Dragon Age Forum News

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(Originally posted by chevalier)

Here are today's BioWare forum highlights, collected by NWVault. Please take into account that these are only single parts of various threads and should not be taken out of context. Bear in mind also that the posts presented here are copied as-is, and that any bad spelling and grammar does not get corrected on our end.

David Gaider, Designer

Should people in DA use east London dialect? discuss
We've actually decided this time around that all evil people must sound French. (...kidding, incidentally...)

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No is that French from France or French Canadian from Canada? IF French Canadian then i agree make all the evil guys sound like them.
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If we made them sound French Canadian then nobody would understand them. Can you imagine?

Irenicus: (blah blah blah blergh)!
PC: What's he saying?
Imoen: No idea.
Irenicus: (blah blah blah blergh arf)!
Minsc: I sense evil!
PC: Shhh! I think he said "hockey"...
Irenicus: (blah grrr maple syrup blah)!
PC: Hmmm. Get the shovel.

(...half-kidding, incidentally...)

Cosmology
The world isn't any crazy shape... it's the regular spherical shape that most planets are. There is a larger cosmology, however, which was fun to create... especially seeing how it's all mixed in with religious belief and such. My preference is that such things be kept at least partially mysterious.

kind of dragons in game

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Dragon Age is a period of time like the Iron Age, Bronze Age or "Middle" Age. This age is where Dragons are the driving force.
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We've said the first part is true, but the second part does not automatically follow. Dragons are not the "driving force". Nor are they even necessarily numerous. The fact that they exist is what is significant.

Dragon Age is meant to represent an age of the fantastical.

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Quote: One of the playable races is Dragonlike.
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That was the reviewer's impression of that race, incidentally. Nowhere did we say they were "dragonkin" or had anything at all to do with dragons. Another website said they were reptilian, I believe.

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[sarcasm/]I always thought dragons were mammals or amphibians, who would have ever thunk a dragon could look reptilian.[/sarcasm]
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The point is that people have been ascribing the "dragonlike" phrase to us, when the word was the reviewer's.

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True but considering they have mentioned that there are humans elves and dwarves plus one other race and that one race seems very kobold-like and the game is called DRAGON Age and kobold are related to dragons, it would seem very silly if that race didn't have anything to do with dragons
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I'm pretty sure we didn't say anything about the fourth playable race being kobold-like. At any rate, assuming that they have anything to do with dragons simply because the game was called Dragon Age would only have merit if the game was about this fourth race, wouldn't it?

Because otherwise that would be a mighty big assumption. Especially when we've already said that the title simply refers to an age of the fantastical.

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The nature of the fourth race could still be indeterminate. Perhaps there are unforeseen modelling issues which are leaving BioWare largely uncertain as to what the fourth race is going to be. We may never see the race the reviewer did.
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The details on that race may change, certainly, but for the most part we know exactly what that race is. The reviewer was commenting solely on some of the concept art that was done for it, that's all.

Why panties on top of normal clothing? It looks weird
OKay, this has wandered into the realm of Silly. As a matter of fact, it's wandered all the way to Silly's capital, and we can see the land of Ludicrous from here.

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Last I heard they were going to really get into the details of each playable race by doing the Tolkien thing and giving them unique languages Possibly spoken) and very detailed cultures.

Then again I could have heard wrong and getting my hopes up.
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No, you heard correctly.

Darcy Pajak, Assistant Producer

Guns

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Are there going to be guns or some sort of fire-arms in Dragon Age? (I'm not talking about M16's or F-15's, I'm talking about classic weapons like flintlocks and muskets)

I think they would be a good addition, infact a lot of NWN modules already have guns implemented. Dragon Age doesn't have to follow the crappy DnD standards anymore, which means we can now have fully functional guns.

If not guns, then there should atleast be CANNONS or something that a player can use somewhere in a quest. It would be cool to use a cannon against a horde of enemies right?! Perhaps in Ship to Ship combats? Will there even be ships or some vehicles in Dragon Age?

And just to keep things balanced with archery, you can just make Guns require more maintennance and have less flexibility than arrows (for instance, arrows can be poisoned, lit on fire, etc)
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There will be no guns in Dragon Age. We're sticking with bows, crossbows, and magic spells for ranged combat.

Georg Zoeller, Designer

Trolls and Half-Orcs
troll, half orc - all the same.

Pay to play?

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Can I charge people a monthly fee to play on my Dragon age server?
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Unlikely. If you do a search on this topic, you'll find some more posts about it.