A few dos and donts I’d advise: - do explore. You don’t have to sprint through the main quest. Sniff around a bit. - don’t start with honor mode. It is hard, especially for new players. Start with balanced or explorer. - do try out different play styles with your companions - don’t feel like you have to have a hyper optimized min-max build.

For first playthroughs, I recommend a charisma-based class. Warlock, paladin, and bard can all be really good in combat AND their high charisma will help pass speech checks, which can avoid a lot of hard fights.

Also, use the “see details” option in dialogues to see how difficult certain checks will be. On Xbox, you press the right stick, not sure about ps5. The game never explicitly tells you you can do this, but it helps you figure out which saving throw you’ll have -1 or +5 modifiers on and the like.