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So I started a Multiplayer game with just me playing. After getting into the middle of my first undead encounter, my buddy decided to join the game. I had already set the main "girl" char up as a witch and I was a battle mage.
When he joined, becoming the girl in the middle of the turn-based battle, all of his stats reset to 0; geomancer 0, witchcraft 0, lucky charm 0, lore 0, etc. We finished the battle as such and after returning to RTS time, I could see that the girl had leveled up and that there was an ability point and trait point to spend, but my buddy couldn't see the green dots on the char's portrait nor any ability or trait stats in the inventory menu (i.e. Abilites: 0, Trait: 0).
Also, every time he left the game, the girl would return to being geo 1, witch 1, luck 1, lore 1, etc. including having an ability point and trait point to spend. I spent the points and had him come back in to no avail. We got out to the main menu and went back in without change. We even exited to the desktop and went back into the game with the same issue; no stats for his character.
Any help would be appreciated.
We are both using the (classic) steam edition.

Did the character attributes reset, as well, when your friend took control of the character? This is a known, relatively rare issue (less rare in Classic than it was in the Enhanced Edition).
When this happens, reloading the save, possibly multiple times, should get the character loaded properly on the client system. One person said it help to join in an older save, and then load the most recent. You could also try creating a new profile and starting a new game.
A temporary stat boost, such as from the Man At Arms skill Encourage, may also reset the attributes on the client system.

The problem is this playthrough would be our 4th one and my buddy isn't an RPGer and I'm doing my very best not to put him through the same quests again for a 4th time. He's not very patient when it comes to non-action-based games. The first time we played together while I was talking to people in town to further the story progress, he got bored and started shooting chickens in the town and shot the rooster in the town square and pissed off the townsfolk, so I had to revert back to a previous save because of his impatience with the game's lack of action!
With that note aside, he didn't tell me if the attributes reset, but we did try to reload an old save and go back into the problematic save with no positive results and we also reloaded the same save 4 times in a row without it fixing itself.

Did your friend try hosting? You can test in a new game, or email your latest save to use (each save is a folder in the '..\Documents\Larian Studios\Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition\PlayerProfiles\<ProfileName>\Savegames_patch' folder).

We decided the easiest thing to do was to just start a new game. By now, I know all the locations in town of the magical items and books we need and when we start together from the character creation screen, we don't have any problems.

By the way, thank you all at Larian for the best game I have played solo and coop in my entire 30 years living! Can't wait to get D:OS2!