Gorgon

I'm surprised you think DA is much of anything in the writing department. I can't think of a single wow moment in the whole experience.

one space and outside the quotes like so "C:\Program Files\Dragon Age\bin_ship\daorigins.exe" -enabledeveloperconsole A shortcut you make of the game executable, not the game launcher. The game exe is found in "C:\Program Files\Dragon Age\bin_ship"

One of my earlier characters is also dwarf noble, I went back to orzamar as soon as I could and there were unique dialouge options at the gate which are just not there for this char.

Also any unique dwarf noble dialogues seem to be gone. My char is asking questions about Balin as if she didn't know him.

It worked, but now I have to do that EVERY time I want to enter orzamar. Not good.

Aha... progress. the game froze until i pressed enter. Now to get that sequence right.

Yeah, a shortcut to "C:\Program Files\Dragon Age\bin_ship"

It's invisible, but if WASD moves your character after you open it it means it didn't work obviously.

Could anyone upload a key bindings file, it's in My Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\Settings I have probably soiled mine somehow with all the editing I have done.

Still nothing. Might be because ~ and ` is achieved with alt+space+key on a danish keyboard ?, and space is used for another function in the game.

Ugh, nomatter what I do ~ does not open the console. Tried remapping 'open console' to something else, but that didn't do anything either.

I have no patches installed, although they could have come with the dlcs

Thanks, I thought I was doomed since there were no dwarf noble dialogue options

Something in a savegame must have gotten corrupted very early on.

I just reloaded with another dwarf character and I could get in just fine. Now that's annoying.

Broken game then. The Ambassador from Logain is supposed to attack you but they don't activate, can't click on them either, it's like they don't exist.

I'm playing as a dwarf and I can't seem to enter orzamar. I don't have the dialouge option about the ancient treaties, just that I was a dwarf and born in orzamar. Tried loading an earlier game byt that did nothing. Is there a special order I have to do this in or is the game just broken ?

I'm all for new systems. I personally think they can be better, that is more precise and a lot more complicated without the player having to be too involved in the nuts and bolts of its operation. D&D on the other hand can't impliment a combat system that has 4 or 5 different rolls for defences and resistances in every turn, it would be too time consuming for tabletop. Why pretend that a computer game has the same needs as a tabletop and try to shoehorn one into the other anyway ?

I use the starting skill point one you posted here, what else you got that's recommended.

Don't fall for the sales pitch. You get a few new items and two useless skills, the quest is over in 15 mins. It it was supposed to be a fortress quest a la BG2 it fails completely.

I get that too, no problems related to the expansions though. I can live without looking at my xbox achievements. The day after I got wardens keep the game splash screen started to sport an ugly appendage in the form of an advertisement for wardens keep ****ing EA, lol.

ohh yeah I should definitely stop smoking. Actually stopping isn't hard, it's not falling off the wagon that is.

I look like a deranged street-corner yelling loon with a beard, it looks patchy and not very appealing. It's odd really because there are full dwarven beards on both my mother and fathers side.

I said individual acts. Now that does not exclude the possibility of one side being a good deal worse than another, or indeed being able to tell right from wrong. As difficult as the task may seem you have to employ empathy. I'm not talking about hugs and kisses obviously but being able to imagine what goes on in the other side's heads. That's how you formulate strategies for peace, demonization is merely useful for drafting people into war. I don't think we have gotten very far into their heads simply by dubbing them fanatics or islamo-fascists or whatever.

The Taliban's motivations with regards to the American occupation are simple, obvious, and understandable. Their own governmental style and their relationship with terrorism are not the same, and have very little to do with their resistance. Actions like "show corpses of children and say that Americans killed them" have nothing to do with the Taliban's ruling style in 2000. Good. What is good ?