HoonDing

With all the effort Bio seems to have put in creating a world with such detailed lore (as witnessed in the codex) an answer like "it's magic" is a bit of a cop-out, no? Tolkien's Elves are very different from humans appearance wise. Golden/silver hair, starlight in their eyes, all beautiful beyond description, etc.

Sounds more like a hardware issue. Do you get a BSOD? Try disabling "automatic restart upon system failure" in control panel and see what it says.

'Lore' question regarding Emissaries:

Compared to Daggerfall, Fallout 3 is the most stable, polished game ever released. That said, Oblivion never crashed on me, neither did Fallout 3. Just some occasional freezing when I first got the game, which was fixed by uninstalling some audio codecs. Morrowind... crashed every half hour or so.

Very good idea, I should have thought about that. Would make the 'dramatic' ending cutscene of the origin comic gold too.

Dragon Age = The Witcher lite.

Things would have been much more interesting if the Dalish would actually be in a guerrilla war with the humans, instead of just trekking around doing nothing (save singing songs) as if the new Elven homeland would suddenly come falling from the sky. And if they didn't wear that ridiculous looking armour, maybe somebody would start taking them serious. The Witcher did it right with the Scoia'tael who were basically the frenzied berserkers that didn't take prisoners.

I imagine Dalish Elf has something unique to offer in the Brecilian Forest. City Elf? Probably nothing major save the usual small repercussions once the PC returns to his/her origin. My Elven mage might as well have been a human mage. DA elves make even Peter Jackson's Lothlorien elves & Legolas seem like mighty berserkers.

His voice would have been perfect for a Librarian or Accountant class. But as it is now, Engineer will have to do.

At least it looks more exciting than the Deep Roads from Dragon Age.

Don't forget Mark Meer...

I considered letting

Sounds expensive.

Descent? Did the dragon fly around when you guys were fighting it? That would've been pretty cool-- it stayed put for me. I killed it by the Taunt + Force Field trick, so the Dragon didn't fly around. Only when I tried to kill it in the conventional way, it did.

Do you get more XP if you use Coercion, rather than simply killing the two schmucks?

^It makes the never-ending barrage of "Go back to WoW!!" exclaims on the Bio social site even more ironic. At least they didn't nerf Aryon's Helper.

^Thanks. I don't really care about the number crunching at any rate, Morrowind had pretty much the same thing going on. Lots of hidden mathematical formulae... didn't prevent people from completely breaking the game anyway.

Wait, has the first Female Morrigan Romance mod finally arrived? *checks Bio social site*

This is something Morrowind did really well. No boring rat/goblin killing or dungeon crawl, no hand-holding, no lame speeches, but just filling out a form, stamping some papers and you're on your own... possibly dying 5 minutes later in the first bandit cave or ancestral tomb.

Damian is one of the better RPG villains out there.

1. Where is the recipe for freeze bombs (and what ingredients do they use)? 2. Can you shatter with archery? If so, my next char (for my 3rd playthrough) is going to be a Dalish Elf (I've been dying to play this origin, but I'm not done with my Arcane Warrior game) archer abusing stealth-freeze-bombing. 1. Lothering tavern 2. Critical shot It might even be fun to go through the entire game with Zevran and only Zevran as party member (stealth/DW specialist) for some melee oomph.

^Is there any information on how Stealth checks work in the game? Is Cunning really essential? I think my Dalish Elf is going to go with bombs, combined with Tier 4 stealth and the three maxed out Archery talents. And maybe a few DW feats for some boss fights if I can get away with it.