Great game, but the ending of my game was bugged.

I was playing the Alastair romance, I don't get it.

Sorry for your tech problems Hagatha!

Great game - I'm glad I took the chance on it.

Hagatha, I did basically the same things you did.

In my game, I had a romance with Alistair, and according to the
All I can think is that all the different possible endings were not beta-tested in depth.

Moondancer,

Yes, exactly my experience.

I'm playing a second game now, again a mage, but this time paying closer attention to when the other characters show up. I want to see how quickly I can turn Morrigan into an elemental mage, as my character purchased the Spirit Healer option early on.

I think the party interactions in this game are wonderfully done. I especially liked the way Wynne gently nags at everyone, but gets her comeuppance with Zevran. And Morrigan is wonderfully sour.

In my game:



I think there are a lot of endings.

Yes, many posibilities, I see. I saved my game saves from game one and I might reload that last sequence, as I might have missed something.

In my second game I'm still playing a mage but am seeing how easily Morrigan would turn into an elemental mage. Not bad, as it turns out. She would be good, with a few tomes. That way my PC could be a fighter or rogue, for a change. I'm thinking human noble. Not that the game lacks for fighters, but there really isn't a lot of choice. But then i could do the human noble ending. Or perhaps I could be a rogue and romance Z for a change.

I'm a bit torn between in my next playthrough being a noble human noble (already done an origin as that) so that I can , and my desire to play as a male mage, because I think mages are the coolest thing since sliced bread in this game, and would like to see how the romances play out if I'm male.

I'll probably go with the mage choice.

I played as a male elf mage in my first play through and romanced Zevran, it was fun and rather cute.

That's what roleplaying is all about, I suppose!

I am having so much fun listening to Oghren's conversations with the other party members. He must be the most disreputable character in a computer game, ever. The last exchange I overheard was between Oghren and Alastair; Alastair was valiantly trying to pretend he didn't know what Oghren was going on about ("So, you and the boss, eh?" ) I took great pleasure in setting him upon the righteous Templar path at the first opportunity.

I, too, love playing a mage in this game. It's too bad that the party members are already so set on a particular path when you pick them up. I would much rather have the option of giving them the chance to become something slightly different; Alastair with Dual weapons, for example, or Zevran a fully-fledged Thief/Assassin. In my next game Morrigan will have to be my main mage, but so many of her spell slots are used up already that I won't be able to get her to be the powerful Elemental mage I need.

I'm going to create a Rogue next time out, and do the Zevran romance. Tht way I'll have a true Thief/Assasin or maybe a Thief/Ranger.

Can anybody help me with my DLC downloads (Blood Armour, Shale)? They installed, apparently, as they show up as installed on the in-game menu, but they do not appear in my game.

Also, where are the DLC downloads stored on my Vista Machine? I can't see them anywhere, and I'd like to back them up.

hagatha, I don't have Vista, but in XP they are in My Documents>Dragon Age>Addins. Maybe you could do a search for Addins.

The blood armor should be in your inventory but I don't recall any evidence of Shale until you went to the Frostback Mountains and stumbled across her.

No, there's suposed to be a village that you go to to find Shale, and it never shows up on my map. I get the merchant who gives me the rod, and I get crystals and gifts that would be appropriate to Shale, I assume, but no Shale.

The Blood Armour is not in my inventory.

I can't find a file called Addins. The problem is that the official forums are so busy and so many people are having trouble that nobody answers questions like mine any more, assuming that the answers are in one of the FAQs, when they aren't. I saw the files download -- it took ages -- and they are showing up as installed. I can't download them again; my codes are used up. I just don't get the content.

It's very annoying. But as I say, I'm not spending another red cent on mmore downloads until I have these two working, and it isn't looking promising. I'm on my third runthrough of the gamne, and basically each time I've hoped the content will show up, but it never does.

When the merchant gives you the control rod, does he mention the golem? That's when the village should be available.

It can be difficult to find a file in Vista. They often seem to be hidden.