Houston we have Achieved Orbit around NWN!

[Henry]

I get there and ask the guy. He smiles and says "tommorow's the big day!" I look at him with venom in my eye about to rip out his still beating heart and use it to polish my boots when...

This, I would pay to see.

Oh, wait... I'm saving my money for Neverwinter Nights... oh, well...

 

[Renshai]

Just got back from Gamestop here in Texas.. will be in tomorrow.. thats fine though. I bought the worldbuilders book and I'm learning the scripting language... Its based on C and doesn't really look too hard.


Ren

 

[Lazybones]

Just got back from EB on my lunch break... no luck. Tonight would be perfect, too, since my fiance's out of town on a business trip.

Oh well, tomorrow I guess.

It will be in tomorrow, right? (twitch)

 

[LightPhoenix]

Now, I have a question.

Should it make me feel old that I remember (among other things) reading the day NWN was announced to the public?

Geez, and I'm only 22

 

[Rackhir]

I have copies of it. It's installed, but I have to finish my work first. My boss bought a couple of copies for the office. It does appear that there are no prestige classes (at least none mentioned in the manual).

I guess that's waiting for the splat book updates.

30pt buy for the characters. At least for the single player game.

 

[Leopold]

I have copies of it. It's installed, but I have to finish my work first. My boss bought a couple of copies for the office. It does appear that there are no prestige classes (at least none mentioned in the manual).

I guess that's waiting for the splat book updates.

30pt buy for the characters. At least for the single player game.

I got the walkthrough and it states that there is a point buy..it will be VERY VERY close to 3e but there are some drastic changes to be had in there..it seems that a ranger and/or wizard or rogue combo will be a powerful match...

 

[Swack-Iron]

WHAT CLASS RACE COMBO??

So far the character that I've been playing single player with is a Fight. 3/Sorc. 3, and it's working nicely.

I've hired both an NPC Rogue and and NPC Cleric, and what I saw of them in action made we want to play each of those classes big time. You have to see a Cleric turning undead zombies -- you will want to convert to their religion on the spot!

As someone else pointed out, the single player game is a 30 pt. buy campaign, which makes some multiclassing a little tough but not impossible. IIRC someone who's running a server is free to set up a pt. buy at whatever value they desire, so not all games are necessarily going to be 30 pt. games.

I'd call it about 95% 3rd edition. There are some small liberties taken based on the limitations of computer gaming as a medium, but I haven't seen a single thing that's pissed me off because it's a small departure from 3e. For example, there's no Whirlwind Attack feat -- I'd guess because Whirlwind Attack and Cleave are so similar, but the first time you see your character Cleave through a horde of goblins, trust me you'll howl with glee. Power Attack is preset to 5 pts., but this makes a tremendous amount of sense because of the realtime nature of the game -- there's simply no time to enter a custom value for a Power Attack. To compensate they've added a Greater Power Attack feat that's a 10 pt. attack, so you have additional flexibility as a mid-level fighter.

I think some very hardcore 3e fans will complain mightily about these small changes. IMO they don't really have an understanding of how computer gaming works as a medium. If you played BG, BG2, or IWD you know that those games weren't 100% 2nd ed. rules, but they were really close, close enough that the familiarity with the rules system made you happy. I swear to you, NWN is the same way with 3e. Run to your store and pick up a copy -- if you enjoyed BG and IWD, you will love this game.

 

[Wolfen Priest]

Has anyone managed to figure out (by playing or simply reading) what real effect alignment has in the video game, other than a pointless tacked-on label?

 

[ForceUser]

Has anyone managed to figure out (by playing or simply reading) what real effect alignment has in the video game, other than a pointless tacked-on label?

I can't speak for NWN (yet!!) but in BG2 it affected how NPCs react to your character.

 

[Leopold]

Definately being a FI/So combo then! I would assume human than??