For those of us unfortunate ones without a paper manual where on the cd is the manual. Searching for "manual" was negative and browsing isn't working well.
you can download the IWD2 manual from the website if you're registered. also, a good deal of the information is in the game itself - open up the character page (on any of your pcs) and click on the 'information' button.
in any case, we can always field your questions right here in the gb forums.
But I'd rather not have to keep on asking mundane questions and the quick reference of the manual is so nice. I don't believe that they gave me a "qucik reference card" and a world map but no print manual.