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Character Creation

Character creation proceeds in the familiar AD&D/Baldur's Gate manner. You select gender, a face, a race, roll for stats, pick proficiencies (and spells, if necessary) and your character's looks. It's all simple and easy to do, and you wouldn't actually consider it a feature of the game until you tried it.

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Weirdness

When you're making your character, say a fighter, do you want to pick a kit? Kits have been introduced in BG2 as a way to customize your class. Do you want to be an unarmored but extremely skilled offensively Kensai? Perhaps you'd like to be a Berserker who goes into mindless rages, cutting a swathe through hordes of enemies? They're all fighters, just with different styles.

Every one of the base classes has 3 kits (except specialist mages and the new classes.) Fighters, Rangers, Paladins, Mages, Clerics, Thieves and Bards all have kits available to them. Some are more useful than others - and there are those which are extremely useful but only in certain situations.

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New Classes

Then there are the three new classes, the Barbarian, the Sorcerer, and the monk. The Barbarian is the quintessential tank - he's there to absorb damage. He rolls for even more hitpoints than a fighter (1-12 instead of 1-10), though he can't get mastery in weapons, only specialization. However, he also starts shrugging off damage at later levels, and is able to walk faster than any other character class.

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The Sorcerer, on the other hand, is a mage-derived class. He doesn't have a spell book nor does he memorize spells. He simply learns a few spells and can cast them at will. He doesn't need to memorize xyz spell to cast it. He simply has an allotment of spells per spell level, and he can cast any spell he knows - doesn't have to be memorized - so long as he hasn't cast all his spells for that level.

The final class is the monk, a sort of hand-to-hand martial arts master. They get an insane amount of attacks, and although they're not warriors per se, they make for an awesome offensive force.

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