Generally I’ll have an idea of classes or builds I’m interested in playing, not necessarily just one specific one, then I’ll possibly have a few ideas for story stuff surrounding that. As an example, two story-side ideas I had in my head were a slime man or playing just a normal farmer folk hero. For class I was waffling between monk, paladin, and warlock. My first character was a half orc paladin and I wanted to try that again so I decided to go with that and use the farner idea. They are an Oath of the Ancients paladin.
So for me it is sort of a little of both.
It depends though, because a previous character I 100% wanted to be an artificer and began with that.
Generally I’ll have an idea of classes or builds I’m interested in playing, not necessarily just one specific one, then I’ll possibly have a few ideas for story stuff surrounding that. As an example, two story-side ideas I had in my head were a slime man or playing just a normal farmer folk hero. For class I was waffling between monk, paladin, and warlock. My first character was a half orc paladin and I wanted to try that again so I decided to go with that and use the farner idea. They are an Oath of the Ancients paladin.
So for me it is sort of a little of both.
It depends though, because a previous character I 100% wanted to be an artificer and began with that.