Dragon Age

It's the right number, though. 25's the lowest you start with, regardless of your Vashoth's class.

I was never able to find all the caprice coins or gossip on any playthrough. I came awfully close on my first run, but never actually did it. I didn't find Varric, either.

The fact that several sidequests are mutually exclusive (and mutually exclusive with a couple of the endings for the whole shebang) must bug the completionists to no end. I have to assume Bioware did that on purpose. Fitting, given the nature of Orlais.

edited 27th Aug '16 9:30:18 PM by Unsung

I'm a completionist but I dislike the timer mechanic enough to just go get the ending I want as soon as I can. To hell with collecting coins and gossip.

The timer irritated me as well, but after the first time I was still able to finish every time with over 100 Approval, despite me taking pains to search every nook and cranny outside the ballroom.

The approval you get for turning in coins and gossip more than cancel out any approval you would lose. I just couldn't figure out where some of them *were*. Probably behind some of those doors I didn't/couldn't open.

I always end up with 100 approval, I just don't like the timer being there in the first place.

Varric is down that door next to where you'd find Dorian, in the small garden. It requires 3 halla statuettes though, so I can see why you'd miss it.

That said, he's found next to some members of the Council of Heralds, and the dialogue you find is rather enjoyable.

edited 27th Aug '16 10:22:06 PM by joergenjetsam

Doesn't make much sense either. The ball is large enough that it'd be impossible to notice who has or hasn't disappeared when the more logical answer is 'They left this room and went to a different wing,

The ball was cool, but the approval ended up being disappointing. Just click the snarky option to win. This is where Origins' dialogue system might have benefited.

The timer doesn't bother me at all, and if I wanted I could get all the coins and gossip.

Dark Horse announced a new Dragon Age comic series, Dragon Age: Knight-Errant, for May 2017.

Also, for those who might be interested, both of the Weekes: Patrick and Karen Weekes, came out as Pansexual at Gaymer X. This coming from a good friend who when to Gaymer X this weekend.

Patrick Weekes is one of the first people who made me proud of the name Patrick, and now he's also pansexual like I am so this was a cool moment to hear about. Congrats to him and his wife.

Cool.

I've just started really getting interested in Inquisition, and I've just met Sera. She's fabulous. Madder than a box of chocolate frogs and with a breeches fixation, it seems like. Any more like her? I've already got Varric, Solas and Cassandra.

Maybe not exactly like her, but Dorian. He is the best character in the game and one of the best in the series.

Iron Bull and Blackwall also have a rather similar sense of humor to Sera.

We need a way to magic up some more Seras. Like a whole squad of Sera.

edited 23rd Oct '16 7:07:47 PM by GethKnight

Emergency rations?

Eh. I have mixed feelings on Sera, She can be funny, but she tends to approach borderline Boomerang Bigot levels with how she reacts to other elves. Anything elven in nature, from the Dalish, to Briala's pro-elven motivations, religion, and language, will earn her ire.

edited 23rd Oct '16 9:33:00 PM by SilentColossus

Just hired Iron Bull. He's a big chap. It's a pity you can only have four in the party at the one time because I'd love to put him in with Varric, Cassandra and Sera and watch the fireworks.

The Iron Bull is glorious and beloved by all except those who get pissy about Dragon Age having LGBT characters.

Sera's a bit of a hate-sink. She's kooky and fun, but also reviled for how inappropriately she gels in a military organization and her Qunari-level stubbornness in her questionable worldview. Like, if you're romancing Sera for some reason, she will actually break up with you if you don't support her contention that the elven gods were just a bunch of demon-worshipping bullshit by stupid people.

With Sera, you're usually either facepalming and wishing she would shut the f*ck up or laughing hysterically at whatever her latest antic was. No middle ground.

edited 24th Oct '16 11:16:49 AM by TobiasDrake

Am I reading this right from the wikis or are Iron Bull's horns not really his? Be gentle, I'm new to this game series - or at least I've been away from it for a hella long time.

I think I know the quote you're talking about, but once you meet Cole, you'll understand. Or...well, understand is maybe the wrong word. But you'll get what I mean.

edited 24th Oct '16 1:31:24 PM by Unsung

Which line was htis?

At least that's what I'm guessing is being referred to, on one of the wikis.

If that's the line you're referring to, Cole's not talking about where Bull got his horns, but about what they resemble. Bull named himself The Iron Bull because of his mighty horns. Cole's commenting on them being more reminiscent of a dragon's horns than a bull's.