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You can make the game last a lot longer by taking through a whole new party, starting all of them out at first level.
I did it up until I met the shaman in exile on Burial Island, then gave up and imported some stuff off of the pregenerated characters. I haven't used any other cheats but that one though.
Getting past the first fight with the barbarians was the tough. I had to kill one with magic missiles from my 3 magic users and then run back to town to take them out again, one by one by one. Also tough was burial island where I had to use the same tactic. They all come at you so I ran to Ned after killing one or two of the wights and told him to shove off. Then I'd rest in the Inn and come back for more. At the time I didn't know I could rest in the mage tower there, so that was a big pain.
It sure makes you appreciate a lot of those low level spells that you might otherwise think are pretty worthless. I had my clerics burning up their spiritual hammers and casting their little rock hurling spells that do 6-24 damage against undead. I was also a big stickler for using Web and summon undead.
I decided to go with an almost all demihuman party, with a halfling fighter thief, elven fighter mage thief, half elven cleric mage, dwarven fighter cleric, gnome illusionist thief, and the sole human exception, a cleric who I will dual to mage later. I previously played with powerhouse human parties with almost all characters fighters dualed to mage, cleric, or thief. I still think that is the easiest way to go, but for a challenge I thought I'd try something a little different this time.
It sure is making the game last.
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