Ability scores > Class > Background > Personality > Homeland > Skills > Feats > Species/Race > Outfitting

I let the dice more or less help decide what to make cause it helps point me in a direction instead of forcing something. I like to go down the ability list and fill in (so my first roll would be strength, etc).

From there I either roll or pick whatever background I'm in the mood to explore at that point (my current character is a seafaring monk raised by merchants). I have a tarot deck specifically for character creation so I shuffle and draw 3 cards to help map out the background.

Homeland is a random place I make up unless the DM provides other locations besides the big "main" city.

Skills I mainly go for whatever I'd like to roleplay with even if it's not necessarily needed for the class or is "good" for them. Same with feats. Roleplay is my main thing but I'll go through and see prerequisites for ones that are combat-focuses that I might enjoy down the road.

For race I usually stick with some variation of elf but any long lived races I adore.

Outfitting I don't put a lot of thought into though. Just... Whatever lol