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[Komodo120]

As we all know Origins are a key compent in the game (the start of the game at least). Given that some of it is set in stone (and we havent seen all of each origin yet) would you rethink your back ground story or change how your character acts or thinks dering the prolog of the game? I for one think I may have to.

As a warrior true in heart I never got into finger wiggling or arrow throwing. As a wise and (utterly cute) warrior once said. "A stout shield and a good sword will take you far". I do plain on roleplaying my characters though. Yes, yes I know its a single player game but its still fun. I remember when I first played BG1/2 I role played my character through the whole game. Each choice in words for the story was throught on for what my character would act or feel. Who would he or she be most willing to be around with. Why?

Well the desscussion of this post is: Will you change or keep your character as you have thought them to be when you get to play? Also will you be a happy geek and really get nitty gritty on how your character would act etc through out the story and such? I would love to hear others points of view on that.

[Taltherion]

I will follow the origin story and roleplay from there.

[Kirrishar]

Well... um.. speaking as a geek gal myself and a hardcore role play I'll say I do a bit of both. I like to learn the lore and though I may start out with seeing how their idea of the character grows within themselves, I'll probably sit here with my own character history after the main part is done.

What I am really interested is in the lore that they are going to be giving us. I was thrilled to preorder and wish they would hurry up and send my copy. My thursday night and saterday night games are bogged in battle and litte actual rp so i get my fix through rp comp games, and lets face it... WoW hasn't got the rp community it used to

[Remmirath]

I'll probably change the backstory of my characters a little bit once I actually play the origins. I do always put a lot of thought into roleplaying my characters, but the first couple hours I roleplay them they tend to change a little bit from my initial thoughts of them anyhow. If I don't need to change anything majour, then cool, but if it seems like I should then I will.

[Skaargoroth]

It may have been said before but anyone who is playing PvP and PvE has really everything on a golden plate in which Blizzard both continues to feeding them with both Battlegrounds, Arenas and Instances while players who enjoys and loves to Roleplay are left with the bread crumbs on the table and the leftovers of people writing, "What is RP?" on the actual Roleplaying servers. But if Blizzard truly want Roleplayers to have a good time on their servers, they really have to enforce their rules and policies instead of stating "You can't use names like Legolas, Drizzt, Frodo, Aragon, Merlin and other copywrited names in other Fantasy works." and being a Roleplayer myself of the very game - I sigh each and every time someone breaks those rules.



But enough of World of Warcraft and back to the Topic at hand, and to answer the question Komodo stated: Yes. Yes, I will. As soon as I have learned the necessary and the basics of the lore, I will be more than happy than to start Roleplaying. Of course, I will be Roleplay first as "one that lives in the Dragon Age-world but hasn't fully understand it" and the more I know of it, the more I will let the Character know it. :-)

[Komodo120]

Some interesting points there to be sure. I am like Skaargoroth to a point a lore nut. I love the lore that has been offered so far to DA:O though sadly I havent had a chance to read the books *sighs*



With out fully knowing what the origin is going to be for a warrior type (reguardless if they are paladinish or brutish rage) I am some what halted on my character. Though at the same time im not. I know that I will more then likely will need to change some things to tailor to the set in stone background (human/dwarf) but im seeing it still being open ended in what is what for me/us in terms of what the character did prier to the start of the game.



My hope is that they really consider that are characters had a life befor the start of the origin. Welt reguardless what and how its going to be im drooling to play the game. To get my good old fashion role play fix. So a mug for you all *raises a mug* may your characters be to what you want them

[nimzar]

Well I usually play through the first time with a character whose background I decide along the way. I have an idea of how I want a character to act, but the why, I invent (or as perfer to think of it descover) along the way.

That being said, I also sometimes come up with an elaborate backstory for a character (always in PnP and just occasionally on the computer) before playing. The character who's story I told in the

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Tell your (character) story[/url] thread, for example was based on an idea, independant of DA universe (and in the beginning findependant of D&D setting as well). How well that story will work with DA Origin story, I have no idea. I've only paid a cursury amount of attention to any potentially spoiling details. Most likely I'll have to make major changes to what her deal actually is, but I will try to integrate as much of my idea of her backstory into the origin story as I can.

[Robert Emerald]

Every one of my characters is different and will RP according to his/her agenda.

[Eshaye]

Taltherion wrote...

I will follow the origin story and roleplay from there.

Me too, I'll fill in the missing blanks with roleplay, like early childhood to teenage years and what kind of personality she has. 

[Fulgrim88]

Halae Dral wrote...

I'll probably change the backstory of my characters a little bit once I actually play the origins. I do always put a lot of thought into roleplaying my characters, but the first couple hours I roleplay them they tend to change a little bit from my initial thoughts of them anyhow. If I don't need to change anything majour, then cool, but if it seems like I should then I will.

Same here. I'll adapt to the Origin stories as much as necessary (e.g. none of my humans will be old), but try to stick to general things i had in mind for my character, like personality, alignment and so on.
I'll also try to fill whatever gaps the Origin stories leave open (e.g. no info on early adulthood), but mainly the first few hours of each Origin will be an attempt to mix both what i had in mind and what the Origin story provides me with.

For me, that's the best way to get immersed in the gameworld. No use to write a 5page background story if in the end, it doesn't fit the lore and you wind up as a lawful good paladin or something in a world that knows neither the concept of lawful good, nor paladins.
DA:O is the first game (or at least the first one i know) trying to provide us with an interactive ingame background story and i'll try to make as much out of it as possible

[Puzzlewell]

I tend to take the backstory that's predefined and spin it more to my liking, embellishing on relationships the games leave kind of open and adding to how my character got their skills that they have at the time the game takes place.



I usually do this through out a whole game, filling in the holes myself, adding on to character interactions that the game doesn't give me, and even adding on to the ones it *does* give. I know I'll definitely be doing the same with DA.

[Maria Caliban]

My first characters are the most heroic I can make them. They're kind, caring, compassionate, just, and merciful. It should be interesting to see how tshe fairs in Ferelden.

[DCS1987]

1st post! Get ready guys....

I always try to put myself in the role of my character. I'd like to think the choices I make are those I'd stand by in similar situations. I rarely make an 'evil' or 'good' character and RP from that perspective. It's all about my gut feelings in the moment.

[Marionetten]

I've focused on the persona more than the events surrounding it. Of course, that persona will evolve and shift as the game progresses. I've always prefered playing characters who actually change along with the world he or she is in. So, nothing is set in stone. I'll just go with the flow and see what the game throws at me.

Modifié par Marionetten, 25 octobre 2009 - 09:44 .

[Xuaa]

I don't think I'll personally set up much of a background story until I'm actually in the game and enjoying the story BioWare is telling me through what they've decided already. Embellishments might happen if I'm drawn far enough into the game.



Also, as Maria Caliban says: Whenever I play RPG games I tend to lean towards taking the most heroic path I can take. I'm a big saviour of maidens in distress, villagers being terrorized and any vileness the world throws at anyone just trying to get by with their own little lives. Will be interesting to see how this will be in Dragon Age Origins and if I'll end up betraying my own morals on behalf of my companions opinions when they disagree with my choices.



After the first playthrough I'm guessing I will be exploring the various options a bit more though. See where it leads me.

[Doug84]

It think the origins are quite interesting, from what I've seen. The only problem I have is you can't play a normal human, but I understand that as they already have the highest of the city society (the Noble Human origin) and the lowest of the low (the unfortunate City Elves).



I really can't wait to try this game out. 6 origins, 11 combinations of role with origin... and 22 if you include as each sex, heh.

[Hasmidas]

The whole reason I love Bioware is that their games encourage roleplaying instead of pure hack-and-slash and level grinding. They make it pretty hard for you to give your character no personality at all--moral choices left and right, NPCs always asking you for your opinion, and now origin stories that can define a lot about your character's past. Granted, the choices they offer have always had a tendency to be unsubtle ("Do you snuggle this puppy, Bhaalspawn, or run it through the garbage disposal?") but they've been getting better about that in recent games. They've promised that DA will have more moral grey areas like those in the Witcher, which I'm looking forward to.

[Niko Daemon]

Visit "purgatory" and u will get my background story... 1 way or another...

[Cayenne Firepepper]

Well, I have thought about this, a little. Yes, there are the Origins stories for the characters, but didn't some of our characters have a "life" before the Origins stories start.

I have thought up parts of a background story, for my warrior, Alejandra.  I had even written some ideas down.  I enjoy doing that for some of my characters.  However, for this game, the Origins factor, and the fact that our surname is fixed began to detract me from some of her planned background story.

My plan was for Alejandra to have been a page and a squire to a Baron Knight.  In this way, she would have studied and trained with weapons, and learned to keep up armor and other necessary equipment that a warrior needs.

In this story I was imagining, Alejandra was about to become knighted herself, when her sponsor, the Baron, was killed by assassins.  Alejandra would vow revenge, and would enter the Origins story, at the age of about 17, and with vengance in her heart.

I didn't see any lore breaking factors here...In fact, my imagination was overflowing with ideas...until I thought about the assigned surname, Cousland. 

It suddenly dawned on me that I didn't really know much about that family. 

Would the Couslands have sent ther daughter off to a Baron's estate so she could become a page or a squire?

I don't really know.

Once I had a detailed background story formulating.  Now...now I don't know...

Modifié par Cayenne Firepepper, 26 octobre 2009 - 08:18 .

[nimzar]

It really depends on how much of the story is set in stone by the origin story.

My hope is that they give you enough to make a difference in the way other characters react to the hero but not too much as to allow the player to make certain choices as to the hero's background.

Basically, I think Bioware had walk a fine line with the origin stories. Have them too devoid of backstory and then what is the point of having them. Have them too full of backstory then your character is already defined and any roleplaying you do that seems contrary to it seems off. (That said I DO really like the idea of the origin stories... it seems like it will allow the most depth of role play I've ever seen in a CRPG).

Modifié par nimzar, 26 octobre 2009 - 09:01 .

[Pyro_Monkey]

what kind of backstory i imagine will have a lot to do with how the origin story covers, as i won't know how much is left up to my imagination. I don't generally do much in the ways of backstories anyway, I generally just sort of invent a personality for my char, then play according to that.

[TuringPoint]

I'm going to play off what's already there.