What's the best race in IWD II?

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Ahhh, but there are half-elves, the worst race, IMHO.

I think there is only a "best" race if you take into account what you want to do with the character. Since this question doesn't do that, I vote for "Human" as the best race, as there isn't anything they can't do well.

 

For power gaming, Drow and Deep Gnomes are the best, period. Level penalties are only really penalties early in the game, as later on, lower levels actually increase the rate at which you pick up XP and the relative difference in strength isn't all that much ... yes a cleric with Raise Dead is much more useful than one just shy of it, but by then your characters should be much less prone to dying, making Raise Dead less important relatively speaking. Spell resistance AND the huge ability score bonues(Drow)/AC Bonus(Deep Gnome) make them the best, especially if you're going to min/max.

If you're not power gaming than it all depends on the composition 'theme' of the party. I have a party of paladins and monks which has three Aasimar, a Tiefling, and 2 Humans. If you're going to have a fighter combo(other than fighter/pally where Aasimar is the best), than Dwarves are the no brainer class to go with. For a Barbarian or Barbarian/Cleric, Barbarian/Druid, I'd go with a half orc. Sure he gets penalties to intelligence and charisma, but there's no role playing reason not to bottom out a half-orcs charisma for points, and wisdom is untouched. For dealing out damage, there's nothing so good as starting with a 20 strength, casting holy power and champion's strength, then getting to add rage on top of it. And of course, humans are the default to slip into damn near anything.

Anyways, that my 10 cents on the subject

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