Come for the bisexual French nuns, stay for the dialogue trees. Let's Play Dragon Age

[greed]

Originally Posted by Krylo

Why are you giving your dual wield rogue strength?

Dual wield rogues should be straight cun/dex dagger builds.

Just getting it to twenty so he can wear the tier 7 light armour eventually. I'll stop raising it once I hit sixteen and get the last four points in the Fade.


But other than that, yeah he'll be straight cun/dex.

[Krylo]

Ah right, the armor restrictions. Weapon too, if you ever use something that's not a dagger.

Fun fact, though, you can equip strength boosting crap, equip the armor, then remove the strength boosting crap and the armor stays on.

Still good to have it, at least mostly, naturally, though--just to make equipment changing less of a massive pain in the ass.

[greed]

Better get going, kinda wish this sword wasn’t too damn heavy to use. Thanks dad! Stone, you’ve been about as helpful as tits on a nug this whole time. Ah well gotta get moving




Spider again, still harmless.




Dead guy… with a bow. Awesome.


Oh crap, a snare nearly stepped on it....fantastic this means there's Darkspawn ahead, great if I have to deal with a fucking cave in I would not be surprised.



Got him. Or her? Don’t know. Don’t want to know.



Alright finally got a second dagger so I can get back to how I like to fight.




HAH. Bastard never saw me coming.

Sneak+backstab critical = Dwarven ninja.



Found you.



Duncan: Lord Aeducan?!



Urist: I am Lord Aeducan no more.







No, no worries, I have nothing to be ashamed of, and you'd find out next time you came to Orzammar anyway.


Urist: I was betrayed by my brother.

Duncan: Lord Trian?

Urist: No Bhelen. Trian is dead.
The poor stupid lug.







Duncan: As leader of the Grey Wardens of Ferelden I would like to formally invite you to join our order.

Nothing else I can really do. Sure as hell more honourable than being a mercenary or some soldier in a human lord’s army, which is pretty much all I’m trained for..... plus I bet Grey Warden's get all the ladies.

Urist: I’d be honoured.

It’s pretty much the only thing I can do where I can still have some honour, surface dwarf or not, I still have to have that.

Duncan: Then welcome. We leave immediately for Ostagar to join with the human forces facing the Darkspawn hordes, lead by King Cailan.



....wait, there's not going to be any dwarven girls on the surface. I'LL KILL YOU BHELEN!

END CHAPTER


Tiny chapter this time, sorry got lazy when the forums were down.

Anyway everyone seen the announcement of Dragon Age 2? Seems they're going more Mass Effecty this time round, fully VA'd lead, and Awakening style companion interactions(BOO!). Also the MC can only be human, like Shepard you get to play Hawke, a human refugee from Lothering who can be either male or female. Honestly this whole announcement just sounds like a string of shitty decisions.

Of course if the VA is good, or the focus of only having male/female human it could still be fun, but it just seems like it's completely abandoning everything that made Dragon Age different from Mass Effect, by the sounds of it DA2 could be called A Fantasy Mass Effect: Dragon Age 2. Also the fact that apparently the story is set over a long time period of many years is pretty cool.

[Revising Ocelot]

I played Dragon Age first, then the Mass Effects about a year later, then came back for a new DA playthrough about 3 months ago, and I actually was bothered by the lack of VA for your main character. It was inconsistent - your character says things in battle, but not in dialogue. This could have created a ton of extra work, I guess, considering there's several "voice sets", but... meh.


I've not played Awakening due to hearing bad things about it, could you elaborate on what the character interactions were like in that?

[greed]

Basically, you can't talk to your party when you want to, they'll just either randomly start conversations when they're scripted to, or you can start certain one time only conversation with them by interacting with certain NPCs and overworld objects, it honestly feels pretty cold and distant. It kinda worked for Awakening seeing as your party there were just some temporary conscripts and you were their big boss, but in a full length game I do not think it would work well.

It was designed to force you to carry all the party members with you if you wanted to see all their dialogue, rather than just work through their entire relationship without ever using them, but frankly I'd rather they just keep any time conversations.

[tacticslion]

What it says in the post title.
...
Though I'd still totally recommend my dwarf visual over Van Cleef

No worries, though, as I'll only tease about it this once hold a bitter grudge against you forever for ignoring my ideas that came too late to be heard!

Also, did I misunderstand your re-introduction to the forums, or are you going to have to rewrite a bunch of stuff again?

[greed]

No I think you misunderstood, I'm not rewriting anything, all I meant to convey was that I got lazy over the downtime and didn't make a buffer of future updates. Not that I really could seeing as the next several updates actually have a bunch of votes coming up. But just wanted people to know there wasn't going to be a bunch of quick post downtime updates.

I did think of doing a few quick alternate universe updates to show off the other origins but never got around to it. Might still happen at some point if I have trouble writing a regular update or something.


Anyway, some votes for the next update string.

What are our thoughts on mercy, particularly concerning deserters?

What are our thoughts on thievery? Are we okay with thieves? Are we okay being a thief ourselves?

We will also meet our first three party members, one's the dog which I'll get to later. We will also meet Alistair a snarky knight and Morrigan a bitchy witch. Thoughts for initial reactions? This is only the initial reaction we'll change later once we know them better(or not if you guys decide you like the initial approach), just want a general idea of how we'll deal with a witch who loves to alternate between infuriatingly vague and venomous, and a knight who's two parts goofy and naive and one part also pretty bitchy.

What are our thoughts on human nobles? Diplomatic respect for fellow aristocrats? Contempt that anything other than dwarf can claim nobility?

And most importantly what will we name our dog? It's a giant brown and black pit-bull/great dane hybrid with a goofy personality if that helps with your naming.

Note there is no vote not to take the dog, the dog is awesome and will be in the party.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by greed

What are our thoughts on mercy, particularly concerning deserters?

as a dwarven prince I doubt you'd look too fondly on them, kill'em

Originally Posted by greed

What are our thoughts on thievery? Are we okay with thieves? Are we okay being a thief ourselves?

you are a backstabbing rogue, now having to do such things just to survive, so I say more forgiving, and probably do it yourself. Besides you are used to just getting what you want anyays

Originally Posted by greed

We will also meet our first three party members, one's the dog which I'll get to later. We will also meet Alistair a snarky knight and Morrigan a bitchy witch. Thoughts for initial reactions? This is only the initial reaction we'll change later once we know them better(or not if you guys decide you like the initial approach), just want a general idea of how we'll deal with a witch who loves to alternate between infuriatingly vague and venomous, and a knight who's two parts goofy and naive and one part also pretty bitchy.

Morrigan: "I'd tap that"
Alistar: I personally would have difficulty making a character that didn't get along with him
Dog: toss up, if you were doing it less serious I'd want him going "Finally, a mount"

Originally Posted by greed

What are our thoughts on human nobles? Diplomatic respect for fellow aristocrats? Contempt that anything other than dwarf can claim nobility?

Begrudging respect. They aren't dwarfs, but he knows the need for diplomacy from time to time.

Originally Posted by greed

And most importantly what will we name our dog? It's a giant brown and black pit-bull/great dane hybrid with a goofy personality if that helps with your naming.

Mr Scruffles

[Marc v4.0]

Elf Biter

[walkertexasdruid]

I named my dog Brutus.