+1 to what you're saying, mercurial_ann.
Why give us an in-depth character creator if we are going to be pushed into a specific character personality for the sake of content? I liked it in DOS2 because the game was clearly built on the idea of origin characters. I am worried about its overuse in BG3. I want to be able to create a custom character without signing away my ability to experience an additional game-long questline that makes my character personally invested in the world, without which I am an empty husk that has no connection to the world beyond my tadpole. It's like one of the only ways to make the story of BG3 feel more alive and personal is to make sure you are playing an origin character (based on leaks and datamining on youtube), but then you're shoehorned into playing a Lae'zel, or a Wyll, or an Astarion, or a Gale, or a Shadowheart. Maybe our backgrounds can provide for different connections to the world around us? Idk, but a lot of the suggestions here are pretty good.
