gedraxxia
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11 months ago My apologies, this is a fundamental limitation of IWD2. I guess this is why I ran sorcerer over wizard back in the day! Referenced thoroughly here, I am closing this issue and apologize for wasting your time.
Good evening, found something unexpected and wasn't sure if my memory is hazy or if these are genuine bugs.
I attempted to make a dual-class human fighter wizard, created a single character as fighter and started IWD2EE in HoF mode from scratch. Character received 28,000 XP, found that I can only distribute the XP (gaining 7 more levels) to either fighter or wizard - which I think is normal if undesired thanks to classic AD&D 3e human dual-classing.
However, although I put the levels in wizard, no spell selection dialogue popped up so suddenly I'm Fighter1/Wiz7 with no armor, zero spells and so the goblins are eating me for breakfast!
Thinking the multiclass was the issue, I regenerated a new character from scratch as a wizard alone, and during character selection I was able to select and memorize the first level spells just fine - but again after I received the 28,000 XP and leveled up I was only able to pick feats and skills - spell selection never popped up. I can upload some savegames and character exports if you need these for issue replication.
Please investigate. If my memory is at fault and its always been like this, it may be wise to add some basic spell scrolls into the start of HoF to compensate. Thanks!