The thought of a Forsaken bodybuilder is hilarious to me. A LITERAL bodybuilder, but on the hunt for the most swole of body parts. The ridiculousness of such a quest story would really fit with their shtick.
“Why Orckus, your biceps are sublime… say, do you have any attachment to your arms once you… ah… perish? I know where they could be of use…”
In Before the Storm there was a scene where a blacksmith was getting his arm replaced, and he ended up with a poet’s arm. he was real skeptical it would do the job as well. That seems a good extrapolation point.
Sweetened…? Also, buckwheat pancakes seems terribly low-brow for the Nightborne. 
I suppose French patisserie is a tad too advanced for a World of Warcraft based cookbook.
I mean, the creampuffs are in there.
Sweetened with brown sugar and molasses with vanilla extract and ground cinnamon.
And while most of my buckwheat pancakes growing up were blueberry or mixed with sourdough, hey. Pancakes are plenty highbrow!
Actually, one thing I really like about this book is that the recipes aren’t always matched to the real world culture that was the obvious primary inspiration.
I unironically like DA II the best.
The fight system was awful and the race choice was limited top humans. Dragonage Inquisition was much better.
The story and art made up for it. Also I liked how non-human the elves looked.
When is DA4 coming out? any update on that? I thought it was supposed to come out last year. I really hope we get to see Tevinter in this one.
Good question. I assume they’ve had to rebuild the game several times over due to EA wanting loot boxes and other games as a service BS, but they’ve also had to go back on a lot of it. Couple this between all the leads bailing, who knows?
Hopefully its less MMO-y than Inquisition was. Also the SO was disappointed that there wasn’t any interracial romances for straight guys.
my female Lavellan mage romanced Solas. No regrets. My human mage romanced Cassandra.
Also started Skyrim back up again. A guy made a mod that mimics the Nemesis system from Shadows of Mordor.
So now instead of dying youll wake up in a temple or captured by bandits or some other fate based on what killed you. Your new nemesis becomes a named NPC who’s buffed and has taken some of your gear. And have a debuff based on how you got bested. For example if you were killed while blocking you might have an injury to your shield arm that can cause you to drop it in future combat.
To get rid of the debuff and get your gear back youve to track down your killer. Besting them grants you a permanent buff.
With survival mode on this really makes it feel like a different game. On my Helf Wizard a bandit with a 2hander got lucky. Woke up in naked in a cage with my gear missing. So I had to very carefully murder enough bandits to take their fur armor so I could survive trudging through a snow storm. Then as the guy stole my magic resistant gear I had to hire a Nord mercenary, track the bastard down, then keep him bound up with paralysis spells as my new friend whaled on him with a mace.
The creativity of the mod community never ceases to amaze me.
I was/am into DA lore.
Once I can afford a new laptop. I’m going to get back into Skyrim again. It’s a fun and highly replayable game that never gets boring
Stuck trying to figure out why I can’t hire any stewards. Even followers who had the dialogue aren’t offering it anymore.
It’s really the mod makers that save it. Compared to the other TES games it’s very baby’s first RPG. A lot of skills like hand to hand and acrobatics are gone. Features like spell crafting are missing. And most egregiously the enemy variety is crap. At the baseline at least you’ll have encountered every enemy type by like level 10.
But mods make it a whole other experience. I’d particularly recommend Sacrosanct and Castle Volkihair rebuilt. The former turns vampirism into a big gameplay decision with much stronger abilities but also much more severe drawbacks. Your mana and stamina drain rapidly when youre tresspassing for example because you have to be invited in
And the latter adds a whole post Dawnguard questline where you rebuild the castle and eventually get a full on army of the damned going. The two combined make it the best super villain game I’ve ever played. As you can eventually enthrall NPCs to your supernatural will. So youre inserting sleeper agents into the royal courts as you build up this vampiric nation state off in the corner.
Turning up to the Civil War battles with an army of skeletons, draugr, vampires and gargoyles is never not fun.
For the longest time the texture on a certain type of barrel was missing. They were just Windows Screen bright blue. Of all things turning off a realistic movement mod fixed it.
In other news, finally got my shaman mog together for my Mag’har orc. The pieces I needed from Black Temple and ToS dropped this morning after months of grinding them.
Now I just need to grind one of the elemental drake mounts and I’m golden 
Black Temple was such a PITA for mail drops on my Shaman as well! 
Happy to hear you got’em!
Thanks! My hunter looks pretty badass in his new outfit. I really love it 
You’re looking so good!!!
Thanks so much! Next week I might shoot for the pauldrons that drop from Sisters of the Moon once the raid resets next week.
I’m currently roleplaying a Lightbound Half Orc and the armor looks kind of like a lightforged/bound shaman set. I just need to settle on a flying mount for him now