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I think the best character is the one you feel like playing
I gotta agree with Katherine. Picking a character based upon items that you, under normal circumstances, would have no knowledge of, is to me the same thing as using an editor to pump her up to 25s down the ability chart. I've had great fun being a straight-up, no-nonsense fighter, and bringing him into BG2, but playing a character a set way for BG1 only because of what could then happen in BG2... well, why play BG1, then?
Even though they run in series, unless you've played them nine times and are seeing just how much you can squeeze from teh game, I'd say you'll get more out of it playing each game for its own sake.