While mods for DA are fairly easy to use, one thing that may not be clear to new players is that they come in a variety of forms, each of which requires certain steps to get working in your game. Why use a mod? To customize your game to be more of what YOU want it to be, and to add hours of exciting new adventures beyond the amazing experience BioWare provided! At the end are some links to places for finding, evaluating, rating, and discussing the thousands (yes, thousands!) of DA mods. Others may have different tips, but with these you can get enough of the basics to figure out what you're doing. This Guide does NOT provide instructions for any particular mod, or contain any discussion of how to use the 'Toolset' or the in-game 'Command Console'.

While they are considered 'unofficial', BioWare produced and released the 'Dragon Age Toolset' specifically to allow and promote the creation of these mods. This document describes how to get modifications (mods) for BioWare's Dragon Age (DA) to work in your game.

How to use mods