Assassin party!

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Hey guys and gals
After reading this months White Dwarf (Games Workshop references here) i read a story about a group of skaven assassins hunting through the streets, and i thought to myself: wouldn't an assassin party be cool in Baldur's Gate 2 !

So, does anyone have any ideas about how i should do this, whether or not i should take just assassins of also the other kinds of thieves ?

I like the idea of this, and will try it out, but i know it could be difficult, having no clerics or mages, but maybe I could try multi-classed characters?

 

With shadow keeper make the following multiclasses.

Assassin/Fighter
Assassin/Mage
Assassin/Cleric
Assassin/fighter/Mage

 

Be sure to let those mages have invisibility 10 radius, for midbattle hiding, then backstabbing again. Will save you a lot of pots

 

Instead of using SK just duel class Assassins at the appropriate levels. More of a challenge, and "legit".

The Assassin/Fighter should specialize in stealth, as unlike the mage varient he can't simply cast invisiblity on himself. The Cleric should probably specialize in trap detection(he is a cleric after all, he's there to help people ) and the mage in picking locks. I would have at least one strait class Assassin though, who can specialize in the abilities that they cannot.

So that's 4 people, more than enough to finish the game with, or you could bring along some NPCs with you. Have fun.

 

Don't forget that clerics can Find Traps (Level 2 spell), and mages can unlock everything (Knock, level 2 spell). Monks, too, can find traps and hide in shadows, so you might consider them "assassins" (Quivering Palm comes to mind).
But what I really wanted to remind is that you can avoid putting points in Open Locks OR Find Traps. I said "or", because one of the two skills is used to REMOVE traps, which no class but thieves can do.

 

Well, find/disarm traps is one skill so I don't see any reason to use "Detect Traps". If you can't even find a trap there is little chance you will disarm it. And you're forgeting that dandy little amount of experience you get from both traps and locks, which you won't get if you use Knock to disarm it. Actually, the only use I found for that spell was when my Assassin/Mage was dual classing.

 

I've found mages dualclassed to thives quite useful, using the level 6 mage spell "Mislead", hide the "clone" and backstab people until you grow tired of it

 

True, LS, but I've discovered that even if someone else finds the trap (via spell) that the thief can't disarm it...that is, unless he himself has found it.

That's one of the things that bothers me about playing this game more than once...whether you find them or not, we know where all the traps are. Or should know, at any rate.

 

Not nessicarily Gonzago, Im on my third time through BGII with a thief as my main char. and im still suprised when I accidentally trip a trap, its because i dont take the time to memorize where the trap is. Most of them i know the general area of, but again, i dont know the exact spot of all of them.