I love DA:O, and really the only disappointment for me has been Leliana’s Song (didn’t buy the feastday stuff).

Esri

*slinks away to throw yet more money at Bioware*

While this expansion has quite a nice story, it is still quite bugged, save before the Wending Woods, there are plot stoppers and chances to lose gear permanently there.

I simply love Claudia Black aka the voice of Morrigan. She is better than phone sex and usually gets to play very special female characters, like Morrigan or Vala in Stargate. Her sultry voice is the showcase example for proper voice acting and how it can enhance the gameplay experience.

Short rating of the DLCs:

Warden’s Keep:
PRO: Gives players a stash to store stuff, the best sword in Dragon Age 1, and a perfect place to upgrade armor like Cailan’s Armor through selling/rebuying to the smith there.
The story is also very nice and it is quite a chunk of extra content
CON: The special abilities gained are not as valuable or fun to use though. The stash should have been in the game right away, not to be patched in manually or through buying this DLC.

The Stone Prisoner:
PRO: You get a Golem, very humorous story, Shale is a lot of fun. Also interesting is that the story is split up, you get to visit the place where Shale was created late in the game. Very well integrated into the main story.
CON: Shale is weak, hard to find a use for this golem, its abilities usually cannot compare to those of other specialized party members.

Return to Ostagar:
PRO: Tons of cool weapons and armors that can be upgraded easily by selling/rebuying. Cailan’s Armor is the highlight, it is even after Awakening the best or 2nd best (compared to Sentinel Armor) massive armor in the game, due to the extremely low fatigue value.
CON: Weak and short story, this is basically an item-sale of the Kings Armor and his weapons.

Feastday Gifts/Pranks:
PRO: none
CON: I shall pay cash for this??? Should have been a free Valentine’s gift. You can basically alter approval of a char to +100 or lower it. This is a cheat item sale, but you can do this for free by using the console, so what.

Darkspawn Chronicles:
PRO: You get to play all kinds of Darkspawn, and they are very well balanced – you get to fight strong party NPCs, you can kill Alistair, Sten, Zhevran, Wynne, etc… The combat is very challenging, especially if you want to keep your initial Ogre alive. A combat oriented expansion, but with very cool cutscenes and I was really surprised how fun it was.
CON: Despite the more challenging and fun combat (I loved playing a Shriek in Assassin style) and the quite good story, at the core it is a “X vs Y” style experience and offers no quests and has the most linear replay experience.

Leliana’s Song:
PRO: Very cool gangster-style intro of the young Leliana and her companions. Strong story. Marjolaine makes for a great villain! There is also well balanced combat, not too hard, not too easy – very well done. Maybe the best DLC.
CON: It is so good that it feels rather short – it probably is not.

Golems of Amgarrak:
PRO: Puzzles, Dungeon environment. Great gear – your companion starts out with kickass gear you can also get in Awakening, for example. Also quite nice story and puzzles as mentioned.
CON: The final fight with the Harvester is, unlike the whole DLC, extremely hard. But what means hard? Hit SPACE every 5 seconds to make people swallow potion after potion after potion. Do this for some 10 minutes, most of the time spent pausing and unpausing the game – then you get the achievement to have killed the Harvester on “HARD”. This beast is already about as nasty on normal, it only gets more annoying. Somewhat disappointing boss fight, a bit like a raid boss with random phases.

DSC, LS and GoA unlock various really good items for Dragon Age and Awakening.

My favorites?
1. Leliana’s Song
2. Warden’s Keep
3. Stone Prisoner – only because of the cool demon

Amgarrak and DSC are hard to compare, they are both fun in their special way.

The worst DLC are the gifts/pranks and Ostagar, which is a pure item sale. But hey, you get premium armor there.

And now off to download moar Morrigan!

Classic Week is a loving parody of MMOs with raid-inspired boss fights, like .hack// for WoW. It runs about 6 hours and provides significantly more challenge than the base game: http://social.bioware.com/project/2647/

Fragments of Ferelden is a 3 hour solo adventure in a Dragon Age/D&D mashup universe. It’s less polished than Classic Week (I released it within a couple of months of the toolset becoming available), but it’s been very popular: http://social.bioware.com/project/1504/

Self-promotion aside, AmstradHero’s Alley of Murders is one of the highest-quality and most popular add-ins to the original campaign, and a worthy rival to the DLC: http://social.bioware.com/project/1398/

Kal-Sharok is a great stand-alone that fits in nicely to the DA:O lore: http://social.bioware.com/project/1532/

There’s a community wiki listing available mods here: http://code.google.com/p/dragon-age-open-house/wiki/BSN_IndexPlayers