I have a Mage/Cleric who is not allowed to use the Mage Dagger +2. She's a half-elf, the dagger is grayed-out, with or without armour. The specs for the dagger clearly say that multi-class is okay, what am I missing here?

clerics cannot use daggers.....

Welcome marb! If you're not too familiar with the D&D ruleset then some confusion can occur. The dual/multi-classes have additional restrictions placed on them which may not be obvious at first glance. The Fighter/Druid for example is allowed to wear any armour, but can (still) only use those weapons allowable by their religion. You'll find that the restrictions make a certain sense after awhile.

This has both positive and negative sides to it. No, your mage/cleric cannot use daggers. BUT he/she may use maces, hammers, flails, and such, and may use a shield. You could armor them, too, but while armored he/she/it/that may not use their mage spells. But that's not too important. My mage has an AC of -9. You could probably get even lower than that with a nice spiffy shield.

Yeah, what ^^ said. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I'm curious though Wumpspawner, what are you using to get your mage to a -9 AC? Best I've managed on my mage before spell and song buffs is a -6.

Possibly a number of things.

1. High Dex stat
2. Sheild +4 AC Max
3. Helmet +1 or +2 AC
4. decent Mage robe AC 5, or bracers possible that he as found elvish armor in the hand with even better AC and mage/clerics can still cast spells
5. Some type of cloak +1 or +2 AC

Dexterity of 19, Bracers of Defense A.C. 6, Cloak of Scintillating Colors, Cyclocone, Robe of Enfusing, and a Ring of Greater Resistance. Got to protect the artillery, you know.

Thanks to all for the replies to my question.
Since I am not familiar with all the D&D rules, I was wondering why I can't have a Mage/Druid character? Do they contradict each other?

Valid multiclass combinations are:

DWARF
Fighter/Thief
Fighter/Cleric

ELF
Fighter/Mage
Fighter/Thief
Mage/Thief

GNOME
Fighter/Cleric
Fighter/Illusionist
Fighter/Thief
Cleric/Illusionist
Cleric/Thief
Illusionist/Thief

HALFLING
Fighter/Theif

Half-elf (here it comes...)
Fighter/Cleric*
Fighter/Thief
Fighter/Mage
Cleric*/Ranger
Cleric*/Mage
Thief/Mage
Fighter/Mage/Cleric
Fighter/Mage/Theof

* or DRUID

So we can have druid multiclasses. Though why anyone would want to be a tree loving hippy escapes me [img]smile.gif[/img]

is this from the bg2 manual?
if yes then afaik this is wrong

the only multiclass for druid is fighter druid....

no cleric druid or mage druid...