Baldur's Gate 3

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

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

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 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!

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

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.

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

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).

Tav

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

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