NobleNick!!!! WELCOME!!!!! (your first post outside the IWD forum ?
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Just few more points.
Bards as mentioned arent that good. Nor are your favorites dual-clesses. Their problem is that you level up way slowlier. so you may spened loooots of time with your second class inactive.
the xp cap is 89 without tosc 161 with. You will reach this limit on doing all quests even with a 6 person party (which is recommended).
The cap means you wont be able to cast higher spells then level 5.
Here are very useful table showing what will be your character level at the cap (scroll all way down)
http://www.planetbaldursgate.com/bg/...ables/xp.shtml
EDIT:
oh yes, the main difference between iwd and bg is that in bg there are so many areas that are not directly related with main quest but can be done anytime. i really love them.
[ 12-10-2004, 03:57 PM: Message edited by: ZFR ]