Thanks. Sounds good, then. I somewhat disagree with you on the mechanics of #3. They were random encounters (I could reload an earlier save and get different - easier or more difficult - results), but usually it was to get to places like where the Tiefling quest starts or just over the river (literally) from your capital. I agree that there are places a low level group shouldn't go, but sometimes you had to go through those areas just to progress the game. Anyway, that's a fairly minor issue to me.
Yeah, Regongar was "tame" for CE, but I'm not a teenager or a degenerate, so I have no interest in romances in RPGs - especially gay ones.
Looking at some of the classes, I'm actually pretty interested now. Paladin and Slayer are my two favorite, so it's nice to see the Divine Scion archetype is available.