Newbie questions about IA Options

[Dementia]

Hi everybody!

I'm new to Improved Anvil and have heard a lot of good about it.

I have a few questions before playing:

i) I see a lot of talk about playing mage or vagrant, but I really like playing some kind of cleric ie C/R or C/F or a pure cleric. Can I enjoy IA without playing vagrant or mage?

ii) I don't consider myself a very good tactician, can I enjoy IA without being too frustrated. I accept reloads. But I would hate to sit a whole day not getting further. I would skip very tough challenges like the slaver compund but otherwise follow the plot and most else.

iii) I do like the banters of NPC does IA change that?

iv) Will I have to make custom NPC's? I would prefer to use Bioware's NPC or a few other like Xan, Auren or Kivan.

v) I never played ToB before, well I remember years ago I tried the big dungeon (I don't remember the name) but I didn't come through. Will that matter if I intend to play IA?

ahh well I think I got most of my questions. Thanks for your help in advance

Dementia

[geh4th]

There are certain NPC's that Sikret has warned never to tinker with. Valygar and Keldorn for sure; if you change their classes he says you WILL have bugs in the game. Generally, anyone with a special item upgrade shouldn't be messed with, or not significantly anyhow.

Some of the others aren't so much a problem. I see people changing Jaheira to R/C pretty often, but I don't know whether it produces any bugs. I suspect it makes her unable to wear the Harper Pin when she gets it, I seem to recall that problem existed in vanilla from a run I did long ago.

I've also seen Minsc as a Beserker quite often.

G-