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?
Thomas Covenant RPG would be nice.
If developers are going to use a pre-defined protagonist, why not take a good one? Covenant starts out as an annoying, whiny brat that eventuallly comes to grip with himself & his condition and becomes a great hero. Sounds as perfect BioWare material.
From what I remember from Witcher 2 previews, though, the Order of the Red Rose was destroyed (nullifying one ending of the Witcher if you went the Order route) and the fact that Triss is with Geralt in Witcher 2 nullifies another ending (where she becomes Foltest's court sorceress if Geralt went the neutral route).
But I can't exactly imagine the Scoia'tael route to be canon either...
I hope the Witcher 2 won't have the importing of saves, since I lost all my Witcher 1 saves when I had to format my HDD.
Wasn't there talk about a canon ending for the game anyway?