Gnome 6 levels in fighter

justreportingabug

Hey i am interested in the different dynamics of a gnome fighter/illusionist vs human illusionist>fighter baldurs gate 2 ee. On brave's ai answering feature it lists only being able to get 6 levels in fighter making them extremly limited. Could the ai getting mixed up with baldurs gate ee and baldurs gate 2 ee? Is there any point in going fighter>illusionist or is fighter>mage (or conjurer or necromancer) just vastly superior? I am going to have a sorcerer and im on the fence with a scald so i wont be lacking diversity of spells if you take party casting into account. I trying to create a party with max 1 of each race but id prefer duel classes so im trying to size up if the querkiness of not repeating races to much of a gimp. Yes i know its beatable using any party setup but i think you see where im going with this.

Trouveur

You can only dual class to a generalist mage, not a specialist.
If you want to be an illusionist, multi class fighter / illusionist is the way to go.

jmerry

Racial level caps are a 2E mechanic that was not implemented in the BG series. All characters can get as many levels as their experience will allow. Subject to campaign experience caps.

While dual-classing into a specialist mage is legal in some versions of tabletop 2E, it's not allowed in the ruleset that BGEE and BG2EE use. Mage specialties are implemented as kits, and kits can only be chosen at character creation - which, for a dual class, means that they're only allowed on the front half of a dual.

Humans can dual-class if the class combination exists as a multiclass, and can have almost any kit on the front end. Wild mages and barbarians are not allowed to dual-class.
Non-humans can multiclass, and are not allowed to choose a kit when they do so. Gnome mages, including multiclass, always get the illusionist kit.

Dharius

You can dual class a human FROM illusionist TO fighter I believe though, it’s just less advisable than going from fighter to mage, as the former will be limited in spell effectiveness unless you go to a very high level in illusionist which is unlikely and demanding. Possible and interesting though, but I would consider it less user-friendly and enjoyable than a gnome (F/I) which incidentally played BG to BG2 with back in the day and really liked doing.

justreportingabug

I was covid scatter brained to the max the past two days and i had to re remeber what i was trying to figure out lol! Ok so the ai was covid scatter brained thinking of table top and the cap has nothing to do with the video game. Is the hardship of illu>fighter in a large party is you wont get enough exp to be high enough level in illu to duel class. As in you need to duel at quite a low level because it would be end game before you recooped your mage class? And also a bugger solo or small party becase they are too wet noodle to even get to the duel class recoop point? Wouldnt illu>fighter be stronger than mage>fighter? Or does illu>fighter too hard because you need to do it at a high in illu level and a level 1 fighter solo deep mid game in bgee 2 just be a nightmare? You would probably have to save completing a bunch of quests duel and cash them all in.

justreportingabug

Or you could solo and pick up some teammates right before duelling so they are higher level then dump them after some levels in fighter then dump them again or keep a few. I see how limiting or one dimentional it would be.