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I just finished Dragon's Eye after starting out with a level 1 party in HOF mode. Does anyone have any advice on the best time to go to HOW and TotL? My characters are all just shy of 10th level now. Also, I cannot remember if you can freely go back to kuldahar from HOW from the first time I played through. Can anyone remember?

IMO, it's best to go when your party is at least level 10. You won't be able to travel freely back and forth between Kuldahar and the expansion area, though you'll get several oppurtunities to go back.

You must finish HoW first before returning to IWD - Hjolder is too tired to otherwise help or he is unavailable in the story line. You can do TotL any time during HoW.

You could always re-import if HoW is too tough and you want to retreat to IWD.

I think it is best to finish IWD, then import into HoW. Some of the best items for fighting in HoW come right at the end of IWD. Conversely, there's not much that can help any more at the end of IWD that you can pick up in HoW.

Exception: Heart of Fury mode would make it possible to do HoW early and still have a big enough challenge from the rest of IWD to warrant using the items you found in HoW.

I second Gruntboy there, it's best to finish IWD first.

The breakpoint is the barbarian camp. You will arrive there after a long journey from the town, become automatically enganged in conversation with their leader, and the next free action for you to take will be, when your party is surrounded by six hostile barbarians. That means, that your party must survive the first combat rounds without any support spells, since all of them will have worn off, and it's hard to get the buffs when you are beaten and stomped by an angry mob!

Boney