and Hawke is a very specific character.

@Vorpal You'll never be prepared. All the adults were hyping me up to lose my mom for my entire life, and I still wasn't ready. I'm really sorry you and she are going through this.

@Lithium Not being practiced at something, or choosing not to do it != incapable of using reason.

Also, I google defined "reason" for fun and this is topical.

the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic.
"there is a close connection between reason and emotion."

Nice example sentence.

Yeah, there's already a Fenris, and honestly? I mean, maybe it's just because I am totally in love with him, but who could do Varric justice??

Note - I'm not really trying to bandwagon against this, because I love love love the idea of DA themed games. LOVE. Do what you're doing.

@Lithium Oh ok, you're being hyperbolic.

Outside of some (really tragic) edge cases...you don't think everyone can use reason?