I haven’t played at all yet since I’ve been waiting for the full release.
I’m thinking of rolling up the tempest cleric pirate I used to play in an IRL campaign. I remember using some shenanigans with taking Magic Initiate for Booming Blade, delivered with a whip, which felt fun and not too OP. Edit: Guess I’m not doing that since there’s no Booming Blade in BG3 yet :(
Any fun builds you’ve already tried in the Early Access?
My first ever D&D character from my edgy teen phase. A dark elf wizard named Raphael the Dark, originating from R’lyeh, chaotic
evilstupid 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.
Tav
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).
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
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.
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 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!
I hear the monk class is fantastic. I love the old martial arts movies. I hear that you can have a monk that does magic type of attacks or more of a physical attacks.
Half Wood Elf Bard gonna smooch and swashbuckle my way to victory.
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
jeez you sound like fun
Before you’re going to launch a tirade about the absolute necessity to be progressive diverse non-fascist
I’m going to regret asking this, but… What?
Back in the days when BG3 was still in alpha, there was a drama centered on people, who enjoyed efficient, albeit “dull” characters. IIRC even the devs expressed their disappointment with those people selecting such characters. Accusations of some ideological purposes soon followed - a bunch of hogwash really.
I’ve been playing D&D since AD&D and I rarely felt the need to try something else than Clerics/Paladins, so this whole drama sounds dumb to me.
I’ve never heard about this drama, but I also intentionally didn’t follow the game too closely so I can go into it relatively blind. This sounds strange to me, though.
As far as I’m concerned, there are many ways to play video games, and many ways to play D&D, and none of them are “wrong” (as long as they don’t harm real life people in some way). If you want to minmax then go for it, that is a valid way to play.
As a “Johnny” in the MtG sense I like to play broken/unintuitive/combo type characters. Not necessarily minmaxing, since it’s not just about efficiency, but…efficient creativity. So I’m looking for a build that’s “fun” in an unusual way, viable, but not necessarily “optimal”.
I’m not after extreme optimization either. I simply need to have enough of bases covered to not risk sudden death and a lot of content blocked because of “CHA test, failed” and such.
I never treat cRPG characters like I treat my ttRPG ones - the latter are meant to become protagonists of interesting stories. The former are keys to unlock as much of in-game possibilities as possible and assure the longevity of the gameplay until the end of the game.
