Hi, I'm wondering what games are worthwhile is carry over a party into. As far as I know you can only carry parties over from 1-3, and 4-5 + SoX. 4-5 naturally being mandatory with since the GoG release is the combined version. So my question is does SoX require the party from WoX, and is it worthwhile carrying over from 2-3. I've already seen that most people feel carrying over 1-2 is a disadvantage. I'm not only interested in difficulty changes and the such, but also plot reasons for carrying over. For instance, if there are a lot of references in 2 that you're party came from VARN, that might actually make it worthwhile for me. I haven't seen anything like that, but maybe in the later games.

The only possible transfer is from 1 to 2. MM2 is called Gates to Another World and supposes a victorious party from MM1. There aren't many references to MM1 in MM2, though, and it's perfectly legit to use MM2's pregens or roll your own characters.

For MM4 and 5, you should play World of Xeen, which is a combo of those two games, plus some additional stuff. You can travel between the two games, but I would recommend finishing the MM4 first, or else the much higher XP gains from easy quests in MM5 will mame the MM4 part too easy and boring.