Aliasalpha: I'm not a big mod person myself but for those games I made an exception because the tools were so damn fun to use. Hardly ever played any user modules & most of the ones I did sucked badly but I love making the landscapes & such for stuff like NWN.
I definitely thought the campaign for 1 was unforgivably bad but the first expansioon was good & the second was freakin awesome.
For NWN2, I rather liked the original campaign & thought mask of the betrayer was great. Haven't got a system that can run it at the moment so I've not seen XP2
Am I the only person to like the NWN main campaign? I may not have appreciated the graphics, I may have been a touch annoyed with the switch from 6 person party to having a character + companion, but I thought it was quite well worked out. I don't know what people found so offensive.
I liked it much more than the NWN2 main campaign, for two main reasons, one: you were forced to take on various nitwits, two: boss fights. MOTB had the second of these. I hate goddamn boss fights in my RPGs, by which I mean more specifically the end bosses of BG2:TOB, NWN2, MOTB. They were completely out of synch with the general game experience.
The only problem I've had so far with Storm of Zehir is that you have to make multiple characters yourself, I've always preferred having one character (as a personal "me" character") and then getting companions along the way (e.g. BG1+2). I just like picking from a set of personality differences, picking those that I like from the available selection.