i just beat the game and am ready to install TOB. can i take my party and all the equipment into TOB?
Also do all my stats stay the same.... and at the end of SOA cant i just walk around and do what i want? all i get is the credits, i thought the ending was easy and boring oh well.

Yes, you can take all of your party members and their equipment into TOB, your stats will be the same, except for anything changed by Tears of Bhaal.

HOWEVER, you will not be able to get back to any of the SoA areas, so if you stashed anything there, you are out of luck. Hopefully you had all yer best stuff in Bag of Holding, Gem Bag, Scroll Case etc. Also, any SoA quests you didn't finish, you will not be able to do. This kind of bummed me out the first time, as I had left lots of goodies in SoA. But, you do find lots of better stuff in ToB.

another thing you can do is import that same character into a new soa game keeps the same lvl's and given or added abilities that you got from the game before.you dont get the stuff or the characters but it will make the game a little easier to go thru next time around just in case you screwed up a quest or something like that.
if you play the paladin kit it is easy to screw up te stronghold quest.

There is a way to keep all of your stuff on your char if you import him into a new game...

SPOILER (sort-of)
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Right after the "loading Game" sign thingie comes up, press the space bar when the screen is ENTIRELY black (how hard could it be?) and if you time it right, you can drop all your stuff from your char on the ground so it isnt lost, then wehn the cinematics with Irenicous are over, you just pick your stuff up and reequip it [img]smile.gif[/img]

Easy huh? :D