Honestly, in the end I would be happy if they just made our backgrounds matter more than just being a stat stick. :[
Same here.
I am really hoping that Larian will make nice
Fully Custom Characters, free of writing assumptions. And yet that they don't feel like a sub-optimal choice because all the "roleplay" is about a character's backstory (whether it's full-on, as is the case for the Origin Characters, or you-can-fill-in-the-blanks, as is the case for a Semi-Custom Character like Gorion's Ward in BG1). So I'm all in favour of having backgrounds matter, and ideally
give dialogue options, among other things.
To echo the Opening Post, yes, the very concept of Origin Characters feels so antithetic to a Dungeons and Dragons experience. Expectedly, there were many
threads about it back in October-December. I guess it would work if a JRPG like FF7 proposed you to play as Cloud, or Tifa, or Barret. But DnD is pretty strongly about creating and roleplaying
your character, so it feels weird to have the GM (Larian) hand out character sheets.
I mean, I guess it would have been all fine if they had just made 1-3 of these OC, spent the rest of the resources on improving the roleplay across the board, and communicated more details about their plans for Custom Characters. Currently, it feels as if the main reason there are Origins Characters in BG3 is that, well, Larian is used to doing these in their games, this is a game they're making, and that's it. But anyway, we'll see eventually (at least when v1.0 is released) if they created a good Custom Character experience.
