Yeah Allistair suggested going there first, but I keep hearing that it’s hard as heck. I’m going to try the circle of mages first.
This just in. I am re-rolling my character. Wasted too many attributes, skill points and talents.
I do this on every RPG I play. 
Always tweeking, looking for the “perfect” build.
I’m hoping for a mod that will level me up and dump me after the origin story. I love playing them through once, twice. After the fourth time rolling up your character to make a new build it gets tedious. Luckily I’ve only played through three of the 6 origins, so I’ve got more character to build.
BTW, I’ve already started planning for a mod I’m going to work on (once the toolset is released).
Anyone have any suggestions on what they’d like to see in a user created mod that might help me? Stuff you wouldn’t want to see?
Anyone been able to poison their arrows? I’ve got plenty of crafted poisons, and I get the text pop up when I use them, but I’m not seeing any extra damage or effects…
Hide heargear mod.
Flexible difficulty mod (“Right, I want the mobs on hard, but no friendly fire”)
Choose NPC’s talents/skills mod (Morrigian’s spell picks, while interesting, are sort-what underwhelming)
I want a golden retriever or a dire wolf as my dog!
If you arrows/weapons are doing poison damage, you should see a +x when you struck. So my guess it’s either the foe is immune, or it is broken.
Can anyone who’s done the Mage origin lend me a hand?
I’m playing again, and am this time I told the First Enchanter what was going on. As it takes a while to go through, I’m a little leary of going through everything again. Will it change anything in the end? It’s all going to happen to same, right, or will my friends be horribly shocked shocked that I betrayed them. Of course, it does seem hypocritical, given that Blood Magic is an in-game option for me…
I finally drug myself away from borderlands for a night. got 4 hours of playing in and ended up quitting after the battle but before heading out to to the village(vague enough to avoid the need for spoilers). Not real far in, I know. Seems like a lot of fun though.
it has the same control scheme NWN2 had, which drives me crazy. it took me forever to get used to it in NWN2, and that was a long time ago.
Other than that, I find a fair amount of hilarity in the game, if unintentional. I mean, after the rats, the dog and I are covered head to toe in blood and gore, but my mother and her friends are talking to me as if nothing was unusual. That sort of thing.
The Dragon Age wiki has a tiny bit of information about a language of the Imperium called Arcanum. It appears to be an agglutinating language. The explanation states or implies the following catalog of vocabulary and morphemes:
Nouns
Ei = I
Dei = you
Degit = finger
Verbs (since the one verb that seems to be an infinitive also seems have an affix to make it so, I’m guessing that the verb roots are all bound morphemes)
Vent- = want
Mord- = kill
Tir- = pull
Adverbs (function words?)
Nai = not
Noun Affixes
Nominative = (my guess is that un-inflected nouns are considered to be in the nominative case)
Accusative = -(u)d (the text says that the ‘u’ is dropped to avoid consonant clusters, but it looks to me like it’s also dropped to form ‘deid’)
Genitive = -l
Verb Affixes
1st person (singular?) = -o (by inference - it could be that there is an unseen plural marker)
Infinitive = -oi (by inference)
Imperative = -ev
Second person (singular?) = -e
I don’t know exactly what their source is for this, or if this language actually is used anywhere in the game, but I’ll be on the look out for anything like this. Anybody know if this is documented better elsewhere?
They’re different. I know because I just played through NWN2 last week and the differences are driving me crazy 
I really want to go home and be playing this right now.
Tho- did I read right? Can you really have a gay romance? Because if so I’m starting over with a guy and romancing Alistair. Just because.
As the human noble origin, you can talk to one of the guy who was with your mother and ask him to come to your room later in the evening. Whether this set your preference I have no idea
On the gay relationships:
Yes, they are possible, but I don’t think Allastair is available for that, only Zhevran and I believe Morrigan are.
I preordered my copy via Amazon, and chose Super Saver Shipping. Estimated delivery is November 7. Curse you, Super Saver shipping!
Oh, great. You Americans on Super Saver get it the same time as us UKians on Prime 
I’ll toss up my impressions here:
First - the purchasing. Extremely frustrating.
I don’t buy many physical PC games anymore. It’s easier just to grab a download. When I got interested, I saw three options: D2D, Steam, or Impulse.
I don’t trust D2D. Steam has served me well for many years. But all my latest purchases have been on Impulse. SoaSE and Entrenchment were so great that I figured, “What the hell. I’ll toss this one Impulse’s way.”
MISTAKE
The install was fine. The registration - poorly implemented and difficult as hell.
Really, Impulse? I need to create a Bioware profile just to register an Impulse game? Really?
Really, Impulse and Bioware? I can’t activate any deluxe content without slogging through Bioware’s website and help forums? Really?
Really, Bioware? My “deluxe” content code can only be used once? Really? And you don’t document anywhere whether this code should be used on the Bioware site, within Impulse, or from the game’s own brower? Really? I guessed lucky and got my content, but really? Do you really not document basic shit like HOW TO INSTALL THE GAME AND GET YOUR STUFF?
verdict - ease of install - D-. The only game I’ve had more trouble with is Oblivion, and that was only when I tried to load up like two dozen mods at once with no knowledge whatsoever of how mods worked in that game.
I’ll post my opinions of the game later. Lucky for the game, it’s pretty great. Pity the install was such a clusterfuck. Bioware and Impulse both deserve a solid kick in the junk for this boondoggle. It’s like they are conspiring to reinforce negative PC stereotypes.
The entire registration process reminds me of when Half Life 2 first debut with Steam. I was thinking, “Who the hell does Valve think they are? Putting their customers through such pain?” (I am not a fan of FPS too). Good thing for them that HL2 didn’t fail as a good game.
I see all this social website registration, auto-uploading of screenshots and etc. as just marketing frill. Goodness, how many man-hours go into creating the face-book clone (what’s wrong with just a forum?) and the item-shop and etc. I wonder if this is the result of Bioware being consumed by EA.
No matter, right now the game is okay, but FTH I wonder why it lags more than Mass Effect.
I can imagine that I might have been more intrigued by the social blog thing if I were quite young, or even as young as I was back when I was fascinated with the world of telnet BBSes. They had, in a somewhat cruder form, the same basic elements that you would later see on Facebook, twitter and the like. The audience was much smaller, and frankly consisted mostly of people who could be trusted with access to a shell prompt.
Does anybody have friends liable to care how they’re progressing in Dragon Age. We talk about the game when we meet, but the social site doesn’t substitute for this or even supplement it. It’s kind of neat that your progress is checkable online, but on the other hand, who cares? They put up screenshots, but you can’t edit them or – more importantly – add captions to them. Your only options are to leave them or delete them.
Yeah the registration process and social site need some serious work. First it just wasn’t ready for prime time at game’s release, and so most everyone had issues with it. It was slow, unresponsive and gave you false error messages.
Really, the registration process should have been done in-game entirely and should have really easy and quick. Choose a user name (automatically checked for uniqueness) a password and optionally a place to put your existing Bioware forum account so you can link the two. That’s it. The DLC codes as well should have been done in-game too.
Luckily the game more than makes up for it, but yeah, forcing registration like this AND making it such a pain was just a really bad idea.
I think of the social site as more of a thing for the established Bioware community. I’ve been on those forums for years now, it’s like the SDMB for me. So it’s cool to see people progress there. As for those who are not part of that community, yeah I don’t really why they would care.
Redcliffe is kicking my ass. The first part - where you’re above the town killing the darkspawn as they come down the mountain - was almost ridiculously easy. I found myself sitting around in between waves going “are they coming yet?”
The second part, where I’m in town, not so easy. I fight, I kill tons and tons and tons of them, but eventually I’m out of healing/mana (or whatever it’s called) potions and die, one by own. And they just… keep… coming.
Is there something I’m missing here? I’m using everything I can think of, stuns & frost traps & all that. I’m about ready to drop down to “easy” difficulty to get past this one.