#da modding
My sister-in-law told me that, when playing Dragon Age Origins, she no longer saves Connor with the circle mages, since that feels cheap (and it doesn’t seem likely that you’d have enough time to go get them and come back).
So I was inspired to plan out a tweak to each of the main quests so that the dilemmas are actually dilemmas. As is, there’s a right answer to just about everything, and that’s among my biggest complaints for that particular game.
I don’t actually know how to create game mods, so this is all theoretical for now. It would be the #1 mod I’d want to make, though, and I would certainly like to learn sometime! In any case, I’m trying to think of conservative solutions - making the dilemmas harder with relatively minor changes.
My ideas so far:
* Only Jowan can perform the ritual to save Connor (i.e. Isolde or Teagan will die if Connor doesn’t)
Partly because I agree with my sister-in-law, partly because Jowan is an underrated gem and I want him to shine. All hail Jowan, dabbler in excellence.
* Just as siding with Branka forces you to kill Shale, siding withCaridin forces you to kill Oghren, since you’re killing his wife
Granted, this is frankly yet another reason to side with Caridin for a lot of people. There is dialogue for Oghren turning hostile (albeit it takes some doing!), so this one actually shouldn’t be much trouble.
*Remove the option to just kill Zathrien and the Lady of the Forest
For similar reasons as with Connor - why pick anything else? It also feels a bit pat that you can just resolve an ancient grudge and settle the whole war in everyone’s favour with a decent speech check.
* Andraste’s ashes, mixed with High Dragon blood, are needed to conduct the Dark Ritual.
There’s currently no reason to take Kolgrim’s deal (Reaver is a bad subclass for a bad class!). Even if you don’t want to kill the cultists, you have to kill them by the dozen beforehand. Conversely, there’s no negativeconsequence to the Dark Ritual. This would fix both. The big problem is lack of Morrigan voice lines. I’m thinking maybe you’d get a discreet letter from Morrigan to inform you of this out of earshot of the Andrastians in the party.
I’d also considered making the deal give you the High Dragon, or the cultists, as an army (like how the Anvil gives you golems). This would make sense, but isn’t elegant and the (more interesting) former would be either busted or rather disappointing. If it didn’t just crash the game.
I don’t currently have a clear idea for the Broken Circle. As-is, there’s no upside to telling the templars the tower isn’t safe, which leads to the bad ending for the Circle and is only even a choice if Irving is alive (in which case the tower is safe). Unlike the Brecilian Forest and Redcliffe, there’s no better third option to just cut - only the mage outcome is good.
My best idea is something like a Tower Safety track, like the points-based Landsmeet debate, where you have to get your hands dirty to make the tower safe. This seems like the least elegant and most intensive solution of the ideas here, though.
If anyone has any suggestions, or just wants to vent about the dilemmas, please let me know in the notes!
Anora’s Greatsword by Fairiessugarcane
Gives anora a greatsword at the battle of denerim speech, inspired by her appearance using a greatsword in dragon age heroes
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Elven Scenery by Commanderstrawberry
Replaces Dalish and Elf props with Inquisition models and textures
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Warden Armors Texture Tweaks by AzureWitch
Edits to the leather parts of the specular maps to remove the blue shiny effect and optional diffuse retextures for the leather gloves and boots.
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GWOF Scripts by AzureWitch
Adds five new scripts for the Grey Wardens of Ferelden mod to get separate sets of each armor and separate weapons.
To add the Light/Arcane/Mage armor:
“runscript give_warden_mag”
To add the Medium/Scout/Rogue armor:
“runscript give_warden_rog”
To add the Heavy/Warrior armor:
“runscript give_warden_war”
To add the Massive/Commander armor:
“runscript give_warden_com”
To add only the weapons:
“runscript give_wardenweapons”
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Lady of the Forest Mesh Replacer by Commanderstrawberry
New skeletal wood body and hair for the Lady of the Forest in Nature of the Beast quest
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Awakening Dress Gone by Commanderstrawberry
Replaces the Awakening noble dresses with ones from the base game
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TSM Sacred Ashes Robes of Possession by Theskymoves
Gives the Robes of Possession a unique appearance (from Raughnut’s ‘morrigan sacred ashes trailer robes’)
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Dalish Keeper Robes by Commanderstrawberry
Adds elven item ‘Dalish Mage Robes’ to the game, redresses dalish elf mage Keepers like Zathrian, Lanaya, Velanna and Marethari
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Grey Warden Powers by Symonius
This mod unlocks new powers for the Grey Wardens of the game (for Awakening you must add them manually for now).
The powers are added, like a chosen specialization, to the main character after the Joining.
Becoming a Grey Warden also grants +2 Constitution and +2 Willpower.
The powers are available for every base class.
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Tevinter Mage Robes Retexture by Commanderstrawberry
Tevinter Enchanter Robe retexture, lore friendly.
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Tropelicious Kurbits Vallaslin for Origins Elves by Commanderstrawberry
30+ new dalish elf tattoo vallaslin for toolset from inquisition mod
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Subtle Makeup by Mulderitsme
Softer, more modern and natural looking makeup. + Patchy skin fix
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Weapon and Armor Tweaks by Fairiessugarcane
Changes all the weapons, armor and accessories that have reductions added to them to no longer be reduced, this include all the awakening and dlc items
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Improved Ancient Elven Armor by Fairiessugarcane
Improved the stats and the material of the ancient elven armor as I consider the original stats to be too low, especially since its a ancient armor before Arlathan and has a unique skin
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A Paragon of Dwarvenkind (Dwarves of Ferelden Revision) by HollownessDevoured
Paragons, royalty and the casteless—exile and escape. Clothing replacements, morph makeovers, redressings—with recolours and DA2 models for Dwarves of Ferelden.
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