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

Glad I'm not the only one huhu. :dirty:

My main Charname is kind of a selfish evil prick with daddy issues, and he doesn't have a lot of patience for good-aligned characters so kicking them out of the party so he can surround himself with sycophants and crazy people is easy for him. He doesn't care about Minsc's revenge or anyone else's, only his. :ulikeit:

That's the plan! Skin color + a nice portrait is all I need. I'll just, ah, conveniently ignore that no one is trying to burn me at the stake (yet).

Yeah Baeloth is sort of a "secret" companion for BG1 like Wilson is for BG2...

Baeloth is the character, I like the most from the new ones. Dorn is okish, but a bit much sometimes. Rasaad was interesting, but I hadn't room for him in my party anymore, when I picked up Coran, who is a must have in most of my parties. Neera, I kicked out after ten minutes or so, she was really going on my nerves. The voice is kind of shrieky and she won't stop talking. I like companion interaction, but hers was just so annoying, so I kicked her out the first time, the second time, she killed herself in that starting fight in Beregost, so problem solved itself

I haven't played BG2 with the new companions so far, but I really look forward to Wilson

I beat the game, loaded all the characters into BG2... and then decided I wasn't happy with the party setup.

So I'm gonna do BG1 again with another full custom party... and try to take it a bit slower this time and maybe also do Dragonspear.

-Halfling Fighter/Thief - I need a thief. All available skillpoints for the Shadowmancer will go to Hide in Shadows/Move Silently.
-Half Orc Fighter/Cleric - tank, buffing, healing
-Gnome Cleric/Illusionist- Offensive Cleric
-Half Elf Bard - Free identifies + caster level 40 in the end, impossible to get with mages.
-Human Fighter 9/Mage - to get grandmastery in bows
-Human Shadowdancer 13/Fighter - Hide in plain sight with grandmastery in multiple weapons. I drool a little.

Just not sure yet who I'm going to pick as Gorion's Ward. Probably the halfling, though getting high rolls on it is rather hard

Unsure about the Illusionist though, might want a 'normal' mage instead. Also unsure about the Fighter/Cleric to be honest, might also go for Fighter/Druid.

cleric/mages start out pretty wimpy.  And advance slowly.  But once they come into their own, they get VERY powerful.  They're hugely versatile with their spell selection.

On the other hand...

It's probably not a coincidence that his name is "Krogan" with a couple of letters changed around

Finished the first two chapters, and am now clearing out most of the unnamed areas.

When most games are dead and forgotten after five years, we are still talking about BG, SOA, and TOB nearly twenty years later.
Truly the greatest game ever, and the ancestor of so many great games.

Look at Morrigan and tell me she isn't half Jaheira.
Look at Leliana and tell me she isn't three quarters Imoen.
Look at any Dwarf in any CRPG and tell me he or she does not count Kaigan as an ancestor.

Her mantra that love is a weakness is pure Vicoina, but I think Morrigan is a hybrid: A Witch Of The Wilds (Druid) with all of Jaheira's angst and wit, and Viconia's morals and outlook. 

Likewise, Leliana is an Aerie/Imoen splice: A chantry sister (lay priestess) who is also a rouge. 

It's a trope that has worked well, and pleased their fans, except when the make the romance 'unwinnable.'  As for the 'men' who have a dead spouse to avenge, that trope also started in SOA with Jaheira losing Khalid. It was a bold choice, you had seen widows as love interests in lit and film, but the widow love interest was always a widow at the start of the story, a lost love of the past. Khalid's loss was very much in the present, as was Jaheira's grief. It was the window into the 'ice queen's' (as you call the type, great line) soul.