DAO Mods (Awakening included) The general goal of this collection is compatibility, immersion, and (in most cases) preserving the intent of the developers. Exceptions to the latter goal include Tiered Uniques (which makes unique items have stats at least comparable to their non-unique counterparts if not stats more like that of the item's description) or Quick Shapeshifting (which removes the charge-up time for shapeshifting, to reflect the instantaneous transformations seen in cutscenes). Of note, apparently DAO chooses its mod "load order" based upon the names of the folders in its Override Folder. Just FYI. Mods which require you to choose between them: # Body proportions: Proportions Fix series (underwear) vs Realistic Look (nude). # Shapeshifter tweaks: Quick Shapeshifing (just quicker than normal) vs Shapeshifting Plus (adds Dragon morph and provides a quick option). # Improved Atmosphere vs... a lot. You can delete portions of that mod to make things compatible. ZDF Dialog Fix details this. # Advanced Tactics vs. Smarter Party AI. They can be used together with risk of breaking combat AI, or you can choose one. Smarter Party AI is marginally more realistic and creates a nice-looking fight to say the least, but Advanced Tactics is more customizable. ****************************************************************************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************************************************************************** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO INSTALL IMPROVED ATMOSPHERE FIRST, FOLLOWED BY TWEAKING ZDF DIALOG FIX TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH WHATEVER OTHER DIALOG MODS YOU'D LIKE TO USE. COMBAT\RULE MODS SHOULD FOLLOW THIS AND THEN ANYTHING ELSE YOU LIKE. READ IMPROVED ATMOSPHERE'S README!!!!!!!!!! ****************************************************************************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************************************************************************** That said, here are the included mods (make sure to read the notes here and in each mods' folder for special instructions): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Advanced Tactics Fixes several bugs with the AI and Tactics systems for the game to make NPC combat more effective and challenging. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=181 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Will definitely conflict a little with Smarter Party DAO and DAA but does most of what it does anyway. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alistairsmothersamulet Makes it so Alistair can wear his mother's amulet, given to him via console code only (for now). Activate it after giving him his mother's amulet if you'd like to make things more realistic. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3400 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Console code is add_mothers_amulet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alley of Murderers Adds a pretty lengthy set of quests in Denerim's back alleys. Investigate the crimes of a serial killer. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=615 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Malcolm Face Trailer CG Grey Wardens Calling Sacred Ashes (Normal and Bright Eye versions) A facemorph for a male human Warden to reflect the Warden's appearance in the Sacred Ashes and Warden's Calling trailers. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=650 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ancient Elven Boots Fix (Vanilla version) Restores the Ancient Elven Boots to the game, left unlootable by a developer mistake. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3380 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ancient Elven Ruins A fully-voiced quest mod set in, surprise, some Ancient Elven ruins like those in Awakening or those seen in the Dalish origin quest. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1472 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apostate Clothing Ports of several commoner\mage clothes from DAII into DAO, available via console. http://social.bioware.com/project/4489/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Console command: runscript zz_givemageclothing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arcane Warrior Casting Fix Prevents the odd weapon unequiping and re-equiping seen when an Arcane Warrior casts a spell with a weapon drawn. http://social.bioware.com/project/683/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Armor Rune Drop Fixes This simply adds a few of the Armor Runes to loot lists that should have them, as well as fixes the two lists that already contain them. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=954 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Armor of the Devout Leaves two sets of [ancient] Chantry Seeker armor (featured in Dragon Age II) in Andraste's Temple. One is for Leliana only. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1018 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Optional Warrior Stat patch found in the "Manual Mods" folder. Armor was originally designed with rogues in mind. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Armor of the Sten Leaves a unique set of Qunari armor for Sten in the Lothering chantry, taken off of his body by the Templars when he was captured. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1185 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Armored Ogres of Ferelden (Lieutenant, Boss, and Full versions) Makes some or all Ogres in the game wear armor like they do in the Awakening expansion. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3257 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Awakening Blackblade Armor Dragon Drop Fix Allows you to get the Blackblade boots and gloves off of the High Dragon in the Dragonbone Wastes as intended by the developers. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1112 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Awakening Bugfixes Fixes several issues with the Awakening main quest not addressed by other mods in this package. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1508 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Awakening Duration VFX Disabled Removes the auras from skills in Awakening, making this the "Personal Annoyance Remover" for the expansion. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3258 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Awakening Endgame Cutscene Fixes Keeps the final cutscene in Awakening from looping, a very obvious bug that Bioware and EA never fixed. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Awakening in the OC Adds Awakenings' skills and specializations into the original "Origins" campaign. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3258 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Mod must be disabled when starting a new character in Awakening; recommended that this mod always be disabled while playing Awakening. To install completely, read the below instructions carefully: 1) Install the included .dazip with whatever you use to install dazip files. 2) Find the equivalent of your Program Files\Dragon Age\packages\core_ep1\data directory. 3) Copy all of the .erf files found there. 4) Find the \BioWare\Dragon Age\AddIns\gxa_res_to_core\core\data directory. 5) Paste the copied .erfs into that folder. 6) Find the equivalent of your Program Files\Dragon Age\packages\core_ep1 directory. 7) Copy the texture folder. 8) Paste the copied folder into the \BioWare\Dragon Age\AddIns\gxa_res_to_core\core directory. 9) Find the equivalent of your Program Files\Dragon Age\packages\core_ep1\audio\sound directory. 10) Copy the three vfx_spells files. 11) Paste them into the \BioWare\Dragon Age\AddIns\gxa_res_to_core\core\audio\sound directory (create it if it doesn't exist). 12) Activate the 'Awakening in the OC' Addon via the Downloadable Contents menu in-game. In addition, if you have patched the game to version 1.04: 1) Find the equivalent of your Program Files\Dragon Age\packages\core_ep1\patch folder. 2) Copy the .erf file found there to the \BioWare\Dragon Age\AddIns\gxa_res_to_core\core\override directory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Awakening Runes Fixes (DWE HAL CIR SIL to Weapon version) Restores rune behavior in Awakening to that of Origins. May be a developer oversight or not. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Awakening Silverite Mines Bugfix Fixes the issue where the Warden's "clone" never spawned, causing you to lose all of the Warden's equipment. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1762 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bergen's Honor Fix Makes Bergen's Honor, a helm exclusive to the Collector's Edition version of Dragon Age Origins, display the proper model. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=146 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better Memory Band Increases the Memory Band's effects from a 1% experience increase to a 10% increase. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=512 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bigger Mouse Cursors Makes all of the cursors in the game larger and more visible. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=929 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Black Hair is Black Makes black hair actually *be* black hair. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1606 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Blood Enthrall Fix Fixes this Blood Mage spell so that it actually does what its description says. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3323 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bodahn Tweaks Adjusts the buying and selling rates for Bodahn (the dwarf merchant in camp) so that he actually seems grateful to you. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=333 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ After installing the mod with daupdater or DAModder, open the file: ..Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\Settings\DragonAge.ini At the end of the file, add the following lines(sample): [Bodahn] SellMarkUp=100 BuyMarkDown=50 Mats=BASE SellMarkUp is the markup when Bodahn sells you things, and BuyMarkDown is the markdown when Bodahn buy things from you. If you don't set the options, it will be defaulted to 100 and 50, like in previous versions. For the Mats field, you can set it to: NONE - will not restock anything he doesn't already sell (does nothing) BASE - will restock Deathroot, Elfroot, Lyrium Dust. Deep Mushroom, Trap Trigger, and Venom METALSHARD - will restock everything in base + Metal Shard ALL - above plus Glamour Charm, Demonic Ichor, and all elemental Crystals Default is set to BASE if no option set. Another sample setup could be: [Bodahn] SellMarkUp=0 BuyMarkDown=500 Mats=ALL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bombs - Range Extension (Medium version) Allows bombs to be thrown further in the Origins campaign. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=124 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bow Replacer Replaces the mesh files for bows so that they're thinner, more realistic than before (springy and flexible). http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1467 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ceremonial Heavy Glove Fix Makes several extremely rare items available in camp. Now you might actually get a complete set of ceremonial armor in a playthrough. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1565# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chain Lightning - Upgraded (Partial Version) Makes Chain Lighting scale like other spells. This "Partial" version make the base stats the same as the unmodified spell. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=225 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chantry of Ferelden - Robes (+ Fix) Changes all of the chantry robes in the game to their Dragon Age 2 counterparts. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3255 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Requires that Kirkwall Exports be installed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chevalier Armor Set Bonus Change Makes this armor give +3 to Willpower rather than the -3 Willpower it usually gives. Not clear if this is a mistake or not. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1199 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Circles Be Gone Makes the circles around characters in combat either be invisible or considerably less visual, for immersion. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Combat Delay Reduction DAO and DAA Makes combat not go as slowly in "animation heavy" areas by telling the game not to "loop" the default standing animation. Odd oversight on the part of developers but this definitely makes combat run much smoother in populated areas. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3322 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Concept Art Morrigan (Hood only, all other files removed) Gives Morrigan, whatever her appearance, the hood seen in her concept artwork. http://social.bioware.com/project/4802/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cousland Family Resemblance Replaces the first preset for both Male and Female humans so that they resemble the Noble Warden's parents. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=989 http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=937 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Critical Hit Chance Quickfix Gives the Warden the same base critical hit chance (3%) as every other character in the game. You began with no chance at all before. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=433 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cullen Romance Option - Mage Origin Allows a female mage to flirt and begin a forbidden romance with Cullen, a templar in the Ferelden Circle. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1949 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Possible that Dialogue Tweaks has a conflict, though I can't find it myself. For this reason, these are the files edited by this mod (Dialogue Tweaks' versions of these files ought to be deleted). bhm400_irving.dlg and .dlb bhm300_cullen.dlg and .dlb arl210cr_jowan.dlg and .dlb cir230_cullen.dlg and .dlb plt_bhm00pt_main.plo and .nss Very likely conflicts with the Dalish Mage Dialogue Fix above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DA Gore Adjustment Alters the level of blood splatter on characters in the game. http://social.bioware.com/project/2416/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DA2 Isabela and Flemeth to DAO (fixed version) Makes Isabela and Flemeth look like they do in Dragon Age II. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=2636 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DA2 Merrill and Marethari for DAO Makes Merrill and Marethari look like they do in Dragon Age II. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3328 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DA2 Style 2-Handed Weapon Attacks for DAO Makes two-handed skills attack multiple enemies like in Dragon Age II. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=2455 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daisycutter Model Change Makes the Daisycutter weapon in Awakening have an appearance reflecting the fact that it's a one-handed axe. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1323# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dalish Concept Tattoo This is the tattoo seen on the Dalish Origin concept artwork. It'll need to be added to your Warden via the Toolset if you want it. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1730 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dalish Mage Dialogue Fix Very likely to conflict with dialogue tweaks to the members of the Mages' Circle but nevertheless if you're using the Dalish Mage Origin mod then this dialogue fix is for you. Should fix most issues of people "recognizing" you from a childhood\adulthood you didn't have. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=2571 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ As stated, will probably conflict with some dialogue mods that affect members of the Circle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dalish Mage - Origin Enables you to be a Dalish Mage, albeit with a few issues here and there where people think you grew up as part of the Circle, which may not actually be a "bug" in some cases (you could well be a city elf, so far as people are concerned). Lore-wise, each Dalish clan usually only has two mages, the Keeper and their First, but when an extra emerges they are ultimately "traded off" to another clan that needs a First. If you need a backstory for who you are, you're an extra mage that hasn't been "traded off" yet. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=764 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ See above for a dialogue fix mod, to address a few of the issues where people "recognize" you as a "Mage Origin" warden. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DAQuest: The Master's Desire A stand-alone campaign that attempts to recreate the feel of old adventure games in the Dragon Age setting. http://social.bioware.com/project/1377/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ This mod's "sleuth" system may cause issues when playing any other campaign, so best to only have this installed when you mean to play it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dark Ritual Deleted Scene "Restores" a scene between Alistair and Morrigan that was cut from the final version of the game. Depicted in the "Dragon Age: Revelation" comic. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1611 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Desire Demon Nudepatch Makes the Desire Demon topless, reflecting more of the basic "lust" theme there. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=96 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deathblow (forced deathblow file removed, weapon stat rebalancing removed, author's music album removed, armor rune fix applied) Adds quite a few variations on deathblows (including gory decapitations) for all weapon combinations. http://social.bioware.com/project/4188/#details ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deathblow Multipliers Makes deathblow animations as frequent or infrequent as you like, or only allows them for bosses. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1613 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dirge of Coldhearth "You are Knight-Captain of an elite team of templars sent to bring murderous Tower renegades to justice. Little do you know that this is your last day alive - you will die, but be sure you do not die in vain." Quest mod, prologue to "The Broken City" mod. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1886 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DLC Merchandise Adds copies of the promotional, pre-order items for Dragon Age to Boghdan's shop at camp, with different names. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=200# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DLC Transfer to Awakening Ensures all of your abilities and most of your unique items DO transfer into Awakening properly. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=883 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dog Gift Tweaks Each of the gifts you can give to Dog now enhance his abilities as a capable fighter, since he could never like or dislike you any more than 100% in the original, unmodded game. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=635 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dragon Age Redesigned Updates the appearances of virtually all characters and NPCs so that they match lore and character conversations better, more properly resemble their siblings, no longer have distracting levels of makeup on (in green, no less), etc. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=686 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dragon Age Rules Fixpack Fixes several issues with combat, particularly concerning damage calculation bugs. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1601 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dwarf Female Proportions Fix (+ underwear) Makes dwarf females no longer have man-like hands and shoulders. http://social.bioware.com/project/2850/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edr Hawke Family in Lothering Replaces several NPCs in Lothering with Hawke's family from Dragon Age II. Does not include Hawke himself. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3381 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Elf Female Proportions Fix (+ underwear) Makes elf females no longer have man-like hands and shoulders. http://social.bioware.com/project/2632/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Elf Update Makes elves look more like they do in Dragon Age II. http://social.bioware.com/project/4483/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Emissary Awesome little stand-alone campaign that, like the Darkspawn Chronicles DLC, lets you take control of Darkspawn. The story takes place in an isolated stretch of desert, an Emissary desperately trying to lead after the fall of the archdemon- just after the Origins campaign. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1152 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fang at Tier 7 Makes the "Fang" dagger a Tier 7 item, like in the console versions of Dragon Age Origins. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fragments of Ferelden A quest mod taking place in an alternate version of Ferelden, one of several "lost pieces" of Thedas long-ago vanished from the real world. You play as a templar, defending the Tower, a last bastion of civilization, against creatures from the Labyrinth. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=520 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FtG Quickbar - Center and Multi Rows Expands the size of the quickbar and is configurable to boot. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=2784 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FtG Codex ToC - Better Codex List Creates a table of contents for your Codex, for easy review. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1174 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FtG UI Mod - More Readable Fonts and UI Makes your font larger in conversations and in the GUI. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=73 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Must also install the configuration utility, found in "Manual Mods." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Game Trailer Warden A facemorph for your Warden to look like he does in some of the early trailers for Dragon Age Origins. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=943 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gatekisses An add-on for ZDF Dialog Fixes (installed after it is completely configured) which creates a long goodbye kiss scene between the Warden and their love interest before they part at the final battle and the Warden (presumably) goes off to their death. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1077 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Grey Wardens of Ferelden Equips all Grey Wardens with the armor seen in DAII and, in the case of the Warden Commander armor, in Ferelden's Past (Sophia Dryden). http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3258 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The "Core.dazip" file for this needs to be installed as well as the manual mods. Requires Kirkwall Exports. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golem Registry and Shaper's Life Reward Fix Fixes the lack of intended reward for quests "The Golem Registry" and "The Shaper's Life". http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=335 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hvy Armor Guard for Female Elves (Complete version) Gives female elves the strangely missing shoulder guard found in other races' versions of most heavy armors. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=817 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Human Female Proportions Fix (Seductress version + underwear) Makes human females no longer have man-like hands and shoulders. http://social.bioware.com/project/2660/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Grenade Ranges DA Awakenings The "Bomb Range" mod from above but for the Awakening campaign. Equivalent to the medium version of the afforementioned mod. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3177 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Improved Atmosphere ("New" Facemorphs pack not included) Dramatically improves the overall atmosphere of nearly every area in the entire game. Flat-out essential to the game. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=577 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DA2 Isabela and Flemeth to DAO, DA2 Merill and Marethari for DAO, Grey Wardens of Ferelden, Templars of Ferelden, Chantry of Ferelden, ZDF Dialog Fix, and virtually any mod which touches NPC outfits or dialogs will likely conflict with this mod. That said, this is a popular mod, so several fixes exist (most are included in the documentation for mods, if a compatibility patch isn't included outright). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Improved Warden's Oath (Version 1) Adds "Weaken nearby Darkspawn" and "+1 to Random Attribute" to the Warden's Oath amulet, making it similar to the amulets in the "Warden's Calling" novel (albeit without the drawbacks). http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1619 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Interesting Boss Drops Makes bosses drop a larger variety of items, rather than just some money and a few consumables or something similar. http://social.bioware.com/project/867/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Similar component in Improved Atmosphere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joining Ritual Fix for Awakening Companions Allows Sigrun and Velanna to undertake the Joining even if they were the last member of your party that was recruited. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=2997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kal-Sharok Excellent quest mod taking place in and around the only other Dwarven city aside from Orzammar still functioning: Kal Sharok, the capital. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=519 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Incompatible with Ser Gilmore, so disable that and any major gameplay mod (Awakening in the OC) first. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kirkwall Exports Adds several pieces of equipment from Dragon Age 2 to the game, available via console. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3098 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kite Shield Texture (without heraldry) Gives all wooden kite shields a better texture, without a low-quality leather skin texture stretched across them. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=138 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lelian and Morrigan Morphs Sacred Ashes Look (Leliana facemorph removed) Makes Morrigan look like she does in the Sacred Ashes trailer. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1079 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lelianas True Sacred Ashes Armor (+ normal map and 1.1 updates) Makes Leliana's Sacred Ashes trailer armor to the merchant at camp. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1444 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Little Red Riding Hood Redux Told in the context of a Ferelden storybook, this campaign is a variation on Little Red Riding hood. http://social.bioware.com/project/334/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lothering Hawke of Ferelden (version 2) Turns the Helpful Refuge in Lothering into [warrior] Hawke from Dragon Age II. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3254 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Requires Kirkwall Exports. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lycanthropy Gives the Warden a chance of contracting lycanthropy from the werewolves in the main quest. Each hit from a werewolf has a slim chance of transferring the disease and, once contracted, the Warden my occasionally lose control of themselves in combat and transform into a werewolf until combat ends. Only Elves and Humans can be infected. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3287 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The mod also extends the duration of the Werewolf's 'Shriek' ability to be the same as the Bear's 'Enrage' ability. The "SP Addon" found in the "Manual Mods" folder ties lycantropy even moreso into the main quest. If the Warden is infected, the disease harms their stats a little until it comes time to decide whether to end the curse on all of the werewolves or not. All effects of the disease vanish if you end the curse, but the full effect of the disease, described above, comes into play if you allow it to continue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mabari Update Gives Mabari warhounds slight alterations to make them more resemble their appearance in Dragon Age II. http://social.bioware.com/project/4757/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Make Console Commands Visible When the console for the game is activated (via Dragon Age Mod Manager is easiest), you can actually see what you're typing now. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1110 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mesh Lightmap Fixes Fixes several issues with light\shadow calculation on models that can result in some odd graphical glitches. http://social.bioware.com/project/2637/#files ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Misha the Hoarder Adds a quartermaster to the party camp whom, as an act of penance for her sister's actions, gives your group some free items. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=192# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minor Tactics Table Fixes Fixes a few enemy behaviors as indicated in the developers' design notes and a few inconsistencies. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=659 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ More Encounters DA Awakenings Creates more random encounters in the course of the Awakening campaign (closer to the Origins campaign's levels). http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3394 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ More Hairstyles Adds several new hairstyles to the game. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=392 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Combine with Tucked Hair, etc in the Chargen Morph Compiler if you want to be able to use several hair\eye\makeup mods at once. NPCs should still be able to access these hairs regardless, however. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Morrigan Restoration Patch Dialog Fixpack Restores several cutscenes and party banters involving Morrigan. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1120 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Morrigan Sacred Ashes Trailer Robes Alters the appearance of Morrigan's robes to more resemble those in the Sacred Ashes trailer. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1902 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Morrigan True Concept Art Edition Makes Morrigan strongly resemble her concept art, hood, makeup, and all. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3348 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NPC Equipment Refinement Makes off-duty guardsmen play cards without their armor on, gives some NPCs a little more appropriate clothes. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1938 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Author says he uses it alongside Improved Atmosphere with no noticable issues but admits there may be some minor incompatibilities. In this case, you'll want to look for .utc files in either mod and delete the one you'd prefer not to have. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NoPink Warden Commander Prevents the Warden Commander from turning pink, orange, etc when it scales up to certain equipment tiers. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=678 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Personal Annoyance Remover Reduces how long the spell auras around your characters last. No more glowing while trying to sneak down a dark alley. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=98 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pets Persist Through Area Load Makes any pets summoned by a ranger remain summoned when moving to a new area. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=354 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quick Shapeshifting Makes shapeshifting instantaneous, as shown in cutscenes and trailers for Dragon Age Origins. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=84 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Not compatible with Shapeshift Plus. Choose one or the other. There is an "Instant" version of that mod as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Qunari Update Makes all Kossith- including Sten- more resemble the species as it appears in Dragon Age II. It should be noted that, according to lore, Qunari operatives in foreign countries tend to be either hornless Kossith or not Kossith at all, so as to intimidate the populace less and gain more intel for the Qunari. http://social.bioware.com/project/4592/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quests and Legends A phenomenal mod that, while keeping mostly to established lore, adds several new quests and areas to the game. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=2040 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ A bugfix patch can be found in "Manual Mods." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rak_DA2ishCullen Gives Cullen the same hairstyle and face structure he has in Dragon Age II. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3114 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Realistic Look High-quality nude skins for all dwarves, elves, and humans (and kossith?). http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=285 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Not compatible with the "Proportions Fix" series, which is essentially this without the nudity. Not likely compatible with Elf Update either. King Cailan's body, torture victims, several prisoners, etc are "naked" in the vanilla game, so don't be surprised. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Remove Green Glow Master Ranger DAO and DAA Removes the glowing light surrounding summoned ranger pets when you're a master ranger. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3160 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rescaled Swords and Daggers Resizes several weapons to be a little more realistic (also makes the massive Qunari sword clearly meant for the height of a Kossith. http://social.bioware.com/project/2275/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Retextured Lady of the Forest Fixes several odd graphic artifacts on the Lady of the Forest's skin (looks like cellulite) and actually *gives* her nipples. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return to the Kocari Wilds Return to the wilds and come to the aid of a few scattered members of King Cailan's royal guard. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1432 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Compatible with Ser Gilmore NPC, in spite of adding two more companions to the game. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sacred Ashes Spider Shapeshifting Increases the size of the spider form to that seen in the Sacred Ashes trailer. As a side effect, also affects spiders in the Deep Roads. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=2095 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ser Gilmore companion NPC - Fully Voiced Allows you to recruit the knight of Highever from the Noble Origin. Look for him in Lothering. Fully voiced, complete with party banter and romance options. Should be noted, however, that when in Howe's estate's dungeons later in the main quest, you'll briefly see a pile of corpses, Howe's torture victims, which seems to include a captured and killed Ser Gilmore, though the game doesn't focus on this corpse and a Noble-origin Warden won't react to the discovery any more than a Warden of another origin. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=851 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Companion Core.dazip needs to be installed as well. In the "manual mods" folder is an "Override-Overwrite" file for Ser Gilmore *if* you're still having compatibility issues with other mods. Shouldn't be an issue though if you make sure to use the Ser Gilmore versions of mods. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ser Gilmore and Dog companions in Awakening - Fully Voiced Brings Ser Gilmore *and* your Marbari warhound over into the Awakening expansion, accounting for whether or not you had previously met either of them in Origins. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3210 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Requires that the main Ser Gilmore mod be installed as well. Should *only* be activated when you're playing Awakening. Author also recommends you deactivate\uninstall any mods which are intended for Awakening while playing Origins and vice versa. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shapeshifter Plus (Normal and Instantaneous Transformation versions) Allows a Master-level shapeshifter to transform into a dragon like Flemeth and makes all shapeshifter forms level along with the user of those spells, along with a few balancing tweaks to make each form have clearer pros and cons. http://social.bioware.com/project/1317/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shield Scale Mod Scales the size of shields to be a tad more realistic (bucklers that aren't the size of a tower shield, etc). http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1714 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sigrun's Roguish Past & Law and Order Fix Keeps Mischa from vanishing after the Law and Order Quest, allowing you more time to do Sigrun's personal quest. http://social.bioware.com/project/3129 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shadow Wardens Armor (Store version) A "dark" variation on Duncan's armor, as a younger Duncan is described wearing in "The Calling" novel. Bought from Bodahn in camp. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=215 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sleeping Tent in Party Camp Adds a tent for the Warden themselves in camp. Nothing more than eye candy. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=735# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Smarter Party DAO and DAA Changes NPC AI so that ranged fighters, in particular, will avoid melee combat and area effect damage. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3153 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Will definitely conflict a little with Advanced Tactics but does most of what it does anyway. It's just not as customizable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Statistics Fix - Bosses Killed Makes the game accurately keep track of how many bosses you've killed. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=194 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Templars of Ferelden - Armors Gives all Templars their armor from Dragon Age II (Captains wear the armor you see Templar Captain Meredith in). http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3256 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tiered Uniques Makes many of the unique items in the game have statistics similar or better than their non-unique counterparts, regardless of when they can be found in-game. This holds up considering their descriptions in the Codex. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=42 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Improved Atmosphere addresses some incompatibilities in its readme file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Broken City Sequel to "Fragments of Ferelden," this quest mod also ties up loose ends from "Dirge of Coldhearth." http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=2089 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Carrion Birds A quest mod following the conclusion of the Origins campaign. Very polished. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1910 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Some are suggesting that this campaign has affected the official campaigns on their systems. For this reason it's recommended not to keep this mod active while you play the main game and vice versa. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ True Dalish 1-2 Adds more atmosphere to the Dalish by giving them more tattoos, armor and equipment where they had none, etc. Fantastic mod. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1932 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ *May* conflict with Improved Atmosphere's Dalish camp files, but that's easily resolved by deleting any duplicate files first if you're using Improved Atmosphere. You'll want to look for .utc files (these determine what an NPC is wearing on their person). Should be noted that the maker of True Dalish and other players report they're using these mods together without significant issues. Probably will conflict with the Merrill\Marethari DA2 mod, but again the conflicting files in this mod can be deleted as necessary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tucked Hair Adds "tucked" versions of several vanilla hairstyles to the game. http://social.bioware.com/project/2595/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Combine with More Hairstyles, etc in the Chargen Morph Compiler if you want to be able to use several hair\eye\makeup mods at once. NPCs should still be able to access these hairs regardless, however. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Uncapped Elemental Damage Bonus Allows you- and enemies- to stack elemental damage past 30%, allowing you to make use of items which claim to add more elemental damage than this cap would otherwise actually allow. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1544 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Universal Voices Makes all voicesets be available to a character from any race, with "low" voices being Dwarves' and "high" voices being Elves'. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1512 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Unlock All Achievements Does exactly what the title of the mod suggests. http://social.bioware.com/project/524/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vigilance-Starfang Fix Fixes Vigilance's graphics in Awakening so that it doesn't share Starfang's graphics if the Warden's Keep DLC is installed. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=874 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Warden Armour Textures Texture pack for "Grey Wardens of Ferelden" that gives the Warden armor a brown pattern rather than a blue one like in the Warden's Calling trailer. This may reflect Ferelden's Grey Warden colors, with blue being those of the Free Marshes and Kirkwall. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3304 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Naturally requires Grey Wardens of Ferelden, and subsequently Kirkwall Exports. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Warden Shields Makes the Grey Warden shields seen in the Warden's Calling and Sacred Ashes trailers available for purchase in camp. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=671 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Weapon VFX Remover Removes the visual effects of natturally-enchanted or rune-enchanted weapons. The idea is that only spell-enchanted weapons would have, say, fire clinging to them (because the element had been cast onto the weapon). http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=297 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ There's one of these in Improved Atmosphere too. You've got to choose between the two. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ZevRing Turns the earring Zevran might give you into an actual accessory you can equip and use, sort of like Morrigan's ring. http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=865# ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Has some compatiblity issues with ZDF Dialog Fix, but information on how to fix these can be found in the notes for that mod. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THAT'S ALL FOR NOW. KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THE RELEASE OF "THE HIDDEN CIRCLE," WHICH LOOKS PHENOMENAL AND TIES IN WITH DRAGON AGE II. http://social.bioware.com/project/4036/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRyb-RyQ1Ko