The Gibberlings Three (http://www.gibberlings3.net/)

The IWD2 NPC Project is a mod that allows for an interactive party in Icewind Dale II. The player can use six pre-made characters or build a main character and fill out the party with five of the pre-made characters. Both will result in full interactivity within the party, and there are ten pre-made characters from which to select. Version 2 includes a new romance for Diriel as well as miscellaneous bug fixes.

Relevant links:
Download (http://www.gibberlings3.net/downloads/#iwd2npc)
Project page (http://www.gibberlings3.net/iwd2npc/)
Readme (http://www.gibberlings3.net/readmes/readme-iwd2npc.html)
Forum (http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showforum=116)

Cool. I've only played IWD2 once, and I can't say I really enjoyed it. I think one of the reasons was the missing banter.

One minor question. The readme says "Until Weimer's Ease of Use is not updated to be compatible with the most recent version of WeiDU, this mod should be installed prior to IWD2 NPC Project". Is the word "not" supposed to be there? Or should be somewhere else instead?

I believe the bigg's recent updates to WeiDU have removed the problems with IWD2 Ease of Use. I'd poke the bigg or Domi to be sure, though.

This is a great mod and it brings a second life to IWD2.