Not "ill-concieved", Morrus. Your approach is not only understandable, but obviously necessary. Anyone that blames you or our Wand of Death weilding friend isn't thinking clearly.
It's just heart-rending when one has been waiting so long to go old-school in NWN, and finds out that, not only does he have to do all the work (and a lot of work at that) himself, but he can't share it with anyone or see anyone else's interpretations.