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Start game.
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Character creation.
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Disappointed that goblin isn’t an option.
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Disappointed that class is linked to race but whatever it’s an old game.
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Can’t decide between making my character a half-elf druid avenger or gnome thief.
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Settle on druid avenger because playing as an eco-terrorist sounds fun.
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Become disappointed that druids can only be true neutral.
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I make my characters skin green and give them the old lady voice because fuck you game I wanted to make a goblin.
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Walk into the Inn.
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Insult every noble visiting the inn.
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Leave.
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Enter a house and get jumped by an assassin.
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Die.
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Lmao this game rules.
It will get everything killed. The one time it works out for you will be totally sweet though.
AoE spells are just fun - Colour Spray, Grease, Web, etc - but will wreck your fighters unless you place them carefully (and the AI is pretty suicidal). Eventually, there are a lot of low-threat opponents, which means even the low-level ones stay useful the entire game.
Usually the most dangerous threat is anything that can throw bullshit magic back at you - so, monsters - and then worse, anything that can do that magic and has protections against your magic - mostly wizards. Most of those fancy monsters want you to stock up on a couple of status-healing items when you notice them for sale, just in case. Wizard fights become about comprehensively dispelling their protections and then them instantly exploding from Minsc slapping them with a greatsword.
Later, in BG2, things get pretty damn unfair (in both directions - a lot of near-impossible fights are totally negated because you scrounged up money in the starting city to buy an overpriced shield).