I re-installed this gem of a game, and wanted to start as a bard. One problem though: I wanna try that class from a role-playing standpoint, and none of the official bioware kits seem to fit into that role. I started as a chorister (Who gets some decent divine spells for 1/2 lore and pick pocket, doesn't get much and doesn't lose much).
The thing is, I feel like making god-fearing, righteous men and women party but two characters irk me there - Anomen and Aerie. Shall I persist with them (for I do know they get powerful in the end )?
i like aerie because she becomes really powerful as long as she does not get attacked in melee lol. anomen is a bit annoying though. only ever used him once
Perhaps your main character should be a Cleric or a Cleric/Mage. I'm not sure which Bard abilities you would miss, but even characters who aren't Bards can sing if you want them to, you know.
Another option is to take Jaheira with you. She's a Neutral character because she's a Druid, but she is written as a Good character. (By the same token, her Charisma is 15 because that's the minimum requirement for a Druid, but she's written as if her Charisma was 8.) If you don't mind doing some editing, you could make her a Neutral Good Cleric/Ranger and she would still be a Druid of sorts because she would have all of the Druid spells.
A more radical option is to create a multiplayer game and create a second character of your own to suit you. Or you could alter Aerie or Anomen's soundset to remove their more annoying responses. I've never heard of a mod that gives you the chance to play a chorister, but for all I know, there might be one. I'm sure with the right approach, you can play the kind of characters you are looking for.
I always found Anomen to be pretty amusing--I know I'm in a minority. He does have some interesting personal quests, and esp. if you're playing a straight-arrow character yourself there's opportunity for you to have some interesting interaction with him. But that goes for most of the NPCs, too.
last time i played i had anomen, jaheira, aerie and keldorn along with (eventually) imoen and my pc who was a mage. i've never had a party with so many cleric/paladin/druid type characters and it was really good fun and quite a bit different to my previous run through it where i had 4 mages (my pc, aerie, imoen and nalia) together with jaheira and minsc. i'd recommend aerie and anomen in a god-fearing party as they both make huge differences in battles in my opinion, apart from the fact that anomen just annoys me so much (personality wise, as a party member he is one of my favourites to use in battle)
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