That's what I hated the most about the game. You couldn't even send a rogue ahead to scout like in an Infinity Engine game because you would just trigger an enemy spawn or scripted enemy behaviour.
I don't give a heck about Tim Cain or his opinions, but I loved how copies of Runaway 2, The longest journey, Still Life & Mysterious Island were on Matt Burton's shelf.
I interpreted it that the Exile uses the Force through connections with others (and especially the bond with Kreia). Whether these connections were harmful to those others and/or the Force, was only according to the Jedi Masters.
Atris fighting the Exile is because "she came to hate the Exile for the choices she did not make", to quote/paraphrase Kreia.
In my experience, NWN2 & MOTB were most fun as bard, who gets all dialogue skills + Perform and combines decent fighting & spell casting abilities.
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Stop while you still can, or be in for one major disappointment.
So if I import my 'left Sten in his cage' save, he may be there in in DA2?! Maybe even as a jnpc?! Nooooo! D:
So if you leave Leliana behind, she'll return as a Broodmother boss fight?