Not sure when the last time you played was.curiosity any change that my rowan makes his personal harem in the game.yep i am that simple.
It is not complete but it has advanced. There are jobs she can do around the castle that have very interesting corruption storylines and love affairs ongoing.
Absolutely. Shaya isn't one of my favorite characters, but her plot is absolutely fantastic for feeling like Rowan is actually using his head, putting a plan together, and trying to execute it.
In Act I is innevitable to see Rowan mostly at this perspective, as the so call "Hero" just go dumb to save his beloved one just to be him the one to saved makes you question how the hell his enemies and the entire nobility was inferior to him in the previous war; from my POV the main problem with Rowan is that he just go around too dumb to give him credibility. It wasn't a joke when i compared Rowan with John Daggett from Batman:TDKR in the scene with Bane about who's in charge after Rastedel, Rowan really seems to thought that for some reason he could influence or have some under control the Twins because of his services and achievements; people responding that Rowan is like Bruce in the prison (rising), sorry, but right now he's literally John Daggett without power over Bane, in this case The Twins. I think the game doesn't establish a route for the "nage" or "uke" (the one who do an act and the one who recieve the action in japanese) because it's intended to give the freedom to choose a role or another, so the experience depends entirely of the player (except for Rastedel because Rowan there is John Daggett X'D). To see Rowan in a more dominant role, maybe we must need to wait half or end of Act 2, that i consider the most probably scenario for the Rowan as a Bruce in the prison from Batman:TDKR.
When I took over Shaya, I sat down with the charachter and tried to decide what core appeals of her charachter is. I found that her nature as spymaster and someone who'd have an agenda in interactng with Rowan led to a lot of room for espionage and mystery elements. When designing stories for pre-existing charachters, it's all about finding what kinds of conflicts and modes of engagement jive with the charachter.
I somewhat agree with that. There's a certain tension between wanting to make things SURPRISING and the fact that players should be kept informed of Rowan's intentions if they want to roleplay him. I'm not happy with where I ended in that regard when it came to Werden, in hindsight. I would expect some changes to that in the edits.
Yeah kinda. I reworked the Liurial threesome to be much more heavily *about* Alexia accepting Rowan keeping other lovers. The X'z material has expanded the idea of open relationship elements. And in the past year, there's been much more effort to have Cla-Min, Shaya, and Draith enter into more stable and specific sexual dynamics with Rowan.curiosity any change that my rowan makes his personal harem in the game.yep i am that simple.
I am 6 ft 3 inches tall and 220lbs to go. I am a gentle Scottish giant though. Rowan is a puny wuss.
"Johnny Appleseed with his penis"
(full disclosure I haven't seen TDKR so I'm sorry if I miss some nuances with the comparision)
Yes. All this. The twins desire to sack the city was not only an impulsive decision purely made for their own sadistic pleasure, but it was also a tactical error. The value of the city was not in its loot but its structural integrity, human resources, and defensibility. All were decimated at best and now they are the rulers of a ruin. Since they have never had to build anything (Rowan needed to build everything for them) they don't know the value of that which is built. They don't grasp that destruction is more of a setback than an accomplishment. They also seem to be operating under the same misconceptions as terrorists. Inflicting fear on a civilian populace may result in short-term concessions but in the long term, it has the effect of hardening public sentiment and results in fiercer resistance. It is unlikely that they will be able to hold the city for long because they now have enemies on both sides of the walls and the walls were the first thing they ruined. But hey, at least they got to have an orgy.
How do you reconcile such ignorance from Rowan with the concept that he is supposed to be a Mastermind?
I've never seen Rowan as a mastermind. Remember what is the starting point of the devs: what happens after the happily ever after when the hero comes back to a normal life?
Kinda agree with the first thought- Rowan doesn't really come off as that smart- but there are narrative threads that imply he should be.
I reconcile it by the fact that it been working so far. Apart from not releasing him or his wife Rastedel is the first time the twins have seriously bucked him. For most major decisions he has been able to convince or manipulate them toward the path that he prefers as long as he can make it sound somewhat reasonable. So when he doesn't quite have control of the city, it would be reasonable to think he has a decent chance of smoothing this over and convincing them to give him a little more time. People mostly look to past experiences to predict how future event will play out, and Rowans past experience told him he could salvage the situation. BTW I would argue that he does salvage it to a degree as the twins agree to just sack the half that Rowan didn't have under control instead of the entire city as they were about to do.
Some good thoughts from you on the matter- particularly in regards to contingency plans.
)- 100% agree.
