[Thrasher91604]

Thanks! Good luck to you, as well!

Here are the levels I ended up with right before the final battle:

Paladin (23)
Fighter / Thief MC (17/20)
Cleric / Ranger MC (18/15)
Fighter / Druid MC (17/18)
Cleric / Mage MC (18/16)
Bard (30)

I struggled with whether to try to play everything in one go, or to export IWD characters to play HoW and TotL. Although it seems a lot more seamless, and easier to play all in one go, I decided on the latter, since people said the final IWD part would be too easy, if you did HoW and TotL in HoF mode first. Also, HoW as I see it, seemed to be designed more as a follow-on to IWD, and is not so well integrated into the IWD story, so it seems more right to play it afterwards.

Plus, I guess I prefer a harder challenge. Been playing these kinds of games for enough years that to do otherwise, would be boring, for me, at least...

But it is a pain since you lose all your stuff in bags and cases when you export. So I went through all that stuff before the battle that returns you to Easthaven, and sold what I least wanted and couldn't carry. You don't get to take all the gold with you, either. So I bought all the super expensive magic goodies (even if not very useful, just as an investment to barter later), magic arrows, and magic bullets in Kuldahar, the Seldarine Hand, and Lower Dorn's Deep. Then sold more stuff to make room. Tedious, to say the least...