NWN Neverwinter Nights (NWN & NWN2) Modules Thread

[Dawkinsfan69]

this game has some great music

 

[aweigh]

I'M ALREADY TRACER

 

[Popiel]

Coming back to NWN for Swordflight 4. Will report here later.

 

[Poseidon00]

I don't think it's possible to recreate anything similar to the BG2 experience in NWN, because BG2 had full party control. If my party in BG2 has two spellcasters, I can use them to work together as a team, e.g. one mage casts greater malison, the other follows with confusion. That's fun. If you have a spellcaster henchman in NWN, they are useless at best, and at worst a clusterfuck waiting to happen. And that's not fun. I only ever take spellcasting henchmen in NWN because of a) quests or b) if I really like them.

That's something that an Enhanced Edition of Neverwinter Nights could actually do to make the game substantially better than it is right now. So of course they didn't do it.

 

[hell bovine]

That's something that an Enhanced Edition of Neverwinter Nights could actually do to make the game substantially better than it is right now. So of course they didn't do it.

Yep, I'd actually buy the EE if it had full party control.

 

[luj1]

Yeah I would too. That's a neat idea they could have implemented if they had the passion for it. Of course, it's easier to live off community mods and portrait packs.

 

[Nerevar]

So I got NWN EE for phone and PC.... Wish I didn't. Should have stuck with diamond. There is literally nothing better about it and it uses MORE CPU! My laptop runs NWN Diamond with no fan and EE the fan turns on. Really makes you think. It's only $2 so no big loss.

Edit: The Kivan rip off new portrait is triggering my autism hard. If I wanted BG portraits I'd just add them myself no need for an inferior palette swap.

 

[Apostle Hand]

Blackguard modules review

read it here

https://darksideofrpgs.blogspot.com/2018/12/blackguard-modules-for-neverwinter.html

 

[rogueknight333]

The Blackguard series does indeed have some of the most difficult combat to be found for NWN, and is worth playing for the tactical challenge.

The story and role-playing reactivity are unfortunately rather disappointing, as you are basically forced to play a stereotypical psycho-killer. It also unnecessarily limits possible character types even on the mechanical side, since playing much of anything other than a Fighter/Blackguard focused on Longsword was apparently not expected by the author and presents special challenges. It is possible to start as a Rogue, Bard or Cleric, but starting with a Medium BAB class will likely force you to murder some random people to farm them for XP if you are to meet the requirements for taking a Blackguard level by the time it is required (though doing so is perfectly possible and in character). You can eventually get good versions of a variety of weapons as well (IIRC, Short Sword, Greatsword, Bastard Sword, Katana, Battle Axe, Greataxe and Scythe are viable long term), but you will get a good Longsword first making other choices sub-optimal (and the series really rewards optimization).

 

[ERYFKRAD]

a stereotypical psycho-killer.

So it's regular murderhobo campaign disguised as 3edgy5me?

 

[Apostle Hand]

couple of bad modules i played but didnt finidhed read it here

https://darksideofrpgs.blogspot.com/2018/12/infernal-crown-and-hunt-through-dark.html

 

[Nerevar]

I made it to part 2 of Blackguard and went to the orc camps in the wrong order and it just breaks the game. CBF doing it again.

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Coming back to NWN for Swordflight 4. Will report here later.

And? You never came back to report. How much does it suck?

 

[Popiel]

I started a new character and it appears I have (very) little time to play, didn't yet reach Swordflight 3. I'll report in time, when I'll get a while to progress and to play part four.

EDIT: As far as I've ever played Swordflight it never sucked, so I doubt S4 will suck. Just to inform.

 

[NatureOfMan]

Is it just me or I just can't get into Persistent Worlds? Ravenloft is pretty nice looking and I like the setting but it feels like such a slog sometimes. My only source of exp right now is roleplaying with others and while that may be fun I would've liked quests or a little bit of dungeon crawling from time to time. Talking about quests why are they so subpar? I've played on Arelith, Cormyr and Ravenloft and all the quests are your typical WoW go kill x or collect x quests. I realise that DM quests/events are the main questing experiences in PWs but I would have expected more creativity.

 

[rogueknight333]

Just a heads up to people playing Swordflight 4 that it has a rather serious bug if played in the EE version, in which you often cannot click on "Force Field" doors, making it impossible to access some content. This has been reported to Beamdog (it could possibly be relevant in other modules too) but I do not know if or when they will do anything about it. However, I hope to soon put up a revised version of the module with a temporary fix for the problem, and a few other minor tweaks. Hopefully in the next few days.

 

[Lacrymas]

No self-respecting person plays EE, though.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Well, I played EE... for exactly five minutes. The only thing I liked about it was the main text UI was scalable and so you didn't have to suffer tiny text at high resolutions. I was going to play Stellaris from Paradox at my big screen HD TV's native resolution to avoid the blurries but the fonts are too small. I wish Paradox would adopt scalable fonts for their strategy games.

 

[Thorsson]

No self-respecting person plays EE, though.

I guess I'm not self-respecting then. It is still being updated.

 

[rogueknight333]

Updated version now available.

It seems the buttons to rate posts are no longer available? Has the Codex's management been taking lessons from Beamdog on how to introduce improved features and give them proper QA testing?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Updated version now available.

It seems the buttons to rate posts are no longer available? Has the Codex's management been taking lessons from Beamdog on how to introduce improved features and give them proper QA testing?

Over here, the buttons they come and go. But brofists are forever.

 

[Dzupakazul]

Should I give a shit about the NWNEE for casual co-op multiplayer? I have friends wanting to try it out now that it has received some new exposure, but I don't know if they're not better off being handed an NWN Diamond install from GoG and calling it a day. I have another friend claiming that EE makes SoU/HotU more easily playable in multiplayer (?).

 

[Riddler]

I was planning to replay Swordflight in the upcoming week and I were wondering if anyone had any suggestions regarding class/race choices seeing as at least the later modules seem to place some significance at these choices.

Lilura rogueknight333

 

[ERYFKRAD]

class

Barbarian

 

[Lacrymas]

race

Half-orc.