There are a number of prebuilt characters, each with their own story beats. They added a number of writers during the development of the Enhanced Edition, and added Chris Avellone for DOSII. They invested quite a bit in improving the story for the sequel.

I like to play characters that are 'attractive' to me, so it ends up being humans 99% of the time.For anyone who might be curious what's new in this one: Goblins are interesting but they're always drawn to be disgusting in appearance, and I know that's the point, but there's ways to make them interesting without always being 'gross'. Orcs CAN be cool, but they're never made in a way that makes me want to play them. I end up playing human in a lot of games for the simple fact that most non-humans are missing something, or are made in such a way that I'm just not interested in them. Lizards who are more bulky, dwarfs who are more proportionate, humans/elves of different heights, etc. I'd be fine with additional 'types' of the current races. D&D games are all about making your own character, and they don't always need a reason to exist within the fictional society. We have the capacity to create our own campaigns, so those don't have to adhere to the original lore anyway. )ДЄdditional races could also have text-only responses, which would make implementing them a little easier.Д«ut I primarily mean this in the interest of gameplay and player's personal experience more so than strictly following lore. ( As a side note, I use the term 'wood elves' as more of a reference for shorter elves than literally wood elves. Wood elves or some branch off of elven people could just recycle the elven interactions and dialogue, but give players more customization. Even additional races could use the interactions of already implemented races, if it doesn't break the story. Shark race could potentially be a branch off of lizard people, and they have the same god. For instance, in the case of hybrids, maybe they're simply abandoned by their gods, and that way it doesn't even have to be mentioned. I think it's possible to adhere to lore without having to dramatically effect it. But implementing them is a whole other matter, ESPECIALLY if they want to adhere to the lore. And in the case of shark-likes, the game pretty much takes place on land only. What would be their reason for being in Rivellon and staying? The devs would have to do a lot more than just add in an extra race to play in the character builder, like setting up lore, setting up interactions and lines, and putting more of them in the game world. The only way I see you could go about it would be to do like, some extraplanar race or something, but that seems really cliche. You'd be throwing the whole concept of the Seven (as well as any other references and lines towards them in game) into jeopardy. I despise Yordles) but again it doesn't make sense from a lore standpoint. For a new race entirely, it kinda just throws the whole thing into the fire.ДЄ sharklike race would be interesting (though I'd prefer tall ones, like the Lizards, as opposed to short ones. For example, the times when you speak to your own god, who would that god be? For hybrids, I feel like the uptight gods would rather disown them than be worshipped by some mutant. It'd be kind of odd to just throw in another race out of the blue as it would probably muck up a lot of the game. I think the difficulty here is shoving new characters into the lore when there's already an established thing that every, shall we say, 'advanced' race - so despite animals being able to talk if you have pet pal, they aren't exactly making cities and ships - has a god to correspond with them. If I had a say in it, I'd make a short, Yordle-looking hyrbid mixed with shark features. Obviously we don't have the capacity to put ANYTHING in, but more options would be amazing. It seems like Divinity would be such a great place for a ton of different races. Those aside, halflings? Wood elves? Hybrids? ( Humanoids with lizard tails, horns, etc would be dope. It'd be cool if there was a lizard type that was shorter and bulkier. Lizard people are actually really neat, and I'd love to do a lizard berserker, but their stance/body type makes it feel out of place. To be fully honest, I'm not super into the available races/characters. I don't know if there's any plans for more races, what with the game being out for two years already, but it would certainly be cool to see.

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