Interesting! I think the companion classes affect the player class choice a lot. Paladin, Bard, and Sorc are all classes that no companion has, which also make good face characters. And nobody needs two Clerics, Shadowheart has you covered.
I'm wondering if The Dark Urge counts as a custom character. It's pretty much custom+some backstory.
If you play as an origin character, you don't get to hear all that origin character's dialogue, right? Most of the voice acting is replaced with text choices?
I was playing with friends and one of them (male dwalf who looks like Caesar, named Little Caesar) killed Lae'zel and took her armour. He wears it because it has better stats but my good his little hairy dumpy ass is poking out the back of it and it's absolutely cursed
I would doubt it. Power builds like double hand crossbow are pretty classic DnD and they don't really affect anyone other than the player since it's a "single player" game for the most part. So why not let those people have their busted builds, same as you have that one person in the tabletop group that minmaxs hardcore.