Mods

Modifications (mods) is player created material that improves the game in different ways (like fixing bugs or improve texture resolution). Mods is only available on PC and no other platforms.

Dragon Age: Origins Toolset
Bioware released a Dragon Age toolset where players can customize the appearace of the npc's and other useful things. It's a free program and can be downloaded here.

To learn the basics there is a site that covers all that you need to know to get started. -

Where to find mods
One of the most popular sites for finding mods is Dragonagenexus but alot of people also upload their mods at the bioware social network site. All mods are completly free, however many constructors appreciate a donation.

Popular mods
This is some of the most popular mods at the moment.

Dragon Age Mod Manager - Helps with installing the mods and keeping track of which mods you currently have installed. -

JBtextures - "Gives the game new, resized textures (Using fractal method, fake HDR and photoshop methods)." -

Dragon Age redesigned - "This mod will redesign the WHOLE of the NPCs in Dragon Age to fix skin issues, face proportions, personality mismatches, gender identification, race identification, etc. to better fit the lore of Dragon Age." -

Pineappletree s Vibrant Colors - "This adds 48 new hair & eyebrow colors, 40 new skin tones and 30 new eye colors to the Character Creator and replaces the 11 eye colors originally shipped with DA:O." -

Character Respecialization - "This addon allows the player to reset the base attributes, specialization points, spells, talents and skills of the hero character and any of the party members to the default values and returns the remaining points so they can be spent again." -