| another idea
I played an awsome game 'Eternal Darkness' where you were playing as several characters and each one had a mission throughout real world history. All the story lines were woven together...
I wonder if you COULD be new bhaal (or else the 'good' hero) but instead of running around battling ultra beasts with your super duper duper powers you could be influencing other beings to fight in your cause. Other God's in other pantheons could be the enemies (their agents rather).
So instead of taking 1 party at one time in Faerun's history through battles...you could be taking several. It would allow for re-use of map locations too! (that may sound a bad thing but if you played 'eternal darkness' then you know that its gosh darn interesting to see how various areas get changed over the millenia).
Also, since everyone has seen the abilities of various classes (in general -- make them a little new so its REALLY a blast the first day to get acclimated), we can delve into some other dimension of abilities. In BG1/2 it was the Bhaal powers/slayer but maybe in 3 it can be some sort of item powers maybe? As teams (set in Faerun history) acquire item X they are triumphant (mini-closure)...now it goes to a different team who HAS item X in their inventory (given to them by the godlike protagonist or his agents) and they face enemies who you gonna need that item to face.
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