Been thinking of dusting off the old BG2 cds and trying out an all mage party, anyone done this? I am thinking of giving each mage a theme, something like;

Freeman Fireborn:
Dwarf, CN, Mage
Level 1
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Burning Hands
Magic Missle
Chromatic orb

Level 2
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Agannazar's Scorcher
and so on and so on.

Any suggestions?

Not that uncommon, but the general theme is one from each specialist school.

<font color = shadowed cyan> i went thorugh with an all arcane party once, 2 mages and 2 sorcerers, very very easy to do once you get some money.</font>

Thought about it but decided instead on having mages who can only cast a specific theme.

One who can only use fire.
One who can only use ice/cold.
One who can only summon.
One who can only buff.
One pacafist (doesnt fight and spells are limited to things such as identify etc)
Perhaps a sixth, if I can think of one, or if I take Edwin.

How about sixth's Wild?

that would just be silly [img]tongue.gif[/img]

imagine a sudden no-magic surge, devastating ;)

you could try specifically poisin/acid? although addmittantly there are not a huge number of poisin/acid spells

I did an all mage party in BG1 using 3 PCs (conjurer, T/M, & C/I) and 3 NPCs Xzar,Xan, and Edwin - mageling madness - I had originally planned to take it on to BG2 as well - it was fun at first but the micromanaging of six mages for every battle eventually got to me and I abandoned them...

You can see details of their journey here -

Mageling Madness

An all mage type group in BG2 would be much easier I think since you start at level 7+ rather than level 1...I would probably still want a T/M and C/M tho... ;)

Wild mage would be interesting, that might be the one :D

A whole group of Wild Mages :D

For your go through, with the whole "One can do this, the other that" I would recomend the sorcerer class for them. That way, you can use the powers more often, and don't have to assign them the pesky mage way ;)