What Are You Playing, Part 3: The Assassination of my Wallet by the Cowardly Sale

[Anonymouswizard]

I find that you can play any class you want in these games as long as you're willing to put all your skill points into diplomacy. It's an annoying pigeonhole, but I tend to mostly play fighters in these games, so I don't need those skill points for anything useful anyway.

Yeah, the biggest class tiering elements are 1) does this class have Diplomacy as a class skill, and 2) does this class fill a particular niche. NWN2 just adds in some parts that benefit from having ranks in Perform as well, making Bards a little bit better than normal, and makes Resting easy enough that having a dedicated healer isn't essential.

Although thinking about it, I might restart and do a Bard/Swashbuckler build, dropping Pickpocket and the like and just focusing on keeping Bluff, Diplomacy, and Perform at max.