So far I have finished two games and I found the side quests had more monsters and the monsters were more powerful when I did them after pursuing Imowen. I've proceeded to gather the gold for galen by: doing nalia's quest, all of trademeet to buy some magic, bridge distric murders, and the mimic blood in umar hills. I then followed the shadowthief string till I went to spellhold, where im crawling about now. I plan to do the sidequest after I get back from deepdownland in the hopes that they are bigger and badder than doing them before the asylum. I'll soon find out if the underdark is any easier or harder(relatively) since this will be the lowest level(10-11 currently) I've done it out of the two games played previously where I did most of the major sidequests first.
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