| I'd recommend simply patching your game and playing it without any mods, at least for the first time. Then, if you feel like it, you can install the mods. So yeah, in my opinion you should play the game in its unaltered state, the way the developers intended.
As for a starting class, I'd suggest a fighter type: either a fighter, a ranger or a paladin. Perhaps a cleric as Fable suggested. Playing a wizard, you'll be weak in combat and during your first playthrough, you wouldn't know where to look for certain items and scrolls. You'll learn to use the other classes anyway through controlling the NPCs that join you.
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