This thread has made me horribly glad that I'm completely uninterested in the romances for DA2. Aveline and Varric are my BFFs, and all the other chumps can suck it. The amount of metagaming required to get the romances to work is absolutely stupid. If you want to actually RP your character (*gasp*! Who on earth would want to do that in an RPG!) you end up with all the LI's being more or less neutral with your PC.

Perhaps I'm the chump for not wanting to play a mage. Once these bastards give me my sister back, I want an option to burn Kirkwall down behind me.