Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General POLL: What races have you played in the full release?

Thanks everyone for sharing your class info in the BG3 birthday stats inspired poll on classes we've played since the full release.

Moving on, what races have you played the full game as (or are playing, or tried to play in honour mode but died horribly)? What have you enjoyed, or not, about playthroughs with different races and do you feel that the race you play makes a big difference to your experience?

Again, you should be able to select multiple races if you've played multiple characters, but where folk have played multiple games with a single race that will be understated as you can select each only once.

What races have you played since the full release? multiple choice
	Human
	Elf
	Drow
	Half-elf
	Half-orc
	Halfling
	Dwarf
	Gnome
	Tiefling
	Githyanki
	Dragonborn
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Mostly halflings, but I have my gith mage Liral, a few gnomes and my dwarf lady. And I played a Drow resisting Durge, though I'm not a fan of drows. I do play an elf in HM - he substitues for air genasi, since I made my ttrpg character Vayu for that and didn't want to use race mods, since the last time, a race mod broke my game. So that elf is not an elf, but an air genasi . And I have a tiefling lady.

Savour the moment while the small races are out in front

Classes, gear and feats will play a larger role in terms of game mechanics. But of course aesthetics and immersion with the unique dialogue choices are what really matters.

I've played all races besides Githyanki and Dragonborn.

I just struggled to create one that looked decent and their racial bonuses are nothing particularly interesting to build around (Unlike my Half-Orc Berzerkssassin that combines Savage Attacks + Brutal Critical + Assassinate: Ambush to completely dunk on some poor schmo at the start of a fight, or any type of Diviner Wizard + Halfling to be Lord of the Dice)

Generally, I err towards Human. As I find they have the better faces and fit better with the available voices (Oh, what I'd give to be able to have my Hot Dwarven Goth GF with a thick Irish accent...)

My primary races in order are always;

• Drow
• Tiefling
• Githyanki

One race I TRULY want to play is Dragonborn and I tried so hard to get into them, but I can't stand how humanoid they look and how unfeminine they are. If they looked like this Actually feminine dragonborns and lore-friendly legs I would play them in an instant, but as they are now I just can't stand their design. Especially the human looking legs, just doesn't feel right to me.

Team elf!

In tabletop I've always been the player who chooses classes and races to balance out the party. I find it fun and enjoyable to take that role and figure out the type of character that stands out from the rest and can fill a vacant role.

And because most DnD players will play one of the elf or humanlike races, I've become more used to the short and zoic races. So they were the ones I naturally gravitated towards in Baldur's Gate 3.

Drow or Gnome are my goto races... will force myself to play most others like gith and dragon but i play 3 Gnomes to every one of something else

I'm happy, that the small races, especially halflings and dwarves are pretty well liked here and not far behind the standard player races (all flavours of elf).
They need more love

Only the one halfling so far, and to be honest that's just a recycled idea from a second playthrough of Skyrim that never happened - after playing a big burly Nord man with heavy armour and a big sword I thought "wouldn't it be fun to play as a little, shy-looking woman who can Shout people off mountains?" Never did play that character in Skyrim, but I remembered the idea when I installed BG3.

The first thing I think about playing a halfling in BG3 is that it feels almost overpowered - I don't remember anything where being a halfling was mechanically a disadvantage, but the sheer number of holes you can squeeze through as a small character is incredible. And the house rule version of Naturally Stealthy... I would love it if my GM gave me advantage on all stealth rolls!

The camera angles are fun, too. It helped me to understand the size difference for RP reasons when I'm always looking up at the tall people, but it's also nice to be the only one who can stand eye-to-eye with the gnomes.

Agreed - halflings are pretty powerful in BG3. The Lucky feat they have, is great too: In my halfling playthroughs, I honestly never see a Natural 1 so far with my halfling ladies.

BG3 Halflings are too ugly for me to play them All that effort than went into Dragonborn would had been better spent on the short races, in the following order:
Halfling, Gnome and then Dwarf (in least need of improvment).
GAWBLINS look better than the Hobbits, for fuck's sake!


I played most of the races, for a time at least, apart from Dragonborn (not interested). I only played Tiefling because I once took Karlach as Origin Character - otherwise I'd not touch those mutants.
Some combinations of race and sex are awful - I can play Half Orc, but male only. On the other hand, female Gnomes and Hobbits are slightly less ugly than the males.
Male Elf? With a lantern jaw which an Orc would kill for?!? Pass ...

The lack of racial bonuses in attribute stats does level the playing field between the races, I think.

I had my first natural 1 while trying to DOMINATE THE BRAIN in the endgame. After a string of single-digit rolls, too!

I don't find the halflings ugly, especially the females look pretty good. This is my first halfling lady, totally unmodded.

I already said - lasses are not as bad loocking as the lads.
I don't want to rehash the entire thread - Hobbit and Gnome heads are too big and arms too long.

Playing anything but Halfling always feels kind of wrong in BG3. Their racial is just so uber.


P.s.: I should maybe add that I play a lot of characters of other races, after all always just Halfling would get quite boring.

I am Drow! Tieflings have a pretty face, but I don't like the body. I would have a problem with female halflings because they look too much like children. I think that's why they also get different animations in certain situations.

I hear that often from people who like 'standard' proportions. But the small races don't look anything like children. They are smaller sized adult persons and don't look at all like children. The bodies are adult too.

Sorry, in my perception they look like that and that's why I would have a problem with that.

It's objectively not true though. Being smaller doesn't mean, it's a kid. It's a fanatsy world, you have all sizes - look at Dolly, she doesn't look liek a child either.

But that discussion is not for this thread, so I leave it at that.