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?
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.
Multi into Trickster Cleric, so you can Invoke Duplicity for shadow clones. :P
Now that’s a good idea!
Isn’t that more of a Shikamaru thing? Using the shadows?
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.
Custom human paladin. I’m super vanilla with my choices so lawful good avoiding using my worm at all costs.
Until I read the second comment, I thought you meant your pant worm, and I respected your RP ethic. Still do I guess
LOL
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.
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.
Yup, this. You can recruit them in your party and see what they say about your actions, so you get to know them that way first.
Thanks and it makes sense.
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
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. 😁
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.You can have the camera move automatically by double clicking the character portrait or pressing the home key
More than half the time when I press the home key, the camera zooms in on my character but facing the front of my character which is almost never what I want.
How is that easier?
Mouse and keyboard is smooth as silk and controls resemble all other crpg’s
Half-drow dark urge warlock. Interesting reactions to my race so far.
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.
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.
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.
Custom Drow spore druid with 1 level in monk.
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.
Oh damn, I didn’t put it together that Wyll and Gale can both use shields. That’s very cool. I’m running a gith MC warlock with shadow/gale/Karlach and it’s feeling strong, but I now wish I’d just started with Wyll
Dark gnome thief. Finding out how bullshit the theft discovery mechanics are though.
