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Recent content by Hmmaster

  1. The Once and Future Champion (Baldur's Gate 3/Dragon Age) (Complete)

    Mystra is a by-product of the game's theme of "Positions of Power can lead to cycles of abuse." Lae’zel - Ascend is the bad ending. Gale - Ascend is the bad ending. Shadowheart - Ascend is the bad ending. Astarion - Ascend is the bad ending. I find it curious, now that I write all of that...

  2. The Once and Future Champion (Baldur's Gate 3/Dragon Age) (Complete)

    The game audience is not the same audience as the audience who would write fanfic, as well as the audience who would write fanfic about romance as a main focus. The game audience is largely male. Fic writers are largely female. I'm sure there are plenty of women who enjoy Karlach or...

  3. The Once and Future Champion (Baldur's Gate 3/Dragon Age) (Complete)

    That's one way to end a companion quest, sure. But it's not the only way to do it. In this hypothetical alternate game, one appropriately bad consequence to Wyll's story would be for NO ONE to remember him at all. You kill Raphael. Wyll becomes nothing in the minds of others, excluding the...

  4. The Once and Future Champion (Baldur's Gate 3/Dragon Age) (Complete)

    This fic has me questioning why Mizora is even in the game at all. Raphael is plot relevant. Mizora is not. At all. Why is Raphael not Wyll’s warlock patron? Raphael has had his devilish fingers in everything from the beginning and far before it. 1. Raphael built Moonrise Towers via...

  5. The Once and Future Champion (Baldur's Gate 3/Dragon Age) (Complete)

    I personally think the infernal heart engine is so integrated with hellish magic (and therefore Karlach) that Withers cannot easily just "oh, let's bring you back w/o the engine, Karlach." The same argument that applies with the tadpoles and the Netherese magic should, IMO, apply to him. To...

  6. The Once and Future Champion (Baldur's Gate 3/Dragon Age) (Complete)

    No - we never saw Gortash until they were promoting the full release version. He wasn't in Early Access, beyond the silhouette of him in the vision and a couple of very small references in in-game books. IIRC, the first time we saw his in-game model was during a Panel from Hell.

  7. The Once and Future Champion (Baldur's Gate 3/Dragon Age) (Complete)

    I really love the story thus far. My first complaint, if I had to say one, is that I think the pacing is too fast? In a video game format, the pacing can be as fast as you want it to be - see the "no long rests" runs on YT to really break the illusion of time passing. I think there are several...

  8. The Once and Future Champion (Baldur's Gate 3/Dragon Age) (Complete)

    Yeah this was explicitly intended. DA was going to BE BG3. Everyone expected that it would take after Neverwinter Nights. Slowly they filed the serial numbers off.
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