Originally Posted by Silverstar
Originally Posted by fylimar
OP: I played an gnome arcane trickster in EA and it was one of my favorite characters. I wouldn't worry too much about planning beforehand. You seem to have a basic knowledge of DnD 5e, that should be enough.

This. You apparently have D&D knowledge/experience and the game is made to be easily playable by people who have none. You're even easily able to get your Arcane Trickster by just playing Rogue and picking Arcane Trickster as your subclass on level 3 iirc. Though you'll want some Intelligence to go with your Dexterity then obviously. Class and race will indeed make differences in dialogue but mostly in a positive way as far as I've seen, i.e. giving additional options or flavour. So don't worry too much. It certainly doesn't hurt thinking ahead but it's definitely not necessary.

Thank you fylimar and Silverstar! Yea this thread has made it clearer in my head that I should just chill hehe. I'm also the type to kind of be done with a game for a looong time after just one playthrough (I tend to try to complete everything on the first go) so I try to see what I can do/not do that'll affect my enjoyment for just one run. But games like these have really good replayability