[OOC] Champions of Thedas - Dragon Age RP

[CAS1006]

@Genni To me, it is counter intuitive and not really fun. Most of it is linear and even when you discover stuff, it is never really all that useful.

It is just too easy for my taste.

[SimplyJohn]

@CAS1006 It is just too easy for my taste.

But if you spend three weeks walking back and forth through the same patch of grass you might find a Pikachu!?!

[CAS1006]

@SimplyJohnOooh... Because what is the point of having a Luxray...Am I right?

In all seriousness I never found Pikachu cute lol.

[SimplyJohn]

@CAS1006

From what I've seen of Pokemon games they use a similar mechanic to a lot of Japanese games, which is random loot drops. The only difference is that the 'random loot' are the creatures you encounter. The only way to collect them all is to mindlessly repeat the same hunting procedure until the random drop gives you the animal you need. In some cases this could be over in a few iterations, but in some you can be doing the same low-level fights hundreds of time before finally finding the one creature you were after. Only for it to then run away.

I hate games like that, where it's not so much how skillful you are or how well you manage your team, but how lucky you are with the random number generator.

[CAS1006]

Let's stick to Dragon Age,

Speaking of which, would anyone of you waant to watch me stream it?

[SimplyJohn]

My internet connection's a little too dodgy for that, plus I'm needing bandwidth for work stuff at the moment. Have about 300 pages of high resolution comics to download, proofread and get back to the publishers by the weekend.

[CAS1006]

@SimplyJohnAh. Maybe this weekend then? It is a mostly blind thing though. But group interaction would be fun because I know people will go "Chris, what are you doing!?"

[SimplyJohn]

On the weekend I'll be writing the next 300 pages, and getting the scripts to the artists in time for next week so they can draw them up by midweek.

Oh, the glamourous life of a writer.

[CAS1006]

I'm a writer who just finished school. (Not trying to sound self important...) But I have been lacking many ideas.

[SimplyJohn]

I'm a writer who just finished writing a comic book for a company in Japan, and I have so many ideas I have to rest my head in a bucket of ice water just to get to sleep.

What sort of themes do you usually enjoy writing about?

[CAS1006]

@SimplyJohnFantasy of course, different races, diversity of all sorts to magic and technology.

[booksmusicanime]

And then I'm that weirdo writing in the corner writing fan fictions.

@CAS1006
I have no life besides my volunteer job on the weekends and class which wraps up on Tuesday for me and I love watching livestreams so I'm here whenever you decide to stream.

[SimplyJohn]

@CAS1006

What sort of style do you mainly use?

I tend to be character driven, where I get the basic setting in my mind and then imagine the kind of people who will be the focus of the story, fully fleshing them out in my mind before letting them loose to play. It usually gives me a very natural, fluid flow to the story, since each character reacts in the way you'd expect them to given the circumstances, but it can make it difficult sometimes since the characters don't always do what I wanted them to and the story can end up heading off in a completely different direction than I'd originally planned.

[McHaggis]

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[CAS1006]

@McHaggis

Hider

A lot of yaoi at times, ironic considering being asexual.

@SimplyJohn Third person, the kinda that describes every feature of the character to the very shape of their anatomy.

@booksmusicanimeI can stream tonight if you want.

[SimplyJohn]

(Also all this talk of writing... Can I be join this club, guys? Guys? I like to write sci-fi and LGBT romance!)

@McHaggis

In that case you really need to have a chat with @Genni sometime.

[booksmusicanime]

Anyone else a fan fiction writer or is it just me?

[McHaggis]

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[booksmusicanime]

@McHaggis
I have two fan fictions that I've almost completed and one that I finished then it got deleted.

[vancexentan]

Hey guys I hope you don't mind me venting a little about stuff unrelated to RPG however I feel I need to in this case.

Rant about people

Well I just got called Autistic...not only one of the weakest insults out there but on a MUSIC video after calling out a guy who said anyone who liked this type of music (Sped up anime song) was retarded or something along those lines. Kind of stupid considering I've achieved honor roll status multiple times during high school but I have a strong GPA in college. I literally took a whole paragraph copied and pasted from Know Your Meme to call out the previous guy as a troll by definition. Earlier I got called a 'dumbass' who I also proceeded to call them out on by explaining to them the above grades I've received and such and his response was to still call me a dumbass....I really hate trolls I really do.

End rant...anyways decent posts so far and good job with the opening post john I forgot to mention it earlier but that must've taken a bit of time to make.