And it seems that Sebatianos has missed an important feature of goldbox games (I read the champions of krynn and deathknights of krynn reviews as well and it seemed to have been overlooked); that when you make your characters and then at the menu that you add them together to create a party, you have to option to modify their attributes. No need to keep "rerolling" the stats when creating a character. There are limitations though, you can only modify them at this point at the very beginning before you start to actually play the game, and you can only do it once.
This goes for pretty much every game in the gold box series of SSI games.
As for what I always play in the this series, (champions, deathknights, dark queen), I make the following party of five (all human, no premature level restrictions):
Knight
Knight
Cleric
Thief
Mage
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MIDDLE EASTERN COOKING