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.
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).
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.
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
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.
Tav
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
