Any suggestions for a new player?

[Bl4dius]

Well, if I am talking about RPGs, I grew up on TES series.

I find this very difficult, when I have to control 6 party members I don´t have enough micro bcs of graphics, click boxes are pretty weird... Are there any mods to set bind keys?

And do you know how to understand game mechanics?

[Crazed Possum]

1. take a good long time and read the game manuals in the baldurs gate directory.
2.play the tutorial
3.you can hit the spacebar and pause the game and issue orders to all.
4.go into the options and preset the ones you want. may even want to lower the difficulty of the game for awhile.
5.i suggest playing through first as a Paladin. The leader is the top-most character and thus is the one talking and buying/selling. Paladin has high charisma and that benefits both well.
6. hop over to youtube and watch some gameplay videos
7.when your ready to play sit back and enjoy a great classic game from years back. this game will take some time to complete, it wont be over in a few days. try like a few weeks or months !

[Repetzzon]

I usually use the mice ONLY when I play this game. You can easily use the spacebar to pause the game and think through what to do

[Tired of your crap]

This uses 2nd Edition DnD rules (iirc). You should be able to read up on the rules-set this game uses in the manual. There's far too much to start listing for you. However, the first thing you should do is go to your options and turn your "Tool-tip Delay" all the way left. Now the tooltip description pops up immediately when you mouse over something.

As for the control setup, most actions and commands have pre-set hotkeys assigned to them. I'm certain there's a method to change this (love my Razer gear) though I'm not certain what it is as I use the defaults, primarily just point-and-click.

Combat will flow exactly as fast as you want it to. If you're having trouble keeping up with 6 characters (absolutely understandable, we're not all lighting-fast real-time strategy veterans) use the Spacebar and Auto-Pause feature to slow combat down. Spacebar does what I call a "strategic pause" allowing you to stop the game's action without stopping the game. You can give move orders, queue up a spell, ready a potion or maybe just figure out what you just walked into. Once you're ready, you can unpause it with Spacebar again. The Strategic Pause is your best tool for managing chaos. One of the Tutors will teach you to use this by teaching you combat, then tossing an archer in at you. The idea is it teaches you to pause and then give orders to deal with the archer in the fashion you see fit. Hold Person maybe? Shoot him back? Charge him? Whatever you decide, just use that Spacebar and you can give yourself time to think.

The game often refers to turns, combat rounds and speed factors. A "turn" is a few seconds in the game, and your chacter acts according to his abilities. Fighters with 2/1 attacks will swing twice every few seconds instead of just once (3/2 attacks means one attack first round, two attacks second round, then alternate). To simulate each round, pause the game roughly every 3-5 seconds. Over time, you will develop strategies and tactics and be able to move at your own pace. As you learn the game mechanics, hotkeys and controls, you will find yourself pausing less and less.

Basic hotkeys = 1-6 for your party members, which you can organize by dragging and dropping your character portraits on the right side of the screen. Top slot is 1, bottom is 6. At most anytime you can hit 1-6, like in the Inventory screen or Record Page, to swap to another character.

Actions = Usually a Function key (like F1). Refer to each ability square (bottom of the UI) for each hotkey.

Menus = Nearly every menu has a corresponding hotkey. You can check the tooltip on each button by mousing over the icons.

I've been playing this game since 1998 and I still use the Spacebar a lot. You set the pace of combat.

[DnD Detective]

If you go into Options -> Gameplay then at the top there should be a button that says "Assign Keys" from there you can assign keyboard keys for a variety of things (just remember that keys sometimes are already being used for certain tasks).

If you are on the Assign Keys page you should be able to click the red diamonds to find what keys are used for various aspects of gameplay (Actions, Quick Slots, etc). Thats on the left hand column and by selecting different things in the left hand column it changes what appears in the right hand column.

Spells are still not all listed though.

[Naits]

You should also check out the benefits and the disadvantages for low/hige stats on a character
You can find a good overview of that here:

http://playithardcore.com/pihwiki/index.php?title=Baldur%27s_Gate:_Races_and_Stats