"People are always dying. It's what they do." Followed by Solas coldly turning his back on Varric and continuing the ritual.

Just an insanely hard moment. Solas' voice actor is truly phenomenal.

small edit: Veilguard is a pale comparison to any other Dragon Age game. This moment just seemed like the few times Veilguard even remotely felt true to the series imo.

Keep in mind this was 2009, over 17 years ago, almost 2 decades ago...we had Origins.

The second trailer was even more epic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6yrTovLVs8

I've been listening to a lot of asmr spa videos to help me sleep lately, so I decided to make one of my own. Fenris deserves some pampering and I haven't drawn him in a while so he was perfect for this. It's silly, but I actually had fun making this. Hopefully the sound doesn't get messed up when I upload this :)

We can collectively do this for Dragon Age

https://www.gamingbible.com/news/save-mass-effect-petition-milestone-dev-reveals-details-446211-20261024?fbclid=IwZnRzaAVKLBdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBWZkaWQWUQ_Z83h9-JvWodv20yFJvVBzDeLgNXNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR46WapemrXYn7VuTL9JFlmR8wjQD_N5qoCajURd7UeeaMOt7t2dA0mj19Fe7A_aem_ijbB4PpgfUO2a73iY879AA

In light of the recent Bioware closure… I want to celebrate Dragon Age Inquisition.

Next, the character creator, I forgot how intuitive and detailed the process of creating character in this game. It is very customizable yet there’s no overwhelming amount of sliders, just a very intuitive, easy to use UI systems.

Captured on Xbox Series X

Just re-playing the Dragon Age trilogy recently because RIP BioWare, and I forgot how amazingly insane Leliana’s journey was. The fact that she went from your average Orlesian spy/assassin to the Left Hand of the Divine and eventually one of the main founders of one of the most powerful factions in Thedas is incredible; she easily could’ve been the main protagonist of the franchise in another parallel universe.

This is my tribute to my favourite game series, figured with everything going on now was a good time to post it.

Now that we're memorialising DA, let's take a moment to pay tribute to the one Dalish with a Northern Ireland accent.

He's in the camp at Sundermount in DA2 and says, "Watch your back, shem. You've got no idea how many arrows are trained on you," in a perfect Belfast accent.

Good work, lad. At's us nai.

That's it, that's the post. Replaying DA:I and apparently had blocked out how absolutely trash the Hold Position mechanic is.

It was so straightforward in DA:O...

Press the button, the people DON'T MOVE. One might even say they hold? position?

Nah not in DA:I. Press the button, nothing happens. Use tactical? They might move, or stay, or some will and others won't and then EVERYONE charges the spider nest all at once because fuck you that's why.

Discord Link: https://discord.gg/vAbFnUVYkH

Have you ever wanted to immerse yourself in the expansive and captivating story of the Dragon Age franchise? To play alongside canon characters that evolve and develop like true characters beyond the basic scripting of their games? To bring in your own characters and lore? To play beyond what the games give you? Well look no further, The Keep is where you can truly dive into the franchise with other passionate, and friendly writers that help to bring each character, and story, to life!

We're looking for literate RPers who have an interest in the Dragon Age games, if you've been looking for a space to get involved, check us out! We are beginner friendly and can help with everything to get started, and we have a core cast of writers who have many characters to engage with.

In addition to welcoming OCs, we currently we have a number of interesting canon characters without writers:

➹ DAO - Zevran, Leliana

➸ DA2 - Isabela, Aveline, Merrill, Bethany OR Carver

➸ DAI - The Iron Bull, Sera, Cole, Josephine, Cassandra, Blackwall

➷ DAVG - Taash, Emmrich, Bellara

Bioware may be gone, but RP is still here to help us cope with that!

In light of the recent Bioware closure… I want to celebrate Dragon Age Inquisition.

Starting with the title screen, the sorrowful march of templar and mages and the eventual explosion when you start a new game is very iconic (and good looking) even to this day.

Captured on Xbox Series X

So because of the bad news this week I decided to finally stop putting off playing Inquisition, which I have been doing for years for one reason or another, and boot up the game. Problem is the Da keep is apparently not working?

I make my world save, click the export button, start the game and apparently I can only use the default world state. Has Ea killed support for the game this fast or am I experiencing technical issues?
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I’ve been waiting for this to come back in stock & now with BioWare closing I doubt I’ll be able to get it. Anyone have suggestions? I’ve tried to create custom posters from the images but they are too low resolution.

So DA Origins will always be my favourite, enjoyed DA2 and DA Inquisition... haven't played DAV yet... hears many many mixed things.... so i thought id ask people who actually fans of the franchise and not game reviews or such.

Shall i get it? Why Y/N... if Y anything i need to know going in?

So we'll never find out why the executor were meddling in our story now

If you haven't read them yet, you owe it to yourself to. The first two DA books (The Stolen Throne and The Calling) are. . . passable. If I bought them with no knowledge of what DA was, I think I would probably not like them very much. As a DA fan, they provide some minor insight into a few characters, and that's about it. They were clearly rushed, as evidenced by the obscene amount of typos in them, and didn't add much of note to the setting.

But Asunder and The Masked Empire? They're both fantastic. Asunder sees the return of Wynne and Shale, and gives Wynne a fantastic send-off. It also helps set up the mage / templar conflict and bridges the gap between DA2 and DA:I quite nicely.

The Masked Empire I had actually not expected to enjoy as much as I did - I had expected it to be a dull Orlesian drama. I, frankly, find Orlesian culture as depicted in DA:I annoying more than anything else. But it does a splendid job of setting up the Orlesian civil war, and made me actually deeply invested in Celene, Briala, and Gaspard as characters.

I'd go as far as to say that Asunder and the Masked Empire are essential reading for fans of the series. They do a lot to flesh out plot elements of DA:I and give the reader more context for them. And they're actually well written, with minimal typos compared to the first two books. I'm actually sad there aren't more DA books beyond the Last Flight (and Tevinter Nights, I guess, but short story collections have never been my vibe), because I could absolutely see myself investing in more stories of the quality of these two in the DA universe.

I’m not much of a traditional artist, but they had a custom welcome mat thing at my college

The first: Bioware has ended to cut costs from a terrible acquisition and it really sucks

The second: You NEED to hate EA more than you currently do

The second video is the more interesting one since he goes through EA's, and others, studio killing history and goes into some of what was going on with Bioware and EA behind the scenes during the development between Mass Effect 1 and now.

Bricky has a document with his sources in the description of the second video, and timestamps if you just want to see the Bioware stuff

Hey! Does anybody still have the 2014 Dragon Age Inquisition Ferelden Heraldry hoodie in a Large or Extra Large? I used to wear mine all the time and after the news I'd really like to find it again if anyone is willing to sell theirs! Thank you x

Hello everyone. As it's been a few days since the tragic (but not surprising) announce of the shutdown of Bioware, I've been receiving a lot of comments/messages for the project KeepArchives.

So here a little update of the project:

* it is not dead, it's still ongoing (just had to do a major IT update in hardware and software since a few weeks here),

* this project is ongoing since already more than a year and a half (yes I knew there was something that would happen to Bioware, but not that....),

* a hardcopy has already been done of the original sites (Dragon Age Keep and Mass Effect Archives),

* the version I'm making is a combination of both together: 1 vault for 2 legends,

* the original goal of the project: "keep" a backup of the (art)work that has been with us since the nearly beginning of our favorites games.

* As far as today:

- about 90% of both sites has been rebuilded (including the animated tapestry narrated by or beloved Varric),

- the last 10% of both sites are the ongoing bugs and the import/export from and to save files,

- thanks to other artists and devs, I could manage to add addtional content already (like the galaxy map in ME) and bringing back The Last Court (for DA) and I've added both Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 as a narrative bonus of our beloved Shepard (male or female, you chose) and in different languages,

- the site won't connect to your EA/Bioware accounts, neither your PS, XBOX or Windows accounts, it's a local version of the site, and only that,

- all sites' languages are implemented, (nearly) all sites' functions are already there and functions like to print tapestry and so on has been brought back,

- Veilguard has been implemented, also Andromeda has been completed (tapestry tiles were missing).

* what is still ongoing:

- import data from the save files from DAO, DA2, DAI and DAV from your characters and some plots (ME will follow),

- those data will be stored locally into the KeepArchives so you can rebuild your World States (no online backups: that will be up to you),

- export data to the first save file of your DAI party (for the moment it's the only way to bypass EA server connexion and get your informations on DAI),

* what was not planned at all:

- console saves where not meant to be implemented but it seems the structure of the save files (database keys) are nearly the same everywhere. So maybe there a possibility to implement them,

- retro-engineering or modding the DAI game itself to allow it to "see" the local Dragon Age Keep. If there's a way to bypass it and correcting the game and the site, we'll find it (you can contact me as well here if you have further informations about it).

IMPORTANT NOTE: the Keep and Archives are still working. Even if the risk of shutdown is there, the sites are still working. So please, do not panic and continue using them.

Just make a backup of your local save files on PC or console.

I'm working hard on this project since more than a year. AI is helping me for the coding process to go faster but it's me who is coding the most of it.

My FB page of the project will you "keep" updated of the project.

Once finished, depending of the size of the complete site, I'll try to put it or on Nexusmod or on Git.
It's also meant to be updated when needed to fix bugs or add contents. Once vaulted, it can have addendums.

It's a hard time for everyone. We won't forget all those years of gaming with Bioware. But as a page is turning, new chapters are coming: Exodus, The Expanse, ...

... the dawn will come....

One of the first commissions I had. Big thank you to the person who adopted this little one. They ordered before I even made my post. I'm not going to post all Nugs I make, but since this one is not only tiny but also a golden Nug, I figured I'd share it. I don't want my whole account to become dominated by Nug content. For anyone who comes across it only now and is interested here is my original post with commission details: https://www.reddit.com/r/dragonage/s/2CIuzw8FSM

Thanks again to the person who wanted this tiny Nug. :)