Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)
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I picked the edgiest start, The Dark Urge. :p
I really liked that they made an origin character with a baked in story but didn't give it strong characterization so you could customize it entirely. I really like the origin stories but feel as little constrained sometimes.
Planning to explore the new powers so went Vengeance Paladin for a decent face who can still rush in.
Well for which first playthrough?
For my solo good playthrough I'm going half elf lore bard.
For friend A playthrough I'm going high elf storm sorcerer.
For friend B I'm going half orc battle master fighter.
For friends C and D I'm going our original DND characters so half elf rogue
Solo play, doing a paladin and making a very conscious effort to not use the brain slug powers.
In my play through with friends, I'm a monk.
In EA I tried the eldritch knight, a moon druid, and beast master ranger.
I am playing old human bearded Wizard. I found a wizard hat to cover my balding head. I am looking to learn find familiar so I can have a pet.
Half-drow dark urge warlock. Interesting reactions to my race so far.
High Elf Sorcerer. I was torn between Sorcerer, Rogue and Monk.
Played a few hours last night. It seems very well balanced on the medium difficulty. Fights were the right amount of challenging.
I can’t decide between half orc barbarian or drow warlock
Rural download speeds interfered with the planned multiplayer run, so I've started a human (basically just for shield prof) GOOlock gish* playthrough (party not nailed down, but probably primarily Gale/Shadowheart/Karlach) so I can scratch the itch without spoiling too much content for myself.
*Devil's Sight works and Pact of the Blade is in, let's go. :P Might multi into Rogue, Fighter or Pally (or maybe Sorc, although w/o weapon cantrips that's less synergistic now) to maximize the memes, but I haven't decided.
Doing a custom character for my multiplayer campaign with friends (I made a criminal halfling bard which I find hilarious) and on my solo playthrough I went with Wyll.
I'm playing a warlock/sorcerer half elf
I really wanted to play a Shadow Blade gish, but neither that spell, Bladesinger or the Blade-cantrips are in the game. There was a mod that added them for EA, but that obviously needs updating.
I probably can't make myself wait until they're updated, so I might make a Dark Urge Gloomstalker Assassin in the meantime. Maybe try adding in Shadow Monk instead of Fighter for a different, less powergamey flavour.
Duergar Oathbreaker Paladin.
I really like Duergar and they rarely get the playable character spotlight that Drow get, so it felt like a must.
Multiplayer: Tiefling Cleric of Ilmater, chronic good boy who feels he has to atone for a misspent youth. I felt inspired and ended up writing a page of backstory for him that I'm sure will never come into play, but maybe I'll play him on tabletop someday!
Singleplayer: Wanted to do an evil campaign to contrast, ended up playing way more of this one than multiplayer, oops. Male drow Assassin/Gloom Stalker to romance Minthara.
There are other companion romances I want to try out and so many builds that sound fun! And I have to play a Dragonborn at some point, they look so beautiful! It's really tempting to start another new campaign even though I'm not out of Act 1 yet!
For MP, I think I've settled on Tiefling Pally. She'll be a bit of a dummy, but that's what happens when you get no formal education and are raised by a local preacher turned town defender.
I also wanna try a monk but I'm not sure yet how that goes. Maybe on my solo playthrough.
Trying to recreate my favorite tabletop character, a tiefling celestial bladelock. Probably gonna have to multiclass into cleric or druid for the heals and his backstory obviously can't be done, but he's a much better melee fighter than the tabletop version ever was.
Half-elf draconic sorcerer with charlatan background. I'm attempting to trick and persuade my way through Faerun and when that doesn't work, a fireball usually does.
I heard one of the devs said it's better not to pick an origin character for your first playthrough, so I made a custom one.
She's a mephistopheles tiefling bard noble. I'm trying to make a kind-hearted roleplaying character to compensate for the violent monk my friend made :P
I'm excited about all the different spells I can get, especially the "social" ones. There are so many options to choose from that I feel overwhelmed, in a good way :)
Did the dev give a reason for that? Just curious.
So that you first experience their stories as a third party, and later have the option of experiencing them from their own perspective.
For MP with my husband I'm doing a sorlock "anyway, I started blasting" halfelf. For single player I'm definitely doing dark urge but still haven't decided on a class even though I've had a long time to think about it...
As is tradition, my first run is as a Bard. What better class to handle conversations and record the lore? Mechanically speaking, I also play Bards because they are the "jack of all trades" class, and while it may not be true here, it was the class to solo party most D&D CRPGs I grew up with.
The bearfucker of course
Bard life!
I first picked Barbarian so I could mess with Athletics, then restarted and picked Warlock because I thought I'd save that fun for multiplayer, then restarted and picked Druid because I realized I want to do stuff I hadn't tried and don't recall seeing a druid companion in the trailers.