Dragon Age: Origins - An Idea

[Niklas]

Naw, Broodmother will probably be dropped along with High Dragon, Ogre Alpha and Archdemon; I wanted to include them but there doesn't seem to be a logical way to do it through narrative... the characters are hardly likely to miss two huge dragons and a boob-creature... and I want to stay relatively loyal to the source material.

I think this is really the way to go. Staying close to the source material and making a believable scenario will make for a much more fun game, role-playing wise. Über-epic but otherwise nonsensical scenarios are only appealing for the 1337 kidz.

A low-key, down-to-earth, gritty battle between blood mages and templars, neither of which cares the least about collateral damage, would be pure awesome. Or perhaps a setting with werewolves vs the mages the cursed them? Or a factioned game featuring various dwarven noble houses, vying for the throne? Or a landsmeet, with the players being various Banns, and the mafia being Orlesian spies trying to overthrow the nation? Geez, you could make a whole series of DA:O games here, so don't use up all the cool ideas for a single game!