mystral: You're not really supposed to. BG 1 is meant to be played with characters that start at lvl 1, starting with a PC that completed the Black Pits at lvl 9 would make the game way too easy.

If you still want to I guess you should be able to load a save from the end of your Black Pits playthrough, click on the "export" button from your character sheet, then import it into BG.

Characters aren't automatically exported even if you finish BG btw, so if you want to import a character into BG 2, you'll need to import a BG 1 "final save" or export the character manually, copy his character file into the BG 2 folder then import it when creating a new game.

SkeleTony: I was wondering this same thing (about how BG is not designed for level 9/10 PCs so importing such ...) but I keep reading these posts on the Beamdog and numerous other forums talking about exporting characters from the Black pits into BG: EE.

Anyway it seems you are right so thank you for the help.

Engerek01: Because it is against the story. You start the game as Gorion's Ward, probably around a 15 year old child. You will notice that many people will address you as "child" throughout the game. You start out fresh, un-trained, un-experienced, not knowing exactly what you have to do. A simple wolf or a Bear can tear you apart. That feeling that you can die any moment is what made the game more trilling for me. A level 9 character who finished black pits would destroy all the monster in the game like they are made of paper.

SkeleTony: Of course but I was assuming the Beamdog guys had accounted for such with scaled up encounters for higher level PCs or some such (and a slightly different backstory for CHARNAME accounting for an older, more experienced ward of Gorion).

dtgreene: I believe that the Tutu and Trilogy mods for the classic editions allow you to import characters from Baldur's Gate 2 and its expansion. This would, for example, allow you to transfer a Fighter with Greater Deathblow into BG1.

Deathblow and Greater Deathblow are often considered useless, because they don't work on enemies higher than a certain level, but they totally break BG1; the fact that everything is lower level allows you to kill pretty much anything with these skills.

(Interestingly, some of the HLAs are reasonably balanced (or are at least semi-balanced) if hacked onto lower level characters, but Deathblow is not one of them.)

SkeleTony: I keep reading these posts on the Beamdog and numerous other forums talking about exporting characters from the Black pits into BG: EE.