Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General What's the appeal of humans?

To give my personal answer why I (almost) always play human:

Role playing reasons. I am not very good at abstracting myself and create a *new* character and than consistently play it.
I maybe could manage with an origin character, but that does not really appeal to me that much.

What I *can* do is to take a part of myself, exaggerate it and mix it with background & class lore.
The further I go away from something I am, the harder it will be to keep the consistency.

I can inflate some dark desires and put them on, for example, a bard who goes around to corrupt people.
But I have trouble imagining him as an elf or even as dexterous - since I have no idea how that would "feel", since it is not just an exaggeration of something I *know*.

I have evil thoughts, I know the strength of honeyed words - but I do not know what it means to become adult with 120 years. Or being able to target and truly hit something (I have a ..defective hand-to-eye-coordination).


Every character I create and actually can develop and play consistently has something of myself inside it.
Unfortunately, that makes me very vulnerable to restarteritis, since a mood swing can make my own characters alien to myself.. =)
(Basically, I am in a dark mood and start evil. Something happens to soothe me or break my out of my dark thoughts and I can no longer connect with the evil character I made.