Elf Fighter/Mage/Assassin is crazy op. Just tried it for the first time going Staves for the backstabbing, and Darts/Long Sword + Shield rest of the time. I considered going bow but darts seems bette… (View Post)

After playing many backstabbers, it seems Half Orc Fighter/Thief or Cleric/Thief seem to be the strongest in BG1. Assassin's thac0 never gets good enough to make reliable backstabs it seems at least … (View Post)

This really makes me wish you could only backstab with Daggers and Short Swords.. I suppose it makes a little sense with some short blunt weapons like Mace/Club you could do great damage by hitting t… (View Post)

I've always pretty much ignored backstabbing through all my of my runthroughs, so I wanted to make a character built mostly around backstabbing. The optimal choices seem to be Elf or Shorties, and ei… (View Post)