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Ok, Heres my PC's stats:
Strength:18/00
Constitution:18
Dex:18
Int:16
Wis:3
Cha:3
Human
Kensai
Why cant I dual to a mage??

Try setting your Int to 17. That should do it. Well I had some rather rash comments all written up and ready to post about your marvelous wis and cha scores but I held back this time. That's three times now I've had to curb myself. I need to stop.

I dont worry bout charisma... ring of human influence always takes care of that

That's exactly the response I expected from the likes of you.

I have to admit.. I have always been curious about how people allocate their stats.... I mean I confess.. I can't bring myself to place a stat any lower than ten so I usually spend a fair amount of time rolling...

But yes, on topic, Sculd is right, the primary stat of the class you want to dual to must be at least 17

I'm with you Dragonwench. I can never bring myself to putting a stat lower than 10 unless there's a reason, like if i'm playing an exceptionally rude dwarf or some such character. I just can't picture anything at the far south end of the spectrum being humanoidly possible short of extenuating circumstances(ie: frontal lobotomy).

I figure, (if a fighter class) get 18/00 max dex,con, place the rest in charisma, usually i have enough to get arounr 6 int... but I HAVE to have max dex/con... lol don't know why...
EDIT: Instead of Charisma, I had to go int cause I knew I'd duel him.

I'm not gonna try and understand so don't bother trying to explain.

That's what you call munchkinism

When I created my character in BG1, I knew that I would be playing him for weeks. What's 10-15 minutes spent rolling, compared to the hundreds of hours of benefit I would gain from a little patience at the beginning? The only stat I didn't pay too much attention to was the percentile off of 18 (I think mine was 29). I knew from a friend that there was a tome somewhere, plus there are enough STR-enhancing items in D&D that the goal was to get to 18.

Even if you are only going to "mess around" with a toon for a week, its still worthwhile to spend a few minutes rolling, IMO.

About dual classing... I´m currently a lvl 15 mage but I would like to dual class him at some point. Do you have any suggestions to which class and when should I dual

Why would you dual from a mage? You'll never be able to advance again. Normally people dual to a mage from say a fighter or a thief.

you stop gaining spells at level 23, so you could dual there.

a thief or a fighter would be a powerful character. however, if you're going to do a fighter mage dual class, its better to have fighter first for extra HP and proficiencies

As Thrain said mage will stop gaining spells. But will it also stop recieving new spellslots?

[QUOTE=Lonelypilgrim]As Thrain said mage will stop gaining spells. But will it also stop recieving new spellslots? [/QUOTE]
If you dual from a mage you can still learn spells from scrolls. Thrain meant that you stop gaining spellslots.

WOW then I should definately dual but to whom? I have always fancied cleric class my self, it would further my studies in the arts of magic, I could give him all the ofencive spells that Viconia rarely uses and gain even more fire power

Hrrm...

Some popular dual & multi-class combos that work very well - remember you can dual from a kit, but not to one (without third party software) - usually fighter dual combos are from fighter, at level 9, 12 or 13. All dual class combos must be valid multi-class combos, so no Paladin/mages or Monk/Sorcerers (well, without cheating):

Fighter/cleric (most combos)
Fighter/thief
Fighter/mage
Ranger/cleric (quite cheesy - you get ALL divine spells)
Cleric/mage (Cleric spells in triggers, multi really works better, IMAO)

I think Cleric/Mages, Cleric/Illusionists in particular would be more powerful than a dual. More spellcasting power from the start than you can shake a stick at. A dumpy little gnome chucking spells non-stop is quite fun. I played on in BG1 as a solo and it was pretty easy.

Thanks for good advice!

If I will dual at lvl 23 to a cleric then when do I hit the exp cap?
(I have ToB installed)

Dual at level 23?! It will take ALOT of times to regain your levels...