1st playthrough - custom or origin character?

[profestus]

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P.S. I've completed DOS2 with all achievements.

[Glyph]

Custom. If you play an origin character you lose their personality because they are a silent protagonist while you control them.

[guard65]

custom if you want the dialogue from the origin.

[Warmonger]

If you have no idea what to choose or expect from BG3, choose origin character and embrace the story.

[Dank Sidious]

Custom is better for this game so you get the experience each character as they are. It was the opposite for Original Sin 2 in which you got more content by picking up an origin.

Playing as an origin (including Dark Urge) Is better for a subsequent playthrough.

[jonnin]

Its up to you. The origin characters, at least half need a re-roll for max/min play and their races may not be ideal for much of anything (depending on which), and the dark urge SHOULD NOT be played the first time through IMHO. Re-roll is easy, so you can fix them at level 2 or 3 in the first half hour of play, this is not an issue at all. You do lose their personality somewhat, all the party banter etc for that choice, but all your NPC interactions have your background/origin flavor added so it works out pretty well.

All the origin characters have their own agenda/quest line. Custom characters do not, but will assist their allies with those quests for the ones you care to associate with and help.

Either way, the game is a lot of fun. This is a small choice in the grand scheme, and only a major concern if you plan to only play through one time.

[Aria Athena]

Either custon or durge, which is more or less custom with an extra storyline.

[Imagine Happiness]

Dark Urge

[Izlude]

Originally posted by ordinary_person:

Title.

P.S. I've completed DOS2 with all achievements.

I only will ever play Custom or Dark Urge.

[Orion Invictus]

Custom.

[soulfreezer]

With all the special stuff the dark urge has (especially in the third act), it really feels like the canon player character, so I'd advice going with that.

[KocLobster]

Originally posted by Dank Sidious:

Custom is better for this game so you get the experience each character as they are. It was the opposite for Original Sin 2 in which you got more content by picking up an origin.

Playing as an origin (including Dark Urge) Is better for a subsequent playthrough.

+1 fully agree

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by soulfreezer:

With all the special stuff the dark urge has (especially in the third act), it really feels like the canon player character, so I'd advice going with that.

I would recommend a custom bard for the same reason.

Now that I tried a bard in single player, it's ridiculous how many bard-only interactions the game has compared to other classes. It really makes me think the devs intended you run a bard.
That and there seems to be a disproportionately high amount of bard gear lying around despite there being no bard companion.

[jonnin]

Originally posted by Scheneighnay:

Originally posted by soulfreezer:

With all the special stuff the dark urge has (especially in the third act), it really feels like the canon player character, so I'd advice going with that.

I would recommend a custom bard for the same reason.

Now that I tried a bard in single player, it's ridiculous how many bard-only interactions the game has compared to other classes. It really makes me think the devs intended you run a bard.
That and there seems to be a disproportionately high amount of bard gear lying around despite there being no bard companion.

I think this is actually a bug. You can take a performance feat, but the performance conversation options are locked by class in spite of this --- even if you are talking to people with your gith and cha astral wisdom, performance options stay hidden.

As for gear, I must be missing something. Ive found a few pieces but the bulk of it was not very good in act 1 & 2 (the inspire boots of course). I am going slowly so can't comment on act 3 yet.

[Wiwra]

I started custom character at first but it felt somewhat bland in comparison to custom character made in DOS2(propably because characters got all dialogues voiced and they r much more expressing their feelings then it was in DOS2 while your character is silent), so I made new character with customised Dark Urge and it felt so much better now, tho while your character is also silent it got lector woman talking sometimes about dar urge things. Also you wont meet Dark Urge character in game( I'm not 100% sure as this character is voiced in creator and got own race and gender as base) unless you play as one so getting it gives you all stories in one playthrough.

[Mazzle Dazzle]

Custom for sure. Your class and race factors in a lot so you still feel unique. That said, all of the companions are interesting and the Dark Urge legit feels like it was intended to be the main character in the story.