What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

I haven't played BUT my post is still DA related. Yesterday I stumbled across this - how awesome is that?! There is even more DA related custom content for The Sims 3 out there. I'm totally amazed.

Varrys, my dwarf artificer, crafted up Cass her team-matching end-game armor. I'm tinting everything with lazurite and silk to make everything dark blue this run. I also got Vivienne her snowy wyvern heart so I can craft her hat and armor tomorrow. Then the day after that it is armor for Cole. Just waiting on those fade obsidian respawns XD

I haven't been keeping you guys in the loop, have I?

Well, a couple weeks ago (maybe two, but it feels like longer) I finally got a laptop capable of handling DA:I. Eventually I rolled Weeper Cadash, who just today finished CotJ and conscripted the Templars.

Revel graced the Wounded Coast with his illustrious presence some more, encountering the Quinari. He continued his exploration of these distinguished species in Kirkwall, and was fortunate to be accompanied by Fenris who has some sort of an interest in Quinari.

Finally, after a rather tragic self-immolation on the high shore by a Quinari Mage, Revel paid up his share for participating in the Deep Roads venture. Leaving his sister to look after Mother, on he went, finally away from Kirkwall, only to be thwarted by a cave in.

Revel is currently making ready to look for a) a really dangerous shortcut around the pesky collapsed stone thing, and b) a dwarven savant who wandered away from his father.

The pacing of the game is good so far, with the amount of quests coming your way rather manageable, and not overwhelming. A very similar construct to BG2, only without the actual two factions you can work for to get in Spellhold. What little connection I had to Mereen, was pretty much just a small thing.

The map travel system is much more convenient than in the past. The biggest thing the game misses is the PC dialogue saturation. So far each companion only had one or two chats with the pc, which is very low by modded BG2 or SWTOR standard. I understand that we get all the companions at once, and they have good quest participation, but not having a personal connection and ability to gain approval in private convos really hurts Fenris (an probably others hat I am not playing with). I am trying to not let the unfortunate situation with a Fenris to spoil the overall game, but it is still irritating to have a companion that requires metagaming if you do take him along.

Another annoying thing is certainly gearing. I'd rather liked it more in Awakening when gear came hard and fast. Here, finding anything, but hilariously, staves, is pretty much impossible. As for crafting, by the time I get enough resources gathered to craft anything, we'd be done with the game. So, hopefully, it is completely unnecessary. In terms of enchantments, Origins was the best, as it was straightforward and easy. I hate having empty rune slots.

I can't gain either. His increments are very small, and go the opposite ways, so he stays close to zero. His views are also not aligned with any other party member. You have three mages, all of which will be rabid about being evil to mages, Varric seem to gain Approval alternatively with Fenris, and Aveline is another fighter. So... he is really an odd ball, that wants you to be a good person, but persecute the mages for no good reason, and you cannot talk to him about it. In the end, you break even with him, while gaining everyone else's' approval. Basically, the options that net you the best results with Anders and Varric, mostly leave Fenris indifferent, or swing him a little bit this way and that in my game. Hence, I might have left him behind for all the good it does me to bring him along everywhere, which sucks.

I am too far into the game now to restart with a Mage & take a hardline stance on other mages.

Well, I will see how it goes in Act 2, but if I resolve his quest in a nice way, because I am not going to sell him out, and remain a Mage-friend (because there are no incentives whatsoever to side with Chantry), it will end up with a near zero balance again. Unless his quest showers you with all the points you need to get to full friendship.

Anyways, I have the Deep Road section to play through still in Act 1.

It's going be what it's going be. I am not going to do anything I don't like doing. If BioWare intends for my character not to be able to romance Fenris, well, then he won't. There is nothing I can do about it, save for editing exe to enable CLUA console, but I'd rather go with what the developer intended even if it grates on my nerves.

@domi

I just don't use Fenris at all act 1. He doesn't like any of it.

And the only gifts in this game are the special ones that have cinematics andfull blown conversation. Each act has a gift AND a personal quest. Usually one picks up 25-50 points of whatever path you are on at these.

So I ignore him act 1 for the most part then ramp him up in Act 2. Act 2 has more Fenris friendly quests as well, so he's locked by the end of it for me.

One could say metagaming, but another could say "Fenris made it clear he's not mage friendly and prefers the southern style to locking them up." <- not hidden, Hawke knows this, and can choose what missions are appropriate for his comrades. Like a supervisor.

@domi

Then you will likely get to enjoy the end game consequences of being in the middle when the crisis point comes. Of course, when it happened to me, I didn't adore him as a character, but other people have even been in a relationship with him when it happened and said it was a tad traumatizing. ah well.

Rivaling aveline is fun though!

*squint* Confused about the F!mage part. 

Don't have to be a mage to rival or friend him. Slightly easier to rival him at that point..

also, all 4 options are bisexual so one can be either gender and romance any of the four.

Well, there is Sebastian, but he doesn't count.

About Merrill. Always. (I like them together, both in my main group.)