ooh, I haven't thought about that. It seems like they use the loyalty quests as a trigger/marker for the levels of romance that you can initiate at one time. I have no idea how it would be handled w/ a NPC LI, maybe it's just like w/ Traynor and Cortez where you just have to get to a certain point in the story/main questline and then have enough conversations w/ them?
Hmm, good question. DG has said that the romance dialogue balance will be closer to DA:O than DA2, so less of it will be in quests. Since you can only have real conversations at home base, it probably means that those conversations will only happen at "home" anyway. I wonder if you could still do a quest for an NPC, like Cullen's Wilmod quest, and get, erm, points with him. (yes, I hate calling them points... but you know what I mean. approval/favor/whatever)
Ahhh I see. I didn't know that DG had addressed romance dialogue! Good to know though 
And yeah, the questing = points seems like the easiest way to gain favors for NPCs. Still don't like this whole NPC!Cullen idea though. 
Hmmm...
My first thought is that there is a quest you have to do for them, but you do it without them. I'm imagining Varric being chirpy about how badly the Inquisitor wants in NPC's pants the entire time. This could work, but it does have a bit of an empty feel to it. Of course, the benefit of Cullen is that he is a warrior in his own right, so perhaps he could tag along. Temporary companion, or the fifth-wheel NPC spot.
Or, like in ME3, just talking to Cullen often and picking the right dialogue choices would be enough to trigger it. Perhaps there are optional dialogues that can be had, but only if you poke around the base for where Cullen is lurking.
Perhaps it has more to do with his advisory skills. Maybe getting the military agents up will open more dialogues with Cullen, including a romance?
I like the idea of Cullen hopping along as a guest star party member (though in a perfect world, he would be in my party all the time 
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The more agents = more dialogue seems pretty plausible though. Same with poking around in his "lurkspace"
All the NPC romance stuff will be new to DA. I don't even know how they're going to handle the approval system, never mind a quest where you can't even bring them along. I suppose it's not so bad for Cullen, he could just be a NPC who fights alongside the party, but what about Scribe Girl? If she's a romance, she'll probably get lumped with a boring ol' fetch quest, or hell, even a dreaded protection quest!
Yes, I feel really bad for scribe girl! Hopefully no fetch or protection quests. I feel like the fanbase would despise her for that. 
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