The cheerful stroll of doom happened a few times to me - companions run into fire or acid or just use a big jump to follow the selected character ( and ignoring ladders, stairs etc.) and nearly get themselves killed.
Archaven: about the tattoos: I don't remember reading anything in the rulebooks about tattoos, so I would guess, it is up to the player and what they like about their characters.
thanks for the highlights. i don't mind if tattoo offered to players as an option and perhaps some NPCs having them. but OP mentioned alot of NPCs having the random facial tattoo will be really immersion breaking if it ain't in accordance to the dnd lore. Hope Larian will address it and tone it down. And certainly hope they remove the chaining system. I believe there have been many similar discussions of it before. Really hope Larian can just dump it and perhaps just allow point and click / drag like the old baldur's gate game.