Dragon Age: Inquisition

- I've not noticed any specs or classes being bad enough that you should avoid them. I'm a bit unclear on how some of the rogue specializations work with bows, specifically how well Assassin combos with a bow, but then I've not tried it personally. From the DA thread, everything more or less seems to work. Besides, respecs are cheap (sold by the blacksmith), though bear in mind that you cannot undo your chosen specialization, only the points put into it.

- Speaking of specializations, you need to run a certain war table mission in Skyhold to get the trainers to show up.

- Don't be afraid to advance the plot. The areas you open up, stay open after you go on the next plot mission, so clearing all areas before advancing isn't required to avoid missing stuff.

- Always bring a warrior, a rogue and a mage in your party for general exploring, in order to be able to open/interact with the class-specific things (break walls, pick locks, light veilfire torches respectively).

- On the PC, you can avoid waiting for missions to complete by simply setting your computer clock forward and restarting the game.

- The "extra dialogue" perks come up quite infrequently, and you probably wouldn't miss them. They can make a difference though (one let me recruit an agent I wouldn't otherwise get, another gave me a compromise option during a judgement, that might have otherwise pissed some of the companions off). I'm still not sure they are worth a perk, but YMMV. You can expect to unlock 9-12 perks over a game, depending on how much side content you do.

- Agents you recruit show up in the perks list, and they count towards the "need X points in this category" requirements of other perks.

- Judging by the DA thread, the dwarf PC doesn't get as many race-specific dialogue options as the elf or the qunari.

- Research items dropped by creatures go in the Valuables tab. Normally everything there is vendor trash, but these also appear there, so be careful about using the Sell All button (or just make a habit of handing them in before you vendor your trash).