What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

She looks good, I have deleted the MOD and reverted to the original. I like how she looks, I just want her to have one probably forehead tatto so she doesn't always look like she needs to wash her face.

I Will give the Toolset a go I am just not very good at that stuff and a hesitant adopter.

Can I use it for DA2? I am too far through DAO and DLC to care enough but if I can only use if for DAO I will have a try with it when I do my female Noble Rogue run next. Not sure at this stage if I will do DAO straight up after this run with my human noble or play DA2 straight after this PT of DAO.

So I did the battle at the end and stayed to save the people of Amaranthine but Vigils Keep fell and everyone I left there died, this has never happened for me before.

Armour upgrades were done, keep upgrades (just the Granite yeah and Silverite Armour?) were done the only thing that I had not done was Oghren's mission with Felsi as it didn't trigger.

The issue appears to be Approval ratings and I am guessing all have to be high for the people you leave behind for the Keep to survive. I do not understand how Sigrun and Velanna are at 72% I gave them all their gifts and never got a dialogue choice wrong that I can remember. Anyway they came with me to Amaranthine and survived.

I will go back to the save before heading off to Amaranthine and if necessary am going to try and figure out how to cheat the Approval ratings.

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My guess is, it's a bug.
Awakening has more of them than any other DLC.
I can't look at the files in the toolset because they are encrypted, and I can't find a reliable source for dedaodrm.exe
As far as I know, there are only 4 requirements for the keep standing.
The 80 sovereigns for the gate and towers.
The "It comes from Beneath" quest to block off the tunnels from the basement.
The granite for the walls.
The silver-rite for the guards armour.
You did all that so it should have stood.
I usually send Oghren and Anders back with Alistair at the start, execute Howe, and send Vengeance on his way.
So none of them have any approval, and there are no Grey Wardens to defend the keep, but it still stands.
The court and trial only effect who fights in the conspiracy against you.
Saving Alec the shepherd, means he goes on to become Ser Alec the Valiant, but that is after the defense of the keep.
I never do the blight orphans either, but the epilogue still assumes you did.

I don't think so.
Your dialogue choices only effect approval of the companions present, and letting the talking darkspawn live has an adverse effect.
If you want to continue your story into DA2, just use the Gibbed Save Game Generator. www.nexusmods.com/dragonage2/mods/2251
It's more reliable than Bioware's import process anyway.

This is from the wiki
zz_gxa_addapproval X Y
Where X is a value between 1 and 6 and represents the stat modified by approval change (1=Constitution, 2=Dexterity, 3=Magic, 4=Willpower, 5=Cunning, 6=Strength); Y is a value between -100 and 100 and represents the amount of approval to add or subtract from character value. To successfully execute the command, you must run it while the companion whose approval needs to be changed is selected.
So for Oghren you would select him and then runscript zz_gxa_addapproval 6 100 (or whatever increase you need to make 100)
Or you could type runscript additem gxa_im_gift_oghren_4 6 to give him half a dozen bottles of brandy, that would probably make him like you.

I find it easier to edit the saved game with gff4editor, but that would take longer to explain.

Hey olnorton I used that save editor, it could be a bit more user friendly!!!! Also how do I tell it from other saves.

Hey did I miss something, the one option it did not seem to give me was to say that my Cousland had married Anora.

Again it said the Keep fell and Anders and Oghren died but then the post credits said the exact opposite!!!!   

It will show as Generated_William and will tell you if you try to load it that it is a Gibbed save.
i.imgur.com/a2M4nZJ.jpg

If it doesn't have an option to say that you married Anora, it's because it has no effect, and is not mentioned in future games, and would not be carried over from your regular saved game.

Yes I think I read somewhere that bug is caused if you get him the granite before finishing one of the other quests.

Using DAO Mod Manager but tried through the EA app as well. Both launch the game and I can choose GoA but it shuts down when the screen to choose the character to use opens.

I'll try launching from the .exe I should have thought of that.

So yes the DAO .exe worked and I started GoA and have forgotten a lot of it but am remembering why I didn't particularly like it.

Prior to that I started a 2nd DAO PT this time with a female Cousland who will also be a Rogue but will maybe use the bow instead of dual weapons.

Using a new MOD Bidelles Cosmetics which also does Hair and Face stuff, tweaked one of their pre-sets with some input from my daughter.

Swift Cousland

Best shots I could get at the time





GoA

Finished DAO and all the DLC, kissed Morrigan goodbye and on to DA0 PT 2 with a Female Cousland Rogue this time using a bow (for now at least) and only after inviting Iona back to Swift's room did I realise I had created an Iona twin.

Goodbye Morrigan






Iona



Swift and Iona



Can't decide all Black or Leliana's Sacred Ashes Gear? Will romance Leliana this PT so Leliana will have to wear soemthing else if I wear her SAA.

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