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

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 :)

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.

Dark Urge Gith Warlock, great old one patron.

Already had two extra tenants in my head, three’s a party with the tadpole.

It’s gonna be dark.

The bearfucker of course

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.

Bard life!

I’ve gone hexblade Warlock. I had one going in a DND campaign as an attempt to import Dante from DMC into it, which didn’t work out but turned out to be a fun class anyways.

I was really tempted to play The Dark Urge.

halfling rogue because i am a stereotype.

No idea what am doing but I want to speak to animals and trees.

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!

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 since they are decent at everything from fighting and casting, to picking locks and persuasion.

He’s also a Gold Dragon born, but I made his scale colors look like he’s from a Cyberpunk music video (magenta and cyan with a metallic sheen).

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.

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.