[SixOfSpades]

Originally posted by Link: 1) What would be the reason for Imoen's belt and speech to disappear? Cheese is a choice, after all.

Apart from the fact that it makes the gameplay more logical, because she's stronger (not counting cheese, of course) without it. In my conquest of the dungeon, Imoen died twice. (Thankfully, she was the only one.) If she had been wearing the Belt, I would have had no Wizard spells for the entire 2nd half of my stay--and I'd have had to give up 1/5th of the loot we lugged out of the dungeon.

4) Overall a good idea, albeit that I remember Jon's castle exploding after we left. Does that mean the lower levels survived the blast? And on the names; it might be even more fun to name the Fighter/Thief Piotr instead of Denisovich. That way you'll have his entire name

Hmmmm.....I'd always interpreted the explosion as collapsing the passage through which you leave the dungeon, not the dungeon itself. In Waukeen's, we see that the crater has a blast radius of about 25 feet. We can hardly expect it to have done more damage in solid rock than in a hollow structure, so the most amount of damage it could have done inside is to take out that rickety rope bridge.
As for Denisovich, the only real Thiefy-type character that sprung to mind was the cetral figue in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by (watch me butcher the name) Aleksandr Solzenietzhin. Ivan is a prisoner in a gulag, and one of the climaxes of his day is that he tries to smuggle a broken hacksaw blade back to the dormitories to use as a tool. Who is this Piotr you mention? (Idle thought: That wasn't Tchaikovsky's first name was it? We might not be able to use Tchaikovsky anyway, I think he predated the Revolution.)

6) Overall a good idea as well, but how could Jaheira have known what was going to happen? For all we know, she expected fights outside (she was captured and kidnapped after all) instead of inside. Not to mention that she wouldn't have thought of getting out in the first place.

Really? I got the idea that the party had already been incarcerated for around a week or so. I mean, Jon has to make some incisions in Imoen, place a mental dagger in her head, dissect Khalid in front of her, go kill some Shadow Thieves, come back, torture you, go kill some more Shadow Thieves, and he's only one guy with two hands. I'd give him an estimated four days for all of that, six if he's a union man.
And you think Jaheira wouldn't have thought of getting out? What, are you nuts? She's just going to sit there and die slowly while her legs turn gangrenous from immobility? This is Jaheira we're talking about, not Aerie.

7) Again; why? What would be the justification for that? Basically you're tweaking with her background this way.

I agree, but since all Thieving skills are redistruibuted upon transferring to BG2 anyway, only a fool would have kept anything in Pick Pockets. And hey, even with 0 points invested in the skill, she still has a score of 25%--conceivably enough to snag a few quills from sleepy acolytes, and she was caught frequently. Besides, if we're going to remain strictly true to BG1 here, she'd have gotten only 20 Thieving points per level, instead of BG2's 25.