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[MelRedux]

Seriously Sandi, I think you have 50% of the ToPs in this thread

[Lady Jess]

ToP for Sandi, sneering Alistair...

[Sandtigress]

Mel_Redux wrote...

Seriously Sandi, I think you have 50% of the ToPs in this thread

I know, it's ridiculous, right? I don't really post that often....  It will stop once I get my PC copy and can take screen shots, of course.

[Addai]

Mel_Redux wrote...

Seriously Sandi, I think you have 50% of the ToPs in this thread

The creators are telling her that she needs to buy the PC version.

I have no Ron screens, sorry Sandi.  Poor Alistair is exiled from his own thread. It's Undertow all over again. 

[Sandtigress]

Addai67 wrote...

Mel_Redux wrote...

Seriously Sandi, I think you have 50% of the ToPs in this thread

The creators are telling her that she needs to buy the PC version.

I have no Ron screens, sorry Sandi.  Poor Alistair is exiled from his own thread. It's Undertow all over again. 

Before you know it, people will be clubbing Alistair over the head so that his fangirls can be with their own blonde chicks.  *looks meaningfully at Mel*  Poor Alistair.  Even if I love Ron, I still love you too, Alistair!  You're even making it into the Ron/Kara story.  Sort of.  

[Lady Jess]

Addai67 wrote...

KnightofPhoenix wrote...

But I don't want to be a belligerent....yet.
Seriously, the thread needs to get back the umph it once had.

I don't think many of us are playing much atm.  The bleh DLC news took the wind out of my sails.  I'll probably finish my current games then not sure if I'll start another.

I think I only played yesterday to do this...

[Lady Jess]

Oh and...hubbystair







and hubby PC

[MelRedux]

Sandtigress wrote...

Addai67 wrote...

Mel_Redux wrote...

Seriously Sandi, I think you have 50% of the ToPs in this thread

The creators are telling her that she needs to buy the PC version.

I have no Ron screens, sorry Sandi.  Poor Alistair is exiled from his own thread. It's Undertow all over again. 

Before you know it, people will be clubbing Alistair over the head so that his fangirls can be with their own blonde chicks.  *looks meaningfully at Mel*  Poor Alistair.  Even if I love Ron, I still love you too, Alistair!  You're even making it into the Ron/Kara story.  Sort of.  

I have NO idea what you are talking about....

[SurelyForth]

For Sandi! Ron cooly stares Alistair into Omega maledom:

[Addai]

It must be said, to reassert Alistair's alpha dominance at least over this thread, that the scrawny elf has nothing on him.

There I said it!  Someone has to reinforce discipline in the harem. 

[SurelyForth]

Addai67 wrote...

It must be said, to reassert Alistair's alpha dominance at least over this thread, that the scrawny elf has nothing on him.

There I said it!  Someone has to reinforce discipline in the harem. 

I knew someone would restore the balance, that's why I felt safe posting it.

[Sandtigress]

Addai67 wrote...

It must be said, to reassert Alistair's alpha dominance at least over this thread, that the scrawny elf has nothing on him.

There I said it!  Someone has to reinforce discipline in the harem. 

...........But I like scrawny elves.  


Though, the elf/Alistair cuddle is quite swoon-worthy and would not be as much if he weren't so much bigger than she is, it is true.

[Sandtigress]

SurelyForth wrote...

For Sandi! Ron cooly stares Alistair into Omega maledom:

But see, Ron and Alistair would totally be brother lions ruling the pride together, and neither one of them would care who was "in charge" per say.  So it's all good!

[Addai]

Sandtigress wrote...

But see, Ron and Alistair would totally be brother lions ruling the pride together, and neither one of them would care who was "in charge" per say.  So it's all good!

LOL  I refer you to the Alistair-Zevran banters to see how well that works out.

[cmessaz]

Lady Jess wrote...

Addai67 wrote...

KnightofPhoenix wrote...

But I don't want to be a belligerent....yet.
Seriously, the thread needs to get back the umph it once had.

I don't think many of us are playing much atm.  The bleh DLC news took the wind out of my sails.  I'll probably finish my current games then not sure if I'll start another.

I think I only played yesterday to do this...

[LadyDamodred]

Addai67 wrote...

Sandtigress wrote...

But see, Ron and Alistair would totally be brother lions ruling the pride together, and neither one of them would care who was "in charge" per say.  So it's all good!

LOL  I refer you to the Alistair-Zevran banters to see how well that works out.

Yes, but I believe this is Alistair and ZevRon, so, you know, totally different. 

[Sandtigress]

Addai67 wrote...

Sandtigress wrote...

But see, Ron and Alistair would totally be brother lions ruling the pride together, and neither one of them would care who was "in charge" per say.  So it's all good!

LOL  I refer you to the Alistair-Zevran banters to see how well that works out.

I have faith in their ability to share. I need a serious amount of DA lovin' to get me through another set of revisions to my stupid discussion.  Have I mentioned how much I hate thesis writing? No? Well, let me say it now.  Hate hate hate hate hate.

[Addai]

Sandtigress wrote...
I have faith in their ability to share.

Only if Alistair is hardened.  
 

I need a serious amount of DA lovin' to get me through another set of revisions to my stupid discussion.  Have I mentioned how much I hate thesis writing? No? Well, let me say it now.  Hate hate hate hate hate.

Wormporn is stressful, apparently!  Who knew!

[Sandtigress]

Addai67 wrote...

Sandtigress wrote...
I have faith in their ability to share.

Only if Alistair is hardened.  
 

Hey, I don't mean at the same time.  I'm not that kind of girl!  Mutual cuddles though, that I could go for.  Or waiting on me hand and foot until the defense is done. 

Addai67 wrote...

Sandtigress wrote...
I need a serious amount of DA lovin' to get me through another set of revisions to my stupid discussion.  Have I mentioned how much I hate thesis writing? No? Well, let me say it now.  Hate hate hate hate hate.

Wormporn is stressful, apparently!  Who knew!

It totally is.  At least when you have to write a nearly 70 page paper on the subject and then defend your thought procesess on the matter to a trained group of scientists....

[Sarah1281]

I've noticed something very odd. Even though I haven't written Alistair as a LI (well, he thinks he is in one and he thinks he's a former one in another but he isn't) he still ends up being important in a lot of my stories. Should I blame this thread?

[Addai]

Sarah1281 wrote...

I've noticed something very odd. Even though I haven't written Alistair as a LI (well, he thinks he is in one and he thinks he's a former one in another but he isn't) he still ends up being important in a lot of my stories. Should I blame this thread?

We can take it. 

I blame this thread that I'm writing DA fanfiction at all.

[Xandurpein]

LadyDamodred wrote...

This came up for me a few weeks ago when I was looking at armor and realized how light plate really is.  It was shocking.  Throw in the fantasy aspect of it, with dragonbone supposedly being incredibly light and with silverite being a mithral equivalent, and you're looking at ridiculously low weights for armor.  It actually makes the what they're able to do while wearing plate armor look much more realistic.  (It also made me feel somewhat better for totally geeking out a few years ago and figuring out exact armor weights for mithral and adamantine in D&D.)

Also, keep in mind, chain was lighter than well-made plate armor.  It was also cheaper, so it makes sense that it was more common than plate.  As for carrying a shield all the time?  Probably not, but for our heroes, I would imagine while they travel they bring what they need to fight effectively.  The game also leaves out that you can, in fact, fight with one sword and it's not a detriment or less effective.

That being said, I would also like to see Xan's expertise on the subject.

The big difference between mail armour and plate armour is not really the weight, but the weight distribution. Plate armour is rigid and can be strapped to your body. Mail armour is loose and thus the weight isn't as well distributed. A plate chest piece strapped to your body will have it's weight distrubuted at your entire chest, while mail armour will hang loose and put a lot of the weight on your shoulders. Good mail armour is strapped in different ways for better weight distribution, but not as well as plate armour.

Good quality mail armor isn't necessarily cheap either, I think. To be able to withstand piercing hits, like arrows or sword thrusts, each individual link has to be rivetted, so you can imagine how long that will take. Cheaper mail armour could be made withoiut rivetting. such mail armour woudl stop cuts, but be of little value against thrusts and arrows.

The reason mail armour was used much in the early middle ages has more to do with the fact that the early armour smiths didn't have the skill to make large sheets of iron and shape them properly. Once they learned that, virtually all armour used was plate armour. So it's more than anything a technological advance.

Plate armour replaced mail armour during the fourteenth century. At first the used plate chest and leg pieces, together with mail armour, but then when armour smiths developed the skill to make moveable plate joints that didn't hamper movement, they made whole plate armour suits.

A cheaper, more economic version of the plate armour is the splint armour (it is known by other names too). It consists of small pieces of iron plate sewn together with leather straps. It was easier to manufacture than either mail or plate armour. The problem with splint armour was that it could not be made to fit joints. Cheaply armed infantry often had a splint armour chest piece and a helmet and not much more.

So it really makes no sense, from a historical point of view to have both mail and plate armour together in the same game. And there really is no such thing as chainmail. The correct term is term mail armour or chain armour, which mean the same thing.

Nerd rant over.

[Addai]

Sandtigress wrote...

Hey, I don't mean at the same time.  I'm not that kind of girl!  Mutual cuddles though, that I could go for.  Or waiting on me hand and foot until the defense is done. 

Alistair feeding you sweets and bringing you drinks with little umbrellas in them while ZevRon gives you a foot massage... I could handle it.

It totally is.  At least when you have to write a nearly 70 page paper on the subject and then defend your thought procesess on the matter to a trained group of scientists....

You are a lot smarter than me!  I hope wormporn pays well, at least!

[cmessaz]

[Serissia]

There's three different DAzips, you need to choose one of the three.  Files are here.