Welcome to Dragon Age Nexus, the third Nexus site. Nexus sites are community driven file sites that allow file authors (mods, utilities and images) to upload their work in an easy to use and maintain interface for others to view, download and use.

If you have never used a Nexus site before then a hearty welcome, it might take a little while to get used to where everything is but I highly recommend joining the 1,250,000 other members of the site and forums and experiencing and adding to what this community has to offer.

If you are a modder for Dragon Age: Origins and have already created some work then I would like to encourage you to sign up if you haven't already got an account here and start uploading your work to the site. There are thousands of Dragon Age players out there desperate to check out the first of the mods available for the game.

If you're here looking for your modding fix then please bare with us as the community starts to grind its gears in to motion. Hopefully over the next couple of weeks you'll begin to see the site grow and some of the more advanced features of the site, such as the Top 100 (not currently visible) and the tag search will become more prominent.

In the mean-time why not make yourself known in our forums? If you have questions (or answers) then it's often best to direct them to the Nexus forums as there are plenty of people willing to help there. If you would like to help me then you might want to take a look at the categories I've put up in the file database and suggest new categories, or suggest which categories to remove as you see it. I'm always looking for feedback.

I guess there's a few questions that need answering at launch, so if you're interested in finding out more about the whys and whats of the site then read on!


Why launch Dragon Age Nexus?
I've had my eye on Dragon Age: Origins for yonks now, and when I heard that BioWare were going to be making their own community site for hosting mods I was intrigued to see what they could come up with and how they would maintain it.

Perhaps most interesting was whether BioWare would be willing to host the more mature mods that inevitably crop up with any modable game (nude mods, ultra-violent mods, etc.). While it is easy to understand why BioWare would not be willing to endorse these files they would still need a place to host their work, and Nexus sites have always been open communities with low censorship barriers. That isn't to say we don't censor or remove mods that break our rules and we certainly won't accept anything and everything, but in the past we've been willing to allow many things due to our adult-only/not safe for work settings in the member preferences area.

The community site has some good ideas and it's obvious a good effort has been made on it, however there are quite a few community breakers in it that need/needed to be addressed quickly. Probably most important is the lack of searching and categorisation within the files area that will make looking for completed files a real chore as the database becomes more full. I've yet to see a BioWare developer post on these quite fundamental problems, probably because they're either taking a hard earned break after launching the game, or more likely, they're busy on other more important work right now.

I, on the other hand, have nothing better to do ;) While only one person I can dedicate more time to upgrading and specialising the site as and when necessary. Which leads in to...


What are Nexus sites?
Nexus sites have their roots in a series of sites for the Elder Scrolls games that started back in August of 2001. In 2006 the sites became a single site, specialised for serving the modding community using a completely custom-coded system made by myself. They've become increasingly popular within the Bethesda community (Morrowind, Oblivion and Fallout 3) with over 1.25 million members registered to date.

You won't see any sites using the same system as Nexus sites on the internet; the code isn't open source (because I'm awful at releasing good code). Because the code is my own it makes it easy to modify, upgrade and add new features to the site as necessary.

The focus is always on providing a simple to use yet advanced system for both file authors and file downloaders while trying to accommodate the wishes of as many users of the community as possible.



I'll be private messaging a lot of the users who have already released work for Dragon Age over the next couple of days to invite them to add their content to the game (if you don't get a PM please don't be insulted!). Please remember; we don't allow anyone other than the file owner or someone with the file owner's permission to upload to Nexus sites. It's only common courtesy that the people who spend the time to create great works for us all are given the freedom to pick how and where their files are hosted. If you would like to gently encourage the authors you know to post their work here then that would be great.

Let the modding begin!