Zoombie makes a Dragons Age Mod!

Zoombie said:

I'm going to fiddle, but my dream is to eventually make a mod detailing the adventure of a computer gamer who is sucked into a cliched fantasy world and only their knowledge of tropes and cliches will save them.

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Wouldn't this make the game too easy? Many people who played fantasy games like Dragon Age already know many of the cliches and tropes, so they'd breeze right through a game where knowledge of cliches and tropes got them through.

Hopefully your humor is enough to make the game shine.

Let's see, when was the last time a game developer tried to subvert a cliched fantasy world?

Oh, that's right, it was Obsidian doing NWN 2. And it was a disaster.

Good luck No, really, I mean it. If you can pull it off while keeping it reasonably short, you could use it in an application to Bioware.

Zoombie said:

Aaand the fucking toolkit won't install. It crashes while trying to install something called the SQL Server 2005 Microsoft bumfuckery thing.

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Now...anyone know what an SQL server is?

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Yeah. It's a database management system designed to understand the Structured Query Language. Competes with Oracle and the like. Generally used by programmers for, well, storing data. Check Google to see if other people are having this problem.

This will be more useful than Google.
See the second half of the page.

Zoom,

I'm guessing that the error you got can be fixed by going to the link below, downloading the software, and installing it on your box.

http://www.microsoft.com/Sqlserver/2005/en/us/express-down.aspx

SPMiller said:

Check Google to see if other people are having this problem.

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What he said. About 80% of these sorts of problems can be solved by copy/pasting the error message to google followed by the name of the package you were trying to install when you got the error.

JJM said:

This will be more useful than Google.
See the second half of the page.

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What he said.

Good luck. Keep us posted; I'm curious to hear how it goes.

I have not yet played with my elemental mage.

Zoombie said:

Elemental magic is brutal, effective, and focused entirely on combat and that's fiiiine by me.

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Sweeeet

How's Entropy/Blood magic?

Zoombie said:

Time to start...FIDDLING!

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Please don't attach pictures of... Whatever your fiddling. I really don't want to know.

I think brightness is purely a graphical setting depending on who's playing.

Like the NWN toolset just had a button to turn the lighting on and off. I haven't played with the DA toolset yet, it looks too complicated for me.

Entropy has some cool stuff. One of my favorite moves is to cast Sleep on a crowd of enemies and then target one of them with Horror. It gives them deadly Nightmares!

That sucks.

Have you tried clearing the override files? I also got some bugginess from playing around in the toolset, as everyone in Ostagar suddenly seemed to think my human noble wasn't human anymore (particularly strange when I spoke to my Dog. I must've hit my head in the Korcari Wilds, because all of a sudden I'd forgotten who he was, got the dialogue from the encounter you get if you start any non-human noble origin, and was prompted to give him a name. Again. Not to mention I was zapped to a strange white screen afterwards).

I muddled around the Bioware forums and took the advice of deleting all the files in Documents\Bioware\Dragon Age\modules and Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\packages\core\override. I also renamed the Single Player module folder. Seems to have fixed the bugs I was experiencing, anyway.

If it doesn't work, you may like to know that the toolset patch is due very soon, and it's supposed to stop the toolet from interfering with the main compaign among other things. ^__^

*goes back to lurking*