Just to respond to one of the earlier posts, talking about the drawbacks of playing as the dark urge. I’m playing as the dark urge right now, but as a resisting one, and I haven’t had any issues with losing the “good” companions honestly. Can’t you play as a “good” dark urge? Granted, I’m only halfway through act one, but the good companions all have very high approval of me and Astarion hates me.
You can have same playthrough as good Tav, except a certain unimportant NPC bard that will not survive. I would say Good Durge playthrough it's much better than good Tav since you're tied directly to the plot.
