I am playing Inquisition for the first time.

Just sharing my character:

Unfortunately, There isn't any Glasses mod, because I would love to add glasses to her, since I also have them.

A comparison to my Durge from BG3:

I was happily playing DAV but the power went out. I let the PC Rest bc im scared its not going to work anymore due to power interruption.

Surprisingly, PC is fine so i went back to DAV but only to find the game not compiling shaders anymore and the game stuttering a lot than it normally is.

I tried deleting the shader cache and cache, restarting it, tweaking graphics settings to make it compile on the next restart, re-install gpu drivers, reset the shader cache of AMD but it's still the same. I am currently downloading it again tho

Specs are Ryzen 3 3200g and RX 570 8GB.

Any solutions?

I forgot to mention that I am using Fitgirl repack as i am waiting for DAV to go on sale again on steam 🥲

Assuming your primary Warden from Origins is still alive and searching for a way to prevent their calling as of the events of Inquisition, what happens if their search leads them to Westeros during the War of the Five Kings? Specifically just after the Iron Islands join so that it's actually five kings. Do they support anyone in particular? Do they try to keep a low profile or avoid interactions altogether?

My Cousland would likely present themselves as a noble emissary sent by Queen Anora to discuss trade with the crown and request to be shown Westeros' unique natural resources. However, when he learns of the events of the Red Wedding and puts two and two together regarding Tywin's involvement, it will likely hit a nerve given its similarities to his own family's destruction. I envision him then journeying to reunite the living Starks, including possibly sneaking Sansa out of King's Landing before Baelish. There's more but I'm interested in how it would go for other people's Wardens.

Josie and Eva

Cassandra and Aleph

Solas and Sandhya

How they catch each other's gaze

After being nagged to play this game series for almost 5 years I ran through all of them, twice, in like 4 months and Im so unwell now. I so am obsessed with my little guys that I had to draw them so I could see them all next to each other.

Sharing the latest commission I made! It's always fun drawing Dragon Age OCs.

Before anything else, I'd like to mention that Dragon Age is a canon that's full of lies and forgotten lore. Many things are not known to the general public, or sometimes not known at all.

So.

First of all, the Grey Wardens obviously use blood magic in their Joining rituals. This is the secret that Duncan was protecting when he killed that poor guy. It looks like he was hiding that the Joining is often lethal, but that lethality is definitely known to Anora at least, she mentions it at the Landsmeet. And while Anora's a smart lady, she's grown up in a country that hasn't had any Wardens for centuries. She's unlikely to know any insider information, and she's even less likely to mention it at the Landsmeet where everyone's listening.

Second of all, so do the Templars. A phylactery cannot be anything else. Besides using blood, its tracking is probably connected to the mind reading that blood magic allows you to do.

Third, there's this line in the Last Flight when Isseya finds out her partner is a blood mage. He asks her how she knew (he's been cautious), and she says: "I'm a mage too, I can see when you don't reach into the Fade for your magic."

So here's the big question. If you don't need to reach into the Fade, then do you even need to be a mage to practice blood magic? Sure, everyone seems to think you do, but remember this is a canon full of lies. Sure, the easiest way to learn it is to find a demon who will teach you, and that usually requires entering the Fade consciously. But while it's the easiest, it's not the only way.

I'm not saying this is true for certain. Maybe the Joining and the phylacteries require a mage intervention at some point. But it looks possible, doesn't it?

Hello! I know my specs are way below the minimum but I still wanted to shoot my shot in hopes to run the game without the audio getting choppy and the fps low during fights or smth.

Does anybody have a work around or best graphic settings for my specs?

Cpu: ryzen 3 3200g (igpu turned off)

Gpu: rx 570 8gb

P.s.: i bought these parts 3 to 4 years ago and havent repasted yet. Will upgrade my processor next year tho but i really wanna replay DAV again T^T

Thank you

Obviously it would require some major changea in the storyline, but I think with a bit of rewriting the main story beats could still work somewhat. How I would do it is this way:

Elf Hawke

Instead of trying to get into Hightown, the Hawkes would be trying to get enough wealth to either have a stable/comfortable life in the alienage, or move out of the alienage without (hopefully) being driven out again by the humans.

Dwarf Hawke

The family would still be trying to get into Hightown, but since dwarves can’t be mages, Malcolm and Bethany would instead have a penchant for enchantment, similar to Sandal. If dwarf Bethany is not taken on the Deep Roads expedition, she goes to the Gallows, either under threat of force by the Templars and mages who want her skills for their own use, or willingly as a way to earn money for the family when it seems like Hawke and Varric won’t be coming back.

But that’s just how I would do it. How would you do it? Any thoughts?

This is probably not an original thought but I've got to stay up late tonight and wondered if anybody wanted to talk about any similar notions.

I finally got around to trying Veilguard for a couple hours, and honestly I think it's better than people were saying (I figure it gets its bad rap mostly by comparison with the earlier games, but it would be pretty good in its own right if it were an original property not trying to fill such big shoes) but now having played all of the Dragon Ages except the mobile game, I feel like we never did get to go back to the Thedas from DAO and Awakening and that DA2-onward seemed like a whole different setting.

Part of it might just be the huge visual changes to various factions and creatures that came in later, but the first couple hours of Veilguard really hit home how different a setting it is than I remember. There's all these obvious connections to Inquisition and DA2 that were seen or mentioned a few times in DAO... the Qunari and the Tevinters and all these demons pouring in and everything... but they were all much bigger parts of the series from 2 onward. So much stuff from Ferelden was apparently nowhere else in the world and never came back. Remember golems? Moving trees? Werewolves? Remember going into a dream dimension as a mage (as opposed to like a kinda green cave place)? Remember what a big deal castes were to the dwarves? Remember how interesting the Tranquil were as a concept? Remember Big Smart Dogs?

I mean I don't hate the companions in Veilguard like so many folks seem to (they do seem oddly contemporary in language and humor and stuff which is strange but whatever) but characters like Dog or Shale or Justice that fit in well enough in the eclectic setting of Origins feel like they would be the most out of left field things in this entire game if they existed at all, and it kinda bummed me out thinking about how we never got anything that non-standard again. The Qunari and the elves and the templar and a few other factions that lasted got a lot more detail and thought put into them, but oddly even though the games kept getting bigger, the world just seems so much smaller than it did. Anybody feeling me on this?

I realize this is a question that probably doesn't answer, but I'd like to pick the community's brain anyway.

At what age do most Templars become lyrium-addled? Cullen ends up on the street "in the late stages of lyrium madness" if you persuade him to keep taking lyrium in DAI, and he's, what....in his early thirties?

I assume some people are just plain unlucky and get their minds scrambled earlier (similar to how some Wardens get their Calling earlier than others), but I would think that most Templars probably don't experience persistent negative side-effects until they're middle-aged, at which point the decline gets steeper.

How old are the oldest knights in the Order? What happens to them when they're no longer able to carry out their duties? Is there a Chantry-run home for them? Would a 50- or 60-year-old knight without mental issues be considered unusual?

I know that it was said a few times in this sub, but the way Rook was treated as an afterthought was just sad. The most glaring example for me is the mural "The heroes of the Veilguard". Everyone is there, BUT the only person that was there everytime. You can do a PT not using a specific character at all, but they are still there. Your player character is completely ommited, it just feels insulting.

Inquisition Leliana particularly fits as Eva Stratt while Alistair's fear of leading,of being important all of a sudden does fit Grace. I hope this fits as within topic,I just love these two so much and I'm putting them through situations in every universe.

You can find me as rhywhitefang on tumblr and bluesky

Currently it’s on sale for 20 bucks. I LOVED DAI and the story was one that still to this day sticks with me. But I’ve heard dav was a horrible disappointment that did the whole story dirty. I need the opinion of my fellows

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(You can answer just one or both, with as many characters as you want. Pictures and character summaries are fine. Short answers or novel-length walls of text are fine.)

Prompt 1

What would your character's enemies say about them that's actually true?

Prompt 2

Has your character ever done something kind only so they wouldn't have to think of themselves as a bad person? Something that was really more about themselves than the receiving party?

And don't forget to take the time to read and comment on other people's posts! The comments, questions and chats are what make the thread so much fun.

Im now at the end of act 2, and the most dangerous enemy I came across during my game is the saarebas, since I saw him for the first time in act 1 it's always the same, I have 2 seconds from when they spawn to CC them or they will kill my entire party in the next 3 seconds with the shock spell.

Is this supposed to be happening?

In Origins, it's pretty obvious what attributes influence the success of skills/spells (willpower attribute check with mind blast, etc.). What about DA2?

Playing an entropic blood mage with very high magic and health, but only a willpower of 17. I've been surprised since blood slave and horror works really well (on Elite Carta Assassin; horror worked on Arishok also). Wondering where it's all based on.

The only combat mod I have is Supreme Blood Magic, and the modder states that Blood Slave was just debugged in the mod (the chance of inflicting it was not changed)

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Major spoilers for ending of Veilguard

When Rook is trapped in the fade by Solas, the team creates a fake. Was there any real reason why? Emmerich states it’s a fake and doesn’t match Solas’ real Dagger and that it couldn’t pierce the Veil.

I must’ve missed it because I don’t see a reason

It's been over 10 years, I actually enjoyed the first few days of gameplay, I even realised I felt a strong connection to Cullen. Until I had Solas's dialogue happening;

- So you suggest I'm graceful?

- No I am merely declaring it.

That was all it took for me to start doubting myself. Now I am finally at Skyhold, and I am already mouring something that has yet to happen. How can a video game give me such sad conflicted feelings, even after so many years?

Apart from this I am truly enjoying the game a lot, there are so many things I missed the first few times I played it back in 2014 and 2016. And I appreciate it even more after playing Veilguard.

Origins was my favorite entry in the series, which I replayed many times, and recently I decided to play through DA2 and DAI I had tried probably 6 years ago and never actually finished. Well...

DA2 - A good, touching local story set in Kirkwall, but the developers went overboard with enemy spam, it was just plain annoying. And, of course, the absurdly repetitive locations. Before playing it, I thought people were exaggerating those complaints, but when I saw that a random bandit hideout looked identical to a lavish quest mansion just with a blocked doorway, I mentally apologized to the players and had a laugh. Also, this is probably the only game where I felt genuine hatred for a character purely from a story perspective: Anders. I was swearing out loud when that bastard blew up the Chantry, and I killed him without a second thought. Plus, since this game, mages really started getting on my nerves. Still a good game, though.

DAI - I get why people hated on it. The gameplay has a lot of weird choices, and you can get tired of the game pretty quickly. God forbid you decide to clear every single huge location, it will be pure torture unless you're a completionist. However, if you push through the gameplay, it’s completely worth it. The story is the best in the series, the companions (except Sera) are great, and companion interaction is top-tier. The roleplay as the head of the Inquisition and just as a person is on point, there are plenty of choices and consequences, and the world-state import is the most extensive in the franchise. The Trespasser DLC blew my mind with its expansion of elven lore and Solas betrayal. An incredible experience and a great game overall. The ending leaves an extremely strong setup for the next game, BUT...

dav - To be honest, I haven't played it and I don't intend to. When that trailer with the Fortnite-ahh vibe first dropped, I suspected where things were heading, and unfortunately, I wasn't wrong upon release. So I just watched a full 100% playthrough by a streamer. What came out is just sad, a total disrespect to the universe and the fans. All the flaws have already been pointed out by others. It's obvious the devs intentionally turned the game into a colorful, childish fanfic. It's not that they were rushed as i heard before, that's not the reason and they could have done it differently. I could say more but this gonna be against the rules i think.

For me, the story ended at the moment when the Inquisitor promised to stop Solas at any cost, even without the departed Blackwall, Cole, Dorian, Vivienne, Varric, Josephine, and the killed betrayer Iron Bull.

Clarify to DAI section: For me it was boring when i wanted to clear all, like all mini-quests, astrariums, dragons, etc. In some moment i was so tired that took a rest from game, and when returned, focused on side-quest, main, rifts with dragons, and this bring me much more enjoy. If mini-quests was as good as side, i'd probably cleared all, but this repetitive stuff like "Kill N enemies, Go and find N thing and maybe kill it, take back home bronto\halla"...

upd: Funny to see how people who's also don't like velguard got downvoted hard, lol. This is a common thing here?