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2 Mage/Fighters. 1 Thief/Cleric (give em axes/swords and a sling/mace and you're ready to go)
2 Ranger/Clerics 2 Bards (was pretty good playable on HoF)
3 Bards (sing me a song)
1 Fighter/Druid, 1 Bard (think I left them at the TotLM-castle though - couldn't match the guards)

I wanted some stories with the NPCs though. Banters make the game more livelier. There's a mod for NPC s by the way.

What's with the bard? Like, I don't quite get. I love Haer'Dalis in BGII but pretty much only because of the armour that doesn't hinder spellcasting.

I'm curious as to how they play otherwise.

Icewind Dale NPC?

I was thinking about it, but I haven't actually completed vanilla IWD yet... I played is as a kid, but never got particularly far.

The NPC project is one my play-list, though. As much as I like creating a whole party and coming up with characters, IWD does seem flat and static compared to BGII.

From my understanding the loot in IWD is randomised more than it is in BG. This might make the very particular weapon proficiencies in the BG system really frustrating.

Apart from that, it's probably personal preference on the game system.

 I'm a sorcerer fan.

I haven't played IWD in BG2, but I can imagine that sorcerers would be much better than mages in IWD.