do u ever think about how crazy the concept of ocs are??? you literally make up a guy in your head, give him a lot of problems, then rotate them in your mind like rotisserie chicken for a insurmountable amount of time
i can’t stress enough that if you play games a lot/draw/type for long hours you need to exercise. i don’t mean stretch and take breaks. i mean using weights and having a program to build some fucking muscles on those paper wrists of yours. you are injuring yourself.
video game soundtracks peaked when florence welch sang an epic version of “i’m not calling you a liar” for dragon age and then did a cover of “stand by me” for the gay final fantasy
can’t believe we were stuck for over a decade at bumfuck ferelden while THIS place existed. i bet they have plumbing. what do they have in the hinterlands?? RABID BEARS
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these are the people who have always reduced hozier’s craft to “bog fairy king” when he has been making staunchly serious and important political statements in his art for the past decade i don’t expect anything from them
one of my players, who’s a really close friend of mine and never played dnd before, writes notes of each session with little anecdotes about how her character feels at important moments and sends them to me so i can understand her pc better. i love her
dragon age literally paved the way for gay rep in video games and it’s not even an exaggeration. we had bisexual rogues with fully animated gay sex scenes in the FIRST game which was launched in the year 2009. let that sink in
brennan yelling while holding the tal’dorei guide “THIS IS NOT DONE?? THIS IS AN ENTIRE CONTINENT FOLKS” because matt said he’s never done with exandria
no line in the history of livestreamed ttrpgs will ever be as harrowing as brennan lee mulligan’s “patia. are you weakest at the elbow or the shoulder?"
unfortunately though i adore lovm percy i don’t think any sort of medium beyond livestreamed dnd truly could capture the brilliance of taliesin jaffe playing that character and dropping banger line after banger line while improvising
before every session the dm asks us a question about our characters and now we've started asking him a question too, tonight's was which one of our characters was the hottest and he said my character. i have won dnd
i wish cr hadn’t gotten so much shit in the first campaign, being accused of having a script or of “railroading” its players for the livestream. because i don’t know where people got the idea that pre planning a narrative is a bad thing just because it’s dnd
this is coming lovingly from someone who struggled with wrist pains on both hands due to repetitive work since i was 16. i’m in my mid twenties now and one of the MANY reasons i can’t skip the gym is because i like to game!!! a lot!!! and draw and write!! a LOT!!!
i’ve always loved how dragon age often, as a franchise, allows its protagonists to fail. the initial battle of ostagar in dao, the death of hawke’s family members in da2 +corypheus, the fall of haven in dai. your triumphs only reverberate because of previous failings
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percy de rolo wore a plague mask, invented the gun after making a pact with a demon to fight his vampire enemies, was rejected by the goddess of death herself for being too fucked up and then had a tiefling child because of his dark dealings. congrats you won GOTH OF THE DECADE
y'all ever think about how brennan lee mulligan somehow kept his audience AND players thoroughly engaged and entertained while he described nothing but damage being taken for longer than a hour in exu calamity? i think about it a lot
astarion bg3 is going through the essek thelyss/solas dragonage moment in which he’s most decidedly NOT the most popular character in the fandom, the portion that loves him is just LOUD AS FUCK and that’s alright
more dnd games should make use of timeskips. when the campaign starts winding down i don’t see why not have the characters skip like a year or two and like. level up while they do so.
date idea: you play dragon age inquisition while i explain the lore of the universe in excruciating detail as you get your ass handed to you by a bear in the hinterlands <3
one of my players just let us know she’s gonna be late for the session today bc she’s gonna be at a wine event she’s attending for research for her dnd pc. i—
*holds dragon age’s fandom’s hand gently* you DON’T need the voice actors’ validation for your silly headcanons OR interpretations of the character to feel how you feel or think how you think about them. repeat it with me. leave the poor people alone
the dragon age fandom is all fun and games while the hype is at an all time high but wait 3 months and we’ll get the DNI lists saying “CULLEN stans DNI” “if you think anders was right BLOCK ME” “solas NEGATIVITY” “bioware critical BEWARE” “if you sided with the templars KYS”
the way he takes in this instance to seem meek so people will underestimate him at first impression but as the game goes on you realize he stands tall, chest up, chin up every time he’s in a cutscene
percy de rolo the most character ever. “i want vengeance” then he gets some vengeance and it doesn’t feel too good so he murders 3 more people just to make sure it isn’t hitting right
so the wrist pains are lowkey chronic at this point which means that if i go too many days without exercise and say,,, play games nonstop for too many days, i’ll be in crippling pain, take care of your body i’m DEAD serious
the fact that “for i have seen the throne of the gods, and it was empty” is the rawest line in the dragon age franchise and it’s said by the most pathetic mf in all 3 games. hysterical actually
doctors may prescribe you painkillers and treatments and some may say not to worry since you’re young but i swear to god. if you have NO plans to change your routine (stop typing/gaming/drawing for hours on end, like me) you need exercise to counterbalance that or you’re fucked
and when c2 of critical role gets an animated series and the opening sequence is one of two shadowy figures secretively trading a luxon beacon and it fades to black, then bam! a “3 years later” frame just as caleb widogast opens his eyes in a shitty inn room… then what?
i was about to fall asleep then this thought crept into my brain: matt mercer is going to unbury your gays the shit out of orym’s dead husband. good night
i genuinely think xhorhas is matt's greatest triumph in worldbuilding, he did an incredible thing with convincing the players of the in-universe propaganda then completely turned it in its head when they actually got introduced to the country itself and it was beatifully subtle
The first Xhorhas episode of c2 is FASCINATING because the m9 are clearly expecting it to be this awful place filled with bad people. Knowing the home they discover within it, it really is a masterful way of showing the power of dehumanizing propaganda
dream segments in dnd ARE SO GOOD and i love them v much. in every other medium of storytelling they’re prone to being cheap devices for plot progression but in dnd they can be key in helping the players back on track or foreshadowing no one has the full picture for but the dm
i love you artists who are obsessed with their own ocs i love you artists whose art is exclusively of their oc i love you artists who ship their ocs with other people’s oc i love y
remember that one time a tweet of mine abt how i don’t know all the dnd rules by heart got 20k likes and then dudebros were on the replies telling me to stop playing dnd and making myself everybody else’s problem? that was funny. anyway i’m dming a session 0 of a campaign today
something so beautiful about spending 10 years headcanoing that his wolf form was a beautiful white wolf and then him actually being a mangy ugly ass 3 eyed wolf i’m yodelling