Just finished clearing the Graveyard in PoR and had the weirdest fight yet in the game. Furthermore, the acronym TSG will be used to represent "That Stupid Genie". This is my first time playing the game and am loving it. I have no idea how the line up of PC's happened but somehow my Mage ended up standing right next to the vampire. Needless to say I immediately pooped myself. What made it worse, TSG was standing behind her. Got a couple hits on the Vampire before he charmed my thief (who was also standing in front of TSG) while my Mage is cowering in a fetal position going thru her wand inventory. Paralyze didn't work; to close to walls for lightning bolt, and a couple of wimpy magic missiles. Looked in her spellbook and all she had left was a fireball (we're in a hallway).

Meanwhile, turning didn't do anything and my charmed thief is attacking TSG. My cleric puts a hold on the thief and then TSG kills the thief. Wait, is that laughter coming from the vampire? Fighters are occupied with the wolves and beating on the vampire. The Mage remembers she's wearing a ring of fire resistance and takes charge while screaming a war cry consisting of "FIREBALL TIME". The party and the bad guys all look at her and in unison ask WTF?

All the wolves and the vampire (and TSG) are all dead. We drag the dead thief back to the coffin where my fighter kills the vampire again with one blow from the +1+3 vs. undead 2 handed sword. That was fun!!!!

My party consists of:
Human Fighter
Dwarf F/T
Half Elf F/C
Human Cleric
Human Mage
Elf F/M

Would like to bring as many of them thru the rest of the series and have been doing the reading on this board and others. I plan to bring the three humans and dump the elf, half elf and dwarf for a human paladin and two human rangers at the beginning of Curse. I'll dual my fighter later to thief and one of the rangers to cleric and the other to mage leaving the paladin, cleric and mage as single class. Does this sound like it would work for a party to carry thru the rest of the series?

Awesome story, love it!

I never dual-class so I cannot comment on that part directly, however a Dwarf F/T can be viable in later games (provided strength is 18) if you do want to carry that character through as well.

You may be interested in the Gold Box Companion: (gbc dot Zorbus dot net)

You can use it to get around the demi-human level limits, as well as changing classes.

(If you're into hex-editing, you can actually give your characters as many classes as you want. (gamesbythenumbers dot blogspot dot com/2022/02/ , point '2' for some of my discussion on this) )