Hey Craig,
I'm not for sure if i can understand your message (your sentence structure is a bit incoherent

), but are you saying that you might not play a bard because of your BG2 experience with one.
I must say, don't base your character choice on BG or BG2. You've gotta remember that 2nd edition rules for D&D very much limited character customization. And even more importantly, it was hard to really role-play certain types of characters in those CRPGs. Bards especially fit under that category.
I suspect that NeverWinter Nights will be as close to actual pen-and-paper roleplaying D&D as a computer game can get, so classes such as bard should be much more exciting to play. You can do a TON more with any class under the new 3rd Edition Rules.
Just my thoughts.
I definitely want to play a bard at one point.
[ 12-31-2001: Message edited by: average joe ]
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