My first ever D&D character from my edgy teen phase. A dark elf wizard named Raphael the Dark, originating from R'lyeh, chaotic ~~evil~~ stupid with a penchant for world domination.

The campaign he was in lasted about 20mins as I've immediatelly attempted to kill my party but I've kept fond memories of it & when I was browsing the character creation options I realized I can make that character almost exactly - a Drow elf warlock with the eldritch patron, Dark urge origin who always chooses the dumbest evil dialogue option. It's going to be a blast

Bearbarian (barbarian 1/druid rest of levels) or Fighter 2 / wildheart Barbarian rest of levels. Either way, talking to animals is a must. I know you can use a potion but I like the underlying nature theme.

I usually make a Human Wizard that looks like me for these kinds of games. And that will be my first play through. Then I will pick an origin character.

It's nice to have so many options in making a custom character--I can come very close to having the character actually like like me. Kudo's Larian!

I haven’t looked at all the companions or class options yet, but I’m planning to play through a custom character first and origin characters later on. As such, I’ll probably try to play a class that isn’t covered in one of the origin characters.

Half Wood Elf Bard gonna smooch and swashbuckle my way to victory.

I quite fancy giving Monk a go. Looks interesting, and different to what I tend to go for. I'm purposely skipping early access and waiting for the full release. Can't wait!

No real builds in EA since there isn't any multiclassing, but I can say that their changes to Thief Rogue are going to make a splash. An extra Bonus Action was good in EA and will be even better combined with other classes namely Gloomstalker Ranger and Berserker Barbarian. We tried it at my tabletop group and it was so popular we've added the change to Fast Hands to our house rules.

I've wanted to try a paladin. But I'm a bit dwarf fighter kinda guy.

I think Seldarine Drow Battlemaster focusing on Archery. I have gotten exhausted keeping up with all the magic, so at least my character won't have any.

@academician TBH, no idea. One thing for sure — a “Tav” for the first play-through (not an origin, not a dark urge).

And not a multi-class as well. I want to go into the editor, play with all the options as they would be in the release build, and choose what would feel the best.

Played EA as a rogue and a druid, and out of these two liked druid more, so not excluding it. Probably a halfling or a gnome, but, again, would try everything in the editor.

Playthrough with the friend I always play these games with: SorcAdin

Playthrough with same friend and another friend who doesn't have a lot of time: Bard

Playthrough alone: Dark Urge Shadow Monk / Assassin

I'm thinking about a ranger build. I can't decide whether elf or drow or what subclass though.

Human Paladin or Cleric.

Before you're going to launch a tirade about the absolute necessity to be progressive diverse non-fascist, I don't give a damn about ideology, I'm planning to have fun playing the game:

• self-heal class: the best class
• companions aren't to be trusted: self-sufficient class required
• stat distribution: provides good social bonuses
• edge against undead: more than welcome
• armor and weaponry choice: great

Yeah I was also thwarted by the lack of Booming Blade. I had some ideas based on regular 5e, but I hadn't looked at what made it into the game until yesterday (I wanted to remain unspoiled until launch but, yeah).

I'm looking at some kind of Gish, but I'll explore more when the game is out. Ideally it won't be a SorcAdin (I dislike paladins), but perhaps that is the only viable vanilla approach at launch.

@academician@lemmy.world Just FYI, if you want to recreate your PNP character for your first run, there are mods out there that add Booming Blade (and more).

My wife and I are locked in on getting together with Astarion and Karlach, so to balance out the party she'll be rolling up a circle of spores druid and I'm torn between a cleric or paladin. I never really played divine casters in dnd but in bg3 I've become quite fond of them.

I plan for my first playthrough (I will be doing mutiple, likely simultaneously), to play with a group of friends I play dnd with, so my first character is likely going to be pretty flexible, to fill in around what they want to play. I have a preference for casters, especially gish casters, so Warlock/Paladin/Ranger are all pretty likely, but depending what is needed I could go for pretty much anything. (If it ends up a martial, I will probably prioritize subclasses w/ spells/spell-like abilities, EG Way of Shadow/Elements, Wild Magic, Eldritch Knight, Arcane Trickster, etc.)

Doing a Pally vengeance with 3 lvl of Warlock and maaaybe 1 lvl of rogue.. Depends a lot of what that level would cost me from the paladin.

Still trying to figure out race. Was leaning on 1/2 High elf, but the Cleric lady is 1/2 elf, so might be nice to do something else..idk

Tav