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[felassan]

Bioware it is week of the 19th I await my food.

[prokopetz]

Dear Mr. Prokopetz, my boyfriend is looking for a TTRPG system to do a Kingsman themed one-shot. He is looking for "Creatively practical gadgets, borderline parody comedy, extremely acrobatic and intense combat" Would you have a recommendation? Thank you as always (and feel free to answer this publicly.)

Kingsman-style superspy romps are similar in many respects to martial arts comedies, so you can broaden your choices a bit by including games aimed at that style of play. Beyond that, it depends on how crunchy you want to get.

For a really rules-light approach, Wushu is rarely a bad choice -- you’d just have to relabel a few of the more kung-fu-centric bits of system jargon. Shaken & Stirred is another good option on the super-light end of the spectrum, though it looks like the author’s website is offline at the moment, so you might have to poke around a bit to find a copy.

For something with a bit of heft to it, but still fairly lightweight, The Agency might be the ticket -- though it has supernatural elements baked into it, so you may need to scrub those out for a non-fantastical superspy experience. (Also, there are like four completely different tabletop RPGs called “The Agency”, so make sure you get the right one!)

For something crunch-heavy (well, as heavy as you can get away with in a one-shot, anyway), it may be possible to adapt the Atomic Robo RPG. It’s a bit much to learn on the fly, though -- I’d suggest it for a one-shot only if your group has prior experience with Fate Core or its various derivatives. The Majestic 12 supplement may also be worth looking into, depending on the particulars of your game’s intended tone.

(I’m 80% certain somebody in the notes is going to plug Feng Shui, so I’m going to head that off here: it’s not a bad choice for the premise, but I wouldn’t recommend it for a one-shot, at least not for a group with no prior exposure to the system. The resource economy is quite fiddly, and in my experience it takes most players a couple of sessions to get the hang of it. Definitely one to check out if you ever plan on doing a longer series along those lines, though!)

[omegastation]

I cannot be the only one who thinks Yennifer of The Witcher 3 could be Miranda's sister.

I always think this and I barely played Witcher 3!!!

[felassan]

How am I just now noticing the faces of the Evanuris in the Corrupted version of the Vinyl art.

hello! ◕‿◕

they have come to deliver this world... (◡ ‿ ◡ ✿)

[felassan]

SPOILERS FOR MEMORIES

The asks are back!

How did you feel about Felassan? I was thinking of you the whole time.

Any idea what the Slaughter of the Pillars could be referring to?

hello! ◕‿◕ (rest of post under cut due to DA:TV spoilers)

indeed ~ヾ(＾∇＾) having completed the game now I'm no longer afraid of spoilers hhh. I hope that you enjoyed the game? tysm for writing and thinking of me, that is 🥺..

Felassan - some random reactions: [one, two, three]. I was sooo excited and shook to see Felassan in the game!! I yelped/hooted out loud like a clown (...) and then it was kind of overwhelming (in a good way). and then it took me quite some time to process or gather my thoughts about it. I was sure that there would at least be some references to him in codexes/notes etc or allusions made in passing dialogue like Cole and Solas’ lines about him in Trespasser. then when the marketing mentioned that we would see flashbacks from Solas’ past in the Crossroads, I was like aaa omg, wouldn’t that be the perfect time to actually show Felassan??, as a Fade memory or flashback or spirit echo or something. so I was hoping like🕯️🕯️ but still wasn't prepared to see him as a voiced in-game model, or for the amount of content relating to him (all those codexes and notes etc) that there was.

Slaughter of the Pillars - the Pillars of the Earth are the Titans. (“Hail Mythal, adjudicator and savior! She has struck down the pillars of the earth and rendered their demesne unto the People! Praise her name forever!”) That undead boss embodies one of Solas’ greatest regrets, what he and Mythal did to the Titans during the war with them - sundering every Titan from their spirit, severing them from their dreams, which resulted in the Blight as the dreams were driven mad. it also in a sense broke the dwarves in two and caused the fall of the fate of the dwarven people. Beyond the mural-memory that pertains to this in DA:TV, there are depictions of this time in the ancient past in the DA:TV artbook: [one, two]. Annotations there describe Solas rendering the Titans tranquil and capturing their souls; dwarves as a consequence then losing their connection to magic and fleeing into the now-Tranquil earth; and the Evanuris then building Elvhenan using the power of the captured Titan souls.

[felassan]

@andrastesassets let me know that DA:TV is currently available for pre-order in-store in GameStops (I think this is in US?). she called her local to store to verify this. (it doesn't look like it's available to pre-order from them online, and it's not available to pre-order yet on Steam or the online stores for Xbox and Playstation.) on this Reddit post, the price for it there is listed as $69.99. (note: the 'release' date in that image isn't the release date, it is a placeholder date).

update: pls see here for more info :)

[felassan]

I think you should change your header with one more Blackout box so it just says “There is DA4”

hello! ◕‿◕ hhhh!! me bc there is DA4:

[msg refs this header image]

(art credits for both that header image and my current header image: the lovely @thecopperkidd)

[felassan]

Hello Felassan! I'm wondering if you or the fanbase can help me find a video. It's a short thing that Gareth David Lloyd filmed where he reads the short paragraph from the end of Tevinter Nights?

Thanks in advance!

hello! ◕‿◕ are you looking for this? there is also this one where he is doing lines as the Orlesian 'Bard'.