cusom parties

[Mr. Clark]

How do you make a custom party to play in BG2?

[aVENGER2k]

From D. Simpson's BG2 FAQ:

"To create a Multiplayer game just click the Multi Player button.At the next menu click "Connect".Now you have to set the type of Multi Player (the top button), using Serial is fairly easy (although it requires that you have some Networking installed...) Now click "Create Game" (whenever you are playing by yourself in the Multiplayer always use "Create Game", never use "Join Game"!).Name the session to whatever you want, and enter in your own name.Finally click "New Game". Now you can create as many characters as you want.Then once they are all created, click the little Check icon by each created characters, and then click the "Done" button.Voila!"

After all this,you can save the game,and then copy that save file from the MPSAVES to your SAVES folder to escape the whole multiplayer game lag.

[The Outsider]

I'd recommend making 2, maybe 3 characters, though. Then play it as a "single-player". The in-game NPCs are a splatload of fun, and you can footle through their quests with a strong core party. Too strong. When doing multiplayer parties, I (and, I expect, everybody else) makes insanely maxed-out characters. A CHA dropped to 3 gives you a whole mess of points to put into STR, DEX, CON...

I played it through with a Cleric/Mage (PC), and a created Half-orc Kensai, and a dual-classed Swashbuckler 10 | Fighter. Crazy powerful by the end of the game. It got quite silly, actually. The Black dragon died in about 3 rounds.