Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

Only until I hit the max level - then it's FANCY time and I can spend hours crafting and tinting gear for everyone, heee

Also, it'd be quite hilarious if the only appearance of Inky in DA4 was walking out of eluvian, giving Solas a slap in the bald head, yanking the staff and marching off in a huff. "I just wanted my stuff back!" they say, leaving confused new PCs and Solas to finish the fight between themselves.

Solas doesn't need money... As long as you don't steal from the Dread Wolf, he's got 200,000 gold stashed away in the Elven Mountain Ruins in Trespasser. Who knows what he's got stashed in other old haunts of his? So you'd have every right to be pissed if you found stuff you gave him in a flea market. 

I left the money there 'cause I already had... 200,000? 300,000 gold? (I loaded up my last save; it was just over 100,000 gold as I'm about to enter the eluvian to see Solas) by Trespasser. And in the main game there's even a bit with Josephine where you're reassured that the money in your inventory is yours, personally. The Inquisition as an organization has a separate money pot that's taken care of by Josephine.

I figure Fentelban must be the richest elf in Thedas, after Solas perhaps. And that, post-Trespasser, she's like "WTF am I going to do with all this? Gold is HEAVY! Can't carry it around..." So she invests in Josie's shipping company, invests in Varric's more-likely-to-succeed business ventures, and then funds Dalish and city elf ventures, Cullen's home for retired Templars, Thom's efforts to give convicts a second chance, etc. from the interest and dividends.

I'm a hoarder so I usually have to take everrrrrrrything that lays on my path 

And yea, I usually don't need the money in my playthroughs at the time I reach Trespasser - but eh, as you said, there's a ton of causes that this gold can support, including Inquisition's new mission (or stuff like fancy prosthetics ). I mean, at the time we finish Trespasser, even if we keep the organization, Inquisition is likely not earning as much money as it did prior to Exalted Council given its diminished role and appearances of inaction/pacification, plus - we're venturing into a new, pretty hostile territory. So they may as well hoard as many resources as they can to continue operating, even if we assume that factions like Lucerni (or Kirkwall under Varric or Josie as head of her family) will pitch in or we're going to continue finding treasures (... not necessarily Solas's other stashes, though that would be as fun a plot point as finding new eluvians and putting them in awkward places) that will help fund our efforts.

Forgot to repost this here... There's a signed copy of the recently released illustrated edition of The Masked Empire as part of the bundle of books.

Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes
Hey, folks! The page for my contribution to the #AuthorsForFamilies RAICES charity auction is up. Winner gets an autographed copy of my books and, if desired, a full manuscript read. Goes live tomorrow, so get ready to help some kids!

www.32auctions.com/organizations/54005/auctions/67164/auction_items/1833573

Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes
Out for the day doing Dad Stuff, but I made time to check in on work Slack. Really excited about what we’ve got going on!



Cam Banks @boymonster
What have we told you about crying demons

Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes
Hey, this is internal shorthand for “This is going to be an emotionally engaging moment, and I look forward to giving our players an immersive experience.”

That looks absolutely ominous....

Network admin Solas... Thanks for adding another thing that I need to see happen after DA musical and nug simulator

...I'd romance that...

John Epler @eplerjc
We're moving offices soon, and I'm really excited to start taking transit/cycling to work (current office location makes that tricky). The weird thing for me, though, is that I've been going to the same building for work for literally more than a third of my entire life.

Been at @bioware for 12 years, and I'm 34, so it's just a little odd to contemplate.


- So the move is finally on!

Allan Schumacher allanschumacher
This was pretty cool

idk about the VA tease from AWR tbh, last time this happened it wasn't for DA and there are elves and bears in most every fantasy game. #doubt what's the timeline for this sort of thing in game development anyway? with DA4's recent reboot, eeeh I kinda feel like it's too early at this stage for voicework?