Astromarine
Erudite
as the topic says. I've never gotten too involved with D&D, especially 3rd edition, so I'm not too familiar with the feat and skill combinations that might or might not prove feasible at high levels. I started a Moradin cleric with earth and knowledge as domains, as my lame attempt to try to recreate a Warhammer runesmith. But then I looked over the prestige classes and there didn't seem to be anything worthwhile in that mold. Especially I "wasted" (did I?) some skill points into craft weapon and armor. Also, as my preferred weapon of Moradin was a warhammer (and I found it fitting :D) I bought martial prof as a feat, which is probably another waste. Only later, when I started failing speech skill checks, did I start wondering at how limited the choices are for your character, enough so that you can't really waste them at all.
Now, this is part of the reason I always disliked D&D (int based skill points might make sense, but not when a cleric also needs cha wis str and con) but if I want to get at the MotB goodness that people are talking about I have to live with it, but I want to make some kind of plan for the future. So can anyone help me with that? Even if I have to scrap that char, I'd rather make sure I can play all the way through the game in an enjoyable fashion. (I don't want to suffer my wife's fate, as she reached the last battle in BG2, saved after the point of no return on her only savegame slot, and realized that her party was completely useless against the last enemies. Pretty much making sure she'd never see the ending).
Of course, if there was some sort of mod that allowed me to start from after leaving the village that'd be great. Or any other way to avoid having to replay that whole tutorial again.
Also, this might be a bug or a feature, don't remember from my first attempt at the game. Is it impossible to talk and make speech checks with your henchmen?
Now, this is part of the reason I always disliked D&D (int based skill points might make sense, but not when a cleric also needs cha wis str and con) but if I want to get at the MotB goodness that people are talking about I have to live with it, but I want to make some kind of plan for the future. So can anyone help me with that? Even if I have to scrap that char, I'd rather make sure I can play all the way through the game in an enjoyable fashion. (I don't want to suffer my wife's fate, as she reached the last battle in BG2, saved after the point of no return on her only savegame slot, and realized that her party was completely useless against the last enemies. Pretty much making sure she'd never see the ending).
Of course, if there was some sort of mod that allowed me to start from after leaving the village that'd be great. Or any other way to avoid having to replay that whole tutorial again.
Also, this might be a bug or a feature, don't remember from my first attempt at the game. Is it impossible to talk and make speech checks with your henchmen?