Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
Elf-Commoner was a great one. Though I did it as a male, it is apparently different as a female.
My personal favourites are Dwarf Noble, Human Noble and City Elf.

The Dwarf Noble is probably the best; the origin captures the intrigue of Orzammar's socio-economic and political aspects while highlighting the constant battle against the criminal underworld and the Darkspawn. There's so much narrative in such a short space of time that it's never enough to play the origin once, but to go at it repeatedly from every facet until you know every single outcome.

The Human Noble, to me, feels like the way the game was meant to be played; while the Dwarf Noble has the best origin story, I feel that the Human counterpart has the overall better storyline (in length and breavity) across the course of the game, the highlight being the confrontations with Arl Howe and Queen Anora, in particular. Besides, Tim Curry is awesomeness, could listen to his evil-laden tones all day long. xD

As for the City Elf, I loved the marital aspect and how it was ruined by the Human overlords, and then the subsequent revenge plot and eventual intervention of Duncan. Much better from the female perspective, too.

I think I'm going with the Dwarf Noble origin as an initial story, just need to iron out the mechanics; I'm thinking of changing the hitpoints thing to static Attack and Defense stats that determine the relative success of actions, which would be increased/reduced by specs, items and abilities/spells. Not sure yet.