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[Borodin]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dolphan @ Feb 20 2007, 04:24 PM) [snapback]280205[/snapback]</div>

Playing as a mage in BG1 is pretty hairy at the start, since at level 1 you have about 3 hit points.
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Key to survival is to turn down the difficulty all the way, then take off and let the guards deal with your opponent.

Mages aren't all that powerful in BG1, in any case. There's a large NPC group of them out there waiting to be used, so for my latest run through I finally chose a cleric. Use the Divine Remix mod, and took one of the kits that arranged spells according to circles of influence, along with a few useful powers you get spread over 15 levels or so.