My new playthrough is an high elf rogue, specced as arcane trickster, so she has a bit of rogue/mage multiclass about her
That's great to hear. How long would you say was your playthrough? Also as for your new character post a screenshot. I love seeing people's characters.:)
Edit: What was your level when you completed the first chapter?
Sorry, just saw your post. I just finished my firs tplaythrough - I wanted to defeat the spider matriarch before going to the end of EA, because that for me is the toughest fight and I wanted to do it. I did it today (second try - yay) and finished my first playthrough with maybe 30 hours. My second playthrough is a bit more thorough and is more than 30 hours already. In my first playthrough, I messed the owlbear for example, and the harpies and some other stuff.
I posted my rogue in the SHare pictures thread - from what I have seen, you have found it, saw your characters tehre, really nice

. But if you like, here she is:
![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/l4cbveG.jpg)
You can only reach level 4 so far. I had that on my first playthrough after the gobbo camp, now I had it even before, because I explored more and did get more stuff done - for example I killed the first spider and Ettercap group in the Whispering Depths really soon in the game, that gave a lot of experience (I accidently started the fight, I just wanted to get the loot in the beginning of that area).
Have fun with the game. I myself have tons of fun.