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well, as far as mages go, there are only 3 that arent multi-classed and therefore very slow leveling up: imoen, nalia, and edwin. if you're a "good" party or have minsc edwin is out, and since imoen arrives late i suppose nalia was intended to be replaced by her. the fact that those two have dead thief skills is fairly irrelevant, meaning that neither can be relied on as the only thief in the party, although imoen isnt completely awful. i think they made nalia a thief so she could use a bow; 4th level isnt good for any thieving ability.
i concur heartily on the lack of variety of npc's. granted, the ones that are present have far more depth than in bg1. perhaps bioware didnt want to have too many kits/classes represented as encouragement for the player to try them out. otoh, id gladly sacrifice interparty dialog for an npc sorcerer or kensai/thief.
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