I am in durlags tower now and my part is : me(human-fighter),khald,jaheira,imoen,branwen and EDWIN the very best mage the game has and i cannot understand why nobody likes him..he is the coolest mage i ever met.btw i think 2 clerics are the best.my only regret is that i kept khalid instead of kivan.khalid has great stats but i cannot understand why enemies like battle horrors are doing a great deal of damage to him ,at least i with my 8th level fighter i have them for breakfast(with no cheats!)

Edwin Is very good but he's evil and bg is suppost to be played as a good character as that brings
a lot of benefits -> less money needed to buy stuff not having flaming fist guys killing you that sort of stuff
And That Stred (i would say that rimes but that's stupid so i won't say that) is why many dislike
Our dear Edwin
And Khalid is weak and you should only have him cause he's funny and else jaheira leaves

Strange thing,though,i was a chaotic good character with reputation of 20 and i had Edwin and i never killed Dynaheir but Edwin never left and it was quite enjoyable to listen him arguing constanly with Jaheira! )

Well, I think the best party is:
Me(a human fighter)
Khalid (Elven fighter)
Minsc (Human Ranger)
Kivan (Human(?) Ranger)
Dynaheir (Human Invocer)
A female thief, can't remember her name. (She with the sexy quotes)

These characters in the T-formation is absolutely best, for the original BG that is

well i guess your human female foghter is Imoen...as for mage as i said above Edwin is the best cause except that he has high stats he has also his family neclare that gives him one additional spell in each level.the fact that he is evil is actually good!!! cause u will find the robe of the evil arch-mage ,if he was good-neutral u had to buy one arch-mage robe for about 20.000 gold or so! thats all folks....EDWIN RULES!!

edwin's good (well, he's evil) but he's a good npc.... the only problem is that i perfer illusionists....... well, that leavces me with quale, i believe...... my ultimate party would be something like this: 3 good fighters, one decent fighter who is a multicalss mage-fighter, or mag-priest. a true mage, and a decent thief..... well, that adds up to too little.... ok, scratch all that.....

my char (ranger)
kivan (i like rangers 8D)
coran (a poarty needs a thief, and i've found him to be almost as good a mrksman as kivan)
edwin
quale......

ok, i'm missing something, ok, need another mage...

Dynaheir (whatever the spelling) or branwen (2 clerics 2 mages works well)


ok, this must be very confusing..... so i'll make it more confusing

3 great fighters
1 decent fighter--(priest)
3 spellcasters--priest-mage, mage, and a priest or mage
1 thief

i know that makes 8...... ok, now there is a better combo i will use for dale when i get it.......

fighter--
4 people who can fight extremely well
1 who is not bad

thieves--
one thief who is extremely good

mages--
3 mages, in descending order of grateness

priests--
one fine priest.


ok, this parrty boils down to this:

fighter class (perferably ranger or paladin)

fighter class (" ")

fighter-mage--one of great fighters, worst mage

fighter-thief--great fighter, great thief

cleric-mage--decent fighter, good mage fine cleric

mage--full blown spellcaster,..... illuisionist perferred

ok, i hope you all understood that

shiiit..... couldn't microsoft add a resume option to it's stupid auto i-e installer?! i got disconnected and now i have to restart the DL.....

hey Loser(i dont call u names,thats just your nick!!!!) u should write a book or something with title :"How to make AD&D so comlicated so nobody will want to play with it!!" In general now i agree with your preferences and now that i am starting to play a multiplayer-single game (so i made all the 6 char. by myself)..i have a fighter,1 ranger,a cleric,a thief,a illusionist and a cleric that i have dualed him in necromancer in level 4 so if i am understanding your message we have the same preferances.

hehe, i love multiplayer games where i make all the charecters, i was gonna play one, except with 2 ppl, but i don't like having to press space 3 times to unpause, and i don't like some other things, like how slow it is....... well, it actually got pretty boring, so i exported the better......

The one(and only) very big problem that the multiplayer has is that it doesnt have quick-load and u have to load normally and to click after all the skulls til you continue..especially when u multi-load when you want to achieve a good level-up its really annoying,but instead the multiplayer has a really big advantage in combat cause the game stays paused when you enter in the inventory so you can swap the bow with the shield,find the right potion for every situation etc. etc.

Hey Loser, what a amazing post you wrote !!!

I agree with you about the MP games, they´re too slow, but it has the great advantage of developing 6 characters at a time. And Stred, this of making changes in the inv while paused is a little cheat... I know it´s legal but to me it´s like cheating.

Bye !!!