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.

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

Solo play, doing a paladin and making a very conscious effort to not use the brain slug powers.

In my play through with friends, I’m a monk.

In EA I tried the eldritch knight, a moon druid, and beast master ranger.

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.

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.

I can’t decide between half orc barbarian or drow warlock

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.

I’m playing a warlock/sorcerer half elf

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.

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.

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!

For MP, I think I’ve settled on Tiefling Pally. She’ll be a bit of a dummy, but that’s what happens when you get no formal education and are raised by a local preacher turned town defender.

I also wanna try a monk but I’m not sure yet how that goes. Maybe on my solo playthrough.

Trying to recreate my favorite tabletop character, a tiefling celestial bladelock. Probably gonna have to multiclass into cleric or druid for the heals and his backstory obviously can’t be done, but he’s a much better melee fighter than the tabletop version ever was.

Half-elf draconic sorcerer with charlatan background. I’m attempting to trick and persuade my way through Faerun and when that doesn’t work, a fireball usually does.