Sticky: New Blue Dragon Screenshot from NWN2 Expansion[ Comment ] Print News Thanks to Obsidian for passing on a super hi-res screenshot of the Blue Dragon that will be part of the upcoming Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion (NX1) titled "Mask of the Betrayer" that's due out this fall! The screenshot makes for a cool desktop wallpaper that should fit pretty much any monitor resolution.
Also thanks to QSW for setting up a new NX1 section that covers all the expansion details on a single page as well as setting up a FAQ to answer questions. We'll be keeping it up to date as new information is revealed.
NWN2 Spotlight - Russian dialog.tlk by rus.[ Comment ] Print News | Category: NWN2 - Spotlight Today we have a Neverwinter Nights 2 'Other' file in the spotlight created by rus. Titled Russian dialog.tlk is a complete translation of the official campaign into perfect Russion. There is also a crafting recipes file for download on this same page. With over 17000 combined downloads, this NWN2 file shows without a doubt that NWN2 has many fans from countries where their language is not supported. This is an amazing piece of work, and certainly deserves a look by all those who would like to play the official campaign in their native language of Russian. Here's an excerpt:
Russian NWN2 corrected dialog.tlk file and Crafting Recipes
Thanks for the contribution rus. If you'd like your work in the spotlight, drop me a line.
"Just messing around with the game and took this screenshot.all credit for the outfits and weapons go to the original authors. Figured someone might get a kick out of this"
Thanks for the submission Cblodgett. You can add your own screenshots and we'll publish one a day so the authors get good coverage.
The Otherside Chronicles - Introduction Act by Kevin Deyne(Single Player OR Multiplayer (1-4 Players)) - The series take place in the continent of Arryth, a completly new world made from scratch. This introduction act introduces (duh) the player to this new world and the story. In the beginning, there were only 3 kingdoms: Ryn'skel, home of the humans supported by their mighty heroes; Teran, home of the goblinoids and Nyreld, home of savage demons. As expected, a war broke out between the 3 land
Happily Never After by Allyndn_The_Beggar(Obsidian Mod Contest) - Fairy stories and myths gain their power from the trans-generational influence they have upon people, providing symbols and realities which are collectively drawn in the Reality Beyond. For this reason, an entity from Beyond may make use of these stories to weaken the Veil, the barrier between reality and dream.
How you have come to be browsing the dusty shelves of the sprawling library—o
The Daark Twins' The Wizard and his Creation, v1.0 by E.C.Patterson (aka ciViLiZed)(Obsidian Mod Contest) - STORY One morning, one much like any other for them, the Daark Twins, tellers and gatherers extraordinaire of Faerun’s most mysterious, most fantastic tales, set out from the hamlet of Anaatnas on the north-western edge of Cormyr's Hullack Forest, bound for the Tower of the White Wizard. Popular tales in this part of the land vary in their accounts of the White Wizard, but they all hint at
Sathmar - Invasion Chapter 1 by Lord Mephisto(Obsidian Mod Contest) - DISCLAIMER: This little module is all I had spare time to create for the time being. It is not exactly the epitome of my work, but it could provide a little fun for 1-2 hours. It is a simple single player module, meant to be the start of a better and larger series. This module was added to the module competition because I had nothing better. It can not be used properly for multiplayer.
Crossroads of Fate by Novalis(Obsidian Mod Contest) - The "Crossroads of Destiny" express my confusion about the meaning of Grimm’s tales (a dozen or so I read). It wasn’t clear to me who was the winner in those tales, the good or the bad guy, the clever one or the foolish one. Mingling with the god or the devil had different outcomes also. The idea for this mod came from the tale “Stories about Snakes”, which has three different stories wi
Grimm's PatchWorld by Patcha(Obsidian Mod Contest) - GRIMM'S PATCHWORLD! Now you are in a "Grimm's Tales" world! Everything around you seems normal, but is as strange as Grimm's Fairy Tales want! Just take a look around and create your fame by hunting the terrible Wolf! In that mod I tryied to mix as much things as possible in the firsts 90 grimm's tales (the content of the 500 pages Grimm's Collection Book that takes my firs
Ebha by B.B.(Obsidian Mod Contest) - Ebha, the God Mother, aka the Sleeping Beauty, gave to her followers the bounty of her womb on the oath they keep her sacred heart promised to her love Cucuillin throughout all eternity. Sadly, men cannot hold such promises forever; but one man will try.
Module backup script by Sgt_Why(Other) - Like many others, I was tired of loosing work from the endless toolset corruptions. After many attempts at backing up, I came across 7zip and put together a script to automated the backup process. The result is a windows batch file, which creates a time-stamped 7zip archive file containing all of the module related files. Now, before making edits...
NWN2 Spotlight - Icewind Dale Remake (German) by Dhangoon.[ Comment ] Print News | Category: NWN2 - Spotlight Today we have a Neverwinter Nights 2 International Movie in the spotlight created by Dhangoon. Titled Icewind Dale Remake (German) is an intro to the series of modules that will be released over the next few months using the original IWD intro movie, no less than 6.5 minutes long! Many people enjoyed the Ice Wind Dale story, and now we will have the chance to play it all over again using the NWN2 platform! There are also high hopes that there will be an English version, so no one in the community need miss out on this exciting series. Here's an excerpt:
Icewind Dale goes NWN2.
Beschreibung:
Icewind Dale goes NWN2. Unsere Module werden die kompletten Geschichten von Icewind Dale, Herz des Winters und Trials of the Luremaster (sowie eine neue zusätzliche Geschichte) enthalten.
Desweitern werden aller Charaktere, Stimmensets, Musik und Dialoge ins IwD-Remake übernommen.
Wir werden auch versuchen, dass IwD-Remake in die aktuelle D&D; Version 3.5 umzusetzen.
Die Geschichten:
1.) Icewind Dale:
Ausgangspunkt ist das Fischerdorf Osthafen. Ihr schließt euch einer Expedition zur Ortschaft Kuldahar an. Unterwegs gerät die Karawane in einen Hinterhalt, dem Ihr als einzige lebend entkommen könnt. Von Kuldahar aus bereist Ihr weite Teile des Tales und begebt euch auf die Suche nach dem Bösen, welche das Land verseucht.
2.) Herz des Winters:
Ihr werdet in Kuldahar von einem Schamanen in das Städtchen Einsamwald gerufen. Hier planen die vereinigten Stämme der Uthgard-Barbaren einen Angriff auf die Zehnstädte. Sie werden von einem untoten Barbarenfürsten angeführt, den ein düsteres Geheimnis umgibt. Es ist eure Aufgabe, das Geheimnis dieses Fürsten zu lüften und den drohenden Krieg abzuwenden.
3.) Trials of the Luremaster:
Beschäftigt sich hauptsächlich mit den Geheimnissen eines offenbar schon vor langer Zeit verlassenen Schlosses.
4.) Neue zusätzliche Geschichte:
Das ist noch eine Überraschung und ein Tribut an alle Rollenspieler. ;-)
Infos zum Download:
Hier gibts zu aller erst einmal das Original-Intro-Video und einige zusätzliche Inhalte...(~29MB)
"Description:
Icewind Dale goes NWN2. The Iwd-Remake-Moduls will include the complete stories of Icewind Dale, Heart of Winter and Trials of the Luremaster (and a new additional story). All characters, voicesets, music and dialogues will be implementet to the IwD-Remake. We will also be trying to update Icewind-Dale-Remake into the D&D; Version 3.5 rules.
The Stories:
1.) Icewind Dale:
The start of your journey finds you in Easthaven. You have to join to an impending expedition to the Kuldahar valley, but you´ll be ambushed. As the lone survivors of what once was a promising expedition, your duty is clear: you must press on to Kuldahar and continue the search for the evil that plagues the land.
2.) Heart of Winter:
In Kuldahar a shaman will mention that dark clouds of war gather over his homeland. That a king both young and old, has returned from the grave to lead his people in the conflict to come, only you can prevent the cataclysmic war from happening.
3.) Trials of the Luremaster:
There are lots of secrets in this old abandoned Castle. Abandoned? Really?? You´ll see it.
4.) New additional story:
Thats going to be our surprise and a tribute to all Role Playing Gamers. ;-)
An English-Version (if the custom.tlk, is going to work, in NWN2) will be done a little bit later.
Download Infos:
That´s the Original-Intro of IwD (German) and few additional contents... (~29MB)
Release Dates Iwd-Remake (English):
1.) Icewind Dale: ~Nov./Dec. 2007
2.) Herz des Winters: ~Dec./Jan. 2007/08
3.) Trials of the Luremaster: ~Feb. 2008
4.) New additional story: when it´s done ;-)"
Thanks for the contribution Dhangoon. If you'd like your work in the spotlight, drop me a line.
Kymlun (Requires All Expansions (SoU & HotU & CEP))
Original World, with its own Gods & Cities. Custom Scripts for Races, Special ILR scripts, Unique Tutor System.
If you'd like your game world promoted, enter it and we'll post it here. Thanks for the news.
Please take the time to play these mods and provide feedback to the mod-makers. But also, please realize, these are not professional mod makers and they do not get paid for what they do. As such, please try to be kind in your criticism.
The results should be announced at the end of May, or before - depending on how long it takes us to play all these mods.
Good luck to those that participated!
Class Focus discussions? We would make changes to existing classes if it makes sense and improves the game.
Custom suggestions are not thrown out. They are taken into account as well.
Shane K. DeFreest - NWN2 Community Manager, Maverick Public Relations -
NWN2.com Community Feedback So this is one of those times where we are going to reach out to the community and ask for some serious feedback and suggestions. Atari is in the process of a site re-design for NWN2.com. The idea is to make it more functional as a community site and less of a "marketing" site. With this in mind we'd like to hear what types of functionality the community would like to see on the site. Feel free to give details and specifics. This is one of those times where your constructive feedback will be heard, and passed along.
Official NWN Forum Highlights[ Comment ] Print News | Category: NWN - NWN Forum Highlights Here are the latest posts from the Official Forums made by the developers. Please note these are only one part of the thread, and should not be taken out of context. If you find any forum threads we may have missed or you think should be in the highlights, send me an email.
Stanley Woo - Quality Assurance -
Questions about 1.69 The content of 1.69, as is the final disposition of such, has not yet been decided. All the big decisions on what to include in the patch will be made later on. There is also the issue of getting approval to do one final patch, as well as allocating resources which are currently occupied by other projects with higher priority.
Until we make those, we can't give you any kind of answer on when or if 1.69 will come (but we hope it will, because we'd really like to do it) or what it will contain. So, please join the discussion in the 1.69 requests thread. Thank you.
Missing Votes for NWN Hall of Fame[ Comment ] Print News | Category: NWN - Site Features Here are some of the entries that are short of the 25 votes needed to be considered for the Hall of Fame. If you've downloaded any of these files, please visit their pages and rate them. Getting feedback from the community is very important to content authors and ensures that they continue to produce more for you to download.
NWN2 Expansion: Mask of the Betrayer Q&A;![ Comment ] Print News | Category: NWN2 - Official News In case you missed it, NWN2 is getting an expansion and it's called "Mask of the Betrayer" and tonight GameSpot has a feature Q&A; as they look at the story, classes, and enhancements! In the hot seat is Obsidian's Lead Designer Kevin Saunders and reveals some of the new classes and feature. Here's an excerpt:
GS: How far has the level cap, which was previously set at 20, been raised? What are some of the new high-level skills and abilities in the expansion?
KS: Mask of the Betrayer takes you into the D&D; epic levels, up to level 30. All of the base classes are being expanded up to level 30, and you can multiclass and take prestige classes to reach the higher levels. You'll have over 50 epic feats to choose from, some of which provide new abilities that we've designed with guidance from Wizards of the Coast. For example, monks might acquire the blazing aura feat, which engulfs their body in flames, injuring enemies who attack them, and adding to their unarmed strike damage.
As part of the expansion will be more tools for the modding community and improved graphics. There's also several new screenshots to check out.
Final NWN2 Mod Making Contest Entries[ Comment ] Print News | Category: NWN2 - Spotlight We have the final six new entries for the Neverwinter Nights 2 Mod Making Contest to let you know about, submitted by Allyndn_The_Beggar, E.C.Patterson (aka ciViLiZed), Lord Mephisto, Novalis, Patcha, and B.B.. The deadline for the contest has passed, so make sure to not update your entries or risk getting disqualified! Here's the latest submissions.
Happily Never After by Allyndn_The_Beggar(Obsidian Mod Contest) - Fairy stories and myths gain their power from the trans-generational influence they have upon people, providing symbols and realities which are collectively drawn in the Reality Beyond. For this reason, an entity from Beyond may make use of these stories to weaken the Veil, the barrier between reality and dream.
How you have come to be browsing the dusty shelves of the sprawling library—o
The Daark Twins' The Wizard and his Creation, v1.0 by E.C.Patterson (aka ciViLiZed)(Obsidian Mod Contest) - STORY One morning, one much like any other for them, the Daark Twins, tellers and gatherers extraordinaire of Faerun’s most mysterious, most fantastic tales, set out from the hamlet of Anaatnas on the north-western edge of Cormyr's Hullack Forest, bound for the Tower of the White Wizard. Popular tales in this part of the land vary in their accounts of the White Wizard, but they all hint at
Sathmar - Invasion Chapter 1 by Lord Mephisto(Obsidian Mod Contest) - DISCLAIMER: This little module is all I had spare time to create for the time being. It is not exactly the epitome of my work, but it could provide a little fun for 1-2 hours. It is a simple single player module, meant to be the start of a better and larger series. This module was added to the module competition because I had nothing better. It can not be used properly for multiplayer.
Crossroads of Fate by Novalis(Obsidian Mod Contest) - The "Crossroads of Destiny" express my confusion about the meaning of Grimm’s tales (a dozen or so I read). It wasn’t clear to me who was the winner in those tales, the good or the bad guy, the clever one or the foolish one. Mingling with the god or the devil had different outcomes also. The idea for this mod came from the tale “Stories about Snakes”, which has three different stories wi
Grimm's PatchWorld by Patcha(Obsidian Mod Contest) - GRIMM'S PATCHWORLD! Now you are in a "Grimm's Tales" world! Everything around you seems normal, but is as strange as Grimm's Fairy Tales want! Just take a look around and create your fame by hunting the terrible Wolf! In that mod I tryied to mix as much things as possible in the firsts 90 grimm's tales (the content of the 500 pages Grimm's Collection Book that takes my firs
Ebha by B.B.(Obsidian Mod Contest) - Ebha, the God Mother, aka the Sleeping Beauty, gave to her followers the bounty of her womb on the oath they keep her sacred heart promised to her love Cucuillin throughout all eternity. Sadly, men cannot hold such promises forever; but one man will try.
You can find all modules submitted at this link. Good luck to all the authors!
Grimm Brigade by Jason S. Roy(Obsidian Mod Contest) - The Grimm Brigade Think you have what it takes to be a Grimm Agent? Then battle fiercely and emerge a hero for all time! Featuring: - Action-Packed Missions - Pick Up & Go Storyline - Class-Unique Armor - Loads of Custom Weapons - Dynamic Environments - Hordes of Ruthless Enemies Experience the intensity of a Neverwinter Nights 2 Hack n' Slash set in the world o
The Queen of Lies by Adoniram(Obsidian Mod Contest) - The Queen of Lies, inspired by the Grimm brothers fairy tales (and, to be quite honest, by the movie as well). Your and your brother's hobby is collecting fairytales. This night, you were camping out in the forest, and your brother was just about to read you the tale he had recently recorded... In this module you will play predefined story characters most of the time, in essence re-enact
The Rampion Champion by Death Quaker(Obsidian Mod Contest) - At the beginning of the popular tale of "Rapunzel," a lesser known adventure takes place: Rapunzel's father-to-be ventures into the garden of the most powerful witch in the land just to get his pregnant wife a vegetable called rampion to eat. “The Rampion Champion” takes this prologue and turns it into an adventure of its own. You play the father (if a human male) or otherwise godparent
NWN 1 Style VFX by Thomas_B(Placeable Effects) - Just some placeables effects ported from NWN1. Not 100% the same as NWN1, but I guess close enough to be of use for some people. No ERF includes, just VFX files. Drop into your override folder or your campaign folder. Then place on of the standard VFX and change the appereance to tab_nwn1shaft_COLOUR or tab_nwn1sparkle_COLOUR. Colours are blue, gree, light green, orange, purple, red, white
Sharpstone Village by Jezla9(Exterior : Village) - This is the first area I have made in NWN2. The village is the base of operations in my current in progress module. It is a small mountian mining village. All but two doors are static(the cave entrance and the general store), and sounds and lights are in place. I have modified it slightly from the original that appears in my mod, and I have included an .erf and .mod file. Just import and
Vindenari Tutmos by regnjazz(Level 15-20) - Vindenari’s life can be defined as “small village adolescent” to “post raid instant adult”. It was his parents who tasked him with whisking his younger brother Gertz and the already orphaned infant Ven to safety. By the time he found someone to take the two boys in and return to his village, it had been destroyed. In the days that followed, while he buried his family, friends, and village elder
"As the dust settles after the battle with the King of Shadows, the people of Neverwinter wait in anticipation for the triumphant return of their heroes...but they never came back. What became of their champions? Where is the Knight-Captain? Will she finally return victorious, or will she forever live on only in tavern stories?
(A what-might-have-been story post-NWN2, with some flashbacks to the OC. Be gentle, this is my first attempt!)"
Alangara by Tarashon and Drakaen
The ALANGARA server offers a mixture of role-play and adventure to the players and to the best of our ability we try to recreate the known PnP atmosphere, where in one moment enemy players are discussing on word and philosophies and in the next their are chatting friendly to each other or perhaps OOC debating about some idea of sorts for the server overall. We only force Role-play to the extend that players should speak as if they were indeed that character when in public.
The main philosophy from the two world builders/owners was that they wanted to create a server where it is the life and option of the players themselves that is in focus. Now we have designed a very challenging world. We believe that good role-play should be encouraged by the world itself by allowing the players to actually have some ‘real issues’ to role-play about. As such we offer various options such as…
- Player built housing.
- Player built lands.
- Even player built cities – if you can afford it…
- Player made guilds with custom guild structures, teleports guild vendors etc.
- Different in game factions to support of fight.
- Lots of NPC quests to entertain you.
Player farms adding a new range of options to the game such as:
- Creating magical custom gear
- Gain xp and gold from farming
- Use special plants to get other sort of special gear adding to your personal power in combat
Another aspect we have been working a lot with is the entire atmosphere and user friendliness of the server. We have been working very hard to provide a host of different scenario’s in order to obtain a visually beautiful world which inspires the players to role-play and explore rather than forcing it down as a server rule. But keep role-play in mind when you make your character build or even your background.
If you'd like your game world promoted, enter it and we'll post it here. Thanks for the news.
Many of the suggestions we find interesting and some intriguing. Many of the suggestions do give us ideas for things to implement and they are being evaluated. We won't implement something just because it is in that list, though. We try to look for what would make things fun for everyone, not just because it sounds cool or is closer to D&D rules.
Improving multiplayer chat/communication I think the portrait might not work well in this interface right now. What if you could click on a character's name to send them a tell like most MMOs?
For the text, I'll see what I can do.
NW1 old school, is it a good idea to buy NW2 ? This thread is becoming counter-productive to everyone. NWN2 has its limitations, just as NWN1 does. Both games allow for a person to build mods. Are there as many mods for NWN2 as there are for NWN1, no. Trying to use that as a benchmark is just silly.
For the sake of everyone's sanity, I am going to close this thread down.
Do you think the class is overpowered or underpowered?
How do you like to play the class?
Let us all know here.
Mod-making Contest Announced! There's about 10 minutes until the end of the contest... but I will accept anything that has today's date on it, just to make it a bit easier.
Official NWN Forum Highlights[ Comment ] Print News | Category: NWN - NWN Forum Highlights Here are the latest posts from the Official Forums made by the developers. Please note these are only one part of the thread, and should not be taken out of context. If you find any forum threads we may have missed or you think should be in the highlights, send me an email.
Brian Chung - Technical Artist
Animations and override Yeap, it's a fall back for phenotype body parts, to cut down on duplicating the 0/2 models and save some file space.
Missing Votes for NWN Hall of Fame[ Comment ] Print News | Category: NWN - Site Features Here are some of the entries that are short of the 25 votes needed to be considered for the Hall of Fame. If you've downloaded any of these files, please visit their pages and rate them. Getting feedback from the community is very important to content authors and ensures that they continue to produce more for you to download.
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Monthly Dungeon Master Hall of Fame Inductee: 
