I finished IWD over the weekend, defeating you-know-who. I thought the game would transport me to Kuldahar so that I could carry one with HoW, but after the epilogue movie, it just dumped me to the main menu!
So I started an "expansion only" game and used the previous IWD party. But I found that all the scroll cases, gem bags and potion cases were gone from the party's inventory!

So now I've started HoW just before the final portion in Lower Dorn's Deep that triggers the end game of IWD. Somehow it just doesn't seem right, from a role playing perspective, to suddenly put the IWD quest on hold while I trek back to Kuldahar to see what the shaman wants of me.
Any thoughts?