Fun but not so practical party ideas?
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I've had a few I'd like to try just for the fun of it. Some of these are;
Dual wielding fighter with daggers/short swords.
Archer with slings.
Assassin with quarterstaff.
Has anyone had not so practical but fun ideas for a party?
Dual wielding fighter with daggers/short swords.
Archer with slings.
Assassin with quarterstaff.
Has anyone had not so practical but fun ideas for a party?
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I'm currently rolling for a Beast Master/Cleric Dual, which I feel fits the category; lots of summons but lackluster weaponry (Quarterstaff, Club, Sling). Other than that I did an insanity run with a Jester once, where I chose my party members by varying degrees of insanity and acted accordingly with my PC. Loads of fun, that one, if you feel like roleplaying.
A (specialist) mage that loses his trust to magic at the hands of Irenicus and duals into fighter...will trust brawn over brains after that. Still a fighter with less hp but access to scrolls and wands.
I also recommend the Card kit mod. Card kit has the ability to cast random spells from his deck. Totally unpractical and awesomely unpredictable. Has thief lvl progression so gets to high level spells quickly, but can not control them. At thief lvl 11 he will be able to cast 6th lvl mage spells! Nearly half the xp of a proper lvl 12 mage. He is also a thief out of necessity but with only a few token skills. But tons of fun. I started one, Irenicus Dungeon was much rougher than I was used to (I also have scs but have mastered the first dungeon until now) but I will get used to the chaos, and am having fun. It forces you to abandon all strategy and just roll with the flow and think on your feet. Hoping for a melf's acid arrow, getting a web, well that may work, too! etc.
Staves on a fighter are actually a solid choice.
Get those 5 pips in quarterstaff and UAI + Assassinate HLAs.
Currently I have been enjoying my Wizard Slayer Dart Thrower. You hit 5 ApR very early on in BG:EE and can literally laugh at every caster encounter in the entire game. Especially when you get Darts of stunning/Wounding where you can throw a few darts and you can completely disable the entire enemy team of casters (in a single round).
(Both as a pure fighter and as a Wizard Slayer 13 / Thief X)
Currently on a nature themed playthrough.. PC is a Barbarian DW short swords (I might well mod some of the long swords found in game to actually be short swords as I progress, because there's not a lot of options otherwise) and later with pips in flails (for when crushing/ele dmg is needed) and the proposed rest of the party will be wilson, rasaad (never used either), jah, vico and jan (until Imoen, if i get that far before rerolleritis strikes).
I'm actually a bit tired of jan but I needed mage/thief skills in the last spot.
If I spent as much time playing the game as I did planning (and procrastinating about) my party I'd have completed it at least 5x as often as I have.
Makes very good roleplaying sense.
What class was your Charname?
I didn't run BG1, too, but if I had I certainly would have brought Imoen with me. It'd be hard to justify her exclusion on account of not being Bhaalspawn at a time when I didn't even know that *I* was a Bhaalspawn.
In BG2, I was playing it as if I were embracing my divine heritage and didn't want to get entangled in the affairs of mortals. For a start-to-finish playthrough, I'd probably play it that I viewed my quest as my burden and didn't want to place anyone else at risk. Imoen tags along because we're not allowed back into Candlekeep, and she's my sister, so I can't very well just abandon her alone in an unfamiliar world. She's at risk with me, but she's at risk without me, and we're family.
(Plus, if you ascribe motivations to party members, too, I hardly think the type of person who breaks into Gorion's desk, reads a letter about the kind of danger her brother is in, and responds by sneaking along after him would then blithely walk away just because he asked. She'd probably say she was leaving and then follow behind again. And I'd imagine the PC would get tired of asking her to leave and eventually just accept her presence.)