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lok ming 樂明, 25, it/its, tme. aka @eastgaysian. this is my gamer's den for primarily dragon age and rogue trader, which is to say i post all kinds of bullshit and never maintag anything
doodle tag + 'polished' art + writing. i think lyrium causes impotence and thedosian women are subject to the andraste-witch dichotomy.
don't make me tap the sign (read the wretched of middle earth by charles w. mills)
carrd oc directory here (eternal wip); tag links below ⬇️
I just think we should all agree to bring back non-ritual hand-kissing as a routine, commonplace gesture for reasons of my own which there's no need to examine right now
navigius and thaismene are both really fucked up about the ways in which they know they were not Born Right and have had that hanging over their heads their whole lives. meanwhile rem is like i was really good at being an orphan in the orphan grinder :) i think the orphan grinder is awesome!
quick concepts of the new fellow, the venerable archdeacon navigius. still workshopping some backstory facts that may be subject to change, but he's the not-so-secret son of an ecclesiarch bishop. kind of a miracle baby or cursed child depending on how you look at it; mom's voidborn and served aboard dad's missionary vessel, she went into labor while the ship was mid-warp jump and navigius was born shortly after they re-entered realspace. mom surprised everyone by surviving the ordeal, although not entirely intact, so to speak.
he was born with a club hand and his right arm was replaced with an augmetic at a concerningly young age, which has been giving him problems his whole life due to bad nerve hookups and struggles with fine motor control. but don't worry he is very grateful to his father the bishop for providing him with his arm and his life and fixing any of his son's imperfections that could possibly reflect poorly on him. there's no reason there'd be any resentment in that relationship at all
discovering that this was his pre-canon job in the ministorum delighted me because he has the fuckin' nerd triumph. (it was very funny to me to have +5 lore warp from rhetorically owning a heretical sect knowing this guy's going down the heretical route.) And shadow of torment darkest hour, of course. they cut him up to make his face look more ilke a skull <3 i think he had some level of involvement in rem's relic heist, because it's an amusing concept to me
Hi random question but I really like your crpg posts and its made me interested in playing some myself. do you happen to have any suggestions for good, like, entry level crpgs? im interested in rogue trader based on ur awesome remoboth posts but i dont know how beginner friendly rt is LOL
so my honest answer is that crpgs as a whole tend to look intimidating on the first approach, and every time i've recommended one to someone without experience in the genre i end up dumping a lot of information and caveats on them 😭 but i'm delighted that you're interested so here's a bunch of paragraphs.
general advice: save often! become best friends with the quicksave button and hit it after doing anything. don't be afraid to look up a walkthrough, bc ime especially with owlcat sometimes there is just some real mechanical bullshit going on (and sometimes you might unknowingly set yourself up to get fucked over way further down a questline). you're always going to want one person in your party who specializes in the Unlocking Things And Disarming Traps skill. and it is always ok to cheat your way past a mechanic that is interfering with your ability to have fun
if you're already interested from my posts, rogue trader isn't the worst choice to start with, imo - owlcat has definitely made big mechanical improvements between each of their games, so rt benefits from their experience on km and wotr. the tutorializing is much better than the pf games. the cargo system streamlines inventory management, the mechanics overall not as sprawling as their pathfinder adaptations, and the game is entirely designed for turn-based so combat is overall, imo, more thoughtfully designed and plainly less difficult than km or wotr. and all the dlcs are actually worthwhile.
my biggest caveat is that rt's solution to the 'early game is a slog because being under level 5 sucks ass' problem is that you level up frequently, which can easily get overwhelming. there is no built-in auto level up feature, but there is an auto level up mod using community-provided builds, if you're willing to figure out a little setup to save yourself the hassle later.
pillars of eternity is another one that gets described as a good introduction to modern crpgs, which i'm also a big enjoyer of. it was initially designed for rtwp but received a turn-based patch recently, so you can try out both modes to see what you prefer.
biggest caveat here is that obsidian is under microsoft, which is a boycott target, so i'd recommend pirating it if you want to play. if you need advice for that i can also offer that off anon lol. secondary caveat is that i've seen a lot of people bounce off the initial lore dump of an intro. if it's too much to process, it is okay to let some of it just wash over you and let your quest log fill you in on the important bits.
and my final recommendation is that everyone ever should play disco elysium. which maybe isn't necessarily the best introduction to the genre as a whole because it's very unique. but it's a good game that is, i think, easy to get into as long as you're down to read a lot. you don't have to worry about combat in it. and disco-likes are kind of an emerging subgenre of crpgs now lol.
(if your computer can run it stably, bg3 is arguably the most 'approachable' and certainly the most popular modern crpg, so it's easy to find a lot of guides and information on, but that first point is a big if. the mechanics that i think are genuinely well-designed are counterbalanced by my seething hatred for swen vincke and larian's shitty racist writing. so i can't Recommend it.)
was great-uncle havard trevelyan actually a self-hating egg the whole time? former bioware writer who prefers to remain anonymous states 'i don't know who that is,' 'how did you get into my house'
If anything, those orange fragments of something incomprehensible in the upper corner where Yrliet is looking should be her collapsing craftworlds. I can't this.
I hate the design of Eldar things, especially Eldar craftworlds. Their structures look like randomly broken pieces of plastic, their ships look like a pile of rotting fish scraps covered in insect eggs.
The plot was planned to be poster-style, but Yrliet wants to be chibi. I don't know why.
thaismene romance: I don't know if this one is possible. she is 100% too scared to openly reject the rt but does know how to provide them with one million propriety hoops to jump through to keep them at a distance. i'm not sure she'd be willing to get so personally involved with someone who has that much power over her no matter how nicies they may seem. maybe even especially if they seem nicies. might actually actively try to talk kibellah into killing her at some point if she likes you too much
remoboth romance: he is always going to be amoral at best. his ending options are dogmatic, heretical, and hopelessly self-destructive. he will refuse to take you seriously if you tell him you're in love with him. if you don't validate his religious delusions he's just going to be more insistent about them. he's a yandere
ok wait. first of all obsessed with everyones ocs. second of all May I Add... can u all tell me about the saw traps you guys are designing as romance routes for your ocs. the madness people have to accept and play through to romance them. the aspect of this romance that u think makes fans fully justified in sending death threats
