[Illuman]

Playing through the Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale games many times, one of my favorite characters was a fighter/mage multiclass. I was wondering if this was a reasonably playable character class in Arcanum (I just got this game yesterday). It seems like it could be a very interesting character due to the spell and combat ability selection system. I would like to play the character as a melee fighter who uses spells to enhance his/her (haven't quite decided that part yet) combat ability.

With that in mind, I was thinking about playing an elf and distributing my starting points as follows: 1 into dex, 1 into wp, one into melee, and one to get shield. The last point I am torn between selecting another spell or increasing int or str.

As for character development, it seems like temporal, meta, and force are the most logical magical schools, with some white necromancy for healing thrown in. However, my fear is that with this character, a poor allocation of points at each level will nerf it tremendously, and make it very difficult and not very entertaining to play.

If anyone can offer advice on allocation of points, stats, race, and starting traits, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!