Dragon Age Origins

[Vicente]

the problem at the moment is that a lot of things still have to be discovered in the toolset, ie how to add classes (a tutorial was posted yesterday, finally)
I am working on replacing the standard background stories.. but it keeps crashing DA.
but the class tut really helped me take the next step, but it was late yesterday, so ill make a new try today.

I havnt touced the lvlediting yet due to the lack of tutorials..
but more and more info pops up

@ mirviriam, yes they have a kind of script code.. follows standard programming rules.
yep, and it is indeed time consuming, but it is also fun to do

I'm getting the tutorial videos from Fileplanet, but I have a normal account and the queues for Spain are killing me...

[Arjan]

I'm getting the tutorial videos from Fileplanet, but I have a normal account and the queues for Spain are killing me...

ill see what i can do, perhaps i can upload them to BRnet

oh here are the two screenshots

[Arjan]

so far i have been playing with the toolset to get to know it a bit better

but i am filled with ideas


the details:

well, you start either as a blooded char or normal..

blooded will discover the bloodline abilitie "blood history", unblooded will go through a ritual performed by cleric to enter the dreamstate to go back in time.

this ability wil unlock a map (the birthright time line) which you must travel back and forth to unravel the secret to eventually free raizhadik from the gorgon.

current date: you will get a dream about a dragon locked away in a dark tower.. (actually razhadik entering your dream with her last energy).
traveling through the city of anuire, asking around you find out who she is, and that she is rumored to be slain by the gorgon..
eventually you find out she is being held and the only way to break her chains is to combine 4 tomes which are supposed to be lying/hidden in the ruins of the college of sorcery.
you have to go back in time to discover about the 4 tomes.. tracing it back since the flight from the shadow.
once you know where to find them, you can go back to the current date to actually retrieve them..(lots of riddles and magic protecting them in the ruins) finding out you dont have enough bloodpower to use the spell inside.
and ofcourse the only way to get an true high bloodline... is to find the old roele one which was grounded when he slain by the gorgon...
so there you go back in time to that exact battle, to find out its location...you have to reunited the humans to get ready for the endbattle and you even get the change to face your battle as roele against the gorgon... ofcourse you loose...
once you know the location you need to find a way to digg up the bloodline...
the bloodline is being preserved by a ancient mebhaigl source (Caerbhaghlien ) making it very hard to control.. but a spell in the 4 tomes let a powerfull mage (or find an awaken an other dragon which you have to convince) access it deeper power able to to control the source for a limited time...

afer the bloodline is restored you are now able to go for the dragon in kalshatairak, to eventually free her

i even bumped into a nice title/credit song " Gortoz a Ran" (I'm waiting)
the tekst is actually very suitable
the translation is:
I was waiting, waiting for a long time
In the dark shadow of grey towers
In the dark shadow of grey towers

In the dark shadow of rain towers
You will see me waiting forever
You will see me waiting forever

One day it will come back
Over the lands, over the seas

The blue wind will return
And take back with it my wounded heart

I will be pulled away by its breath
Far away in the stream, wherever it wishes

Wherever it wishes, far away from this world
Between the sea and the stars

here is the youtube linke. (lol found out is a song in black hawk down)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQS6XQOhNh0

this is what i had in mind for the main quest line

[BRadmin]

the two screenies as attachment now (yes it works again... dont ask what was wrong, i dont know..)

[Vicente]

Nice start Would be nice to visit some dwarven and elven lands too (given that the game comes with those models, let's use them).

Regards!

Vicente

[Sorontar]

Cool. Are you going to make any other blood abilities/blooded skills be available to the characters? Or is that beyond the system?

Sorontar

[BRadmin]

Nice start Would be nice to visit some dwarven and elven lands too (given that the game comes with those models, let's use them).

Regards!

Vicente

indeed, thats why i made the sidhelien and dwarven chars to play with..
would ofc be nice to have multiple origin stories..
but its a challenge enough already to get 1

Cool. Are you going to make any other blood abilities/blooded skills be available to the characters? Or is that beyond the system?

Sorontar

yes, i'd like to .. but we have to decide which one would be usuable, for example bloodwrath.. is similar to beserk ... which comes available when you get that "specialisation"
abilities are not hard to add though.. i think there are way worse challenges to overcome

for example, what to do with the other human races? since it is limited to 6 playable races (can add more as NPC though).. but that means you can not play them all..

same goes for choosing a deity...
i was hoping to be able to replace backgrounds by the deities.. but ran in to some big troubles replacing them..
i was thinking about adding them the same way as specialisations which can be learned during the game... but i will have to remove/replace specialisation slots by a deity one...
so for now, i will just stick with the assumption.. when you are human, you are a haelyn cleric or paladin/templar and moradin for dwarves

also the GUI is not manipulatable so i have no idea how the system reacts when there are more then 6 races

[Sorontar]

6 races you say...
elf, dwarf, Anuirean, Brecht, Khinasi, Rjurik/Vos

Halflings are really under-represented in Birthright. Half-elves can be ignored. The two "rougher" human cultures can be merged.

[Sorontar]

Oh, and just match the favoured religion to each human society. So Haelyn for Anuirean, Sera for Brecht, Avani for Khinasi. For Rjurik/Vos, if you don't want to allow "evil" characters, then make it Erik. Otherwise, pick Belinik.

[Thelandrin]

Why "Sidhelien Elf"? Surely that's tautologous. If you want a class for them, how about "Sidhelien Mage" or "Sidhelien Ranger"?