I just finished the game about 10 minutes ago(note the time of this post) and I'm feeling a little jipped. When I finally finished, I was still about a million EP from level 17 (Paladin/Cavalier kit). What is the EP cap and how close did everyone get? Was I even near it?

The exp cap is 2.95 million, and in all 3 games I finished my main char had hit that cap quite some time before finishing.

Most my NPCs actually tended to be at the cap, notable exception only being Imoen, who's absent for a huge part of the game and doesn't come back with quite the levels to compensate. But even she finished as level 17 mage.

i've won 4 times and each time my character and all my npc wer at (or above) the cap.

my swashbuckler was level 27 :)

armin: if you want to get imoen to the cap you have to rush through chap 2 and pick her up asap. of course that makes the asylum/undersea/underdark harder as your other characters aren't as strong.