Did you pick one of the origin characters? The free-form “origin” character The Dark Urge? A totally custom character?

And what class are you picking and excited about?

  • Fubar91@lemmy.world
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    Custom.

    Way of the shadow monk. Named Naruto Uchiha. He’s a dwarf with pineapple shaped yellow hair. Its a monstrosity built purely to meme with my friends playthrough. Its great.

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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.

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    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 :)

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    Custom human paladin. I’m super vanilla with my choices so lawful good avoiding using my worm at all costs.

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    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.

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    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

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    Never played any of the previous Baldur’s Gate games, despite being a PC gamer since the early 90s. I don’t know how, but there you have it.

    I’m playing a Githraki Sorcerer. I’m really enjoying it so far.

    My only issue is that I’m having trouble getting used to the movement and camera controls. Other than some time on the original NWN games back in the day, I’ve only been playing Diablo games and FPS for decades, so I don’t know if I’m missing something or if I’m just too accustomed to those types of controls. Or I’m just getting too old. 😁

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      I am old. Playing with a controller is way easier. You move the character and the camera follows you.
      I didn’t like the keyboard/mouse curser click character move and having to move the camera to him.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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…