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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 3, 2019 21:04:08 GMT
So today I went through the entire Orzammar quest line (just need to handle a few side quests there but I need to head for other places before doing that) so Narah went inside with Morrigan, Zevran and Leliana and after having spoken to the Assembly steward they had to make a decision on who to back as king of Orzammar. Whilst cunning and somewhat treacherous Narah decided to back Bhelen Aeducan, and promised to help his second with some tasks. Outside the Assembly chambers we were also greeted by Lord Harrowmont's second, but while we were talking to him Zevran decided to pitch in with some...interesting remarks. Narah decided to heed Zev's advice and declined against helping Harrowmont So we then took out some darkspawn, some deepstalkers and other stuff, then headed back to the city. Then we took out the Carta, blah blah blah...went back into the Deep Roads, more fighting, more walking. Turns out Narah and Morrigan were the stars of the little trip to find Branka (Zevran and Oghren kept ending up knocked out ) In the end we found the Anvil of the Void, and Narah decided to help Branka to uncover the secrets (sorry Caridin) well...Branka is certainly an...interesting lady, this decision will likely come bite us in the ass later, but for now we get some sorely needed golems for the fight against the darkspawn. (And perhaps Orzammar will also benefit from them again) Tomorrow I'll be heading to Haven to get the Sacred Ashes, then make a detour and recruit Shale before heading back to Redcliffe we'll likely also do a lot of traveling back and forth between several locations...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2019 19:47:22 GMT
Has anyone tried recording your Dragon Age games using windows 10 pc? I tried recording DAO and I got a message that the program doesn't support it, then gave me advice to choose full screen broadsomething feature which DAO menu doesn't even have since it only has resolution selection.
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Post by Iddy on Jun 4, 2019 19:48:43 GMT
This Haha Trevelyan. A mage. She is currently in Haven waiting for me to move her through the game [Iron Bull Greatly Approves]
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 4, 2019 20:16:51 GMT
Today I've tracked down the Urn of Sacred Ashes...the ah...cultists did not survive their encounters with Narah I almost cried when I saw the spirit posing as papa Cousland...I love that little conversation the Warden can have with the person from their Origin
Afterwards we returned to Redcliffe to administer the ashes to Arl Eamon...when he awoke he was...less then happy to learn that his son had died (trust me I didn't like doing it either) at any rate, after learning what'd happened during the time he'd been ill he decided to start gathering allies to take down Loghain. He also made it clear we'd need a strong claim toward the Ferelden throne, suggesting Alistair for the position, Alistair however seemed less then thrilled with the idea (to bad he doesn't have any say in the matter )
I've also recruited Shale and returned Sten's sword to him
Strangely enough I've yet to trigger the camp ambush, even though I've already finished four main quests (Orzammar, Circle of Magi, Redcliffe and the Sacred Ashes) during my last playthrough it never triggered, not that I'm complaining it might have to do with a mod I have installed (likely Qwinn's bug fix pack, but I can't be sure), but it's not a game breaking thing since it doesn't do anything besides confirm it's a real Blight...which we already confirmed since we saw Archie the Archdemon down in the Deep Roads
Tomorrow I think I'll make a detour toward Lake Callenhad to get Oghren's quest done, then head to the Circle for the side quests there, then head back to Orzammar (with some luck I'll be able to get Shale's personal quest so we can do that as well)
after Orzammar we'll be heading to Flemeth's hut to do Morrigan's personal quest, then to Denerim to deliver the drake scales to Master Wade
then on the way back we'll head toward the Brecilian forest to pursue the last of the treaties.
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Post by Sokemis on Jun 4, 2019 23:00:36 GMT
Has anyone tried recording your Dragon Age games using windows 10 pc? I tried recording DAO and I got a message that the program doesn't support it, then gave me advice to choose full screen broadsomething feature which DAO menu doesn't even have since it only has resolution selection. Does that come up with an Xbox app or something like that? (Press "windows key" + G to start?) If so, I think that's what I used to record the clips for my GMV. Playing in full-screen mode, resolution 1920 x 1080 (16:9) if that helps.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2019 1:12:27 GMT
Does that come up with an Xbox app or something like that? (Press "windows key" + G to start?) If so, I think that's what I used to record the clips for my GMV. Playing in full-screen mode, resolution 1920 x 1080 (16:9) if that helps. Yes, it's that thing, press windows key and G. I have the same resolution but it seems unhappy with it and tells me no - xbox game bar isn't supported. change game settings to full screen and borderless. I have the resolution you said, but there is no feature or tick box for full screen and I have no idea what borderless means, like seeing your computer task bar? The game is very much full screen though, so, I have no idea what it's fussing about. What is GMV?
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Post by Sokemis on Jun 5, 2019 1:24:59 GMT
GMV = game music video (made a video to Who Wants to Live Forever for one of my wardens and Tamlen) There's a thread for them HERE if you're interested As to why it's not working, I have no idea - sorry. That's the first and only time I've used it. Just tried it again now to test and it seemed to work fine.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2019 1:39:06 GMT
Thank you. That's an interesting idea. I think I have it figured out. Instead of doing win + G, I just turn on the game and use win+alt+r to force record. I've made a bit of a recording, but haven't tested it on a bigger fragment. I guess if it works you'll see it since I'm going to make a Warden and post my DAO game. I've never done it before and it's interesting to learn how to use these things.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 5, 2019 20:45:51 GMT
Today Narah went to the Brecilian Forest where she and her companions helped the Dalish elves who were being attacked by werewolves 'course nothing ever is as it seems, and as they ventured into the forest and eventually some ancient ruins they came to know that the werewolves were victims of a cursed inflicted upon them by Zathrian the leader of the Dalish clan Narah stood for a choice now, kill the werewolf leader named Witherfang, kill the elves for what they'd done...or help an ancient spirit called the Lady of the Forest to undo the curse from it's source. In the end Narah and her companions 'persuaded' Zathrian to undo the curse, which resulted in the death of Zathrian and the Lady With that done they returned back to Redcliffe to inform Arl Eamon that all treaties had been honored in one capacity or another. He told them that their allies had arrived in the city of Denerim in anticipation for the Landsmeet that he'd called. With no immediate pressing matters the group traveled to Denerim where they were greeted by Loghain himself...accompanied by his lieutenant Ser Cauthrien and the lying filthy snake Arl Rendon Howe himself. Seeing him made Narah's hair stand on edge, but the moment Loghain announced him as the Teyrn of Highever HER Teyrnir her blood started to boil, she swore she'd put him to the sword like the mad dog he was.
When they left Arl Eamon suggested meeting with him, where Queen Anora's handmaiden was also waiting for them, revealing that Howe had captured Anora after she'd gone to him about answers concerning her late husband's death. Narah resolved to help and rescue Anora, for -in Eamon's words- she'd either be a powerful ally or a dreadful foe, and the sooner they'd find out which one she was...the better.
-- For now I'm just cleaning up my quest log from any remaining quests that are inside, traveling to various places to resolve them. I've also finished up the remainder of the companion quests, helping Oghren move on from his crazy wife and meet someone new, Shale with uncovering her past, and Wynne with finding an old apprentice of hers. Still some things left to do, but with a bit of luck I'll be able to at least finish Origins by tomorrow evening, and perhaps Awakening and the dlc's by the end of this weekend
I'm currently trying to scrounge up some more experience points to gain the next level so I can get the final stealth point I need to resolve the final two parts of the Crime Wave quests, Narah's title is nearly within reach, and so is Howe's bloody demise *cue evil laughter*
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2019 23:15:28 GMT
Hey fellow Wardens. So, here is my very first experimental youtube video. I've never recorded a game before or posted anything on youtube. Figured I'd get one of my favourite games involved. Andraster's tits, it's actually difficult to multitask - commenting and pressing buttons at the same time or trying to plan some kind of strategy while talking or just hearing computer story in the headphones at the same time as you're trying to talk.
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Post by olnorton on Jun 7, 2019 2:59:36 GMT
Once Merrill had put an end to the blight, she set off for the new grey warden base in Amaranthine. She decided to recruit only the Dalish as wardens. Mhairi barely made it through the joining. Nothing left to do, but return to Ashalle & Marethari at the new Dalish homeland of Ostagar.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 8, 2019 18:16:11 GMT
Today I've finished Narah's Origins story, cleaning up the last few side quests and the Landsmeet itself to sum things up: - Narah gained her title of the Dark Wolf - the slavers in the Alienage were shut down, and the elven elder was saved - Alistair and Anora agreed to wed one another - Loghain was recruited which resulted in Alistair leaving the Wardens I left the Return to Ostagar dlc for last this time around in order to take Loghain with me, I gave him Maric's sword because I felt it was fitting In the end Narah made quite a few good friends, but I was able to get some varied approval ratings this time around, which to me fit quite well Party approvals in the spoiler tag below Alistair: 94 Roach (dog): 100 (naturally ) Leliana: 100 Morrigan: 100 Sten: 95 Wynne: 100 Zevran: 99 Oghren: 96 Shale: 66 Loghain: 85 Due to these approval ratings I had a few differences at the end when talking what the companions would be doing next. For example, Shale will be returning to Orzammar to fight darkspawn, and Wynne is staying in the capital to become the court mage As for Narah herself, she'll be traveling a little while accompanied by Zevran, at least after helping her brother Fergus rebuild Highever you know...when I saw Fergus again, it almost made me tear up...I really wish there'd been a hug option (I'll just head canon they hugged for a while) also in my head canon I imagine Narah would return the family sword and shield to her brother
Now I'll be heading into Awakening, should be interesting to see what type of Commander Narah will be
Oh and I was also able to nab another achievement: Whirlwind Dervish (kill 50 enemies with whirlwind)
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Post by Sokemis on Jun 9, 2019 1:18:04 GMT
Today in Dragon Age I am trying to unbury myself from and delete screenshots. My PrintScreen either won't work at all, or take 3-5 shots each time I press the button once... there doesn't seem to be any middle ground.
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Post by vertigomez on Jun 9, 2019 15:37:16 GMT
Probably nothing, but doing Leliana's quest in DAO, Marjolaine mentions hiring qunari mercenaries for protection from Leliana's reprisal. "Expendable. And this way, I don't have to pay them. Good for the both of us." Considering Leliana's the one who's responsible for hiring Adaar and the other Valo-Kas mercernaries in Inquisition, I just thought it was interesting.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 9, 2019 17:55:29 GMT
currently running through Awakening, just need to do the Blackmarsh and a few more side quests with a bit of luck I might be able to finish everything today including the Witch Hunt dlc So far Narah has: - dealt with some smugglers - recruited all possible Wardens (she let Nathaniel go who then came back on his own) - killed a lot of darkspawn, walking trees (some of them on fire) and done some other stuff - also finished up all companion quests aside from Oghren and Justice(who I've yet to recruit) - helped out the Blight Orfans (just need to finish up the last few quests of that chain) - upgraded the Keep and found all materials to outfit her troops
During a day in court we: - made Alec the sheepherder join the army - put scout Danella in prison - returned the land to Ser Derren
I also dealt with the conspiracy the usual way, by enlisting the help of the Dark Wolf, which was interesting this time around since Narah is the Dark Wolf herself Was also able to deal with the peasant uprising in a different way from usual, generally I let them have their way which results in more riots in the future. This time I was able to intimidate them into leaving, lot more fun Edit:ended Awakening and Witch Hunt on a good note the other night approval ratings for the companions in the spoiler tag below Anders: 100 Oghren: 100 Nathaniel: 100 Velanna: 100 Sigrun: 86 Justice: 93 I was able to complete all companion quests as well as all side quests (though I had to cheat a bit to get Lilith the trader for Trade Must Flow because the encounter just wouldn't trigger) Narah saved Amaranthine and had Captain Garavel kill the Messenger Narah decided to side with the Architect and killed the Mother without use of any of the crystal's powers (you know, the ones you can gather while descending all those steps) it was interesting to see how well Narah's poison dealt with the Mother and her minions, I took out her tentacles first, then killed the children whenever they spawned. In between I focused on the Mother with Oghren to draw her fire...eventually lost Oghren to one of her attacks but Narah, Velanna and Nathaniel were able to hold out long enough to take her down During Witch Hunt Narah made a few new friends in the form of Dalish Elf Ariane and Circle Mage Finn, who helped her and Roach (the dog) find Morrigan after having tracked her down Narah talked a bit with her friend and then let her go
-- In the world of head canon Narah would eventually form a relationship with Nathaniel, though it'd take both of them several years to admit their feelings (most of it comes after Nate saves Fergus from bandits). imo. I don't think either of them would be the type to talk about their relationships toward outsiders or people they don't know well, which would make their appearance during DA2 (Nate meeting Hawke) and Inquisition (Narah writing to the Inquisitor) make sense as well
For now I'm going to play Mass Effect 2, which gives me some time to think about my Hawke I'm actually thinking of (finally) giving Anders' romance a real try, I've tried it in the past but couldn't really get into it...but I thought it might be interesting to shake things up a bit for my canon world state as much as I love Fenris, romancing the same character over and over is starting to loose it's charm plus I'm trying to make a very obvious and cliché pattern for my canon world state where my characters have the same starting letter in their name and class as their romantic partner
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Post by House Targaryen on Jun 12, 2019 16:51:42 GMT
Did Here Lies the Abyss. Decided to keep the Wardens around at the end, again. I can never cast them out, even to play the game differently. Did Leliana quest to Valence. Then we did Cole's quest and the end I decided to let him grow, be more human. F**k them demons. I'll closing this portal now! Swing at me again, and lose that hand, Sera.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 18, 2019 19:23:18 GMT
...I've been trying to make my Hawke for my canon DA2 playthrough...and...it's not been going so well I've found out I suffer from same face syndrome when it comes to my Hawke...and it sucks
tried four different appearances and they still end up looking the same in one way or another
...doesn't help that I only have one appearance I like for Carver (the surviving sibling for this playthrough) and have no knowledge of modding to change him to match my Hawke in a way I would like (to clarify, my go to family tends to be the fourth one from the top link since I've really grown fond of Carver with longer hair)
plus for some reason I can't picture my Hawke with anything but black hair these days because I tend to feel they seem to different from the siblings if they have anything but dark hair
so yeah...I'm stuck...character creation is both my favorite and least favorite part of a game
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Post by House Targaryen on Jun 19, 2019 4:24:06 GMT
Wow, no one is playing DA any more? I may stop for a bit after this game. Don't know what I'll play next. Perhaps Skyrim, its been a while. Went to the Temple of Mythal and had a jolly good time. Met some elfy elves who had to be put down like mad dogs. Maybe they didn't like Melisandre being a follower of the Lord of Light/The Maker. She wore her clan's fiery colors just to spite them. Had Morrigan drink from the well. Mel wasn't going to be some tool for some demon elfy god. Shortly after that Coryfish decided to call out Mel for one final fight. Mel made sure he regretted that, he should have just admitted defeat and let it go. Hold back information on me again and I'll see to it you do the fire dance. Just hold the f**k on, elfy elf. We're here to defeat Coryfish not get involved in your elfy nonsense. Also we want this Well of Sorrows. So kindly not get in my way or you'll regret it. The orb is mine! Sorry about the orb, evens its power wasn't infinite. Even Mel can smile.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 19, 2019 5:48:10 GMT
Wow, no one is playing DA any more? I may stop for a bit after this game. Don't know what I'll play next. Perhaps Skyrim, its been a while. *inconspicuous whistling while looking at previous post*
I'm currently playing the DA trilogy in tandem with the Mass Effect trilogy, alternating between the two once I finish a game (ME1 > DAO+A > ME2 > DA2...etc.)
though, I'm also working on installing Skyrim (and mods...trying to limit my mods...I have way to many) and at present of writing this, upgrading my Fallout 4 to include all dlc so I can use certain mods ('cause of course certain ones require all the dlc *sigh* )
any ideas yet what you'll play in Skyrim? (once I get the trilogies done I plan on starting up Skyrim myself...probably gonna play my canon Altmer (the irony of saving Nords with the one race they hate the most)
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Post by Catilina on Jun 19, 2019 10:18:42 GMT
...I've been trying to make my Hawke for my canon DA2 playthrough...and...it's not been going so well I've found out I suffer from same face syndrome when it comes to my Hawke...and it sucks tried four different appearances and they still end up looking the same in one way or another
...doesn't help that I only have one appearance I like for Carver (the surviving sibling for this playthrough) and have no knowledge of modding to change him to match my Hawke in a way I would like (to clarify, my go to family tends to be the fourth one from the top link since I've really grown fond of Carver with longer hair) plus for some reason I can't picture my Hawke with anything but black hair these days because I tend to feel they seem to different from the siblings if they have anything but dark hairso yeah...I'm stuck...character creation is both my favorite and least favorite part of a game If it helps, there are siblings who absolutely not, or just a bit alike. That's not even too rare, depends on many things. Genetics is weird. There are siblings who are like they are not even relatives. It depends on many things. For example on the grandparents' genes. And Leandra is blue-eyed, Carver is blue, Bethany is brown eyed, like default Garrett, but Marian is blue-eyed. So: Malcolm probably brown-eyed, because two blue-eyed people rarely have brown eyed child (but still, not totally excluded: mutation, etc...). Also: Malcolm's look depends on you, just like Malcolm's personality. Accoding the game, Hawke's personality similar to Malcolm's. Blue Hawke's Malcolm is diplomatic/nice, purple Hawke's Malcolm's funny, while red Hawke's Malcolm is red too.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 19, 2019 11:02:13 GMT
If it helps, there are siblings who absolutely not, or just a bit alike. That's not even too rare, depends on many things. Genetics is weird. There are siblings who are like they are not even relatives. It depends on many things. For example on the grandparents' genes. And Leandra is blue-eyed, Carver is blue, Bethany is brown eyed, like default Garrett, but Marian is blue-eyed. So: Malcolm probably brown-eyed, because two blue-eyed people rarely have brown eyed child (but still, not totally excluded: mutation, etc...). Also: Malcolm's look depends on you, just like Malcolm's personality. Accoding the game, Hawke's personality similar to Malcolm's. Blue Hawke's Malcolm is diplomatic/nice, purple Hawke's Malcolm's funny, while red Hawke's Malcolm is red too. doh why didn't I think of that? I had a classmate in the past who also had very strange family genes. His father had dark hair and curls, his mom and sister both had straight blond hair, and he himself had red hair and curls. One of my uncles as well, he has/had red hair (he's grey now), his wife has black hair...all his daughters (three of them) have red hair in varying shades and his son has the same dark hair as his wife I myself as well...my mom had blond hair with some red shine (due to red hair in the family) my dad had dark brown/black hair, both me and my brother have dark blond/light brown hair and let's not even talk about eye colors Though, I always thought default Garrett had amber colored eyes (or maybe that's due to one of the mods I have) for hair color it's a bit harder though, since we never see Malcolm and we don't know what color Leandra had. Though one of them likely had very dark hair due to the twins always having black hair
I was thinking of changing up the appearance for my Cousland anyway (changing her red hair to light brown), I could give my Hawke red brown hair (there's one shade in the CC that kind of looks like burgundy, not sure if that shade is in Inquisition but I'll just change it to the darkest red one in there) I like having varied appearances between my characters
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Post by Catilina on Jun 19, 2019 12:22:29 GMT
If it helps, there are siblings who absolutely not, or just a bit alike. That's not even too rare, depends on many things. Genetics is weird. There are siblings who are like they are not even relatives. It depends on many things. For example on the grandparents' genes. And Leandra is blue-eyed, Carver is blue, Bethany is brown eyed, like default Garrett, but Marian is blue-eyed. So: Malcolm probably brown-eyed, because two blue-eyed people rarely have brown eyed child (but still, not totally excluded: mutation, etc...). Also: Malcolm's look depends on you, just like Malcolm's personality. Accoding the game, Hawke's personality similar to Malcolm's. Blue Hawke's Malcolm is diplomatic/nice, purple Hawke's Malcolm's funny, while red Hawke's Malcolm is red too. doh why didn't I think of that? I had a classmate in the past who also had very strange family genes. His father had dark hair and curls, his mom and sister both had straight blond hair, and he himself had red hair and curls. One of my uncles as well, he has/had red hair (he's grey now), his wife has black hair...all his daughters (three of them) have red hair in varying shades and his son has the same dark hair as his wife I myself as well...my mom had blond hair with some red shine (due to red hair in the family) my dad had dark brown/black hair, both me and my brother have dark blond/light brown hair and let's not even talk about eye colors Though, I always thought default Garrett had amber colored eyes (or maybe that's due to one of the mods I have) for hair color it's a bit harder though, since we never see Malcolm and we don't know what color Leandra had. Though one of them likely had very dark hair due to the twins always having black hair
I was thinking of changing up the appearance for my Cousland anyway (changing her red hair to light brown), I could give my Hawke red brown hair (there's one shade in the CC that kind of looks like burgundy, not sure if that shade is in Inquisition but I'll just change it to the darkest red one in there) I like having varied appearances between my characters I also want different ones, but I don't think it succeeded always: Wilhelm Hawke, Georg Hawke bsn.boards.net/post/3464Stefan Hawke: bsn.boards.net/post/77230, bsn.boards.net/post/98168Reinhardt Hawke: bsn.boards.net/post/144044, bsn.boards.net/post/1187913Ralph Hawke: bsn.boards.net/post/644776, bsn.boards.net/post/915647
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 19, 2019 12:33:39 GMT
I kinda miss having the toolset for DA2, it's so much easier to make different looking faces in Origins and Inquisition imo. the CC for DA2 is a bit limited, even with use of mods...but I'm managing
for my new Hawke I've finally settled on dark red hair and amber eyes (as I said in my earlier post I plan on changing my Warden's hair color to brown)
to be honest, I'm really looking forward to this playthrough, because despite the fact she'll be my canon one I have a few different things planned (such as romancing Anders)
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Post by Catilina on Jun 19, 2019 12:38:34 GMT
I kinda miss having the toolset for DA2, it's so much easier to make different looking faces in Origins and Inquisition imo. the CC for DA2 is a bit limited, even with use of mods...but I'm managing for my new Hawke I've finally settled on dark red hair and amber eyes (as I said in my earlier post I plan on changing my Warden's hair color to brown) to be honest, I'm really looking forward to this playthrough, because despite the fact she'll be my canon one I have a few different things planned (such as romancing Anders) Red hair and amber eyes are cool, I don't use mods, but there are some nice ones. (And I like to use the first model, because of I love Carver's look there, with Reinhardt I used the second one? Or third? I can't remember.
Good luck with your canon, I hope, you'll be satisfied with the result!
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 19, 2019 13:12:44 GMT
Red hair and amber eyes are cool, I don't use mods, but there are some nice ones. (And I like to use the first model, because of I love Carver's look there, with Reinhardt I used the second one? Or third? I can't remember.
Good luck with your canon, I hope, you'll be satisfied with the result!
the only mods I tend to use are hair and armor mods, sometimes graphic mods and such it really depends on the game itself what type of mods I use
sometimes I wish I was able to make my own mods but I can't get any further then making head morphs in the DA toolset
I did see a really nice new mod some little while back that adds a custom and unique armor for Zevran link it's based on his artwork from the World of Thedas book I plan on using that mod for my next playthrough, some of the characters have unique looks (like Morrigan) but I like finding mods to give each of them a uniquer look
(though that generally means that my PC is the only one wearing actual in-game armors, ah well...)
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And thank you,
it's about time I finally got around to making my canon characters In the past I wanted to make a world state with just human female mages, not much has changed...only that I now use different classes for my characters (it's more interesting that way imo.)
so far I really like my Warden (though I may replay her at a later date to give her the new appearance I made for her), here's hoping for my Hawke
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