+1 to so much of this thread. My first playthrough I barely used long rest at all because it felt insane to do so given the urgency of my situation.
I also found that if you played with real sense of urgency then regardless of what type of person you were trying to be morally every seemingly reasonable option lead to you helping the same factions in the same way because the alternative appeared to be ceramorphosis.
The origins plot I'm currently most looking forward to exploring is Astarions because he has the most compelling in game reason thus far to not want his tadpole gone immediately.
