To jorko80:
I think Beholders make most fights against level 1 creatures quite trivial. Too predictable and lack of thrilling.
On the same vein, Engineers are crowd control gods. I used them for a long time during my last Crossworlds playthrough and had a hate/love relationship with them. I found them really annoying due to the same motives I got bored of Beholders, but really liked their flamethrower spray, with that wonderful 13-26 range damage that even makes the usually dissapointing/unneccesary Bless, appealing.
It's great that you'll translate your mods. I'm really grateful. I hope will have spare time to test them by March.
Impossible is my usual choice, but I saw raknefne recommended Hard for a simmilar difficulty. Besides, I'm not very fond of bloating numbers as the way to go to make challenges. An improved AI and level design are less irritating and fair. It's a shame nowadays sometimes is all about graphics.