Amodeus

Alright, thanks to both of you. I created a new mage character as I would have in the beginning of the game, and simply copied all relevant information from that character to my normal character using Shadowkeeper. There were no errors or anything. The only thing that bothered me was the 1000 - 2000 experience I got for every scroll I clicked "Write Magic" for. That seemed like way too much. I gained 11,000 experience.

And of course, it gave all of said experience to the characters with me when I plan on given one or two of them the boot... so now I am stuck waiting to learn spells until I have the party I want.

Well I've just located some more information and a couple of forum posts (1 here, 1 elsewhere) say not to use Shadowkeeper as it has problems with WeiDU modified key files... nobody mentioned what kind of problems. Can anyone confirm or deny? I don't want to cause some problem with my game that I am not going to notice until later. I did, of course, back up my saves, by the way.

Wow... I just luring him to the guards... he caused all of my party members but one to sleep.. the one that didn't sleep panicked, that was his first move. Next he chased down the panicker, killed him. Then he killed all of the sleepers, and finally killed me. The guards were attacking him the entire time. He remain uninjured the entire time. The only chance I have is to not go near him... but the game points you towards the location right away, he approaches and eventually attacks you no matter what you do. So my only option is to reload my game? This seems like bad game design... otherwise some mod or combination of mods is making me too weak or him too strong.

EDIT: I've also realized that I can't even enter the inn without getting through him... this is discouraging.

I usually find with Tarnesh, lure him towards some of the guards, who'll help you slice'n'dice him.

This is usually what I do as well, although I've never been hit 2 times and been slain before. I wouldn't mind knowing the mods you installed, sounds like that would be one nice challenge.

Have you tried toning the difficulty down a little? Maybe increasing your CON, or try for a higher roll in stats?

Just curious because... I did a test once on BG1 and put CON to 3 on a Mage (all his other stats were the lowest they could get) and he had 10 HP's; didn't even survive the fire arrow from Tamoko.

How'd you survive with 6 HP's?

Actually, my HP stats are as follows:
Me: 4 (Yes... 4. 12 CON)
Imoen: 8
Eldoth: 15
Montaron: 9
Xzar: 8

Why do Imoen and Xzar have the same HP? Imoen is a Level 1 Thief w/ 16 CON, and Xzar is a Level 1 Necromancer w/ 10 CON.

As for my mod list, my WeiDU log is above, but here is the mod list according to the BiG World installer batch file:

Ajoc's Minimod
Baldurdash
Baldur's Gate Trilogy (BGT-WeiDU)
Banter Pack
BG1 Unfinished Business
BG1NPC Music Pack
BG1NPC Project
BG2 Fixpack
BG2 Tweaks
BGT NSC Portraits
BGT-WeiDU Tweakpack BGTTweak
BIG PICTURE
BPv177_TOB_Fix
BP Series
BP_BGT_Worldmap
Check the Bodies
Check the Bodies-Chores
Check the Bodies_Fast Forward
Dark Side of the Sword Coast
Ding0's Experience Fixer (DEFJAM)
Ding0's QuestPack
Ding0's Tweak Pack
End_Biff
Expanded Thief Stronghold
Freedom's Reign / Reign of Virtue
Gibberlings Three Anniversary
Nathaniel
Northern Tales of the Sword Coast
Northern Tales of the Sword Coast Patch
NPCFlirt Pack
One Pixel Productions
One Pixel Productions Avatar Fixes
P & P Celestials
Planar Sphere
Refinements
Region of Terror
Restored Prologue Textscreen Music
Ribald's Genie
Rogue ReBalancing by aVENGER
Romantic Encounters
Ruad Ro'fessa Item Upgrade
Secret of Bonehill
Secret of Bonehill Patch
Shadows Over Soubar
Sword Coast Stratagems
Sword Coast Stratagems II
The Bigg Quest Pack
The Bigg Tweak Pack
The Darkest Day
The Grey Clan Episode I: In Candlelight
The Lure of the Sirine's Call
The MTS Crappack
Tortured Souls TS-BP
Tower Of Deception
Unfinished Business for BGII
Unique Containers
Weimer's Item Upgrade

Yeah, I actually just came back to repost. Things seem quite a bit more manageable after playing a bit longer... difficult, but reasonable. I can kill wolves now for instance. Tarnesh is still impossible for the most part though. I actually have some AD&D experience... but only from 3.5. I also don't remember SoA being anywhere near as challenging, though you start at higher levels and, as you pointed out, some classes are better than others at level 1. Finally, I missed out on Xzar and Montaron.... they are a big help. I needed Montaron especially as a tank. As for Tarnesh, I suppose I will find a way to avoid him for now... though he seems to be intended as an early encounter given his dialogue.