In my opinion he is actually one of the most powerful npc's in BG2. He has great thieving skills early on due to his special items. He can also detect invisibility quickly with his illusion skill cau… (View Post)

I believe they are not allowed to do this due to their contract agreements. (View Post)

Constitution is useful for the HP bonus, and then still mostly for fighter type classes. Besides that high con is great for shorty saves. (View Post)

If I am correct, it was originally planned for the game to have better saving throws with and against mages own schools, but it was in the end not implemented for whatever reason. Indeed adding this … (View Post)

Probably it went more like: "hmm, which weapons make sense for a mage to use in this fantasy game" rather than an extensive consideration on realism and the complexity of the weapon. (View Post)