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News by Robert Purchese

5 May, 2009

BioWare has just announced a pen and paper version of Dragon Age: Origins for release this summer on, er, tabletop.

Green Ronin will do the legwork and invite players to "create their own heroes and join the fight against the dark spawn in a world of violence, lust and betrayal", reckons the statement.

What that probably boils down to is putting on a robe and wizard hat, inviting friends into the attic, pushing little figures around a board and having mother make lemonade.

Nevertheless, this may capture a useful audience as Dragon Age: Age begins its autumn take-off approach on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

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Xerx3s
05/05/09 @ 16:10
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"create their own heroes and join the fight against the dark spawn in a world of violence, lust and betrayal"

Sigh.
Rizzle
05/05/09 @ 17:03
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"...having mother make lemonade..."

Is that part of the core rules? Because that's the kind of System I can agree with.
metalangel
05/05/09 @ 17:35
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I call gimmick. The odds of this being anything else are astronomically small.

Just hurry up with the damned game already, I want to play as the emo chick with the open robe, no bra, and fire coming out of her (fingers -Ed.)
Emilia'sHorse
05/05/09 @ 18:07
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I want this game so much. I didn't know it was coming out on 360 & PS3 as well.
lucasmax
05/05/09 @ 21:44
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"What that probably boils down to is putting on a robe and wizard hat, inviting friends into the attic, pushing little figures around a board and having mother make lemonade."

And I suppose all the people playing the computer game version are bath-shy girl-friendless social outcasts that never see sunlight?

Way to patronise people.

/slowclap
Azazel
05/05/09 @ 21:55
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/puts on his robe and wizard hat

/casts infinite fuck of the beyondness
Irien
05/05/09 @ 22:19
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If this had been free with the collectors edition, it might have been tempting, but as a standalone product, it's a tough sell.

Two worlds collectors edition had something similar, but I couldn't justify the extra cost. Anyone know if it was any good?
MrChuckles
05/05/09 @ 22:37
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@lucasmax

Here here old bean. Because it's clearly much more socially acceptable to sit in your lounge on your own playing an RPG on a console than it is to sit with some mates in your dining room playing an RPG.

God forbid face to face social interaction.
lucasmax
05/05/09 @ 23:04
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I wouldn't mind so much, but these computer game nerds STOLE our bloody name. A role playing game to most people now is final fantasy and WoW, not Call of Cthulhu,GURPS, etc.

newsflash people, your playing an avatar, usually with very little choice or direction of the story. Thats not an RPG.

/nerdrage

Sycopat
06/05/09 @ 00:03
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Green Ronin eh? Didn't they do WFRP v2?

Not a bad system iirc, not perfect, but for running an action/horror themed RPG it worked well.
Grayvern
06/05/09 @ 01:29
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Whats the point of releasing this when the existing roleplaying systems out there are far better, it's either arrogance, bioware thinking they can take on white wolf and the others. Or a cynical attempt to make money.

@ lucasmax, no person who plays crpg's would think wow or final fantasy were rpg's. Yes the best crpg's dont offer the same level of choice, but then neither does this weeks dungeon master come up with the best story. Besides most of my tabletop roleplaying friends have their own type of character that they revert too, the less said about one of em's cat person obsession the better.
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peak_performance
06/05/09 @ 05:46
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To be fair, any dungeon master could come up with the plot of, say, KotOR. And most other RPG:s.
lucasmax
06/05/09 @ 07:08
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well my comment was tongue in cheek, but WoW is a MMORPG is it not? :) someone thinks its a rpg
lucasmax
06/05/09 @ 07:46
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I do agree with your other point Grayvern, they should just use an existing system. The only way this rpg will take of is if the game does well and those players fancy roleplaying in that setting.

I just cant see GMs and players wanting to run it when there are so many good rpgs out already or coming out around the same time. Just a setting book for OGL would have sufficed.

I don't know about everyone else, but my brain can only store so many systems, and i'm not gonna try learn another one unless all my players want to play it (not likely) or it offers something mega original and that sounds like fun.
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metalangel
06/05/09 @ 07:52
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Perhaps this is for the delusionally hardcore so they can familiarize themselves with the levels and abilities ahead of time, thus gaining an "advantage" when the game comes out/letting them be the first to upload a "perfect character" guide to GameFAQS?
MikeN
06/05/09 @ 18:09
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@Lucasmax: +1 on the patronising comment.

Didn't they already try this with the WoW tabletop rpg? How successful was that?
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lucasmax
06/05/09 @ 19:39
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I bet if it was a rpg for darkfall they were making, we wouldn't have been able to move for all the nerdrage. :)

Anyway, I hope you've been put in your place Rob. And as a final insult I will be turning my back on you, gooday sir.
lucasmax
06/05/09 @ 19:54
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@ MikeN

I dont think the WoW RPG did all that great. Surprisingly, the people who wanted to play WoW just played WoW and the RPGers just played their normal systems. I also heard that it wasn't very well balanced, so that may have been why it wasn't accepted.
thefinn
07/05/09 @ 07:33
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@metalangel:

I don't think the PnP Dragon Age RPG uses the same rules as the computer game, so I don't think that would work. It would be fun to see someone try, though :-)

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