Your Tactical/Quirky BG1 Parties

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Over my last few runs I realized I'd been creating the same parties over and over so to break the loop I wanted to hear how everyone built their BG1 parties. I'm especially interested in tactical parties and just plain weirdly-themed ones. If you have an idea for a party you haven't tried feel free to post just as long as you (explicitly) state that you haven't tested it yet.

I'll start by sharing the three variations I usually go with:

Lotsa Archers
Example:
Fighter/Thief PC
Coran
Kivan
Khalid - Good tank early, and an excellent archer later on.
Jaheira - Healer and Tank.
Edwin - Magic Missiles.
-Ranged weapons are just that powerful in BG1.

Heavy Magic
Example:
Bard PC - Dump nuke spell scrolls here.
Garrick - Dump nuke spell scrolls here.
Xan - As far as arcane spells go, everything else.
Yeslick-
Faldorn - Level 5 divine spells.
Imoen (dualed early)
-Used Khalid/Jaheira until Faldorn.

Flavor of the moment
Example: (Me, the crazy guy and the little people)
Human Druid PC - Me
Xzar - the crazy guy
Alora- eeny
Montaron - meeny
Quayle - miny
Tiax - moe
-Besides teaching a valuable lesson on how a druid, a fighter-thief and a mage could could do so well early game, lots of interesting interaction once the party reaches Baldur's Gate.

 

This is the most fun I've ever had with BG1. I heartily encourage giving it a go. http://www.sorcerers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=49500
(In short, you can't reload, ever, and you have to kick out NPCs when they die.)

 

An ironman game? Sounds fun, i'm tempted to try it out.

 

It would be an interesting experience. Maybe after a complete test run...

 

Xzar and Monteron are a riot to have in a party. I would like to get Larry, Darryl, and Darryl for a bit ... too bad they don't join you.

I've never been able to handle Alora's voice -- I want to kill her when every time she comments.

 

My most theme-related party got it's inspiration from the UN, and countries cooperating together. It's called the United Races party. Basic rule: create a party of 6 representing all possible BG1-races (actually, I run the Tutu engine, I don't now if a half-orc barbarian is possible in vanilla). I came up with:

Zulecha (half-orc Barbarian, as only the PC can choose the half-orc race),
Kagain (dwarf)
Branwen (human),
Alora (halfling),
Quayle (gnome),
Xan (elf)

Edit: tactically speaking, I always created balanced parties, so most will have at least 1-and-1/2 warrior, 1 divine caster, 1/2 thief and 1-and-1/2 mage as a minimum (1/2 classes meaning half of a multi- or dualclass of course).