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[Chari]

I always have a first test walkthrough with myself in the PC shoes and later create different OCs for different timelines, world states

The truth is though that for the most part my main "canon" world state is 75% self-insert: the Warden is me, Hawke and the Inquisitor aren't but I basically choose whatever I would do with some differences like Adaar is a guy who doesn't like magic at all, Hawke is a social butterfly etc...

Other three world states - all different OCs though they mostly exist in my head and plans rather than in reality - some choices they make are just too much for me, betrayal, murder, cynism - call me a goodie or whatever but hey, that's me, I find no joy in misery

[BraveVesperia]

Yep! I love trying to think up different personalities and figure out how they would act or think in different situations. It was always pretty interesting playing through DAO as a Circle mage compared to a Dalish or casteless dwarf, since they'd have different perspectives on things. Even down to replies to simple conversations. Like with Leliana in DAO, she'll talk about the wonders of shoes and there are a few different replies:

1) ooh, pretty shoes (tended to pick this for a Circle mage or noble)

2) so long as they're cheap, it doesn't matter what they look like (casteless dwarf or city elf)

3) so long as they're sturdy/practical, it doesn't matter what they look like (Dalish elf)

 

It's just something small, but adds extra character, I think. There's something similar when Josephine talks about her family being 'destitute'. A noble might sympathise with her, whereas one of the others might think "if your family still has an estate, they're still doing pretty well."

[Ieldra]

My characters tend to be different, but they all have *something* of me:

 

Eorlin Amell is not unlike Solas - a Fade explorer with a mind for politics and manipulation and a passion for knowledge, more idealistic than cynical, who tends to keep apart from the big conflicts, only occasionally putting his weight in through things like the mage manifesto.

 

Rowan Hawke is an angry mage revolutionary who embraced the dubious romance of revolution together with Anders and hid how much she cared under a mask of sarcasm.

 

Maelyn Trevelyan is an odd combination of the power-hungry, the idealistic and the occasionally ruthless, a woman who had a not too unpleasant life in the Circle but who's determined to not be bound again. She wants to rule and is willing to break eggs to get there, but she also wants to do well by those she's responsible for, and she genuinely wants to improve things for people. She thinks it shouldn't be too hard to make her "New Empire" a better place to live than most others, given the existing examples. Unsurprisingly, she's also very much opposed to Andrastianism for its stance on magic and an outspoken unbeliever where that doesn't get in the way of her goals.

 

Oddly enough, as different as these are, they all feel somewhat like "me" as I play them, since none of them have traits completely alien to me. I don't think I could play someone completely alien to me for a complete game as long as DAI, such as a hardcore believer or a callous jerk. At some point I'd realize that "I don't want to do this anymore".

[Lady Artifice]

Every DA game I've played through (or in the case of Inquisition, have begun to play through) I've had between 7 and 10 different characters, all of them with their own perspective, ethics, and personality. 

 

That said, they do tend to have aspects of me most of the time. I usually play female PCs as the more idealistic "heroic" characters, because I identify with them more, and explore the more ruthless and darker character character options with a male PC. 

[EmissaryofLies]

For Origins and DA II? Sure I do.

[teh DRUMPf!!]

 I play as someone who shares all of my views/opinions in my first go, to get a good feel for my position with things, then RP in subsequent replays.