but reading through some posts...it looks like multi-player means you can create all 6 in your party? I thought MP only meant on-line with others. Is this what I get for not reading the instructions?

Here it is right out od the manual have a look. This for BG II it should close to the same kind of thing.


MULTI-PLAYER GAMES OF BALDUR’S GATE II
MULTI-PLAYER
The multiplayer game of Baldur’s Gate II is identical to the single play-er
game – at least in terms of the game content. The main differences
between the single and multiplayer games relate to who is playing in the
game – in the single player game, you create one character and up to
five other NPC’s join you. After they join, they are essentially charac-ters
fully under your control. In a multiplayer game, between one and
six players may adventure together, cooperatively controlling both cre-ated
characters and NPC’s that join the party. A few definitions are in
order. The leader is the player who has control over such things as who
can join, what kinds of characters can be brought into the game, and
what abilities the players who are in the game actually have (in terms of
game play – see Permissions, below). The leader can control one or
more characters in the game and has the ability to assign characters to
the other players. The server is the computer (usually, but not neces-sarily,
the leader’s) which coordinates the various game-states of the
client machines of each player. A player is one of the people who con-trols
one or more characters in the game. A character is an alter-ego,
analogous to the characters of the single player game, which is con-trolled
by one player in a multiplayer session.

[This message has been edited by Mack_Attack (edited 08-28-2001).]

It is true even in BG1. You choose serial port, and you can create all 6 characters. But only the first one will get dreams bonuses. And you dont have fun interacting with NPC's.

Zbyszek