Dragon Age General Discussion

Ah, found it. And one for NPCs.

Will definitely have to use these the next time I play DA2.

I don't think animation mods are possible with the current version of the DAI Tools. Perhaps whenever Frosty is finally working with DAI we'll be able to have such things.

Do the MEA ladies have this issue? I've never really noticed when I run around with Cora, and I've never played Sara outside of that one bit where you control your sibling (didn't pay attention to the movement).

There are jeans in Skyrim? 

Elves aren't my thing, but someone made a DAI mod so you can have an elf Circle mage origin. It's not 100% perfect (Josephine refers to you as Trevelyan in one conversation), but it seems pretty decent.

As with any mods of this type, keep in mind that this isn't something that can be supported by the Keep for import into the next game.

Eh I'm not surprised. To be honest, most fandoms have toxic behavior; it's not limited to DA or ME fandom. I stopped reading Dragon Age Confessions long ago because I couldn't stand people's attitudes about certain things.

I don't know whether the person got messaged though Tumblr, or not, but I will say that I don't understand why people leave anonymous asks open as an option. I never choose to be anonymous when I message someone. Own your shit. If you're going to be an asshole, own that, too, and help out the rest of the world so we know to avoid you. Obviously that doesn't prevent all asshole behavior, but almost all of the bad Tumblr messages I've ever heard about or seen have been from people too cowardly to writer under their own name, even an internet pseudonym.

This is unintentionally hilarious, tbh, mostly because it was over Inquisition. Imagine having so little to do that you need to feast on that weaksauce fuel for hating. I have debated Templars vs. Mages 'till I was blue in the face in DA2, but in Inquisition it's sort of meh anyway since it's more about throwing together an army that can short-term keep reality from collapsing in on itself and both sides are equally suited for that.

Well, the person said that the anon message specified it was about choosing the Templars in Inquisition, which just seems pretty - odd. Choosing mages or Templars isn't even about who you support, it's more about what problem you think is more important (other than the other out-of-story options you gave). You could even argue you should go with the faction you don't support because you think them being out of control is more dangerous. It seems more logical to me to pick the mages from the Inquisitor's standpoint because the way it's presented it's basically "a couple of Templars we know are acting a little odd" vs. "the mages have just allied with a dangerous foreign power probably trying to push into our land", but yeah... I would hate to miss out on either Cole or Dorian, but maybe not getting one of them if you don't choose their mission would have made it feel like the whole mages vs. Templars thing made any differences at all in Inquisition. Having finished both a mage and a Templar run, I can safely say I mostly base my decision on which mission to pick on whether I feel like fighting that supremely annoying demon enemy at the end of the Templar mission that day.

I remember there was also a choice on whether the mages would be allies or like, under the Templars or whatever? Maybe they meant that. But I don't think there was every any real consequences for that, either.

(I also just realised I made it sound like I wanted more Templars vs. mages debates in the game. I really don't. I never thought DA has handled this stuff too well; their attempts to use mages as analogies for real-world problems are mostly broken and the lyrium abuse aspect of the Templar orders sways back and forth between being super important (Cullen) or basically forgotten, and overall I find it to be one of the more frustrating narrative aspects of the series.)

It also can be about, which group the Inquisitor supports: If the Inquisitor gives a chance to the Mages to prove themselves, the people can see, that "Herald of Andraste" behind the Mages, so: Andraste supports the Mages (this is one of the reason to my mages to accept this title – and the morality and fun). But of course rather about the usefulness, but even Cassandra suggests the Mages, and Lord Seeker Asshole seems unacceptable and very refusal: so there's no any reason to chose Templar, if the Inquisitor not fear the mages, as Cullen for example.

Of course, the Templars would be regimented, but their leader is hostile, and the other officer seems to follow that dickhead. I didn't saw any reason for wanting this army in my back...
So: they are hostile, but Fiona's not. At the moment, that Seeker, their leader seems untrustable, and he's the leader and even Cassandra suggests the mages. Fiona wants to join.

So: we have an untrustworthy and hostile army, and a perhaps unpredictable, but a willing group and a Seeker, who suggest this latter. Not a hard choice. At least for me: so hard to follow Lord Seeker Dickhead, I never was able to force myself to do it: the Inquisitor called on them to join, but they refused. No more question. I really want to disband the Order, but I have this problem. (And as a mage or dalish –the Templar Order one of the reasons to the clans' constant wandering–, the Templars are rather enemies.)

That's all fine, but when you abruptly make one country extremely homophobic in a world where all other nations are largely accepting (admittedly to varying degrees), to facilitate your Very Special Episode featuring the one gay man, I think it's fair to give BioWare the side-eye.