Thanks for the replies, we were unable to save an NPC in a certain village and as such not only lost that NPC but had to kill EVERY single person there including a vendor/key Karlach storyline person and decided to redo that original fight, it made us hit the brakes and become Google bloodhounds so as to try and avoid similar outcomes. Then the Google fest began and only increased going forward.
Taking a few days off to see if I can shift and get back into it w/o so damn much time on the laptop! I played my first game at age 61 and I'm a bit of a Goldilocks player who thus far only likes RPG co-op offline games and there aren't many so to stop in this one kind of sucked. I threw a similar fit with DOS1 after having played DOS2 3x, but went back and finished so...