Ew, yuck; I cannot abide the absence of missile weapons. Used to hack me off in the Gold Box games, because (for some twisted reason) they would not let priests use slings, only staff-slings (as if there is any difference in damage type.) On the other hand, those old SSI games allowed F/Ms to cast spells in full armor, so that was kind of useful. I guess it is not quite as bad for a dedicate melee fighter but, as noted above, I usually have a couple thieves backstab enemy meleers while a couple fighters pump specced poison arrows into mages so they spend every round geeking until dead, then double team the meleers, so if my paladin cannot use missile weapons it kind of throws a wrench in my plans. A small one, but a critical one in BGI.