BioWare announces the Dragon Age tools and plans to demonstrate to toolset at Penny Arcade Expo at the end of this month (thanks Gamer's Hell). Word is:

Introducing the Dragon Age Toolset
The Dragon Age Toolset provides builders with powerful, developer-grade tools.
Key features include:

Create Original Adventures: Using Dragon Age's rich set of assets and locations as starting blocks, you can modify these stunning areas by adding new quests, characters and scripting to create your own adventures, conversations and cut-scenes.

Powerful Script Editor: You can fully customize combat and creature AI to create detailed action sequences full of heart-pounding party-based tactical combat.

On-Going Toolset Content Updates: We have plans to release additional assets and features for the toolset in the future, allowing for expanded creation of new areas.

Live Toolset Demonstration at the Penny Arcade Expo
The Dragon Age Toolset will be part of a stage demonstration during the Penny Arcade Expo, August 29-31, 2008, at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle, Washington.

At the time of this writing, you can attend the live demonstration scheduled to be on the PAX main stage Sunday, August 31, at 1:30 PM Pacific Time. For more PAX information and coverage please check out our Conferences 2008 web page.

Toolset Demonstration Highlights
At PAX, Dragon Age: Origins Producer Fernando Melo and Senior Designer Ferret Baudoin will be presenting a 45 minute overview of the toolset for Dragon Age fans.

The demonstration takes place in the Ruins of Ostagar area

A quick look at the extremely flexible Face Morphing feature

Clothing, armor and weapons will be selected giving a quick look at the variety

Enemy monsters will be selected and placed in the area

The new dialogue editor will be featured

The module created on stage will be played through live in the Dragon Age: Origins game

We hope to see you at PAX. Stay tuned for more toolset updates and information.