This Sunday I will be ushering in my late 30s with an appropriately sober, staid, and mature activity: playing the Dragon Age RPG from Green Ronin Publishing!
Yeah, screw staid and mature. Although there will be no Alistair to encounter, I’m still excited. The system is clearly designed to get players of the computer game started with tabletop role-playing, which is kind of funny since usually it’s the other way around. But since I’m not an experienced role-player — some D&D and Toon back in junior high — this is fine by me. Of course the RPG is based on the lore and history from the Bioware game, which is a world I find unusually compelling. I don’t usually do more than scratch the surface with game lore, just enough so that I can appreciate the stories told through gameplay, but I love the dwarven politics and the elven plight and all the bitch-slapping between the Chantry and Fereldan magic-users.
Preparing for the game also spurred a conversation between Paul and me about the possibility of role-playing systems in which bonus and penalties apply based on your character’s sex or gender. This is not very commonly found in RPGs, and it does open up a can of worms that I found very interesting, so you might be subjected to a post on the subject at a later date.
I’m sending you off with something that will only make sense if you’re married to me and you suggested a different subject for this blog post. Have a great weekend, and wish my rogue luck.
(Dragon Age RPG cover art by Alan Lathwell)
