Icewind Dale II - Help with Characters

[The Lurker]

Thanks for the advice so far, everyone! (Especially Mummelmann.)

I know this is going to sound silly, but I really want to keep the characters I have :(. I've grown attached to them.

Vince is going to get his dexterity upped at the next opportunity, as two of you have recommended. You're right, Mummelmann. He does seem to get a lot of feats! I'm probably going to be upping his dexterity for the rest of the game, and I'll see if I can find some ... bracers of dexterity or whatever magical items I can to help him.

After reading others saying it was important to have a Cleric/Druid, my first though was to cross calss Heilyxx as a Ranger / Cleric. I would have had him off-side during battles, delivering ranged attacks when he isn't healing. Would that work, or would he not get any spells as a cleric? If not, is there something I can cross class him as that he'll be decent at? From what I gather and the advice given here, even taking into account his strength disadvantage, he might still be an okay fighter, is that right?

Elisa's carrying daggers because she can't carry ... anything. I suppose I could swap them for a short swords. I guess I gave her daggers partly because of the whole cloak+dagger cliche for thieves and because I thought they'd be faster :-/. I think I'll be going with some dagger or short sword feats at the next opportunity I get. Could I make her a Cleric / Rogue?

Waxley might get cross classed as a sorcerer. I don't know... he's supposed to be good at this magic thing, yet he's only able to memorise one new spell per level :(.

This is great! Thanks so much, everyone!

I'll start over if it gets absolutely impossible, but I'd like to avoid that.