The pregenerated characters.

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Has anyone ever given them a go through the saga?

 

I've ran with the pre-generated 'canon' Bhaalspawn option (Abdel) before, playijng on core rules difficulty.
He's a decent enough character, but definitely sub-par when compared to a custom created character.
He starts off as a human fighter with a total stat roll of 83, which isn't too bad - i was a bit annoyed that using the book that adds +1 strength (he starts with 17) didn't seem to give him any kind of percentile strength at all though.
Another thing to note is that the way his stats are spread out, you won't be able to dual-class him into anything even if you pick up and use all available stat tomes in BG1.
I still managed to beat the game with him, the available companions were capable enough to cover the areas he was lacking in, and i had to put a bit more thought into how to put them to use during fights but other then that I didn't feel like it impacted my play style a lot when compared to how i'd play a self made fighter.

Since using one of the pre-generated characters doesn't impact the game at all dialogue or story-wise, I'm probably never going to give them another look again since rolling up your own character can give you a much more powerful character, and to me that's just more fun.