Rizzen

I've tried them all except for Dwarf Commoner. Haven't yet played through with all my characters to see how things have changed, but I enjoyed the City Elf one (as a female character) more than the others so far. Mages origin being a close second and the Dalish one at the bottom. Kulyok does bring up a good point about the Dalish one however, never looked at it that way yet.

I haven't had too much trouble so far. Finished my first playthrough as a 2H human noble warrior. Ended up playing the majority of the game with Alistair, Morrigan and Wynne. Never needed to go below normal difficulty. Going to go for an Arcane Warrior as my main this time through. Curious as to how it will work out. Think I'll bring along Shale, Zev/Frenchie and someone else this time through.

Tactics wise, CoC and Winter's Grasp are both godly. Blizzard + Earthquake as well. Or either of those + the massive aoe death cloud(cloudkill anyone?). Other than those, Crushing Prison and Forcefield are godsends as well. Usually went about throwing those down on enemy mages while my main + Alistair mopped up the rest. Holy balls Alistair was a beast with

I sense that in the future, this will become a must have.  Looking forward to release.