Magic & Mages

Mages are to playable classes as elves are to playable races in Dragon Age—don't boo me, I'm right! This episode of How to Act Fereldan is chock full of now-stale series news (but still relevant to the episode topic) and the deepest dive into the magic system you've ever seen.

• A bunch of images of the now-arrived vinyls that Anne pre-ordered during this episode
• The lovely painting mentioned in the Fanfiction Challenge, found on AO3
• What's that Dragon Age?

Other references:

• We gotta talk about this ME thing lol: BioWare Announces and Immediately Pulls Super Bizarre Mass Effect Statue 
• SpaceLab9 opened pre-orders for the Dragon Age Series Vinyls
• EA Games and Sports split: EA Games is dead, long live EA Entertainment and EA Sports | Rock Paper Shotgun
• Cut content from DAI overview: All Cut Content in Dragon Age: Inquisition Explained
• David Gaider regrets lyrium lol (relevant to today!!!): Dragon Age writer says there's nothing wrong with magic in games - as long as you avoid one very specific problem
• Big layoffs at BioWar as SWTOR moves to a new dev: BioWare Confirms Undisclosed Number of Layoffs as Star Wars: The Old Republic Moves to New Developer - IGN 
• ME director working on a new game: Former BioWare Director's New Studio Is Working On A Game In Unreal Engine - eXputer.com

Credits:

How To Act Fereldan is made in collaboration between Hug House Productions and Whimsic Productions. It is co-hosted by Anne Baird, Wil Williams, and Giancarlo Herrera, with sound designed by Wil Williams and transcripts by Ted Heavner.

Learn more and access full research notes for each episode at HowToActFereldan.com, and follow us on Tumblr at @ActFereldan for even more Dragon Age chaos

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