Relating to this, I was thinking about why people are disatisfied with the custom character in comparison to various other examples of blank slate characters in games. In Pathfinder: Kingmaker for example, you definitely start as a blank slate and all you know about your character is that they're someone who would answer a call to try and establish a barony for yourself. I think the problem with BG3 is that we really have NOTHING to anchor our characters on in terms of who they were as people. They were vanished from wherever they happened to be, got implanted with a tadpole and then escaped. We have no in-story hook to build our character's backstories out from, no indicators of who they could have been. Sure we have the choices present at character creation, but I think those are different from in-game information.
Yea, anything at all would be an improvement than what we have now. I'm just a completely random guy that for some reason everyone is willing to follow me around. If it ends up being a child of bhaal type situation, that'd be fine, but right now it feels like the "right" way to play is to play an origin character, which just reeks of DOS2.
