Day Three

Ugh.  Moving sucks.

In the vein of recommending things to people, allow me to take a minute to recommend the video game series Dragon Age.  It's actually fairly well known, so it's not like I should need to push TOO hard to get people to play it.

Do you remember/have you heard of Knights of the Old Republic from BioWare?  Dragon Age is essentially that, but more Lord of the Rings-y than Star Wars.  I mean...Knights of the Old Republic IS Star Wars, while Dragon Age is just kind of similar to LOTR.

In Dragon Age:  Origins (which is the very first game), you create your own character, choosing sex (Male/Female), race (Human, Elf, or Dwarf), class (Warrior, Rogue, or Mage, although Dwarves can't be Mages), and then origin story (Human Noble, City Elf, Mage, Dalish Elf, Noble Dwarf, and Commoner Dwarf).  And then you create your character and play!  It's really fun, I promise!

You play through your origin story, and then all six origins come together and the game starts.  Your character becomes a member of a league of warriors called Gray Wardens, who are sworn to defend the world from darkspawn and the Blight.  Throughout the game, you can recruit various characters into your little army, and they can be fairly awesome.  You can customize your teammates ALMOST as much as you customize your own character.  You and all but two (possibly three) of your teammates can have two specializations within their class, and after you get them, you can change their stats, armor, skills, talents/spells, and everything.  It's a bit to take on, but still fun.
You get:
Alistair- Human Warrior, Templar
Morrigan- Human Mage, Shapeshifter
Leliana- Human Rogue, Bard
Sten- Qunari Warrior, no specialization
Wynne- Human Mage, Spirit Healer
Oghren- Dwarf Warrior, Berserker
Zevran- Elf Rogue, Assassin
Dog- Mabari Warrior, no specialization
Shale (Downloadable Extra Character)- Golem Warrior, no specialization

But...it is lots of fun, and I am a bit too distracted to go into too much more detail, but it is a really epic game, and it's really fun, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys Sword and Sorcery kinds of RPGs, like I do.