Originally Posted by Abits
Doubtful. It just seems impossible to do for this game. Dao had only 3 races and 3 classes, two of those with no significance for the story. Bg3 has many races, at least two of them require specific origin (gith and drow) and then you have many many classes, some of which (warlock for example) also require a special origin. And then you also have the companions/origin characters... As I said, quite impossible, unless they find a good story way to limit the number of possible origins

Originally Posted by vyvexthorne
That would be nice but I don't think there are any plans like that. I do really like the idea of starting out as a nobody and being able to play my nobody life for a bit before being thrust into an adventure. It's easy enough to make up whatever background you want but not as fun as to actually get to play in the background.

Yeah, sadly being a nobody is antithetical to D&D's mission statement it seems. I realize you also choose your character's background, I can't remember if it's ever come up in dialogue but I suppose it's as good as we'll get in this regard.

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