It's a much more combat-oriented game. While a challenging encounter in BG might be a single, powerful Lich, IWD will throw twenty or thirty dangerous melee troops at you at once regularly. It's a mu… (View Post)

I got past the first two paragraphs thinking "Ranger/Cleric!", then saw that you thought of it already. It seems you've had your fair share of arcane-oriented protagonists. I think you shou… (View Post)

I'd definitely be tempted to hold out for level 13. That just seems like a devastating build, having x3 backstab, bonus mage spells, max APR, etc. before becoming a Cleric. (View Post)

I prefer the multi-class, but you could make a case for either. Multiclass gets you both schools of HLAs, and lets you hit the sweet bonus APR at level 13 without spending half the saga trying to get… (View Post)

I can't get BG2 to work on my computer, either. Might be something I can fix with some tinkering, but it's as good an excuse as any for me to wait for BG2EE. (View Post)