When I first played the original Baldur's Gate(and Shadows of Amn as well for that matter), I went all in on a vanilla Fighter who specialized in longswords. I was rewarded for my clever choice with early access to one of the best swords in the game Varscona even if I was too dumb as a kid to figure out how to survive the Nashkel mines. That was more or less the highlight of the game for me until years later when I had the wherewithal to actually understand and engage with the game's mechanics properly. But man, what a good time just thrashing Greywolf and feeling on top of the world with a cool magical sword in a land full of swords falling apart because of the iron crisis. Good times...