What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

Darn, that means I'll have to go back and do that lame DLC! Oh well...

In a few minutes, I will strt Awakening. Play the first part until I see Anora and talk with Loghain. After that? Don't know. Maybe just import the save to DA2 and continue Awakening

I don't use the command line. There is only one possibility that I can think that caused the glitch. It's (drum roll) ... the time spent in CC. Since I got the human Inq sliders down to a T, I can do it in within five minutes. With the elven inq, it's more difficult because the options are not typical human features; the nose, forehead, so I spent more time fiddling. The more time I spent in CC, the chances of the game going haywire is higher.

It's like; oh hey, you're taking so long to do this, I'm going to take a nap. Then, when the char is made, the game went; huuuh? what? What am I supposed to do next? I can't remember. Gimme some time to figure it out. Yeah....zzzzZZZZZZzzzzzz. 

Most games generally stall completely if the char is stuck after CC. There is mostly no chance to get it to kick start. Someone found it in DAI and I've to say, this is a unique backdoor in getting the game to work.

Today I learned from my husband, who is playing it for the first time, that there are 6 Gold Skill resets you can buy in Awakening. I've only played it...3 times... so, uh yeah. I guess I can lump Shop Inventory along with Codexes as things I hardly never read.

@domi
I was a big fan of Cassandra, she was my Mara's hero! So then I romanced her with an devout elf that was a bad idea. Atheist Qunari or Devout Human only kinda gal, I was less f a fan after the romance to be honest.

It's too bad you didn't mod Cullen too. I really like his romance. And Blackwall is good for just the right character but definitely not for all.

So, Dusk with Solas and male Qunari with Dorian. Anders in 2. Thing for male mages?

I finished the extended version of the "Rite of Passage", and posted it to The Dragon Age Fanfiction Thread, replacing the old version.

It`s a story about a young Varric who must pass his rite of passage quest, and while doing it deals some revenge against those who exiled House Tethras. And Varric`s "secret" life is partly exposed ...

Cass has no job except to blow in barriers. The mage is OP. That's all I can say. With two mages in the party, the mobs just had no chance. Even the bears are wimps. Actually, I should say with the player playing the protag as a mage, the mobs are dead before they can say booo! But I'm sure the bad guys in other zones are more badass.

I equipped the elven mage with the T3 BM version right from the start. She looks fine (the arms were the same thickness as the warrior. I made a mistake when I did a preview in the previous PT and thought the riveted pauldrons were not available) but honestly, I'd prefer to put her in robes since she's a mage but unfortunately, DAI devs designed horrible rags that no mage would be seen dead in. The only good / reasonable looking armor, to me, is still the BM.

Well, it took longer than it should, as Sten would say, but now that I got more glyphs and healing spells, SotC is working perfectly. It made Orzammar and the Deep Roads a breeze, with all those narrow corridors and big caves In fact, in contrast with the pain that was the Brecilian Forest and all its damned revenants, everything turned out way too easy from Orzammar on. For a moment there, when I got to Gaxkang I was suffering again (more than expected, I mean), but then I realized I didn't set Shale's tactics right, I did, and again, way too easy.

I understand that it's hard to find the balance in RPGs between equipment/level and difficulty, but it's a pity. Probably I should just change it to nightmare, but I'm afraid that might be too much I could also take off some of the cool stuff we're all wearing, that might make it more challenging again, but man, I worked hard to have all that There's a moment in RPGs where you look at how high your level is and how much cool stuff you have, and it's super satisfying So, meh, running OP through Thedas it is it's fun in a different way too anyway

Btw, my super expensive purchases were finally Andruil's blessing and spellward for me, ring of ages for Alistar and the Felon's Coat for Zevran. Alistair is already wearing the Juggernaut armor and I like that he's the only one that can (more or less ) survive the friendly fire of SotC, having templar training and all. And  I wanted to give Zevran something cooler, like a dagger, but we already have so many great daggers that I have trouble picking just one... i guess it's fitting though, since I'm always giving him clothes, like the dalish gloves and the antivan boots... Apparently, I'm already that kind of girlfriend, so...  I have to say that I think they were all a rip-off, I'm not sure they're worth what they cost, but I have to admit that this was more a potlatch than anything else
Anyway, I just finished Denerim, and I enjoyed it so much, I love those last quests there, Howe, Fort Drakon, aliengae and Landsmeet, favourite part of the game by far  I was worried for a moment, because in this pt I wanted to have Alistair in the rescue party with Zevran, and when I went to Howe's State I realized he's the only tank I have but, fortunately, since I'm OP now, I just took Wynne to double the healing at least and everything went smoothly, enough that I was even able to killed Cathrien easily... I wanted to see how hard it would be, it wans't hard at all  I reloaded and let them take me to prison, alone this time. Bad thing about having Alistair in the rescue party, he was the one who talked, I'd prefer Zevran saying "you missed me?" 

I have to say that even if I had supposedly every choice figured out beforehand, I had some doubts about the Landsmeet until almost the last minute. On one hand, while I was running around Denerim there was still a lot of banter about Alistair not wanting to lead, so for a moment I truly considered just let him kill the Archdemon and die like a hero, he's the heroic type after all, no persuading him to get Morrigan pregnant with an OGB, not persuading him to be king. But  in the end Alistair showed that he was ready and willing to be king, and, selfishly, I don't want him to die, so meh, maybe it's people haven't realized yet that he's changed and he's just playing along

On the other hand, I re-read The Stolen Throne not long ago, and for once I wasn't sure I wanted to kill Loghain. I like Loghain in the book. And sure, the ostagar business wasn't nice, but who cares if he tried to poison Eamon? Nobles killing each other, meh... But, again, Alistair.... Alistair's fate conditions my choices a lot in Origins poor guy, I don't want to marry him to Anora, sleeping with Morrigan it's just one night, a marriage it's a whole other thing... But then I thought of the elves being sold to Tevinter. It wasn't only Ostagar, there was also this. And then I remembered the night elves thing, also from The Stolen Throne, and that made it even worse... So, not only I killed him as usual, this time I did it myself (I usually let Alistair do it, for Duncan).

Last thing I've done it's killing the high dragon, and I had doubts with this too, because I usually don''t like to. But I thought the fight would be fun and the loot would be good. They were not, the fight was still pretty easy and the loot, at this point of the game, it's nothing special. Maybe I should have done it before, but I couldn't have the first time I was here, that was before even going to Circle, because I let Isolde sacrifice herself for Connor... I was about to reload a previous save, but I'm keeping it. After all, my Inquisitor it's going to kill a dozen of them, what's one more?

One last thing, all companion quests done, and leaving Zevran's aside because Zevran  , Sten's is still the most touching for me, I find really endearing winning his respect. Oh, and that reminds me, awkward moment with Morrigan right at the end, when she tells me she thinks of me as a friend  I didn' realized I got her approval so high,  don't know how I did it, it must have been all the gifts and the fact that I didn't take her with me as much this time, so she couldn't disapprove my choices I felt bad when the dialogue started, considering I'm lying to her because I haven't killed Flemeth and I'm only pretending (Flemeth  )  So, I reloaded and ignored her she's using us, I'm using her, we're both mages who like being free so we have that in common, let's leave it at that
Now to Redcliffe and to kill the archdemon and then directly to DA2, my favourite part 

edit: OMG the wall of text, I didn't realize how much I was writting    
main reason would be I didn't know it!   thanks for the info! I'm near the end but it's good to know for the next time, though I'm usually not as greedy as I'm being this time  

Ok. I stopped playing Awakening to go back to see if I did talk to Alistair at camp. Its turns out I didn't.  Fortunately I had a save after visiting his sister. He says he will change. That was the difference. I just completed the landsmeet with him and Anora agreeing to marry and Loghain becoming a Grey Warden.

On another note, I mentioned that I took Loghain, Wynne and Leliana to Ostagar in a previous post. Loghain and Wynne had a lot of dialogue. It was very good. When I went back to correct the above, I took Alistair, Wynne and Leliana to Ostagar. Wynne and Alistair have some dialogue. Even a couple of flirts, but I prefer the dialogue from Wynne and Loghain.

Anyways. I will finish the corrected playthrough and use that to import into DA2.

Dorian is not happy about the Templars, but you kill some Venatori groups with him (personal shit quest – as Varric's red lyrium, just less), and you will fine. If I know well. (I never choose the Templars yet.)

Oh finally! An authentic greatsword. I generally don't use Edgewise for the warriors because by the time it can be used, I already crafted a higher dmg greastword. However, I didn't notice the design of the greatsword until just now. Of all the available greatswords, it's the only one that is factual because of the ricasso; part of the blade just above the hilt that can be gripped, thus shortening the length of the greatsword so it can be used like a longsword. For the Edgewise, it seemed to be wrapped rather than dulled, up to the horns.



I hope they put in better factual sword designs, especially for greatswords, for DA4.

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So as a mage, I get slight differences in conversations. I managed to get IB all upset because I kid about the Envy demon. Dorian got his hackles up because, hey, there's an option to ask him again why he wanted to stay; despite his explaining it all in the cutscene dialogue before that. The specialists were funny, all three of them