Mods for Neverwinter Nights.

[David Xachaturian]

Does anyone play them here, and what fun/dull fan mods can you name? Me, I love Tale of a Mage, hate Tales of the Sundering, and am torn between the two when I play Almraiven (how can one person make a mod with these wonderful areas and quests, and such soulless dialogue?).

Also, what's with this Planescape Trilogy, does a Torment fan need to smite the heretics, or rejoice at the Second Coming?

 

[racofer]

From our prestigious Codex Magazine pinned The RPG Mod Repository, you have Honor Among Thieves - a completely new 20-30 hour campaign for NWN 1. (requires HotU) Tons of role-playing, C&C, and stealth. Think Deus Ex in the NWN 1 engine.

 

[Worm King]

Do the persistent worlds still function with popularity after all this time?

 

[racofer]

Some of them do, specially considering how awful the multiplayer aspect of nwn2 is. Most persistent worlds never made it into the second game, that's why nwn1 still gets the majority of modules.

 

[Starwars]

Early playtest version of Purgatorio (meaning not everything will be implemented in it) will be ready soon, like before Christmas. Might want to wait until it's "final" though since they haven't got everything implemented yet.

Almraiven is my favourite NWN mod. I played the follow-up called Shadewood, and while very different, it seemed really good as well. However, my computer screwed up before I could get to far into it.

Honor Among Thieves is good, but I feel it's horrendously slow and boring at the start.
Tales of Arterra is pretty good as well.

I really like Harp & Crysanthemum for NWN2 for what it is, a shorter fairly low level adventure. Not mindblowing roleplaying or anything like that, but I found it to be very well crafted overall. The recently released Fate of a City is also good, with some nice consequences here and there. On the downside, it gets a bit fed-exy though. But I quite liked it overall.

EDIT: The Conan mods are nice as well.

 

[Korgan]

A Dance with Rogues has a fuckton of so-bad-it's-good pr0nz.

 

[Jaesun]

Purgatorio is for NWN2. I never liked NWN1, so I cant recommend anything. I could recommend some decent NWN2 though.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

I still demand someone to do a Dances with Rogues LP. It's so bad.

Also, the quoted situation above is FULLY DISPLAYED WITH NWN1 GRAPHICS. As are all the rest.

 

[Lesifoere]

I still demand someone to do a Dances with Rogues LP. It's so bad.

I played both the first and the second one (ARGH, ARGH, WHY DID I DO THAT?). I should've taken that opportunity to screencap a lot of the dialogue, but back then I didn't even know the Codex existed.

 

[Jaime Lannister]

I'll update the Mod Repository with Almraiven and Shadewood, even though I haven't played Shadewood yet.

Tortured Hearts 1 and 2 are good, but long and the quests can be very unforgiving.

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

I played the first and second as well. The first was... hilariously bad, but the second was just bad. Less amusing porn and more ten-minute cutscenes of your character standing in a cage while an Illithid tries to sell you off.
Ten minutes. I counted.

 

[Erebus]

My favorite NWN mods are Elegia Eternum and Excrucio Eternum. Both have very good writing, interesting characters, fantastic atmospheres and show a HUGE lot of imagination. If you like original, story-rich CRPGs, you should definitely give them a try.

Twilight and Midnight (another trilogy that, to my knowledge, was never finished) also have a well-developed story, although it's not as original (and you tend to play second fiddle to your dark elf companion). It has some very nice puzzles. Check it out if you don't hate playing a paladin.

Arandie is very well-written and set in a highly detailed world. It forces you to play a specific character (female thief-sorcerer), but she's fairly interesting and has a lot of interesting interactions with NPCs. Try it to play a well-developed, amoral heroine or try it because she has a lot of hot bisexual (but mostly lesbian) sexx0r.

Speaking of sex, "Sex and the single adventuress" also has a lot of it. Unlike Arandie, the mod is parodic (and written by a woman). It's pretty funny. Rather repetitive (you sometimes get monsters to fight for a change), but it's fairly short so it's not a huge problem. You probably won't play this one twice but if you're not above adventuring in a scanty dress, you could give it a try.

In french, I would also recommand the excellent Kosigan series. The mods are very well-written, have nice plots and good, historical atmospheres. The NPCs are very interesting and there's a lot of C&C. There's a lot of black and gray morality and you can be monstrous bastard if you feel like it. Give it a try if you can actually read french (or if the mod has somehow been well translated) and pissing off the King of France sounds like fun to you.

 

[Jaime Lannister]

Exile of the West is very well-translated. Added to mod repository.

 

[Smarts]

I thoroughly enjoyed The HeX Coda (same author as Elegia Eternum), definitely give that a look if you'd like to see time travel and magitech done NWN-style. If you're a fan of JRPGs, I would also recommend the Rose of Eternity two-parts-of-a-trilogy.

 

[sabishii]

Lord of Blight

 

[David Xachaturian]

Someone actually managed to beat Sex and the Single Adventuress? I mean, all you do in the game is... have sex. With guys. On NWN engine. In darkness.

 

[CheezDoodleS]

Someone actually managed to beat Sex and the Single Adventuress? I mean, all you do in the game is... have sex. With guys. On NWN engine. In darkness.

What's not to like?

 

[Erebus]

Someone actually managed to beat Sex and the Single Adventuress? I mean, all you do in the game is... have sex. With guys. On NWN engine. In darkness.

That's not all there is to it : first, you've got to find all of these guys (about 30 of them) and sometimes even convince them to have sex with you !

Okay, you probably need to be in the right mood (or maybe drunk) to play the mod for more than 10 minutes straight. I found it to be pretty funny, but playing it once is obviously more than enough.

 

[dagorkan]

Tortured Hearts

 

[David Xachaturian]

And if I confess I actually got stuck in it after half an hour? :D :D

 

[David Xachaturian]

Tortured Hearts sound so melodramatic...
And the size of the hak is JUST dramatic. :O

 

[Korgan]

And the author is a convicted pedophile. True story, heard it somewhere around these parts.

 

[dagorkan]

And the author is a convicted pedophile. True story, heard it somewhere around these parts.

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