What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

To each his/her own regarding romances.  Almost all of them culminate suddenly (and thus, perhaps, unrealistically).  I liked the Cassandra romance for showing her softer side (as did the "Swords and Shields" story).  Regarding the Josephine romance, I thought it was okay for a G-rated romance.  (The "deadly dwarf" did this one.)  As to not being attracted to her, the "Ruffles" outfit isn't exactly flattering.  In terms of being gradual and having emotional "umph," I'd have to say the "Solasmance" leads the way. 

I know it's cheating, but I added a mod that changed the sigils to endow armor with abilities like that.  Otherwise, I would never use them.  I can't remember which sigil has the electric glyphs.

This was my end game party too.

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Merry Christmas!

I made a lot of cookies yesterday. I baked for over 5 hours straight. Don't worry, I'm going somewhere with this. I wanted to share with you my peanut butter cookie recipe. I called it "Sera's Cookies" while I was baking them. All you need is:

One egg
One cup of peanut butter
One cup of white sugar

Mix until completely combined. Roll the dough into small balls and place them on an ungreased cookie sheet. Then take a fork, flatten the cookies with it using a cross-thatch pattern. I stress that it needs to be ungreased because the oil in the peanut butter will be enough. If you grease the pan, all the oil will separate and turn the cookies into a giant hot mess.

Throw into the oven at 350 for about 12 minutes. For high altitude, switch to convention oven at 355. Set for 6 minutes, rotate, then set for another six minutes. When they are done, transfer onto a cool cookie sheet.  It makes about 10-12 per batch,

The reason why I've nicknamed my peanut butter cookies after Sera is because they are very simple. Nothing fancy and most people can eat them. They also taste very good too. Baking always put me into a great mood and I thought about the roof chat with Sera. If I was going to bake her cookies, that's what I would do.

Merry Christmas everyone! I'm taking my 3 dozen cookies (two peanut butter, one batch of chocolate chip) and heading to my folks in a few hours. I'm going to help them get the gifts set up for my niece.

My husband misses playing board games with me, something we did weekly before I found DA.

So, he bought the Dragon Age RPG Tabletop thing as a surprise for me?

I accused him of trying to trick me away from the video game.

Has anyone ever played it?

The journey of Warden Commander Drako Amell, The Hero of Ferelden: (DA:O, DA:A, and Witch hunt)



The Chronicles of Tyros Hawke, Champion of Kirkwall:



The Path of Inquisitor Mason Trevelyan, Herald of Andraste:



The Journey continues,

I didn't get my week of sleep. Only took Cullen's men a few days to get the towers in the Hinterlands built. Cassandra had to drag me out of bed... literally, she kicked my cot over... and insisted that we be the ones to collect Master Dennet and his horses. Why a simple messenger couldn't do it is beyond me. So I reluctantly get my gear together and we set out as soon as Varric was done grooming his chest hair or whatever he does all day. When we reach the Hinterlands, we stop by the Cross Roads to check in with our people to see if everything is alright... Everything was not alright. People have gone missing along the eastern pass. Not bandits or bears. Just scorch marks and destroyed caravans. We stock up on supplies and head out there to investigate...

...We find a good spot to set up a camp site and begin our investigation. I was hoping it was just a mad Mage hurling fireballs, but the distant roar I had heard before was not so distant anymore. The air smells foul... like a blacksmiths forge. As we search, we discover a hidden valley. Seems to have been used as a Quarry for Obsidian. Not anymore. The structures are either broken or burning. A dragonling comes directly at us when we set foot into the valley. Where there is one Dragonling, there are more. With it's death howl, I assumed it summonoed more of it's brood, but what I feared most showed itself. A giant High Dragon. And mother was not pleased by the death of her child. Few things in this world can match the heat of Dragon's fire. After a few volleys, the High Dragon flew off deeper into the valley and dozens of dragonlings flooded the area. They weren't going to stay here. They had to be dealt with. I have no idea how you kill a High Dragon or if we even can, but at the very least we must drive them out of the area...

...We find the remains of several of the missing caravans scattered around as we work our way through to the nest. The High Dragon is waiting. I can't be sure, but I distinctly sense a mind behind those eyes. A simple beast she was not. As we step forward, I am almost certain we are all about to die. Several times, we very nearly did. We survived with a number of burns, a few claw marks, and most of our bodies bruised, but we survived. The High Dragon is dead and if any of it's dragonlings still live, they have gone underground. The danger is passed for now. After we get patched up from the healer at the camp we set up near by, we head off to Dennet's farms and together herd his horses to Haven...

...The Inquisition is growing quickly. Haven wasn't built for this. Soon, we'll need to either find a new place to serve as our base of operations or start some heavy construction on this town and turn it into a proper fortress. Our funds are tight, so building is not really an option right now. We are heading to Val Royeaux soon to address the Chantry and its... concerns. With any luck our efforts in the Hinterlands will have reached the city by then and we will have something to fight the fear mongers with. Otherwise this will go very bad very fast...

(With that I will bid all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all)

I really don't like the approval system. Earlier, Blackwall asked my Quizz how she feels she fits into the inquisition. She told him that people worship hr and believe that she is destined for greatness, a statement that she happily agrees with. The conversation right after that, there was the option of asking "You don't like me much do you." Which he replied with that he doesn't. Now a little later on he suddenly changed his tune and said he admired her.

Not that it matters much since he's going to hate her later, as recruiting the mages will be the only major decision he approves of. Muteral dislike, but for Revas's side it will be disinterest. As she just doesn't find him interesting, and will probably stop talking to him after she exiles the wardens. Outside of the stupid approval system, he probably wouldn't like her much due to her be a smart ass with an ego who plays the game. She doesn't see the value in carrying guilt around and isn't going pretend that the Warden Commander wasn't blinded by her own arrogance so he is not happy with her.

As for her, she doesn't like those holier then thou people, which from what I've heard is the attitude that Blackwall gives you if you have low approval with him. She also doesn't find him that interesting so she wouldn't bother with him much, especially not when you have so many other interesting people in the organization. Additionally, before she went to meet Hawke in Crestwood she found Leliana's note on him where the real commander Blackwall said that Ferelden was a lost cause, which was very different from his claim that he was in Ferelden at the time. Every warden disappears but him, and he is some how immune to the calling. She had figured out that he was lying and must be running away from something, but she doesn't feel the need to rat him out.

Once his reveal comes to light, she might force him into servitude to the Inquisition.

You need to spend point to skills for disarming the traps (cunning based).

Just some shots from my play through if Ghi'ral. I'm thinking of moving away from Photobucket. Even on a fast computer with full bars of internet, it takes like ten minutes to get pictures up. The loading screen times are just ridiculous. Unless there is some setting I'm ignorant of to fix that... Does imgur go faster?


Arriving at Adamant after bursting through the gates is one of those obligatory shot moments. I remember my first fem mage running through it in like, a Qunari Bikini. I still don't know why I don't have the recipe for that, I haven't seen it since. Anyway.



Catching that orb like the Inquisitive golden retreiver I am.


The game priming you for the either or choice before you even get there. Positional foreshadowing?


Going after the Seekers and Cass is looking lovely in that armor coloring.


And then Cass and Ghi'ral finally put the silliness of ignored flirting aside and go for it. I think the hottest bits of the whole thing are the moments right before the kissing, like here.


I was curious to see how they made my elf look like nude. I think they got the color of the skin shades right, but I just don't know how these guys get this buff. my husband bikes 10 hours a week, and lifts boxes at work for 20 hours a week. He's a slender 5'7 guy with no obvious pecs, and so I just feel like the body shape isn't right for a mage here, especially an elf.

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I'm going to speed run the rest of Ghi'ral. HE's not angsty enough to keep my interest. HE's just a romantic dork trying to do his best, and that bores me. I just want to see all of Cass's romance scenes with my Ghi'ral.

Speaking of, Cass has the best repeatable kiss scene I've seen of the total 4 romances I've tried.