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Grey Wardens are soldiers in an ongoing war with the dark spawn. Good, evil, indifference have no place in the life of a soldier. They kill their enemies, and rest until they find more enemies to kill. Wynne's philosphy of a "Good" soldier is flawed, as a good soldier is the one who kills enemies and survives to do it again the next day until the war is won.

More than a possibility, noble titles such as knighthood were passed down in the family for generations during the middle ages. The best modern day example is the queen of England, she did nothing but be born into the right family and technically owns Britain, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, parts of China, Australia, and until a while ago, India as well. Ferelden seems to be based mostly upon the british middle ages with some fantasy thrown in, including the dogs. Ser Jory dying is not tragic, it is expected. A man who says he will fight and then backs out on an organization known to do whatever is necessary to keep the darkspawn contained with aims to wipe them out, it should be a no-brainer he is going to die. That would be sorta like trying to join the mafia, learning some dirt on them, and then going "Oh well, on second thought, a life of crime isn't for me." You just know at that point you're dead, and any thoughts to the contrary is sheer stupidity. As a side note, every conversation I have with the man I chose the option "You are not too bright are you?"

One of my favourite moments in game is when romancing Morrigan and she gives you the ring, I take great joy in all the options that tease the heck out of her.

Well actually there are a few places where they seem to notice you stealing and punish you for it, at the Dalish camp for instance, but you should be ok stealing from people as long as you don't get caught, and you can also steal from mobs in combat. Stealing from mobs in combat means no problem cause you're going to kill them anyways.

I was wondering something much the same myself, since you are as a PC limited to what you can say, it was a rather annoying stick that in mass effect the PC actually talked, and in DA:O you were only talking during combat. I could have done without the repetitive combat sayings in favor of hearing your PC actually talk during conversations. I do wonder if it is possible? As for moving voices from one race to another for during combat, it probably is possible with the toolset, though I can't begin to understand the thing.

@hdhd, have you tried just putting together a castle that roughly resembles the original's interior? Is that even possible? I mean it doesn't have to be the exact same, or even too close for that matter since Levi said his family showed up and they all rebuilt the place. It is possible that other than the 4 exterior walls, they changed pretty much every part of the interior, especially since the original castle had been only in partial use by one madman. I have to say I was honestly disappointed when I went into the warden's keep, cleared it out only to find that I could only end up standing around outside like a moron. Who clears a place if they are only going to use the outside? The inside could even be entirely different after the remodelling, and I would still feel less ripped off for closing the veil and clearing the place of demons.

Actually if you want weapons that punch through armor and such, India is the more likely place to find them, still that is not to say other countries haven't had a go at ways around armor from the oppressive regimes that were in charge. As for a monk being unrealistic, that is quite the claim from someone who has never seen any form of Kung-fu in action, or other martial arts for that matter. Most were designed so that an unarmed man would be capable of taking down a man with a weapon and armor to level the playing field, for example Kenpo (which I have trained in) was designed in Japan so that a normal man could take down a samurai armed with a Katana and armored from head to toe. The idea isn't tear through the armor like paper, it's to hit in places where the armor is weakest or that will not significantly reduce the impact. Add on some joint locking and holding techniques and the restrictions that any full body armor places on movement, and you can effectively break a man into little pieces without much fear. In practice, it takes a lot of nerve and a level of fearlessness that most do never attain, but it can be done. All that aside, a monk class would be awesome. Instead of healing though, I would add in damage mitigation techniques that would more be along the line of body hardening (the act of developing severe callouses on particular body parts to resist attack), and though having access to ever type of damage would be neat, the only one that really makes sense as a monk is Spirit, also adding in the others would just be a step towards making monks The Only Class to play. Possibly add in a couple passive powers that would increase dodge chances, and resistances and the class would be set. All in all I like the idea presented, and wish I could actually have the patience to figure out the toolset.

Now I wish I didn't keep messing up my save files all the time hehe. Honestly though, just being able to slap her silly would be worth breaking the game a little bit. Though I can also add one more person I wouldn't mind slapping around as well Anora, hate that she betrays you and you can't do squat about it, other than maybe have her locked in a tower.

I narrowed down the problem, and fixed it. When it started crashing other games as well, I went with what the most recent thing I had installed on my computer was, the Nvidia GT 220 video card, got a new video card and things are running fine again. Checking the Nvidia website, they are still having problems with the 200 series crashing on all types of games. Thank you both for your advice and time.

The console that Kamajii is talking about is basically the games built-in cheat engine, you can use it for a lot of things, not the least of which is trying to debug things. That being said, you should look up the commands on the dragon age wikia, and be cautious. Some commands are known to cause errors later in the game, so use sparingly.

Before we can be much help, we need some answers. #1 Have you changed anything recently on your computer around the time that this error started to occur? 2. What sort of system are you running the program on, and what operating system? 3 What patch is your game using? 4 What sort of mods do you have installed? 5 Anything else you can think of. Lots of questions yes, but they help the forum community help you figure it out. Great bunch of people here.

@Kamajii there is another mod to skip the fade, in fact it is called just that, works fine too. On to topic, I always save the tower, not because I don't want some extra warriors, but because awesome and powerful magic beats out having yet another swordswinger around. I then cure Eamon with a pinch of ashes (I defile them once to get the acheivement and class, but never save that) and kill Kolgrim for being a self-important loudmouthed jerk, the dragon too, just because hey, double swords through a dragons head and riding the corpse down, always lightens my day. Then I save Isolde and even connor, not because I am particularily fond of either of them, but it does make Eamon happy, and I do need SOME swordswingers to throw at the darkspawn. I side with neither really, the elves and werewolves are both actually innocent, so I make the elven leader undo what he did and move on. Sure it means I don't get some cool lycanthrope troops to toss at my enemies to see which taint is stronger, but a platoon of arrow slingers breaks the tedium of battles. I side with Bhelen in the dwarven cities, mostly because as evil as humans see him, he actually does more good then harm, all the while following his own people's traditions of back-handed dealings, which I will need on my side anyways should things get problematic later. You always need someone who puts what needs to be done ahead of what everyone else is comfortable with doing. The anvil, I am always tempted to keep it around, for the previously said reason ARMY of GOLEMS, but in the end destroy it so that the poor man who designed it can get some rest, I like resting and I cannot deny it to someone else. I always stick Alistair on the throne, of course I always harden him too, then make Anora rule beside him. He becomes a great leader that way, and I get my own satisfaction of punishing the whiny runt for making sensitive men look like pansies. Loghain always dies, I always do it too with great satisfaction, anyone that stupid does not deserve life. At the very end, the night before the battle, I take Morrigan up on her kind offer to save my arse, after all it's the only kind thing she does really even if it is for other reasons, and I just dislike dying before the taint has a chance to make me into a deranged serial darkspawn killer. By the same token, I bed and kiss every lady who offers, since hey, I just signed my life away to protect everyone else, I should get something out of the deal. I haven't tried awakenings yet for their particular choices.

Not a problem, though I honestly wish there were a better solution to it. The 1.03 patch fell really flat IMO, promising better load times, and less bugs, then delivered same old load lag and even more bugs than before.

I have to say that everyone except Wynne seems to be in their equivalents of 20's, with maybe Oghren being in his 30's. I say equivalent because it is not revealed if any race other than elves ages any differently than humans, so for all we know, Sten could be in his second century, and Oghren could very well be a millenium old. Now if the books shed some light on the age variances according to race that may be different, but again I am just for convenience sake saying that they are equivalent to X.

Starting from their personalities, I am going to have to say none of them. Lelianna is a high maintenance girl (read material girl) and that only works when you have the Trump cashflow coming in.... oh wait, he has been married and divorced more times than I care to count, so apparently it doesn't even work then. Wynne?? Sorry, not really into the whole grandmother thing, so lets move on before I shudder more. Morrigan, Alistair says it right "Aside from the fact that she's a complete and utter b***h...", which means as someone mentioned before, would mean very short time before she walked out with half if not all of your stuff. Now for a quick roll in the hay, either Lelianna or Morrigan would be fine, but no sane man would want to keep either of them.

I think that this is one of those cases where bioware sacrificed their intent to game management. For instance, Golems are HUGE creatures all throughout the game, Shale notsomuch, and that was decided to make it easier for Shale to fit through doors. On the same line, the Quanari are described over and over as Giants, but in game barely top a human character by a head, probably again for the same reason, make it too large and you either have to have a bendtwistturn, to get those large characters through doorways, clip their head through the top, or shrink them down a bit. As for the broodmothers, they don't really look anything like what they started as, since the one you run into first is supposed to be one of the small ones, and she topped off at over Sten's height, it can all be chalked up to the change adds a few pounds.

I have to say the heavy armour from the vanilla game was my favourite. The massive armour was just that MASSIVE, even on Sten, who is quite the bit larger than a human, the near ton of ornamented metal and it's associated weight made me cringe. I live in a town with a blacksmith (gotta love when you can still get forged chainmail, even if it costs and arm and a leg) and I can tell you that a suit of pure chainmail covering the body made out of the most modern steel a smith can use is a substantial weight gain, those cumbersome Massives would have made it impossible to move with any sort of speed or dexterity, then add in ye olde shoulderpads of doom and good luck seeing anything coming at you that isn't right in front of you. Visibly and logically I just liked the heavy armour best. That is my take, opinions vary.

I have never really found one myself, though I don't find that ring too distracting, since when it pops up, I am usually heading towards a fight and don't bother looking down.

I have to second that. The winter forge allows a level of creation that the bioware team hinted they were going to add, then copped out with some pot, poison and trap making. Darkewolf is right, the learning curve can be really steep at times, but with a few looks to the site of it's creator, you can skip finding a lot of scrolls, and with the beguiler mod, your not going to lose out on points better spent elsewhere. It allows for weapon and armor retinting, though I have never tried to retint an armor or weapon that was already special to begin with, so other than changing a few enchantments, and base metal type, I would advise a save before testing it. Personally I have never used weapon and armor mods since I found winter forge, preferring to make my own armor and weapon sets then sticking to them for the rest of the game, maybe change the look if I get bored of one.

I like doing the best of both worlds myself, though I have to wait until I master DW so that I can put the sword in my offhand, and still have the mainhand of stabbity stab stab doom coming in all the time. The extra damage of the offhand sword negates some of the lowering of damage that DW has added, and after all, who doesn't wanna look like they are a southpaw so that they can surprise the heck out of enemies. As a game mechanic standpoint, the daggers probably do slightly more damage as they take a bit of strength and a bit of cunning to add to their damage, but then the offhand dagger also loses some overall damage just being there. I would love a more mechanical point of view if possible, but until that time I will stick with my Dagger and Sword combo for looks and fun.

Nexus evolves, and part of their evolution seems to be to take advice from the people who frequent their site. I love what they did with the place, how much more interactive and user friendly they made it. GO NEXUS! That means I really like it hehe.

The idea is intriguing, is he Evil or Good. I have to agree with Darkewolf, he is neither. The idea of wanting to get a safe place for his people is the same as the human and elven idea, and look how well that turned out... When you have two races, or even two ethnicities, the one with the lesser advantages is always displaced by the one with the greater. It is a simple fact of time, history and nature. You will probably note that I don't bother listing the dwarves, and for good reason, being underground, away from where humans and elves traditionally live, means they have effectively removed themselves from the contested areas, which is why they are under constant darkspawn attack. That means your choice is to either A. kill every darkspawn as usual until you manage to wipe them out, or B. leave your only ally who isn't trying to take up your breeding room to their fate alone. I like the dwarves as allies, they stay outta your farmland, do all the mining work you can't (Lyrium) and keep smashing away at one of your most notorious foes who tends to make off with your people (darkspawn). Take all that into consideration and in the end, you really only have one logical choice in dealing with the Architect, genocide with extreme prejudice. As well as all that, more intelligent darkspawn like he is trying to create, means a harder enemy to fight. When given a choice between kill him and have animalistic retards to fight, or let him live and organized warbands instead, I vote kill first, never bother with more questions.

I mostly agree with your statements mickey, though with some addendums. Loghain was more than an idiot for turning his back on a threat and trying to sieze power without the full backing of the majority of the Landsmeet prior to Cailan's death. For a supposed hero who has fought a war before and knows the devastation that it brings, inciting a civil war right when you have an EPIC threat that keeps getting passed down generation to generation, is a tactical nightmare. A war on two fronts for any general is something to be avoided, add on top of that, he already set up the process for one of the Arl's to be poisoned (the work of a poisoning coward who knows he is on shaky ground) and what you have is someone who's dropped the concept of hero altogether. Throw in a dash of Human Noble says "Rendon just murdered my family and overran my home." and you get something akin to a door knob who deserves The Axe. All my playthroughs and I never once let that level of stupidity live, which means one of my achievements stays locked. Cailan's big stupidity was yes, not taking the blight serious enough, but still, he reached out for aid from the Orlesian, suggesting that even with glory in front of his eyes, he was doing his best to contain the situation. Though if you read through most of the codex's involving him and his wife Anora, everyone loved her and always thought he was a bit of a dullard, had Loghain followed his Liege's plan, that wave would have died and Lothering would not have fallen that day. On top of that, when it was successful, he would have gained credit for being something other than Anora's token king. Anora herself is another bag of backstabbing wonder, in fact I had wished that bioware let me "Off with her head!" the moment she betrayed me after freeing her, goes to show that indeed the apple is not falling far from the treacherous tree. Rendon Howe (Props to our favourite voice actor Tim Curry) was a villain through and through, and if you are supposed to be in charge and cannot keep one man from messing your kingdom up, even after a warning that he did something reprehensible, then you deserve the pain of his double dealings, and an unceremonious knife to the back for not controlling your underlings. (Ceasar didn't keep tabs, and Brutus stabbed him in the back, history showing that even way back then, knowing what your people are up to is a GREAT idead) As a person living in a democracy, I can honestly say if my government were to say one day "Ooops, we didn't notice the local mayors selling our people to overseas slave markets." I would be less than impressed and quite likely to start a revolt if it came down to it, so that the idiots in supposed charge would never fumble the ball so badly again. History shows that when the people rise up, it doesn't matter what level of leader you are, death and change swiftly follows.

Now wouldn't it have been nice if they had just told you about that somewhere in the game? I also got stuck on that for awhile myself, I ended up saving, sleeping and coming back to it later. As Darkewolf said, welcome and happy gaming.

Uninstall it again, use google to look for patch 1.02a or 1.02b if non-english, and only patch it up to there. The 1.03 patch is only needed when you are going to play the expansion awakenings, and from all accounts so far from everyone who has played it, is still at the beta stage of developement. (Also known as buggy as all heck) The 1.03 patch seems to kill mods and the chargen screen alike.