Since Ice Knife imposes a penalty to THAC0 that dissipates on death as opposed to the time restriction mentioned in the spell description (and since I have already made progress in the game to the point that modding and starting over isn't an option, and since trying to hex edit the game is proving to be a nightmare), I am considering killing and then resurrecting my party members who have been hit with Ice Knife by the rats in the Trash Warrens, but I am concerned as to whether this will have any negative impact on my alignment. Does anyone know what the ramifications are of killing a party member?

40. Fix timer not being set on "Ice Knife" THAC0 debuff when the dagger explodes immediately. This prevents the THAC0 debuff from lasting effectively until NPC/PC died. Now it lasts 3*caster_level in seconds.
search: 6A 81 6A 00 8D 55 FC
replace 2cd: 8B 0D 6C F9 96 00 8B 91 06 35 00 00 8B 8A A4 0E 00 00 8B 55 BC 0F BF 82 2A 03 00 00 6B C0 2D 03 C8 8B 55 BC 89 8A 06 03 00 00 6A 81 6A 00 8D 55 FC 52 8B 45 F4 50 8B 4D EC 51 8B 4D BC E8 1F 5B EC FF 85 C0 74 49 68 00 10 00 00 6A 01 6A 03 6A 01 8B 4D BC 8B 81 4E 01 00 00 50 8B 91 4A 01 00 00 52 8B 81 46 01 00 00 50 E8 87 8F FE FF 8B 4D BC 8B 11 FF 92 98 00 00 00 6A 3C 8B 4D BC E8 3F 01 00 00 C7 45 F0 01 00 00 00 E9 8D 00 00 00 0F B7 0D 4A 00 8E 00 8B 55 BC 8B 82 9C 00 00 00 D3 F8 6B C0 18 8B 4D BC 8B 91 B0 00 00 00 03 D0 89 91 B0 00 00 00 0F B7 0D 4A 00 8E 00 8B 55 BC 8B 82 A0 00 00 00 D3 F8 6B C0 18 8B 4D BC 8B 91 B4 00 00 00 03 D0 89 91 B4 00 00 00 C7 81 10 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 C6 81 52 01 00 00 00 C7 41 6E FF FF FF FF EB 27 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
replace 4cd: 8B 0D 1C E8 96 00 8B 91 06 35 00 00 8B 8A A4 0E 00 00 8B 55 BC 0F BF 82 2A 03 00 00 6B C0 2D 03 C8 8B 55 BC 89 8A 06 03 00 00 6A 81 6A 00 8D 55 FC 52 8B 45 F4 50 8B 4D EC 51 8B 4D BC E8 9F 59 EC FF 85 C0 74 49 68 00 10 00 00 6A 01 6A 03 6A 01 8B 4D BC 8B 81 4E 01 00 00 50 8B 91 4A 01 00 00 52 8B 81 46 01 00 00 50 E8 87 8F FE FF 8B 4D BC 8B 11 FF 92 98 00 00 00 6A 3C 8B 4D BC E8 3F 01 00 00 C7 45 F0 01 00 00 00 E9 8D 00 00 00 0F B7 0D 3A F0 8D 00 8B 55 BC 8B 82 9C 00 00 00 D3 F8 6B C0 18 8B 4D BC 8B 91 B0 00 00 00 03 D0 89 91 B0 00 00 00 0F B7 0D 3A F0 8D 00 8B 55 BC 8B 82 A0 00 00 00 D3 F8 6B C0 18 8B 4D BC 8B 91 B4 00 00 00 03 D0 89 91 B4 00 00 00 C7 81 10 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 C6 81 52 01 00 00 00 C7 41 6E FF FF FF FF EB 27 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

You'll need a hex editor and then search for those initial bytes, then replace starting from there until you reach end block. If you can't or it doesn't work, I guess I can manually patch your exe.

Ah and I just saw your necro post. Just upload your exe and tell me whether it is 2cd or 4cd and I'll manually patch it. Although, you really are missing on some good bug fixes as well as extra content from mods. :x

File isn't uploading for some weird reason; mind if I shoot it to you via PM? Also, not sure how to tell if the .exe is 2cd or 4cd; what should I be looking for?

As for the bug fixes, I really look forward to playing the game with them in place at some point in the future, but since law school leaves very little time that I can play games, it's taken me a number of days to get to the buried village, and having to do it all over again isn't all that appealing.

Understandable. As for not uploading, try zipping the exe or some other compression like rar or 7z then upload it to rapidgator.net and either PM or post link here.

Do you have GOG version? If that's case, then you're using 2CD version. The 4CD version would be if you bought it from some other reseller or had original game cd's.

Ah, gotcha :) thanks for the help. Uploading still not working, so contemplating editing it myself; should I start editing at the start of that string or after?

Sweetsauce, thanks. Will let you know how it turns out.

Well, I edited the file, but now the game crashes whenever I get hit by Ice Knife. Luckily, I backed up the original, but GOG is still refusing to let me upload the file, even after compressing it; is there some other way I can send this to you?

*edit* No wonder the file isn't attaching to my post; it's .12 mb over GOG's capacity.

Killing party members doesn't affect your alignment and it's not difficult to find a battle they don't survive if you feel bad about it.

Ahhh. Don't upload it to GOG. Zip your original exe unpatched and upload it to http://www.zippyshare.com/ .. this site doesn't require any account (I forgot rapidgator does). Then post link on forums or by PM.