#beyond divinity

[rpgchoices]

they look like they are on a romantic roadtrip

[proffbon]

I'm sorry, but I have to say this.

Beyond Divinity's cover reminds me of early 2000s BL manga covers.

[katy-133]

"Beyond Divinity is an action role-playing game by Larian Studios released in 2004-"

[room-temperature-meatbag]

Last time I played Beyond Divinity I got pretty far before dropping it. I really wanna try to finish it this time.

Anyways Act 1 looks cool as fuck

[rpgchoices]

I ship them... but this game... I could not complete it, not even for them

hey that’s gay

[cursed-nyxan]

heyy I finally played the new dlc so I may or may not have collected all the new ads. honestly, i'm not sure i found all of them so feel free to add any i may have missed

A date with Death ads here

let's start with those visual novels we've already saw. also sorry for putting two ads in one pic, but tumblr only lets me post 30 images per post

The Divine Speaker

The Sun and the Moon

Dreambound

The last rose

The Inn Between

Heart Agency

and also we have some newly featured visual novels ❤️

Amelie

A week to remember

Banishing You

Blush blush

Cage of Roses

Camera Anima

Canvas Menagerie

Cinderella Phenomenon

Drăculești

Emblems: Sunless Vow

Imperial Grace

Of Sense and Soul

Our Life: Now & Forever

Reanimation Scheme

Save the Villainess

Snow White Ashes

SPEAKEASY: Last Call

start;again

The Elevator Game with Catgirls

Threads of You: Beyond the Bay

[pocket-dust-starr]

the Lost Poet and the Anointed King

[burr-ell]

Sometimes Things That Shake Up the Status Quo are Worse

I keep seeing people insisting that Exandria "can't return to the status quo, which was bad", but rarely do they say anything in support of that argument beyond "the Primes pick and choose favorites!". And while I'm not confident the show itself won't try to make that claim, the reality is that it just isn't borne out mechanically or narratively. Laying aside that non-Divine Soul sorcerers exist (like, and I'm just spitballing here, Aberrant Mind Ruidusborn), the gods work primarily through the on-the-ground efforts of clerics and paladins—people who have actively and consistently put in the work to devote themselves to the divine. This is a setting where resurrection magic, which relies on divine power, has been intentionally made more difficult than it is in DnD rules-as-written. Even clerics only get access to Divine Intervention at level 10 (when they've already spent a long time devoting themselves to their deity) and up until level 20 the chances of it actually working are vanishingly small—and level 20 clerics are both hard to come by and ultimately still limited.

In the rare event that the Prime Deities choose to bless someone who isn't a cleric or paladin, it's someone who has a good reason to have gotten their attention. Vax offered his life during a divine ritual in the burial site of the Raven Queen's most devoted champion and then actively committed himself to her cause. Yasha was an aasimar being mind-controlled by a devil who wound up at a divine altar and chose to worship Kord after he freed her. Orym is the devoted widower of someone who is in Melora's realm and was present at a ritual in a temple associated with Melora, and one of his companions prayed at a shrine to Melora on his behalf. Vex was directly in front of Pelor, had taken a leadership position in one of his sacred cities, and had received a vision from him directly—and even then, she had to earn it. Scanlan also had to earn the right to Ioun's favor and complete a trial, and had previously shown qualities and values that she believed were fitting of her champion. Fjord was a companion of a devoted cleric of Melora who had sought her help in keeping Uk'otoa sealed and made requests of her on Fjord's behalf, and Fjord also chose to meditate and then became a paladin devoted to her.

And in Exandria, if you don't want to follow a god, you don't have to. Percy, Keyleth, Grog, Beau, Veth, Caleb, Essek, most of Bell's Hells, the average commoner in the various cities the parties have traveled to—whether they outright dislike the gods as a whole or just don't have an interest either way, they're all capable of thriving with or without them, and indeed their problems are almost entirely caused by mortals. It's especially egregious when you consider that cities like Avalir were around during the Age of Arcanum, when the Prime Deities physically walked Exandria, and people like Laerryn, Patia, Zerxus, and Lacrytia Hollow—openly disdainful of the gods or even trying to create feats of magic to get on their level—were continuing business as usual. The previous god of death not only willingly abdicated in favor of a mortal during this time, but outright helped her do the job!

The Prime Deities can't win. If they didn't give anyone any power at all, they'd be viewed as selfish. If they'd stayed on Exandria after the Calamity, they'd be foolish and reckless. They're simply not capable of intervening and helping everyone, so they're labeled capricious. If they leave Exandria, they're abandoning not only their refuge and home, but also the people who need and rely on them. You can argue that "no one should have that much power" all you want, but I think it's exceptionally silly to take an argument meant to criticize the wealthy and powerful of our world (whose only unique quality is ultimately that they got lucky) and apply it to fictional deities (beings who are powerful by their very nature) who, while flawed, also think they're too powerful. They tried to protect Exandria from themselves and the Betrayers while still using their power to do right by the people there, and for the most part it was working just fine.

The "status quo" from before all this was and still is the best compromise available. No one has managed to sell a better one that doesn't amount to "cater to my blorbos and my self-indulgent idea of revolutionary politics, which may or may not also ultimately circle back to my blorbos". I think that's pretty telling.

[topnotchquark]

Carl Andre dead at 88, comfortable, rich, celebrated in the art world. Whereas Ana Mendieta never got to have her full life and express all that she wanted to explore through her art. Truly the petty injustice of life is cruel in such disappointing ways.

[nellasbookplanet]

Downfall has only just started, but already I'm deeply curious what Bells Hells reaction will be to seeing it play out. I've mentioned before that I suspect the dislike or outright disdain some of the party feels for the gods - most notably Ashton and Laudna, but also Imogen at times - is in part a product of the gods being so distant as to not feel like real people to them, and therefore being easy scapegoats.

It’s easy to see the mortal victims of Ludinus and the Vanguard as just that: victims. The Hells have met them, have been them. They have not seen or felt the gods suffer in the same way. Laudna even went so far as to blame the gods for mortal deaths and suffering after the solstice, even as the gods are the ones under attack. They feel uniquely abandoned by the world, and it's easy to blame these distant, powerful figures for their hardship. Certainly much easier than to see the mortal systems that enabled their harm, or to actively seek improvement on their own.

But to see the gods now, not just as people but as mortals, with all the flaws and vulnerabilities and fears of any of the Hells, with loved ones of their own and the same desperate sense of self-preservation as any living thing, will they be able to hold onto the disdain that they’ve clung to for so long?

[gulls-art]

I survived finals so have some more evil robots/ sketches

[johnbottoms]

callum turner have u kissed boys. callum turner will u kiss boys. callum turner when will u kiss boys

[room-temperature-meatbag]

Behold, the three genders: male, female, and child

[katy-133]

The way he says, "I am a DEATH KNIGHT," when he introduces himself lives rent free in my head. XD

Also, shout out to that one NPC shopkeeper who makes a joke about the Death Knight's glowing red eyes! ("Tell me, does he blink his left eye when taking a left turn?") lmaooo

the Death Knight in Beyond Divinity has such a goofy voice, it’s truly amazing. he hams it up to the fucking skies and if anyone knows me well, they know that i LIVE on hammy HURR HURR sort of voice acting, i fucking love it, it’s the funniest thing ever :’D

and at the same time i actually genuinely like that fucking seven foot tall edgelord with his shiny black armor and red glowing eyes and with his positively flirty-sounding description on the act of soul-forging, and the title art is like

that…. fucking….. soul chain……

i am having SO MUCH fun with this and i have heard the first part is the best part of the game but honestly i am having so much Brain Food from this entire concept, I think I’ll still be having fun.

[agentc0rn]

No matter where I go, my aging heart always leads back to you.

[constance-emmeline]

It's so refreshingly cool down here ... So lovely! X