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I started a new game recently with 6 characters without modified stats.
The only easing I made was changing numbers between stats. Otherwise it was almost impossible to roll a fair char for druid or mage specialist duals from fighters.

At first I was going to get random gains of HP, but than ...

LastDanceSaloon wrote: Edit: I found that no stats altered opening Saving Throws.

There's a rumour that halflings and dwarfs get saving throws bonuses per some number of constitution points.

LastDanceSaloon wrote: Bet a lot of people didn't know THAT one!

I personally find game manual's tables more understandable

Does the Paladin have some special ability which increases damage to evil-identified characters?

He has Smite Evil ability. Also Cleric has Holy Smite spell.
They are pure anti-evil according to the manual.
And there are too few evil-aligned monsters in the game according to Detect Evil. Though ...

The Paladin is chugging along as obnoxiously as I expected and is proving a very tidy and dependable front-line tank (though why he needs 13 detect alignment spells is beyond me :speech: never used a single one, I'd much rather he had 13 mini Heal spells!)


Since these Detect Evils are instant ...

I've never finished BG2's main campaign yet.

Don't have it installed right now either. I'll install it later if I'll finish 1st one.
Anyway since I'll be able to redistribute skill points, I'll probably experiment with them when I get closer to Irenicus.

galraen , I hope to inscrease wisdom to 17+ with books. I've read that BG+TotSC have 3 of them in the game.

kmonster , i suspect that i won't be able to place any stars in non-druid skills such as weapon styles after dualling. Am I wrong?

Thanks for your opinions. Now i decided to level up to 9 ...

I want to start as fighter in BG1, dual him at some point to druid and continue in BG2.
To make things harder I rolled a char without modifying stats, only pressing Reroll. Now he has 15/13/13/7/15/18 and I am going to bump all stats up via available books. I also got bow++ and spear++ at the start ...