NWN Neverwinter Nights (NWN & NWN2) Modules Thread

[soulburner]

I've also been toying with NWN1 lately, specifically shader wrappers, model and texture overrides/hakpacks, and also camera hacks.

I found a cam hack last year that modified the exe to allow first-person perspective and extra zoom-out functionality for a semi-bird's eye view, but just recently I found camera hacks in shader apps which serve the same purpose and leave the exe untouched. 1st person is cool if you use WASD, plays FPS-like. The extra zoom-out just makes it easier to navigate larger maps.
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Could you write some more about these hacks? I can never google anything...

 

[Lilura]

You can use the standalone cam hack or just use camera hack in chronepsis version of NWShader, which is checked by default.

 

[baturinsky]

Maybe I'm shallow, but I'm turned off things on NWN engine purely because of graphics. Specifically gamma. IE games where so colourful, why everything in NWN should be parchment yellow?

 

[Lilura]

Demonheart, another NWN mod in development with a female protagonist in the style of A Dance With Rogues.

Extreme content rating:

Spoiler

-needless graphical sex scenes, sometimes including the player character and sometimes non-consensual;
-descriptions of violence and sex;
-evil or vengeful player choices leading to something of the above;
-foul language – in modern English/slang, yes. You don't think the people in an invented world are really speaking English, do you?;
-heart eating, horror dreams and a few more potentially disturbing elements.

Features:

Spoiler

-a female player character
-a low magic world, low levels
-the protagonist resurrects after death, unless she fights someone who knows what she is and who's willing to kill her for good
-some of the companions are immortal, or can become immortal
-there are no clerics and no divine magic
-friendships and romances
-new bad boys for the poking
-bad girls as well, but only later
-too much talking
-player choices, as many as I can manage to implement
-grey morality (it gets seriously effed up in the later chapters)
-alignment shifts (if you don't like them, ignore them)
-riddles, only some of them avoidable
-darkness
-evil
-ugly things happening
-...

In progress, has a decent following. Prelude and Chapter 1 done, and playable. Chapter 2 in beta. Seems to be well-written, by a female modder.

 

[Stainless Veteran]

Demonheart, another NWN mod in development with a female protagonist in the style of A Dance With Rogues.

Extreme content rating:

Spoiler

-needless graphical sex scenes, sometimes including the player character and sometimes non-consensual;
-descriptions of violence and sex;
-evil or vengeful player choices leading to something of the above;
-foul language – in modern English/slang, yes. You don't think the people in an invented world are really speaking English, do you?;
-heart eating, horror dreams and a few more potentially disturbing elements.

Features:

Spoiler

-a female player character
-a low magic world, low levels
-the protagonist resurrects after death, unless she fights someone who knows what she is and who's willing to kill her for good
-some of the companions are immortal, or can become immortal
-there are no clerics and no divine magic
-friendships and romances
-new bad boys for the poking
-bad girls as well, but only later
-too much talking
-player choices, as many as I can manage to implement
-grey morality (it gets seriously effed up in the later chapters)
-alignment shifts (if you don't like them, ignore them)
-riddles, only some of them avoidable
-darkness
-evil
-ugly things happening
-...

In progress, has a decent following. Prelude and Chapter 1 done, and playable. Chapter 2 in beta. Seems to be well-written, by a female modder.

Chapter 2 is fully playable, although somewhat buggy in places. Author works really slow though, I'm not sure we'll ever see chapter 3. Demonheart chapters is way smaller than ADwR (well, as is almost any NWN1 mod though), and are more linear. Decent-to-good characters, some choices and consequences, mostly storyfag module. Three custom classes (not really custom though, more like underpowered versions, because of main character's origin) - bard, fighter, rogue. Decent setting, although I wish that author have spent more time on it and somewhat less on the characters. All in all it's a good module, and also Rance-approved.

 

[eremita]

Is there some track list of graphic/texture overhaul mods? This game actually looks lovely when someone really commits. I would like to see some "global" mod though, because it looks pretty bad when your character/certain objects looks like from another game while vanilla still looks like shit...

 

[DramaticPopcorn]

If you're talking nwn2, then I don't believe there is a single mod that helps visuals for vanilla or addon campaings, save for better terrain textures.

 

[Lilura]

There's a facelift pak, then there's mods called boring things like tree textures, floorboards, paving stones, curbs and bricks! And just simple stuff like that to throw in your override, which then looks at odds with the neglected aspects.

There is nothing like Project Q and Q Campaigns for NWN2, from my experience.

I prefer the cleaner look of NWN1, anyway.

 

[pakoito]

GoG has the game for potato and my Xmas bonus was okay so I thought why not spoil myself with some storyfaggottry in MoB plus some old fashioned D&D build tinkering in SoZ.

That's nice all and all, but if I remember something from NWN1 is that despite the crappy story you had this vastful amount of mods and server shards and stuff and given that I'm a lazy fuck with a job I'd rather the codex told me what to get and what to avoid.

tl;dr gameplay and content mods for NWN2 firstly, and which stories or community shards are worth exploring.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Betrayal at Krondor mod
Icewind Dale mod
Baldur's Gate mod
enjoy

 

[Ninjerk]

looks like we gots ourselves a FEGGIT boys

 

[pakoito]

looks like we gots ourselves a FEGGIT boys

Spoiler

 

[Elim]

The only good thing about NWN2 is Mask of the Betrayer.
Play it a couple of times then uninstall the game.

You won't miss much.

 

[Erebus]

Play MotB at least twice. The evil path is really good, but you probably shouldn't try it the first time.

 

[pakoito]

Wait, MoB is a game where you can be truly evil and not just a loveable jerk like in Jedy Academy?

 

[Jaesun]

tl;dr gameplay and content mods for NWN2 firstly, and which stories or community shards are worth exploring.

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/neverwinter-nights-nwn-nwn2-modules-thread.34529/

 

[pakoito]

tl;dr gameplay and content mods for NWN2 firstly, and which stories or community shards are worth exploring.

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/neverwinter-nights-nwn-nwn2-modules-thread.34529/

Thank you oh almight, you may close the thread now if you want.

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

The only good thing about NWN2 is Mask of the Betrayer.
Play it a couple of times then uninstall the game.

You won't miss much.

SoZ is definitely more of an acquired taste, but it's pretty superb at delivering on its design goals.

 

[Perkel]

Betrayal at Krondor mod
Icewind Dale mod
Baldur's Gate mod
enjoy

:puke:

edit:

play MOTB only fuck the rest. Especially OC.

 

[Tigranes]

SoZ is good, worth a try to see if it's your type. It's very sozzy.

 

[garren]

MotB was good, but that goddamn engine..

 

[tuluse]

Betrayal at Krondor mod
Icewind Dale mod
Baldur's Gate mod
enjoy

Wut why would you want to play these games in possibly the worst game engine to ever exist?

 

[Somberlain]

I tried the IWD mod once, because I wanted all the cool prestige classes and shit, but I gave up pretty quickly. It's not even the clunkiness of the engine that's the main problem, but the fact that both you and your enemies see a lot farther than in Infinity Engine. The areas are way too small for that, and it means that when you attack the first goblins in Kuldahar Pass, you get attacked by almost every enemy in the valley.

It ruins the balance completely

 

[Baron Dupek]

Wut why would you want to play these games in possibly the worst game engine to ever exist?

I don't know.
And I don't know why anyone would port Icewind Dale (2?) and Baldur's Gate into that engine.
But someone did it. And someone play it.

 

[Grimwulf]

UI mods are also essential, methinks. Codexer Lilura made some comparisson in her blog:
http://lilura1.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/ui-mods-for-neverwinter-nights-2.html