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Hmm, just tested it and I found he can't wear Drizzt's chainmail at all! (Not useable by: druid, thief, mage.) So it would definitely be Shadow Armor that he'd be wearing.
Oh--also, yeah I don't plan on taking this character into BG2/ToB. I doubt I will ever take a character all the way through the whole thing. But anyway, only a day or two ago I researched that notion of a thief-necromancer for BG2 in response to a recent thread and disovered you can't. But I do like the idea of using a thief-necromancer for an evil party in Bg1/Tales/DS.
The most ultilitarian thing would probably be to let Monty do the backstabing, as you suggest, since he joins you at level one with like 60% stealth, IIRC. (Although this character could start with 50% stealth in his own right.) I dunno... I was thinking I'd rather have the satisfaction of chunking people from behind with my main character. Another thing is I want to be able to walk up stealthed, backstab with Varscona first, and finish them off by slapping Vampiric Touch and Ghoul Touch on them, and then if necessary follow with the other close range spells I rarely use with a pure mage like Shocking Grasp, Burning Hands, color spray, etc. In any case, I would need the high stealth to get up close.
Having tried this out a little bit I'm not sure how much I like the thief/mage combination in actual practice...
I am also really liking my necromancer in the specialist mage party I'm currently playing. I may just play that guy again as the main character in the evil party.
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