The Black Pits

The Black Pits is a serious of sequentially more difficult arena style battles, spread across three tiers. Characters may react roughly level 10 (level 9 for some high experience requirement classes and level 11 for some low experience requirement classes, but generally level 10).

One may export a level 10 character just before the end of the final (15th) battle, and then use this character as the starting character for the main game in Baldur's Gate:Enhanced Edition. If one chooses to do this, the player character remains at level 10 (or 9 or 11), but has his/her experienced reduced to the xp cap (161,000) upon starting the game.

Gameplay is roughly 8 hours for the first playthrough, or 2-3 hours if importing a strong character.