[SixOfSpades]

I *hate* what BioWare did with this damn thing.

You can get the Girdle of Slashing if and ONLY if ALL of the following are true:
1) You are a Mage or Sorcerer.
2) You have not accepted any stronghold before doing the Planar Sphere.
3) You are roleplaying Good/Neutral while in the Sphere.
4) You do NOT take Prelate Wessalen's advice on sending the Paladin-like people to the place for Paladins.

Now, that reduces the number of games where the Girdle is obtainable rather dramatically, no? I'd say 15% of all games, tops. Add to this the fact that there is NO WAY IN HELL that an item that you could quite easily have carried over from BG1 could find its way into a sealed vehicle that hasn't even been on this plane of existence for hundreds of years.

My solution? Go to Byrnnlaw. Visit the Temple of Umberlee. Buy the Girdle of Bluntness. Drop it on the ground. CLUA in a Girdle of Slashing (I think it's BELT01). Leave happy.

The "Ritual" component of Weimer's Tactics mod also contains a Golden Girdle.

Each of these alternate ways of obtaining the Girdle makes about a million times more sense than the original BioWare implementation.