None of the games you mentioned are especially similar to BG2. Icewind Dale looks the most similar on the surface but is incredibly dumbed-down role-playing-wise as well as being almost entirely devo… (View Post)

For IWD, longswords and flails are the best weapon types in the game for availability, variety and (mostly) power. Scimitar selection is as bad as BG/BG2 and katana selection is poor as well, except … (View Post)

In 2nd edition AD&D, paladins couldn't adventure with evil characters under any circumstances and couldn't even adventure with thieves unless they were "nonevil and trying to reform". S… (View Post)

Easily berserker/cleric, some of the game's best weapons are flails and 30th-level undead turning is super-strong. (View Post)

Jaheira is better than a player-created fighter/druid because of her expanded spell list, so I would personally suggest berserker9/druid. (View Post)