Love to see younger generation playing my all time favourite pc rpg, bg1 and 2. However the voice actors were professional actors or voiceactors from animation. The cast included several for the time well known animation voice actors. Only a few incidental characters with funny voices were crew. Dee baker voiced several he has a massive animation portfoilio of work. Jim cummings is another. Its just back then voice acting was relatively new we are only a few years of the first talky games from lucas arts and sierra and ps1 games been voiced. And without social media and twitch and the rise of convention culture we didnt have the cast of bg1 and 2 doing twitch playthroughs, live D&D and all the awesome we have now. For 2 david warner voiced the big bad excellently.

Tipp: In AD&D not ever race can chose every class.
The most important question in which race to pick is: Does it allow you to play the class you want?

People calling Khalid a coward... smh.
Khalid is a supremely brave man, he is just increadibly bad at showing it.

HYPE

The Bonus of Human is
allowing access to more classes than any other race
In particular: Dual classing.
And many of the strongest character builds rely on dual classing
If you want to go KensaiMage, Berseker/Mage, Berserker/Cleric., Kensai Thief...
Human is the only opion.

And let me point out that the race features of other races are mere trinkets compared to running arround with a Berserker/Mage...
However dual classing is a bit tricky. And I would not recommend it for the first play through.

just found your channel and watching this playthrough! i love bg1 so much. its really cool seeing other women get into these more tactical games, i feel women are very underrepresented in this genre of gaming. Love your vibe !

Atribute scores work in mystrious ways. in BG1 BG2 and with that means. A lot of the times they do not do anything at all.
Fighters and barbarians want CON as high as possible. Everybody else con 16
Everybody wants DEX as high as possible(However there are gloves to overwrite that score)
People interested in Melee want str as high as possible (However there are plenty of ways to overwrite that score by various buffs) Everybody else just want enough str to carry their equipment

Wizzards want INT as high as possible(And bards to a lesser degree I guess)
Everybody else does not care about INT

Druids and clerics want WIS as high as possible (To a lesser degree Ranger and Paladins and people that want to do wish resting I guess)
Everybody else just does not want to drop it completely. Because of saving throws


Nobody really cares about charisma


If your charisma is abbysmal. Just let some other character do the talking.

In case of an elf cleric. That means... Con 16 Dex 19 Wis 18 and the rest does not really matter.
You do not need a million reroles for that

Edwina. Lol. And save your game. Lol

Dual classing and multi classing in BG1 and 2 is NOT at all like Baldursgate 3
The reason is in the fine print of how much experience a level in a class cost.
And how much class features you get from the level.

Example : As a pure class mage you can reach level 31 in BG2 throne of Bhaal.
So that means that if you sacrify 3 levels of mage you could get 3 level of fighter instead. Right?
WRONG! One of the berseker mage builds is Berseker 13/ Mage 28...
You get 10 more levels out of dual classing that you might expect...

The reason that dual classing in BG1 /BG2 is so much more powerful is than multiclassing is
Because for multiclassin you have the same level of XP in both classes.
Dual Classsing on the other hand allow you some control how much XP goes to the first class and how much to the second
And you can min max that to better results.
But again... to do that min maxing and come out on top. You should know what you are doing.
So this is better left to later playthroughs..

Spoiler warning if you intend to use edwin in bg2 and tob.

[Spoiler warning]

Edwin leaves  (charname) after throne of bhaal and for a brief while takes over the red wizards, but there backstabby evil nature he gets ousted. And ends up in a magic duel with Elminister and turned into Edwina irreversiblely, he becomes a barmaid and is a bittter bitter woman.

Xarina? Lol

Why do her options and menus looks so different?

Xzar is the funniest character in the game.

Ad every 5 minutes. Awesome. I literally cannot follow goddamn anything that's going on.