A fighter/bard isn't just a weaker fighter/mage because he can use thief HLAs which are the strongest in the game, and a fighter/bard receives benefits beyond hit points and weapon specialization (th… (View Post)

For HoF you want summoning spells (because their hit points scale up with difficulty level) and save-or-sleep/die spells like chromatic orb, emotion hopelessness and eventually wail. You can safely d… (View Post)

For role-playing, your best option is Planescape: Torment. For dungeon-crawling, your best option is Icewind Dale. For tactics, your best option is Temple of Elemental Evil. For a balance between the… (View Post)

For me, I draw the line when you break either the internal logic of the game world or the internal logic of how a reasonable NPC would behave. If there's only one ring of Gaxx in the world, for examp… (View Post)

When going through the whole saga, I personally prefer CHARNAME be a thief of some type so I'm not forced to carry a thief NPC in the party. Once the decision is made to be part-thief, then adding fi… (View Post)