Ideas/Tips Baldur's Gate

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I first played this game probably about 15 years ago, but me and my brother were only able to finish it using console commands and the gem glitch, plus other exploits like exporting a character from the tutorial in Candlekeep. At that time cheats were a novelty (gta III had just come out), so we weren't that inclined to beat the game fair and square.
So this time around I want to finish the game but without any of that shit, I actually want to learn the game mechanics and I want to learn how to build a good character and a good party whose abilities synergize well together.
I know the later dungeons get incredibly hard so any tips or build ideas would be welcome and since I've beat the game before you can't really spoil it for me so spoilers welcome.
I'm leaning towards just a plain old fighter play through, since I think it is the easiest class by far, but I've always wanted to do a mage playthrough, but mage class I always found to be hard as hell especially because of the spell casting limit and the chance to fail to copy spells down when trying to learn them ( not to mention how hard spell scrolls are hard to come by)