First Playthroughs
DAO - Human male mage
DA2 - Human male mage
DAI - ?
I was thinking it strained credulity for the great hero to always be a human male mage and that I should probably play something else for my first playthrough of Inquisition.
And then I saw The Sex Hat.
Looks like Thedas is going to have another mage hero on its hands.
You don't need to be a mage wear the sex hat.
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I really like the idea of mixing up my PCs, but I noticed recently that even though I've played through both DA games as all races, sexes and classes available, my first runthrough of both was male mage, and my canon playthrough of both was male rogue.
Might have to roll with a female warrior this time, just to mix it up.
I'll probably try playing a female again. It usually doesn't work because I feel to awkward when romancing men or other females as a girl pc. I could try a playthrough without romances but that's also never worked out for me 
I will try most races though. Hopefully a dwarf can romance another dwarf this time around (Dagna maybe?).
I played 6 DAO games to completion, and started many more, with different race/sec/classes. Since we can't import directly I'll be designing whatever backgrounds make sense for what I want to play rather than trying to recreate my original playthroughs.
I fully expect to play more than one playthrough with different choices
I am pretty sure most players of the DA series try different classes, sexes and even RP alignments to get different experiences out of the game. It only makes sense.
I like to play through all the possibilities. I'm looking forward to mixing and matching histories from the first two games for DAI.
Human male warrior first for me, then a female mage either human or Qunari, followed by either an elf, dwarf or Qunari male.
For my first Inquisitor I will go with my first characters "imported" so Dalish rogue, Mage Hawke and oh what a surprise, dalish mage inquisitor, all males. Then it's time for heroines. From dwarf commoner warrior, to rogue Hawke and magnificent Qunari mage. After that there will be more mixing, but those are my first two PC's from both games, and I wanna continue with those world states first.
I don't tend to play Males in these sorts of games, so that's out, but I sort of categorize my cannon playthroughs by DnD alignments.
My Chaotic Good run is my cannon and the one I'm probably going to do first. Asyla Tabris to Angel Hawke to Fem Qunari Mage of Undetermined first name, probably starting with the letter A ;p But each worldstate is set based on those perimeters. With the Keep though, I can and am deffinately looking forward to mixing and matching Alignments from different game-states to see the changes 
I really am, I have a few good playthroughs
FemaleDwarfCommoner- Romanced Zev. Spared Loghain. Paired A/A together.
FemaleMageElf- Romanced Alistair. Anora solo ruler
FemaleCityElf- Same as my mage
MaleNobleDwarf- Romanced Leliana. Alistair will rule solo
After a few variations, I'm ready for my slightly dubious/evil wardens lol
I'm toying with that on the PC version, the renegade female noble dwarf
I've never
* Killed Isolde or Connor
* Razed the Circle
* Sided with the dalish or the werewolves
* kept the anvil
the things like that
I actually don't understand why people would play the same class/race/gender on multiple playthroughs. But that's probably just me: I like variety.
Oh you have no idea. I have some OCD like tendencies when it comes to building chaacters. In da2 i tend to switch between mage and non mage in order to have bethany and carver in an equal number of plotlines. But I also tend to change gender the same way. Which has resulted in all but one of my mages being female. So I want my next mage to be a male....but I also want to romance anders as a rival. The only time I freind romanced him was also as a dude, so I'm trapped in this endless series of trying to avoid messing up some sequence of romance/gender/class
This is only made worse with DAI. I want the 'canon' playthrough to represent the character on the box...so warrior warden, mage hawke....but the inquisitor on the box looks like a warrior. Symmetry demands I play rogue.
It's maddening.
I actually don't understand why people would play the same class/race/gender on multiple playthroughs. But that's probably just me: I like variety.
It depends on person from person but one of the reasons is trying to build a perfect or near perfect character. It's one thing to be a mage but the first time through a game rarely do you know the right balance of spells and stats to maximize your characters effectiveness. So you learn the first time through and refine your mage the second time through. Eventually you refine your character to as close to idea as you can get. At this point one becomes use to this extremely well refined character who's abilities they know very well and how to use them. At this point playing anything weaker or less developed becomes a chore.
A second reason is being very fond of certain abilities. For example I'm very fond of the idea of being able to heal people rather then just take life. As warriors and rogues have no healing ability beyond alchemy though I have no interest in them. Now if I had to choose between a shaman, mage or paladin things tend to be more difficult. Monk can be fun to unless you're required to take something like an oath of poverty.
I feel the exact same way as OP.
My Warden is a femal human mage
My Hawke is a male warrior
And my Inquisitor will be a female elf mage
There has to be some diversity in these major figures of history,
i played as a rouge and romanced rouges in both DAO and DA2. Im most likely switching it up this time and playing as a mage.
also part of why i want to be quinari. also want them all to have distinct personalities altho i always make the same kinda choices based off what i perceive is the right decisions. thats only thing they all have in common. (main ones). my warden was a goody goody, hawke was a goofball and i think my inquisitor is going to be a bit rough. and i always switch up on my non main characters. change gender, race, class. its fun making all sorts of characters. its funny tho i like have to switch my brain each time I'm on a diff character to think like them. makes it interesting.
It depends on person from person but one of the reasons is trying to build a perfect or near perfect character. It's one thing to be a mage but the first time through a game rarely do you know the right balance of spells and stats to maximize your characters effectiveness. So you learn the first time through and refine your mage the second time through. Eventually you refine your character to as close to idea as you can get. At this point one becomes use to this extremely well refined character who's abilities they know very well and how to use them. At this point playing anything weaker or less developed becomes a chore.
A second reason is being very fond of certain abilities. For example I'm very fond of the idea of being able to heal people rather then just take life. As warriors and rogues have no healing ability beyond alchemy though I have no interest in them. Now if I had to choose between a shaman, mage or paladin things tend to be more difficult. Monk can be fun to unless you're required to take something like an oath of poverty.
I guess I get that, kinda. I don't tend to have that problem though. I've learned how to play every class in both current DA games with little trouble, and I would say that I have mastered all of them by this point. It is true though that you do tend to stick with what you've refined yourself to. I tend to take all my characters down the exact same path and build if I pick that class. DAO rogues I always go full melee and make a brawling rogue with an insanely high dodge rate, DA2 rogues I always go the assassin and shadow route and focus on underhanded tactics (pretty much opposite of my DAO rogues), DAO mages I always go spirit and elemental mastery and blood magic and arcane warrior and tend to focus on offensive powers with the basic heal spell being it for healing, DA2 mages I always go spirit healer and force magic and focus on primal and dabble a bit in creation and arcane enough to get haste and crushing prison, DAO warriors I turn into duel wielding speed demons using precise striking to allow me to use moment with haste cast on me so that I can do unparalleled attack speeds that even rogues can't match, DA2 warriors I always go heavy focus on vanguard and berserker and reaver mastery so that I have an insane attack speed and damage per second.
So I agree about how once you settle on how to make a class you kinda stick to it, I don't agree that the classes themselves are particularly stuck to.
I will play at least one of each class, always female but different races. I make different decisions, so I can get different results with the endings.
I may play the same sex and class more than once, but I plan to never play the same Thedas twice. With the idea of The Keep, why would you?
Certainly, if the game is great enough I will definitely play it with a different class and race.
Aaaaaaand make all the same choices and decisions I made in the previous playthrough.
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