What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

 Go with Isabela! She usually fits that non-committal role pretty well. In one of my playthroughs my Hawke had a one night stand with Isabela but romanced somebody else.

This is always my dilemma when playing DA2.

DD rogue is easily the most fun class - for me - to play.  But Isabela is easily the best romance (companion, actually, but whatever) so I either have to have a less interesting In combat Hawke, or have an oddly unbalanced team (since not romancing Izzy is obviously not a realistic option).

Yeah because DA2 is easier I tend t ouse 2 rogues as well  a lot of the time usually Varric and Isabella. 

Over sexed, maybe.

Nothing "wrong" with it, at all.  Play your way, my dude.  My own personal preference is to be a bit more classical, I guess, in party composition.  If I have a DPS melee rogue, I like a second melee to be a tank warrior, suffering the slings and arrows, while the rogue 'lols' around the fight, pulling down mooks.  That said, I will ignore that preference frequently, so it's more a matter of how I'm feeling in any given moment.

Oh, sorry - didn’t mean it like that.  It doesn’t stop you, no.  But if I did have 2 melee rogues and then a warrior tank, I’d be left with just one ranged (presumably a mage), whereas a more classical party composition would have 2 ranged (usually mage + archer) and 2 melee.

Staves are amazing for whacking people in the head

Was really refreshing to see it after DAO.
Adds some realism as well.
Looks as if was added as no Arcane Warrior spec in DA2, so why not?

Was hoping in DAI would be hitting people to death with staves, but nope.

So after replaying the Mass Effect trilogy…making an umpteenth attempt at playing Sims 4 and playing a little fun game called Wildermyth I’m finally back to stewing over my Dragon Age world state.

However, in the past few weeks I’ve been weighting some ideas up to one another and I’ve finally (or at least hopefully, since I tend to say this a lot and it never turns out the way I want it to ) settled on my canon world state.

Warden: Minerva Amell (mage) arcane warrior battlemage, no in-game romance since I shamelessly ship her with Nathaniel
She’s a bit of a Chessmaster… as in, she’ll do the right thing but only if it profits her. So she basically does everything she can in order to make Ferelden strong enough against the Blight even if this means stepping on a few toes here and there. (That means sparing Loghain )

Champion: Nimue Hawke (rogue) assassin, Fenris romance
Probably the sweetest assassin you’ll ever meet, has a heart of gold and only a few select buttons people can push that’ll push her over the edge…so don’t do that. Basically she’s a great example of ‘beware the nice ones’. Will probably put Bethany in the Circle so that Loghain's Inquisition cameo will make a bit more sense (honestly having him or Alistair as the contact doesn't make sense if the sibling is a Warden...at least imo. )

Inquisitor: currently I’ve an elven Inquisitor lined up because that (at least to me) seems like the only reason to ever want to drink from the Well of Sorrows and really care about the whole ‘well sorry to tell you but your gods suck, also I’m one of them and I’m going to destroy the world for us’ stick that we’re being beaten with right now.
So either a ‘what the hell have I stepped into’ elven quizzy, or a (at least head canon wise since it’s not really an in-game option to role-play this way) defrosting (literal since she'd use ice spells) ice queen human quizzy.
Will probably romance Cullen…or you know…descent into Solavellan hell and see what that’s all about.

The part translated is the same regardless who is in the party, it just change how you go the translation. 

Based on a veilfire writing and codex you can find in there, it seems to have been kind of "gauntlet" for the ancients elves that was used to test their humility, but eventually they ended binding someone who became too prideful (i.e. the pride demon) at the end.

In Legacy DLC (down to start of endgame Act 3), I used the prison trap to absolutely wreck the Carta ambush

It was a fairly large mob, but I saw the glinting lever in the middle of the area as the idiot Carta did their battle cries. Hawke jogged over and, looking at them, held a finger to her mouth and said, "What's this do?" batting her eyelashes.

Carta skewers, looks like meat's back on the menu boys!