A return and a review

Well hello folks, It has been quite a while since my last rant. Today is more of a rave than a rant in store for you today. Anyone that has read some of my earlier posts knows I play and have been building a persistent world for Neverwinter Nights or NWN or NWN1 as those in the community call it.

One of the first sites you should visit is the unofficial community site created by one of the foremost hands down best creators of material for NWN none other than the Amethyst Dragon here is a link NWN community web site (unofficial).

Anyway, I am the creator and one of the Admin of the NWN Facebook Community Group found at NWN Facebook Community Group . We recently celebrated our 1000th member and have remained active for a couple of years now. Personally I enjoy working with the toolset that comes with the game. I have been building  for a few years now with this tool set and I must say I love the flexibility it has.  The other awesome quality it has is that it is easier to learn to use, as of this post the community is still very active over at the Bioware forums located Bioware NWN forums. I have found the community very helpful and active in helping others not only play but learn to build, script, and custom create for the game.

The games original content should be played to learn the game and I would recommend playing the Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark expansions and then either begin your search for a persistent world or if you enjoy single player you can find a large selection on the community vault found The Neverwinter Vault.

If you are a gamer who likes the 3.0/3.5 Dungeons and Dragons editions of the game you will love NWN. The game is a good translation of the tabletop game into a video game with the addition of the Dungeon Master client which allows one player to assume the role of dungeon master and with the included tools you can host a game and others with the game can log on and you can run the group through a module.

One of the greatest aspects of NWN is the fact that once you pay for the game you can play online as much as you want and never have to pay for anything related to the game again. The amount of community created content gives players thousands of hours just in single player or multiplayer modules, not to mention the persistent worlds offer quite a few hours of game time.

some of the community created content includes new appearances for characters, new classes, spells, races, fixes for bugs, new creature appearances, new tilesets, textures, sounds, item appearances, and more.  Most can be found on the above-mentioned vault in the form of "hack packs" as the community calls them. I can assure you the word hack should not dissuade you from utilising the many different features they offer. For the purist folk, there is a large number of the community that do not use hack packs. That's the beauty of NWN, it has a flavor for everyone.