Enjoy the game, Iron Greasel - as the others have said, don't spoil yourself. You'll love it. Ignorance is certainly bliss in this case. [img]smile.gif[/img]

"Don't get spoiled"? Good advice, i'll try that [img]smile.gif[/img]

I would chuck Yoshimo. Jan is a multi class so has a HUGE advantage at later stages, though unless you want me to give away stuff which you will have more fun learning yourself, I won't tell you why.

As per the competent cleric question:

You have two options.

a) There's a particular side quest that requires you to recruit someone. If you do that before you go get Imoen, can Yoshi. If you're gonna do that AFTER you get Imoen, then you'll end up canning Jan anyway.

b) You don't really NEED 2 thieves in your party. Jan is a perfectly good thief, and Yoshi is just sub-par. If you're keeping Yoshi for his fighting skills, then can him and pick up the cleric in the Copper Coronet. Hint, you will want to wait a while before getting Imoen if you do that.

Throw away yoshimo and take aerie, she's the good cleric I prefer (anomen sucks with his dialogs, and viconia is evil). You have Jan and Iomen as thieves, it's clearly enough !

Anomen is the most useful cleric npc you can find in the game. He is moderately proficient in combat and in the late game will probably reach the same clerical power as viconia. The only problem is his annoying personality, esp if you play a female character(check out his lame pick-ups). So if you r a true rpg gamer, jus get hold of anomen, kill his sister's murderers and watch him get kicked out of the order of radient hearts. Viconia would be my choice but you said non-evil, so......... Aerie is sorta whinny and dies very quickly. But her mage/cleric abilities will be scary if she survives to high levels. Think time stop plus cleric spells like flamestrike/ touch of death or party spells. So its your call really