

Your weight will affect the game quite a bit! After playing this game on the PC and Xbox360 for several hundred hours I can safely say that HEAVY IS BETTER, 99% of the time. The eternal ferrystone is how you fast-travel around Gransys, and you use it like you use healing items or a lantern you press “–” to open up your item menu, the select the eternal ferrystone from the Tools category and choose “use.WEIGHTUse thicker gut, wider thighs, and beefier arms to make your character heavier (or go the other way for lighter) during character creation.

Several of them are powerful bonus items added to the game after its initial release, like the set of queen’s clothing, or the vagabond’s armor. Once you make it to Gran Soren, you will find a variety of items already waiting in your storage (just talk to the innkeeper). You’re going to find a lot a weird stuff in Gransys: monster parts and sour meat and plants and skulls and other questionable loot. If you’re a completionist, you should consider playing Dragon’s Dogma with a guide that lays out where and when to complete various sidequests. Gran Soren is the capital city, and it’s where you find most of the merchants, quest-givers, and other items of interest for your journey. Why not use this opportunity to put some positivity out into the world? When you send a pawn back, you have the option to give it a rating, add a comment, and choose a gift.
You do that by entering the Rift and enlisting the pawns that other players have created. After you and your pawn, you have two additional party member slots to fill. The introductory hours give you a second chance to go through character creation, this time making an A.I.- controlled pawn who will be by your side for the entire game. Beyond the three basic vocations, you soon get three advanced vocations and three hybrid vocations, and part of what makes combat in Dragon’s Dogma so fun is playing around with the different styles and seeing which ones you like. As soon as you gain control of your character, you need to pick a weapon that determines your vocation (i.e. You can change your hero later (sort of) Lots of people (me included) spend too much time agonizing over the details on the character creation screen.
