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I have soloed a bard through vanilla Baldur's Gate. One of my better solos.
Start off using bows or crossbows, sword and shield for some encounters, and then finally use that nice +2 throwing axe and a shield.
Tactics are easy. In the beginning, run from everything. Kill Silky with some arrows of biting. Do non violent quests in Beregost. Once you can cast spells, get Grease ASAP. Use Grease to hose the area, shoot shoot shoot. Later, use Webs, and Stinking Clouds. Get invisibility as soon as you can.
Once you get your hands on a wand of monster summoning, summon a few, go invisible, and sing your lungs out! Critters backed with Bard song are pretty tough. Nobody touches you (Mostly) while invisible. You can soar through a good bit of the game with ease.
Some fights, you can't win. So, you go invisible and avoid them all together. Do what Bards do best. Save your own skin and be a coward. My Bard was a total chicken.
His stats were outstanding.
18 Str
18 Dex
15 Con
14 Int
13 Wis
18 Chr
After all the books he was amazing, 19/19/16/15/15/19. Yes, it took a while to roll. He moved on to BGII and became a Blade.
The worst part of the game involves keeping a certian somebody alive.
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