I don't think BioWare is lacking faith in the overall DA brand, especially considering that there was a webseries, a new book, an anime film planned and a comic book series due out sometime this year.

However, I suspect that maybe their faith in DA2 stock has diminished.

They're different BioWare studios. Dragon Age is produced in Edmonton while The Old Republic is out of Austin. Different teams.

Maybe some of the DA staff is helping with Old Republic stuff, but I doubt it would be a permanent move, especially considering if things go well, Old Republic may be around and continually growing for several years.

That's a major point - because of the online format, the overall main storyline isn't nearly as solid, because they're stretching out content over a long period of time. However, in Old Republic, the "main" quest lines are decently engaging when you're doing them. The problem is it gets diluted with a lot of sidequests, fighting mobs and travel time, so it has less of an impact.

Ah time travel - a tricky mechanism in any universe. The question then exists as to what time she was heading to and more importantly, perhaps - how would she get back? If she had the god-baby child, we know she didn't take it with her. But apparently it is a major part of her plans, so she would want to get back to it.

I suppose it could be as simple as finding another Eluvian, but that raises all sorts of questions too as to whether those follow - to use the term coined by an episode of South Park - "Terminator rules, meaning it's one way and you can't go back" or if it's "Back to the Future rules, where back and forth is possible."

It's supposed to. But there's nothing that would you stop, I assume, from back-loading the file into Awakening if you played any of the DLC straight out of the main Origins pack.

It's possible, but that's not the recommended order of doing things.

Not saying making the relationships more Skyrim like - far from it. Relationships in Skyrim suck. However the idea of having a mechanism to marry another character and at least have some glimpses of a more domesticated life is attractive.

The relationships in BioWare games usually only go as far as "I like you" followed by doing it. "Marriage" in Skyrim is incredibly shallow, but the idea of implementing marriage into the game is one that shouldn't be overlooked.

But considering that rogues get their damage and attack from dexterity, pumping up cunning too much gimps them. They have low damage and miss a ton. I prefer to go as high as I can with dexterity to really skyrocket their damage numbers. Besides, you can't crit if you don't hit in the first place. Anything less than like 90 percent attack percentage is too low for me.

Personally I hated having to drag around Tali everyone just so I could use her to crack boxes and whatnot in ME. I liked it much more in ME2 that I was able to do it myself. However, I think that may also have been because in ME2, if you didn't get it the first time around - you couldn't just go back and get that one chest you missed, unlike in the original.

I think making rogues more effective lockpickers would be good, but still give everyone an opportunity to do so. Using Knights of the Old Republic as an example - everyone can bash open a chest, but you run the risk of breaking items within. Characters with the Security skill, however, can attempt to open them cleanly. Something like that instead of Hawke just giving me a "I can't do that DURRRR DURRRP"

Now that I look at these requirements again, they're a bit overstated. I don't think anyone (myself included) does two articles a week anymore. And the need for html skills is a bit exagerrated too, since we use a Wordpress editor that's pretty much like any other blogging service out there.

We're always looking for new folks, even if they can only contribute occassionally, especially now that we're in kind of a "lull period" in between games.

I think for the Dwarf commoner it's as simple as you really don't have anything else at your disposal. You can't go back to Orzammar to live and there's not much point to starting over on the surface if everything is going to get destroyed by the Blight. It's killed or be killed.

I agree that the Dalish origins has the least vested interest, but there is still the kill or be killed mentality to it. But part of that Origin is that you still retain some hope of finding Tamlen in your travels (which you eventually do).