"It's loud," he said. As someone accustomed to stealth tactics, having any weapon whose use automatically announced one's precise position seemed counter-intuitive. He hadn't yet learned any tactics to compensate for that.

"Yes, but the technology here vastly complicates things. Force fields, electronic locks, all but impregnable vehicles. Also when we're sent into their past, we have no way of knowing what they have. We go in mostly blind. No matter where I went in Thedas, I was guaranteed to have some idea of what to expect. Not so here."