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

Me Too. 

Even more annoying than I remember her.... Lovable,but annoying. 

That's what made this game so great. Look how far she came.

I just played the SOA mod for Dragon Age (Irenicus' dungeon) and fell in love all over again.

After messing about with some party compositions in BG2, I think I finally found my 'ultimate' party:

Cavalier - Gorion's Ward
Blackguard
Shadowdancer 13/Fighter
Swashbuckler 6/Cleric, where the first 6 levels are just to get max necessary lockpick and find traps, the added proficiency options are nice though
Cleric/Illusionist
Invoker

Haven't left chapter 2 yet though, doing most of the quests first

It's pretty much the base Paladin but better in every way at the things Paladins do. The only drawback doesn't even really count if you're playing with a full party. It's rare enough anyway that I'd ever have a Paladin use ranged weapons. Plus AFAIK you can get around this limitation anyway with the throwing weapons.

Here we go again!



Custom bio, in case anyone might be interested:

1) You absolutely do not have to min-max in order to make the game beatable when playing with a full party. The closest thing to completely messing up a character would be to start with a Sorcerer as your first character and making poor spell choices, since that class is stuck with whatever you choose as you level until the bitter end. Non-spellcasters are probably the most beginner-friendly classes for a first time through, and you can learn the game's spells through adding some caster NPC's in your party. Even if you do something like creating a Fighter with low strength, there are items available that raise stats to a certain amount by wearing them (like gauntlets that set your strength to 18/00). If you have the patience you can keep re-rolling your stats until you get a high enough total to make a fighter that's both strong AND smart AND charismatic. You can also lower the difficulty if it feels overwhelming (early on it can seem a bit like it, since you have such low HP when you start at level 1 and can't take hits very well)

2) Dialogue and story are definitely fairly bare bones in BG1 (not taking into account possible mods). BG2 is structured more like what you'd expect from a Bioware game. Honestly, unless you add a bunch of mods I personally wouldn't have ever played BG1 except the once.

Isn't Keldorn already married?

Depends on your input as the PC. You can push Keldorn to have his wife imprisoned for adultery, and the 'other man' executed, or you can push him towards reconciliation and save his marriage.