Kensai

Kensai, or Sword Saints, is a class kit for fighters in Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition. This class kit has some major disadvantages and advantages, as they cannot wear any armor or bracers, and they can't use any ranged weapons, such as crossbows, bows and slings, if they can use weapons which can be used in melee combat and ranged as well, is not known.

Their only character ability is Strength. The advanced weapon specialisation allows them to spend over two points on weapons skills, which no other class can do, even multi-class or dual-class combinations. The major advantages of this class is that they gain every three levels, a bonus to damage and THACO of +1 and -1 speed factor bonus for weapon every four levels. They also have -2 armor class bonus right from the start. Also, they can use the ability Kai, which is also available to Monks.

This class kit makes Kensais very similiar to monks, but they are specialised in fighting with weapons, while monks are much better in fighting barehanded at later stages. Kensais also have a better hit dice and they can benefit from (17+ constitution), which means they move hitpoints. However, this class kit has less level dependent bonuses and ability than monks and special abilities.

Character abilities table
Note: For the information of this table, the human class was used, because humans don't have any bonuses to the primary abilities and act as a neutral. For all other races except elves, these numbers are slightly different.

Advanced Weapon Specialization
Advanced Weapon Specialization raises the number of points that can be invested into a specific proficiency from one point to five points. As a result, fighters may do more damage and hit more often with weapons from the specific proficiency. For more information on proficiency points, see Weapon proficiency.

High-level class abilities
High level class abilities are added the expansion Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal. For all warrior classes and Monks, the pool of abilities consist of abilities which can be accesses from the special abilities menu which can be used during battle. These abilities are available to fighters when they are level 18.
 * Power Attack, this ability can be selected as many times you like.
 * Critical Strike, requires power attack. This ability can be selected as many times you like.
 * Smite, requires power attack and critical strike. This ability can be selected only one time.
 * Deathblow, this ability can be selected as many times you like.
 * Greater Deathblow, requires deathblow. This ability can be selected as many times you like.
 * Whirlwind, this ability can be selected as many times you like.
 * Greater Whirlwind, it requires whirlwind. This ability can be selected as many times you like.
 * Battle Cry, this ability can be selected as many times you like.
 * Hardiness, this ability can be selected as many times you like.
 * Resist Magic, this ability can be selected as many times you like.

Table for experience, weapon proficiency points and hitpoints
For more information, see Experience tables.