tiaxthemighty

The BG/BG2 ad&d ruleset made for some really fun combat, but it was also hideously imbalanced, which killed replayability. Why play a fighter when you could play a cleric/ranger? For that matter, between timestop, improved alacrity, horrid wilting etc, why play any class at all other than a mage/sorcerer? If you rolled a character that didn't have access to high-level arcane magic, you were setting yourself up to be gimped by the time you left Underdark.