What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

I'll stick to two melee, two ranged, keep Alistair, and decide between Leliana/Zevron guy & between Sten and Oghren when I encounter them. I am playing on Normal, so I can skip characters that I do not like, and will prefer party that is of the same alignment/likes the same things in convos. Good point about persuasion, I don't remember if I saw it/invested in it so far, but I will take a look next time I am leveling up.

She can be one-shot-kill-bosses for all I care. And I still would want my game as Morrigan-free as Bio lets me have it.

What did I do today in DAI?

Talked to Varric, got 3 scenes in a row to get to the one about the book. And then because walking directly over to Cass with the book he just told me he'd be working on would break my immersion, I left Varric behind to "work on it" and took Blackwall, Cass, and Cole to the Storm Coast to do Darkspawn killing and Grey Warden artifact finding.

Cass was thanking him for joining the Inquisition, laying it on pretty thick that Blackwall is a Grey Warden. Blackwall's responses were interesting considering what I know now about him now.

Then, because the Storm Coast mission log had nothing but a couple rifts on it (which I don't plan on closing all of this PT) I left the Storm Coast to go get my Cass book scene. Which was disappointing, because it changed in no way for a romancing Quiz. bah. So then I made a few rounds around Skyhold.

Talked to Jose about her worrying about her richness not being as rich as it should be. I swear, this, and her response to the Red Crossing WT mission really bring down her character a peg for me. I honestly can't see her with anyone but a noble. She is otherwise a wonderful pretty woman.
Varric, Lel, Dorian, Viv, didn't have much more to say. But concerning Viv, I kinda like her hating my Quiz, moving his furniture, so I'm not going to do her personal quests either.

Then Solas, who friggen adores my Inky hardcore- already got the balcony scene where he tells the Quiz he respects them and I haven't done Adamant or Winter Palace or taken him anywhere for extra points, like for measuring the veil or anything. I find this funny; the pacing of his scenes have been so fast for this Quiz; I don't even think he's going to like the Inky I intend to romance him with as much as he seems to like Ghi'ral.

Talked a bit with Iron Bull about the Qun Re educators- still creepy, that. Checked in on the Sutherland Group- 3 of them there now, that's good, never gotten that far. Cole is up to mischeif around Skyhold, that adorable spirit boy! And of course Sera, who I like more and more each play through. Asked her about Cass, to check my romance progress, but it didn't seem to indicate a romance was happening. Even after the greatly approve book scene. Why won't you love Ghi'ral, Cass?

So, I dunno. Does that romance not progress any further until you do one of the big story missions? If I were a female elf romancing Solas, we'd have tongued each other twice by now.

I take care to torture Blackwall as much as possible!  I, of course, take him to Crestwood to see Hawke and Stroud or whoever.  There's also a great scene if you take him to the Winter Palace.  Having played DAO numerous PTs, some things are obvious now.  But my first DAI PT was my first DA PT period, so I was clueless about GWs and therefore nothing smelled fishy.

Since you started with inquisition...what is your favorite Dragon Age game?

Thanks. I'll try it out and see how it goes.




No. It's one of a list of wearable armors fixed only for Skyhold. It's a medium Inquisition scout armor.

All three have their virtues.  I believe DAO has the most epic story of all, though the graphics are a bit dated.  Inquisition certainly has better graphics, but the story is less tight and things can meander quite a bit.  In Origins, you go to an area and you're faced with an easily defined dilemma you have to overcome.  In Inquisition, things meander even within individual areas.  What's the main conflict in Exalted Plain for example?  Every area has rifts and I suppose you can say that results in anarchy, hence no easily defined, single unifying plot.  Serious role-playing can overcome that to some degree and I've begun to enjoy Inquisition again because I've finally begun doing that in a more coherent manner.  (Note Dragon Age is my first RPG series.  Previously, my gaming focused on Call of Duty and Tomb Raider -- interactive stories rather than RPGs.)  And speaking of interactive stories, that's the problem with DA2.    It's basically an interactive story.  It's fun, but Act 3 is really screwy. 

Well the conflict was between the forces of gaspard and celene to get the throne.  

But I agree with you.  The best thing about Origins was that each map you went to you had a story reason for being there.  It was a part of the main plot.  Thus the rest of the game's side quests flowed from there.  And you are also right, headcannoning your way around the DA universe in Inquisition really enhances the experience.  Hence every time I do the game I always take the Griffon Wing Keep first in order to set up a staging area for the assault on Adamant, for instance. 

I just finished DA:2 with a pro mage, snarky male Hawke who fell for Merrill's brand of sweet crazy. Everyone lived but Fenris. Couldn't get his rivalry up enough.Oh well, the Keep believes a different tale. Funny how so many nobles wanted Hawke to be viscount, even Aveline wanted Hawke to get more involved and get a title. If he was viscount this would be him for most of it, in fact its him now.

Bruenor is just about ready to assault the fortress in Frostback Basin. Found Storvacker while lighting all the beacons, then ran around (translation: fast-traveled) everywhere to finish up the last few side quests. Recruited both the conspiracy theorist and Sigrid.

Kinda tired tonight so I'll leave the raid for tomorrow.

Apparently, my character was called Quinly, my go-to name back then, like my NWN2 and SWTOR first char. Good times....

I finished all the Noticeboard sidequests in L-village, doing excting stuff like killing wildlife and bringing back tokens from dead bodies. Baldur's gate 3 style... Leliana put a word in, so we got Sten, weeeee! Finally, left the bucolic village behind, got intro into campfire, tried for a round of compconvos. Sten's was hilarious, sort of reminded me Shepard Book and Mal's dialogue about Book's past. Leliana is surprisingly pleasant. Kept the bonding going with Alistair, I think I am going to enjoy his romance. Morrigan provided me with some info on Flemeth, then I told her to pack up and go. Brought the rest of the crew to Redcliff, and had another cute chat with Alistair. And, that's it for today.