Itsamnaaj: Decent bait. Are you a master baiter?

kmanitou: So a different faith is just a joke to you?

Itsamnaaj: Do you think Islam is joking with "If a man who is not married is seized committing sodomy, he will be stoned to death." (Abu Dawud 4448)?

Moloch.: Some of the recruitable allies can be romanced by both male and female player characters, so I think the response to the LGBT question is yes.
One of the recruitable characters is black (Wyll). Lae'zel (another recruitable character) is a Githyanki, though I doubt this is what you meant by POC.

I haven't really paid attention if any of the NPCs were POC. If someone has already answered this question, feel free to skip the remainder of my post. Otherwise:

i) If you are considering buying this game in Early Access, you could watch a Let's Play to see if there are any. Sure, you risk getting some spoilers, but if you were considering buying BGIII in EA, you were bound to receive spoilers way before seeing the full game anyway.
ii) If you aren't, I'd recommend waiting until the full game is out, because it is possible that there are few POC NPCs in the first Act but many more in the following two. Someone is bound to mention this in a review if you are patient enough.

As for all the huge discussion of social justice in this thread, I would just like to say the following:

There is no need for being assholes. OK, you might not care about the number of POC and LGBT characters in the game, and I can perfectly understand that. OP does, though, and those that had nothing helpful at all to say should have just ignored this thread. Why try to change OP's worldview? She is just trying to make a very personal decision. If you don't like to use her criteria in order to decide whether to buy the game or not, don't use these criteria.

TauLambda: 1) Yes genetics is complicated but a Y chromosome denotes male. Regardless mutation and expression, biologically speaking it =male. At no point did I say that someone with a Y chromosome always developed male sex characteristics. There are certainly times when this fails to happen. But the presence of Y nonetheless means they are male. Whether they choose to live in a male social role or not is a different question, one which I never argued.

2) I never brought up gender. I only referred to biological sex for the specific reason to remaining clear in my distinctions.

3) I am certainly ignorant in many ways which is why I like freedom of speech and discussion as it allows me to find out where I am wrong. But I am fairly confident in my biological distinction of the sexes. You can make cultural arguments about customs in different parts of the world as to how they represent male and female, and I would be right with you in agreement that society influences the roles each sex assumes, but biological sex is not a social construct and that's all I have referred to.

Itsamnaaj: This XY sex determination system is highly conserved amongst Animalia

_Pax_: Birds have neither an X nor a Y chromosome. (They have W's and Z's.)

SarahGabriella: Where do i say anything about biological sex in my OP? Youre only here to sow division and lies. Want to talk about other crap? Go make your own thread. Thats free speech, which doesnt apply to the internet btw because the internet isnt murica so the damn constitution doesnt apply here.

Itsamnaaj: The avian ZW sex determination system is not relevant to this discussion.

Itsamnaaj: [...] Animalia

Itsamnaaj: You are the one spreading lies here, chief among them "trans women are women" and "trans men are men".

_Pax_: Birds have neither an X nor a Y chromosome. (They have W's and Z's.)

duffyj08: Like all good jihadis, I had my PC throw the Ann Rice/Twilight mashup off a roof. Anyone else have fond memories of genociding all the redguards in Skyrim? Skyrim is for the Nords!!!!

dtgreene: Well, in Nethack (wizard mode), I've genocided the entire human race (polymorphed into a non-human to avoid self-genocide) and then quit.

duffyj08: Shhhhhhhhhh. No bringing up any fun in this thread. Serious business, teh vidyuh games.

_Pax_: You brought the entire animal kingdom into it:
_Pax_:

_Pax_: .... and that's hate speech.

kmanitou: Are you unironically islamophobic?

Itsamnaaj: You need some reading comprehension lessons. Nowhere did I state that all animals have the XY sex determination system. Mammals do however, and though you may have forgotten the taste of mother's milk; you, I and every other human is a mammal.

Itsamnaaj: Anything that disagrees with the trans cult's dogma is "hate speech" nowadays.

Itsamnaaj: Trans women are men, trans men are women. Keep this unscientific gender nonsense out of gaming.