I do this with most of the Bioware NPCs as well. I admit I cheated a bit here, and shadowkeepered the second point away and gave her high mastery in long swords. Level 12 Amber had 2 points in sword and shield style. Spears are a great weapon for a second rank fighter, but i rarely used them, as thieves can't backstab with them. Between her high dex (3 point bonus to hit) and warrior levels (only a 2 point THAC0 penalty) it didn't matter much but I felt less than smart when I realized, halfway through chapter 6, that she was specialized in LONG bows. In the first playthrough I had her using SHORT bows by accident. I had trouble adjusting to her weapon proficiencies at first. The stealth - stab - gulp - stab routine would kill or at least panic just about any foe I faced early on. I had cleaned out aVENGER's RR bonus store of its potions of invisibility, and Amber made very good use of them. Right from the get - go, she was chunking nasty mages. That, coupled with her ability to ultimately grandmaster weapons make her a KILLER backstabber. Her stealth skills are higher Jan's or Yoshimo's. Amber does, however, have a unique strength. But, with the Master Belt from aVENGER's Rogue Rebalancing mod (great mod if you like thieves), lockpicks from the Amber Store, and a single level up (to get 20 more points into Amber's Find Traps skill) and this was not a problem. At first I was daunted by her decent - but - not perfect skills in finding traps and opening locks. Her choice of thief skill distribution is a bit unothrodox by BG thief standards.

In both my games, my PC was an import from BG1/ToSC and so I got the level 12 version of Amber. Romance mod, fighter (6) - thief, yadda yadda. General Nah, on second thought I'll give that a miss. I felt like adding my two coppers to what's already been said. I played through the friendship path to the end, and am about halfway through the game on the romance path. I heard about Amber when it was first released a while ago but I didn't bother to download the mod until recently.

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