[Ned Flanders]

Trying to do IWD/HOW/ToTL with a new group. Here's the boys and girls

1/2E Cleric/Ranger
Human Fighter (dual to thief at 'X?' level)
Human Fighter (dual to druid at 'X?' level)
1/2E Bard
gnome Cl/Ill
Human Thief (dual to mage at 'X?' level).


Just entering dragon's eye right now (each pc has about 25,000 XPs). Vale of shadows wasn't too difficult. The Verbeegs were tough in the temple (they dish out a ton of damage).
Anyway, I'm feeling this group to be a little inadequate (perhaps because I'm brainwashed on 35 lv. characters from ToB). It doesn't look as if I'll have third level mage spells real quick and what happens when I have a first level druid, thief, and mage just in time for dorn's deep. A cheap back door would be dalekeeper but I don't want to use that, however, it seems this group will be ill-prepared for the path that lies ahead. Another idea I had was to export the char's and start a new game once I dual the three humans but that doesn't seem fair either. My first time through the game I played with all mono class characters and cleaned up. This bunch proves to be more of a challenge, at least, in getting to the summit. All in all, once this group maxes out they will certainly be more powerful than the first.