Baldur's Gate I & II - Gather your party before venturing forth

There is also a fair amount of Jaheira in Morrigan.  Tell me a shape changing witch of the wilds with an acid tongue doesn't remind you of the exiled Harper.  

On my very first play through I became convinced that Jaheira plus Viconia = Morrigan, while Aerie plus Imoen = Leliana ( an unordained chantry priestess who is also a rogue and thief_. 

Bioware recycled so many of the previous characters into Dragon Age, it would be easier to find any who weren't reincarnated . Not necessarily a criticism, as expies can allow writers and players to take the new characters in directions the old couldn't go.

SO I felt the itch and started up a new BG2 game.

ROlling a sorcerer. First time, since so many of the companions are arcane casters it just seems reduntant to play one myself.

Still, being able to fling fireballs myself IS fun

I haven't gotten around to playing BG2 with this installed yet, but 

forums.beamdog.com/discussion/61754/mod-will-of-the-wisps-shamanic-enhancements

that looks to have a Shaman stronghold as part of the package

This is one of my favorite mod packs. I also love the banter and flirt packs and UB for BG2 by pocketplane group.

Edit. Edwin romance is also very good, I can recommend if you like romances.
Edit 2. Not surr if Edwin romance is still available. Link in spellhold studios seems to be broken. Hmm...

SHS seems to be back up.

Started another bg run (Bg EE + SoD + Bg2 EE). It has been years since my last visit to the beautiful multiverse of Forgotten Reamls. Enjoying every bit of the game like its my first run!

Tymora smilled on me so i rolled 97 (str.=17, con.=17, dex.=17 int.=14, wis.=15, cha.=17)

bg EE party: minsc, daynaheir, jaheira, khalid + lil sis

bg2 EE party: minsc, jaheira, viconia, edwin + eventually lil sis

playing as an undead hunter ofc

I  usually have Minsc, Jaheira, Viconia and Edwin in my party. I use the fifth spot to pick up every other npc and do their quests, after Asylum Yoshimo is replaced by the lil sis.

I have little memories of the story characters in BG, except for Bo. The only BG I played was Shadow of Amn or something. I merely watched friends play it, when my hardware wouldn't run it.

When I played I rolled the player character I think as custom. And then I went on to create custom characters. There was a monk, I think a priest and then there was - there was this dwarf. Handpicked. Meticulously chiseled from stone. The embodiment of arcane ignorance. The anti-magicster. No spell would stop him.

There was one room in the sewers. A Lich King on the other side. Some skelingtons in between. The Lich King was powerful. I tried the "grind your way through" method and failed when one by one the characters fell. I tried some more, but then I thought, hey just presto Mr Antimagitic and rush the Lich. And so I did. Lich king fired like one spell. Dwarf took a couple hits running through the bone men, but then it was chopchop time: Constant fumbling of the poor Lich King trying to cast a spell under the stern strokes of a dwarf who simply didn't understand magic or any of its effects.
He didn't have a full storyline. Standard dialogues. But he surely wrote his story himself. One of the most memorable characters I've ever played in a RGP. Adventure? RPG-Adventure?

and yet on my every playthorugh (as a undead hunter) i fulfill his dying wish!

Is this a reference? I'd go past and think nothing of it.