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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Jan 5, 2019 5:47:31 GMT
Anyone else insanely curious about this short story he mentioned? It may as well be something unrelated to anything from DA. We know that Weekes is a prolific writer and IRC he writes a lot of own stories, even if for the sake of practice. Practicing writing an 8 thousand year old fibber, you mean? Yes, good.
Or Iron Bull. Also acceptable. I suppose it could also be Gat. Or Leliana. Charter. Harding? A bunch of people really. I just want it to be dragon age and to be posted somewhere. lol
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Post by colfoley on Jan 5, 2019 6:01:52 GMT
So this is becoming a trend. I come in here to see whats up, dont know...go to check the twitter thread. ...
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Post by Ieldra on Jan 5, 2019 7:51:38 GMT
Same. It's a knack that I don't have and I'm envious of the writers and GM's that seem to pick the perfect name out of thin air. For CRPG character names, for a long time I got by with "Fem Mage" and "Elf Assassin" (lovingly abbreviated to Elf'ass), but that got old pretty quick. So now I agonize over character names picked from novels until I find one I like. Dang, how many GMs are there in this one thread? Now one more than there were previously
As for character names for characters I play, I tend to agonize over them. They have to fit the lore, they must not remind me too much of other worlds and they must sound just right. I can have personality, looks etc...down in a minute, but a name can take me hours. The same applies to plot-important NPCs in my rpg worlds. For the lesser NPCs, I have name lists that I recycle between compatible worlds, but never use in the same tabletop group twice.
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Post by PapaCharlie9 on Jan 5, 2019 18:02:12 GMT
^ Here's hoping that choosing to befriend Solas (or not) has a significant lasting consequence. Uh, in the, "Nothing personal, bas," context of the Tweets, you're basically saying that if you befriended Solas, you want to be betrayed.
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Post by arvaarad on Jan 5, 2019 18:06:39 GMT
Dang, how many GMs are there in this one thread? Now one more than there were previously
As for character names for characters I play, I tend to agonize over them. They have to fit the lore, they must not remind me too much of other worlds and they must sound just right. I can have personality, looks etc...down in a minute, but a name can take me hours. The same applies to plot-important NPCs in my rpg worlds. For the lesser NPCs, I have name lists that I recycle between compatible worlds, but never use in the same tabletop group twice.
Follow up question, do any of the roughly three thousand tabletop players in this thread go to tabletop cons? Because now I’m wondering if I played with any of you and didn’t realize it.
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Post by PapaCharlie9 on Jan 5, 2019 18:16:19 GMT
Now one more than there were previously
As for character names for characters I play, I tend to agonize over them. They have to fit the lore, they must not remind me too much of other worlds and they must sound just right. I can have personality, looks etc...down in a minute, but a name can take me hours. The same applies to plot-important NPCs in my rpg worlds. For the lesser NPCs, I have name lists that I recycle between compatible worlds, but never use in the same tabletop group twice.
Follow up question, do any of the roughly three thousand tabletop players in this thread go to tabletop cons? Because now I’m wondering if I played with any of you and didn’t realize it. Only in the Long Ago. Used to go to DunDraCon. Some SF cons with TTRPG areas also, like Westercon and Pacificon.
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Post by Zemgus on Jan 5, 2019 18:24:17 GMT
Regarding PW's latest tweets: you can get angry about something and still appreciate the fact that these are the consequences to your actions. I want more of that in my games.
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Post by Ieldra on Jan 5, 2019 18:25:50 GMT
Now one more than there were previously
As for character names for characters I play, I tend to agonize over them. They have to fit the lore, they must not remind me too much of other worlds and they must sound just right. I can have personality, looks etc...down in a minute, but a name can take me hours. The same applies to plot-important NPCs in my rpg worlds. For the lesser NPCs, I have name lists that I recycle between compatible worlds, but never use in the same tabletop group twice.
Follow up question, do any of the roughly three thousand tabletop players in this thread go to tabletop cons? Because now I’m wondering if I played with any of you and didn’t realize it. Not with me, almost certainly. Not if you don't live in Germany. It's been a while since I attended a con, too.
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Post by UutIVvdPw7END0Ef on Jan 5, 2019 18:46:16 GMT
Doesn't have to be Solas, he also wrote Iron Bull, Cole and the rest of Bull's Chargers.
*Sacrifices Bull's Chargers and consequently Iron Bull for Qunari alliance* Inquisitor: The hardest choices require the strongest wills. (Stoic) (Politics)
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Jan 5, 2019 19:11:57 GMT
^ Here's hoping that choosing to befriend Solas (or not) has a significant lasting consequence. Uh, in the, "Nothing personal, bas," context of the Tweets, you're basically saying that if you befriended Solas, you want to be betrayed. Well, your relationship and choices made within had an appreciable effect on Bull (But not his sense of humor. That pun at that moment almost makes me *want* to kill him.). So in that sense, I'm with ladyiolanth and hope our relationship with Solas has effects of similar significance on him.
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Post by Hrungr on Jan 5, 2019 19:19:13 GMT
Brianne Battye @bbattye Thanks spellcheck, but I was going for "disinterested," not "disinterred." That... changes things. Just a little. #amwriting
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2019 19:30:44 GMT
Now one more than there were previously
As for character names for characters I play, I tend to agonize over them. They have to fit the lore, they must not remind me too much of other worlds and they must sound just right. I can have personality, looks etc...down in a minute, but a name can take me hours. The same applies to plot-important NPCs in my rpg worlds. For the lesser NPCs, I have name lists that I recycle between compatible worlds, but never use in the same tabletop group twice.
Follow up question, do any of the roughly three thousand tabletop players in this thread go to tabletop cons? Because now I’m wondering if I played with any of you and didn’t realize it. I don't go to cons much these days, but my husband is part of a podcast that runs a yearly gaming con in the Midwest (it probably won't run this year, tho). Depending where you are, it's entirely possible. My group interestingly enough, has 3 GMs, and I've GMed, but not for more than a couple of sessions, so I don't really consider myself a GM. Too much work.
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Post by ladyiolanthe on Jan 5, 2019 19:38:42 GMT
^ Here's hoping that choosing to befriend Solas (or not) has a significant lasting consequence. Uh, in the, "Nothing personal, bas," context of the Tweets, you're basically saying that if you befriended Solas, you want to be betrayed. No, that's really not what I was thinking. I was responding specifically to Patrick Weekes' statement that he tries to make significant lasting consequences based on choices you make. I'd like that to be the case with a befriended Solas. In the Iron Bull/bas example you brought forward, you're not Bull's friend if you make him stay loyal to the Qun. So he isn't actually betraying you when he turns on you in Trespasser. If you save the Chargers, you're Bull's friend, and he doesn't betray you. (Regardless of your choices with Bull, he never betrays you, basically, if you put yourself in his shoes.) The logical conclusion from comparing the two arcs is that being Solas' friend might give you an advantage - a better chance of influencing him to do things differently, perhaps.
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Post by phoray on Jan 5, 2019 19:54:59 GMT
The logical conclusion from comparing the two arcs is that being Solas' friend might give you an advantage - a better chance of influencing him to do things differently, perhaps. For example, I would prefer there to be four shades of consequence here. A. Friends with him, chose redeem B. Friends with him, chose kill C. Disliked/Neutral, chose redeem D. Dislikes/hates, chose kill Sadly, I think it will all be based on the Redeem/kill choice instead of actual relationship with him in DA4. I think Friends/Not Friends will only have been represented in Trespasser.
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Post by UutIVvdPw7END0Ef on Jan 5, 2019 19:57:56 GMT
Brianne Battye @bbattyeThanks spellcheck, but I was going for "disinterested," not "disinterred." That... changes things. Just a little. #amwriting Ah autocorrect, DA's true villain, i envision it as a Dwarf Shaperate.
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Post by ladyiolanthe on Jan 5, 2019 19:58:09 GMT
The logical conclusion from comparing the two arcs is that being Solas' friend might give you an advantage - a better chance of influencing him to do things differently, perhaps. For example, I would prefer there to be four shades of consequence here.
A. Friends with him, chose redeem B. Friends with him, chose kill C. Disliked/Neutral, chose redeem D. Dislikes/hates, chose killSadly, I think it will all be based on the Redeem/kill choice instead of actual relationship with him in DA4. I think Friends/Not Friends will only have been represented in Trespasser. Yes, this would be awesome. And the Dragon Age Keep did record whether you were friends or not friends with your various companions. So maybe it will carry over. Hard to say.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Jan 5, 2019 20:02:22 GMT
The logical conclusion from comparing the two arcs is that being Solas' friend might give you an advantage - a better chance of influencing him to do things differently, perhaps. For example, I would prefer there to be four shades of consequence here. A. Friends with him, chose redeem B. Friends with him, chose kill C. Disliked/Neutral, chose redeem D. Dislikes/hates, chose kill Sadly, I think it will all be based on the Redeem/kill choice instead of actual relationship with him in DA4. I think Friends/Not Friends will only have been represented in Trespasser. Can you choose Redeem if you aren’t friends with Solas? I thought the only option was to stop him if you weren’t. And yeah, I’m very afraid of what they’ll do with these decisions if the Inquisitor is a NPC.
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Post by midnight tea on Jan 5, 2019 20:07:40 GMT
Can you choose Redeem if you aren’t friends with Solas? I thought the only option was to stop him if you weren’t. And yeah, I’m very afraid of what they’ll do with these decisions if the Inquisitor is a NPC. "Not friends" as in with negative approval, or not having enough approval to trigger his personal quest? People datamined this and, according to what they've found, you need only +1 approval to get the redemption option.
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Post by ladyiolanthe on Jan 5, 2019 20:09:49 GMT
For example, I would prefer there to be four shades of consequence here. A. Friends with him, chose redeem B. Friends with him, chose kill C. Disliked/Neutral, chose redeem D. Dislikes/hates, chose kill Sadly, I think it will all be based on the Redeem/kill choice instead of actual relationship with him in DA4. I think Friends/Not Friends will only have been represented in Trespasser. Can you choose Redeem if you aren’t friends with Solas? I thought the only option was to stop him if you weren’t. And yeah, I’m very afraid of what they’ll do with these decisions if the Inquisitor is a NPC. Yeah, there's no options when Solas hates you. (This Lavellan belonging to FluffyNinjaLlama was at -68 approval with Solas, so what midnight tea says about +1 enabling the Redeem option is probably true, but I haven't tried it myself, nor stumbled across any videos of Inquisitors who were identified as only having +1 approval. And I think phoray referenced that in their list since they have dislike/ neutral for the redeem, but dislike/ hate for the kill option.)
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Post by Hrungr on Jan 6, 2019 0:15:46 GMT
Karin Weekes @karinweekesOK, so I know he isn't technically a band, but... Eggy Pop #RuinABandNameWithOneLetter Mike Laidlaw“L’oeuf For Life”
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Post by vertigomez on Jan 6, 2019 2:23:21 GMT
Brianne Battye @bbattyeThanks spellcheck, but I was going for "disinterested," not "disinterred." That... changes things. Just a little. #amwriting I mean....... not if you're a necromancer? 🤔😅
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Post by Ieldra on Jan 6, 2019 11:23:34 GMT
Brianne Battye @bbattyeThanks spellcheck, but I was going for "disinterested," not "disinterred." That... changes things. Just a little. #amwriting I mean....... not if you're a necromancer? 🤔😅 Even then, "disinterment" implies a certain lack of "disinterest"
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Post by gervaise21 on Jan 6, 2019 11:58:22 GMT
For example, I would prefer there to be four shades of consequence here. A. Friends with him, chose redeem B. Friends with him, chose kill C. Disliked/Neutral, chose redeem D. Dislikes/hates, chose kill Theoretically they could cater for all 4 options since it is recorded in the Keep if you were friends with him but chose to kill rather than redeem him and presumably were not friends but still chose to redeem him (although that one might need clarifying as "not friends" probably is meant to indicate negative approval rather than just neutral). Doing his personal quest might be relevant as well. If your approval is really negative then you never get offered it but you could do the quest but resolve it in a way that lowers your approval drastically with him. However, whether this will impact the game beyond a difference between dialogue or codex entries relevant to the Inquisitor is harder to say. That depends on how much they plan to involve the Inquisitor. I suppose it might also make it harder for the new PC (assuming there is one) to persuade Solas to alter his plans if his previous experience was one of animosity, whereas if he had a good relationship with the Inquisitor then he might be more open to listening to someone new, particularly if they claimed a link to his former friend.
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Post by midnight tea on Jan 6, 2019 16:40:43 GMT
For example, I would prefer there to be four shades of consequence here. A. Friends with him, chose redeem B. Friends with him, chose kill C. Disliked/Neutral, chose redeem D. Dislikes/hates, chose kill Theoretically they could cater for all 4 options since it is recorded in the Keep if you were friends with him but chose to kill rather than redeem him and presumably were not friends but still chose to redeem him (although that one might need clarifying as "not friends" probably is meant to indicate negative approval rather than just neutral). Doing his personal quest might be relevant as well. If your approval is really negative then you never get offered it but you could do the quest but resolve it in a way that lowers your approval drastically with him. However, whether this will impact the game beyond a difference between dialogue or codex entries relevant to the Inquisitor is harder to say. That depends on how much they plan to involve the Inquisitor. I suppose it might also make it harder for the new PC (assuming there is one) to persuade Solas to alter his plans if his previous experience was one of animosity, whereas if he had a good relationship with the Inquisitor then he might be more open to listening to someone new, particularly if they claimed a link to his former friend. My current assumption so far is that our Trespasser decision will be a factor in the end - an important factor, but probably one of many that will influence the final outcome. It's probably true that how much our DAI+Trespasser choices would matter is probably dependent on how much Inquisitor would be involved... though Inquisitor's imprint would likely still be present regardless, given how Solas's outlook on modern Thedas is influenced by the positive or negative relationship with Inky. The question remains how much impact future PCs decisions would have. It would make sense for choices from past game to matter, given that DA4 will be... well, the fourth installment in the series and also possibly a direct continuation of the story. But it's quite unlikely for *only* decisions from DAI+Trespasser to matter, both given the fact that we will acquire more information (and that alone may drastically change our outlook on things) or that players would like their future characters and choices to have some meaningful impact too (though that depends on what exactly we'd be doing). My assumption is that we will not have a 100% control of the outcome by just playing DA4; that we would either have to play past games or design specific world-states to reach certain outcomes - but Trespasser, or really any other decision from the past games (that can, logically, be yet changed), may as well be simply re-affirmed in DA4 at some point in the story.
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