Ironworks Gaming Forum - View Single Post

Micah Foehammer · 01-24-2003, 06:15 AM

You have two options with Heart of Winter:

1) Finish IWD and then start an HOW expansion only game using your final IWd exported characters. When you start HOW as an expansion, you don't get to go to ANY of the IWD areas and when the expansion is over, that's it.

2) Start HOW during an in-progress IWD game. You won't be able to actually access the HOW portion of the game until your characters have reached a certain level (either 9th or 11th level - can't remember which). When you finish the HOW portion you will be returned to Kuldahar to finish IWD.

The disadvantage of method 1 is that you lose your containers (scroll cases, potion boxes, etc.) when you export and reimport. The disadvantage for method 2 is that you don't have quite as much xp when you start HOW. My preference is for method 2 (the xp hit isn't THAT bad and you get to return to IWD to finish that game as well - more of a sense of continuity).

01-24-2003, 06:15 AM	#3
Micah Foehammer Ma'at - Goddess of Truth & Justice Join Date: November 15, 2001 Location: Asheville, NC Posts: 3,253	You have two options with Heart of Winter: 1) Finish IWD and then start an HOW expansion only game using your final IWd exported characters. When you start HOW as an expansion, you don't get to go to ANY of the IWD areas and when the expansion is over, that's it. 2) Start HOW during an in-progress IWD game. You won't be able to actually access the HOW portion of the game until your characters have reached a certain level (either 9th or 11th level - can't remember which). When you finish the HOW portion you will be returned to Kuldahar to finish IWD. The disadvantage of method 1 is that you lose your containers (scroll cases, potion boxes, etc.) when you export and reimport. The disadvantage for method 2 is that you don't have quite as much xp when you start HOW. My preference is for method 2 (the xp hit isn't THAT bad and you get to return to IWD to finish that game as well - more of a sense of continuity). __________________ “Every tavern’s an opportunity, I say.”