Dragon Age is probably Bioware’s most acclaimed and important franchise, right along with Mass Effect.

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The excellent storytelling, interwoven with character development and fantastic worldbuilding, is masterfully delivered in every entry. This has undoubtedly helped catapul Dragon Age to its current worldwide popularity.

With the release of Dragon Age 4 still beyond the horizon, playing through the previous games is probably a great way to spend some time.

If you’re about to start a new playthrough of Dragon Age: Origins, then you can’t miss the chance to try modding it for a more unique experience.

30. Realistic Worldmap

Dragon Age: Origins’ world map does many things right in its attempt to look like a real medieval map, but it isn’t perfect.

This simple mod is meant to increase its historical accuracy and all-around realism by making it less colorful and more like actual parchment paper.

Among other things, it makes the paper less yellowish – as it hasn’t aged yet – and changes the blood marks from red to brown, like real bloodstains look after a while.

It’s available in several languages, so there’s no reason to pass it by!

29. Personal Annoyance Remover

While the colorful map might have been considered unrealistic to some, I’m sure having a flaming sword on your back and receiving no damage whatsoever is considerably worse.

This simple mod changes a good amount of personal aura and weapon effects to be less long-lived. After sheathing your elemental sword or casting a protective spell, its visual effects will fade away in an instant.

Arcane Might, Death Magic, Rally, and Shimmering Shield are only some of the many spells affected by this change.

If you don’t like your battlefield looking like a carnival, this is a sensible choice.

28. Drakes N Dragons Resized

After experiencing the towering beasts that are the High Dragons in Dragon Age: Inquisition, it’s hard not to look at DA:O’s run-of-the-mill drakes and dragons and not think they’re missing some pounds.

This mod endeavors to make these scaled creatures much more menacing by increasing their size. With it, they’ll stand a full 25% taller, and they’ll be that much intimidating.

They may not reach the size of a High Dragon, but it’s much better and lore-friendly. After all, these are supposed to be incredibly powerful creatures.

You could probably make them even bigger, but they’d probably start clipping through the environment.

27. Auto Loot

A Quality-of-Life improvement that’s useful in almost every single RPG is Auto Loot, meant to save you a lot of time whenever you’re cutting down hordes of enemies.

With this mod installed, any items found on a dying enemy will be automatically added to your inventory – as long as there’s room for it.

It can be wonky with a couple of missions that require you to loot specific items from fallen foes, but other than that, this is a must-have.

It’ll make your playthroughs much faster without you having to dash through the dialogue.

26. Starting Armors

Most games that allow you to choose your race, class, or social station also give you some relevant starting equipment to help you feel immersed in your role from the very first second.

Starting Armors will do the same for you in DA:O, outfitting Rogues with elven armor, dressing human nobles in haughty clothes, and much more. If you want, you can even change the mod’s configuration easily and choose which armor goes to which character type.

Just take into account that this mod relies on several armor mods to work. These include the Ferelden Pack, Loincloth Fashion, Viva La Orlais, and the Witcher Pack.

25. Sten of the Beresaad

DA:O’s Sten was one of the first Qunari to appear in the series, back when their design and backstory weren’t as defined as they are now.

The Sten of the Beresaad mod changes his meshes and morph to look considerably more like a “modern” Qunari.

It also makes him look more like he does in promotional material, like the Sacred Ashes trailer.

If you’re beautifying your Dragon Age experience, you have to give the gray muscleman a facelift.

24. Universal Dye Kit

Letting you re-color your equipment is one of the oldest tricks in the book to give players more variety when it comes to customizing their playable character – and their companions!

The Universal Dye Kit expands the somewhat limited vanilla possibilities by letting you use custom tints fabricated through the Online Tint Creator.

Once everything is set-up, you can buy an unlimited-use potion from several in-game vendors that’ll let you paint everything you have equipped with the aforementioned custom tint.

It’s a bit unwieldy, but it’ll get the job done.

23. Boob Patches Begone

If we’re nitpicking, I think a lot of the female armor in DA:O looks pretty bad – and no item is as immersion-breaking as vanilla female mage armor.

While I’m not against highlighting a character’s proportions with some smart costume design, the weird leather vest thing under this armor’s chest area makes no sense.

With Boob Patches Begone, this little detail is removed to let the fabric flow down to the waist in a more natural manner. It looks much better.

22. DAO Mod Manager

If you’re going to be modding Dragon Age: Origins, most modders would recommend the DAO Mod Manager to help you in the process.

Not only is it a requisite for some particular mods, but it’ll make your life much more comfortable in general.

Especially if you plan to install a whole bunch of mods here.

With this, you can install and enable mods, disable and uninstall them, and even control your mod load order without that much trouble.

21. No Helmet Hack

One of the oldest conundrums RPG lovers have to face is whether to choose their equipment for its looks or stats.

Helmets are especially troublesome, as they’ll generally cover the face and features you spent so much time customizing.

As its name suggests, the No Helmet Hack helps you keep your team’s faces visible by removing the helmet from view. It’s still equipped and will provide both its stats and set bonuses, but from the invisible “cloak” equipment slot.

You can even choose whose helmets are visible and whose aren’t from the mod’s settings.

Thank god this is a vanilla feature in Dragon Age: Inquisition.

20. Lock Bash

So, you’re telling me that my team of overpowered mages, rogues, and warriors don’t have the combined strength to bust open a simple lock?

Come on! That’s not immersive at all.

Iatkos mountain lion. Luckily for us, the Lock Bash mod is here to set things straight. It introduces a lock-bashing option where your character’s strength determines whether you can bash open a door, and how many items will be lost by destroying a locked chest.

You can also get it with a 100% guaranteed success rate if that’s what you’re looking for.

19. FTG Quickbar – Center and Multirows

If you’ve been playing MMOs like World of Warcraft for a while, you’re probably used to having a nigh-unlimited amount of slots on your quickbar to easily access skills, items, and the like.

FollowTheGourd’s Quickbar mod makes the vanilla quickbar in DA:O more user-friendly, giving you more centering options and multiple rows that’ll let you have up to fifty available slots for your quick-access needs.

It also fixes a couple of bugs users had found with extra-wide displays, which are much more common now than in 2008 when DA:O first came out.

18. Morrigan Restoration Patch

The not-so-friendly Witch of the Wilds had a lot more planned for her than what can be found in the vani

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