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Question about dual classes

Discussion in 'BG2: Throne of Bhaal (Classic)' started by Von'Meyer, Sep 29, 2006.

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    [​IMG] Actually, its more of a question about 2nd edition rules. I know them pretty well, but some of the rules concerning mulit and duel class characters I still don't fully understand!

    If I take a fighter up to, say, 10th level, export him from a game and then load him up in a new game, can I start the new game off now as a cleric? You know, three seconds after loading him into a new game?

    Second, what attributes of the character will be returned to first level by duel classing as a cleric? Strength 18/97 brought down to just 18? That type of thing.

    Third, say this fighter took mastery (***) with long swords then duel classed into a cleric. When he reaches 11th level cleric, can he now use long swords?

    [ September 29, 2006, 19:51: Message edited by: Taluntain ]
     
    Von'Meyer, Sep 29, 2006
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    When you import a character of high level into BG2, they get trimmed down to 161K XP. It's a balance issue. However, you could get around that by dualling the fighter before exporting (and then importing), because the game can't take XP away from an inactive (AKA non-advancing and thus static) class.
    Stats are unaffected. Fighter exceptional STR remains when dualling from fighter to something else, and is not retroactively applied when dualling to fighter.
    No, he'd still be constrained by the clerical ethos of "not spilling blood" which prohibits edged weapons. (I know it doesn't make sense if thought out - smash someone's skull open with a mace and blood will still be spilt - but I suppose it was for balance purposes of the cleric class.) However, the clerical weapon restrictions are the only ones that are not lifted by the fighter's expertise. Though backstabbing restrictions - only those usable by a single-classed thief - still apply for all thiefly characters. Incidentally, these two things put together make backstabbing options very limited for Cleric/Thieves.

    Anything else I can help you with? :)
     
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    Just as I guested. But, still, this would be one nasty character to deal with. Once he gets his fighter levels back with grand mastery warhammer and three (***) in two weapon fighting, plus all the HP and minor bonuses to saves. That be one nasty Cleric!

    Thanks for the answer!
     
    Von'Meyer, Sep 29, 2006
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