#kh reply

Awww... TY for askin’! :)

1. How did you get into Dragon Age?

I was a bit of a latecomer to the series, not picking up DA:O until the Fall of 2010. I’d been playing Morrowind (my first cRPG!) for about a year as an escape after my Dad passed away, and was raving to an acquaintance about how amazing the open world was and in particular how much I adored a companion mod I was using (Kateri’s Julan, Ashlander companion). She said if I like companions-with-stories, I should check out something called Dragon Age: Origins.

I did a little bit of research and thought it sounded interesting, so I took a chance on the Ultimate Editon, which had just been released... I made a Tabris Warden, and by the time she’d been conscripted into the Grey Wardens, I was hopelessly in love with the game.

14. Favorite DA:O party combo?

I am so very boring, and almost always default to Team Andraste when I use a full party: Alistair, Leliana, Wynne. Lots of the time I just run around with Alistair and Dog, though.

97. What’s your favorite DA mod?

Favorite mod I didn’t make was Cmessaz’s Improved Romance Scenes - Alistair. My first playthrough was a unholy mess of broken plot flag disappointment, and IRS-A fixed the mess in subsequent runs. (Now that the mod isn’t available, I can’t see myself ever playing DAO again, so essential is it to my install.) (Runners-up would probably be Risi’s lovely Inquisition hair ports, tmp7704′s female proportions fix, Entopie’s epic Loincloth Fashion package, that Vaddi-esque additem script for DAO, and the No Dust Buildup mod for DAI. My needs are simple. :))

Yep... I saw that in a theatre when it was released. (Mr KH was big fan of Giger’s art.)

Oh gosh… it’s been a really long time since I played DA so I’m probably forgetting something, but a few are

She seems more… “Ooh, pretty colors!” than “Muahaha! I am Princess Stabbity! Stab, kill, kill!”

Here I was worried about creating another bastard heir and I didn’t even consider that it might also be some dragon… god… whatever!

Ahhh, cheap trinkets handed to me nonchalantly by a beautiful woman. How my heart soars. Next thing you’ll be throwing gift boots at my head, right?

I thought maybe I could say something. Tell you what a rare and wonderful thing you are to find amidst all this… darkness.

and of course  the one that sucked me in in the first place:

You know, one good thing about the Blight is how it brings people together.

Thank you for the Ask! :D (And I apologize for the delay in responding. :-()

9. Last game you played?

I’ve been playing ESO exclusively for the last year... the last ‘other’ game I played was Morrowind, in the autumn of 2017.

25. Proudest accomplishment in gaming?

Already answered this, but I’ll also offer a couple of other pat-myself-on-the-back moments:

Soloing most of the high dragons in DA:I on Nightmare would be a close second. (Yes, Tumblr,  I KNOW it doesn’t count as a ‘real’ accomplishment because I used the odd potion...)

And defeating Gedna Relvel in Tribunal would be up there... I diddled around on the mainland for WAY too long and my toon was over level 100 before I got to Mournhold... it took me over five hours to fight the damned lich.

27. Have you gotten any friends into gaming? 

Thank you for the Ask! :D (And I apologize for the delay in responding. :-()

5. Game with the best soundtrack?

I really love the music for Morrowind (and literally get choked up when I hear the main theme. And thought the third Dragon Age had a really good soundtrack.

25. Proudest accomplishment in gaming?

Finally completing a Moira Cousland playthrough of DAO and crossing the legit Queen of Ferelden thing off of the to-do list... I had an evil Cousland from years ago who talked poor softie Alistair into a loveless, sex-free political marriage, but I always wanted to do it with a romance-and-hardened Alistair, too. (I first started a playthrough with Princess Uglyface in September 2011, which was ruined by a mod that broke my game. I finally managed a complete run of the base game with Moira from September 2016 through January of 2017, and finished the last DLC in mid-February. That also counts as a speed run for me. *chortle*)

38. Have you tried a game, hated it, then tried again, and loved it?

Thank you for the Ask! :D

2. First game you played?

Myst was the first ‘proper’ video game I played, around 1996-ish... I’ve always liked puzzles, so it was a good entry into the form for me and I actually plyed through the entire series, including a bunch of hours in the MMO, URU Live. And my first cRPG was Morrowind, about 2009/2010.

3. Favorite childhood game?