Is my group alright?
Cooper
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So this is my first time through, and I'm a little curious if I'm, like TOTALLY just making things harder for myself ;P My current group is myself (fighter), Imoen, Jaheria, Khalid, Branwen, and Rasaad.
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Your party is OK, but I personally think it would be more effective if you had a mage (you'll need a good spellcaster with offensive spells later on in the game, because it gets pretty difficult). If you wish to acquire a mage for your group, I'd advise either removing Rasaad (your fighter hero and Khalid should be enough as the brawn of the group - he absorbs the attacks, you deal damage) OR you could remove Branwen (because you already have Jaheira as a healer/support) OR you could remove Jaheira and Khalid (leaving you and Rasaad as the brawn) and acquire another character in addition to the mage (having a ranged damager i.e. is not a bad idea because those characters can disrupt enemy spellcasters easily. Maybe get Kivan for the group?).
Again, I think your party is OK, but if you don't change it at all at some point, in the second half of the game you'll have difficulties with the more powerful enemies (especially whith the spellcasters and archers!).
I hope my advice is of help, good luck and have fun playing the game
You can:
A) Kill him off.
As you are playing a figher, I'd suggest to get Ajantis (Paladin-north of beregost) + branwen = your melee combo; the others should be some decent ranged chars AND casters, as you'll need them later.
From you party-constellation I assume you are being good aligned, so maybe the Minsc+Dynaheir team (ranger+mage) or Kivan (Ranger/High Hedge)+Neerah (she is JUST freaking awesome!) + Imoen.
just my 0.02$
[I don't like Rasaad, he is just way too weak....]
edit: can you still break coupled pairs apart?
edit/edit: everyone plays different ^^ but Branwen does her job fine, even if her combat abilities suck - she is a very nice cleric and you can easily get her a Warhammer +2 (electric). Or you might be evil and check out Viconia..and Edwin and and :P way a shitload of constellation possible in BG1 ^^
That said, you don't really need both Jaheira AND Branwen. One or the other should suffice. I'd dump the happy druid couple and go pick up Kivan (he's just chilling north of the main building in High Hedge) or Ajantis (he's near the bottom left, next to the road, in the area just north of the Friendly Arm.)
You really ought to pick up an arcane spellcaster at some point, especially if you plan on keeping Imoen a thief. You can either dual-class her into a mage at level 5 or 6 depending on how long you want to wait, then going and grabbing one of the many spare thief NPCs til she regains her thief levels, or just go get someone like Xan. I highly recommend Xan. He's amazing.
maybe that helps a bit more :P take your pick
edit: take the alignment into account...so Brenwen==good / Viconia == evil....one will leave you either way, just as a stupid example.
[else, you mod the game, which ignores the alignment....but it feels like a cheat ^^ I'd rather kill an innocent to maintain a neutral reputation, than to install such stuff...hey - I want to have an evil char in my party, the other can just shut up :P)