I guess they were just born that way!!
No, seriously. The mentioned characters are based on the pnp version of ad&d and frankly, everything about baldurs gate has been exagerated quite a bit. I mean, how many clerics or mages should be running around with way above average (8) strength. In SOA and probably TOB (havent played it) a party of six has the accumulated magic items of tens if not hundreds of standard ad&d parties at their disposal. I realize the programmers had to satisfy every odd party constelation but the game balance is bordering the ridiculous (BG1 was bad enough by itself).
The point is for this kind of game their stats should have been improved but for a standard game they are just very high level npcs´ and very powerful because of their high experience and great skill, not their tremendous strenght.
Artemis "should" be a great challenge, even for the mortal son of a god!
