Houston we have Achieved Orbit around NWN!

[Wolfen Priest]

All you people who can't afford the game:

At least you have the hardware you play it!!!

My machine is 3 years old, 400 mHz and I need to buy a whole new fricken computer! The saddest part is, I've actually got the money, but can't spend it if I want to buy a wedding ring for my fiancee... how pathetic is that?

 

[JCLabelle]

Yeah, looks like Sorcerers can swap out some spells every time they level. Wizards still get their bonus feats tho, there are a few metamagic/spellcasting feats in the game : Combat Casting, Empower, Extend, Maximize, Quicken, Silent, Still, Spell Focus, Spell Penetration.

Not only that, but ( taking the example to the extreme ) there are 12 level 9 Wizard/Sorcerer spells : Dominate Monster, Energy Drain, Gate ( summon a balor, no automatic control tho I believe ), Greater Spell Mantle ( Reflects 1d12 + 10 level of spells ), Meteor Swarm, Mordenkainen's Disjunction ( A sort of Super Dispel Magic in the game ), Power Word : Kill, Shapechange ( change into 1 of 5 or 6 pretty powerful forms, dragons and slaad among others ), Summon Monster 9 ( Summon a random type elemental ), Time Stop, Wail of the Banshee, Weird.

Sorcerers, at level 20, know 3 lvl 9 spells, while a wizard will eventually get all 12, all of which are extremely usefull.

As a side note, I have'nt seen anything in the manual that would indicate that Sorcerers and Bards take longer to cast Metamagicked spells, but even if they don't things look fine, balance wise, between the Sorcerer and Wizard.

 

[Dr Midnight]

The saddest part is, I've actually got the money, but can't spend it if I want to buy a wedding ring for my fiancee... how pathetic is that?

Uh, that is extremely UN-pathetic.

 

[Ashtal]

The saddest part is, I've actually got the money, but can't spend it if I want to buy a wedding ring for my fiancee... how pathetic is that?

Dude, if you resent having to buy her a ring, maybe you shouldn't be buying her a ring, if you get what I'm saying.

 

[EricNoah]

All you people who can't afford the game:

At least you have the hardware you play it!!!

My machine is 3 years old, 400 mHz and I need to buy a whole new fricken computer! The saddest part is, I've actually got the money, but can't spend it if I want to buy a wedding ring for my fiancee... how pathetic is that?

I've heard you're supposed to spend two months' salary on NWN. That could be a rumor.

As far as hardware -- it makes me ill to realize that I've upgraded to new computers TWICE since NWN was first announced. Fortunately, the most recent update was 2 days ago -- 2.26 Mhz with 500MB RAM here I come!

 

[toberane]

All you people who can't afford the game:

At least you have the hardware you play it!!!

My machine is 3 years old, 400 mHz and I need to buy a whole new fricken computer! The saddest part is, I've actually got the money, but can't spend it if I want to buy a wedding ring for my fiancee... how pathetic is that?

Dude, believe me, if you even let her THINK you are having conflicted feelings about whether to buy NWN or to buy her ring, you will NEVER, EVER hear the end of it. Trust me.

Buy the ring. Then find something to pawn so you can buy NWN (but for crying out loud, DO NOT, and I can't stress this enough, DO NOT PAWN THE RING. )

 

[Ashtal]

I've heard you're supposed to spend two months' salary on NWN. That could be a rumor.

*snicker!*

I've already told my honey - spend two month's salary on a ring for me, and I'll beat you senseless for wasting so much money! BLECH!

Computer hardware ... now that's love!!

 

[CRGreathouse]

As far as hardware -- it makes me ill to realize that I've upgraded to new computers TWICE since NWN was first announced. Fortunately, the most recent update was 2 days ago -- 2.26 Mhz with 500MB RAM here I come!

You do mean GHz, right?

 

[Dr Midnight]

*snicker!*

I've already told my honey - spend two month's salary on a ring for me, and I'll beat you senseless for wasting so much money! BLECH!

Computer hardware ... now that's love!!

Ahh, we need more women like the 'Tal.

I personally can't believe that the two month salary thing is an inevitable rite of life... like prostate exams and deathbeds. It's ridiculous.

 

[Leopold]

My quest for NWN begins at 11am.....

I meekly tell the boss I am off to lunch and smile, my hand flicks the oakley shades on my face as I smile smugly and walk out the back door. Noone is looking as I cooly stride toward the '95 Tbird w/ 4.6L V8 and open her up. I slide easily into the leather seats and fire up the engine, the roar of the unmuffled exhaust is music to my ears. I rev her once and flip on the radio, Brams "Dance of the Bumblebee" poors out as I drop the tranny into Reverse and pell out.

The sound of the violins competing each other like bumblebees mirrors my driving. I weave in and out as each chord on the strings is being strained, I swerve left and right exceeding the speed limit by 30+ as I dart in and out as a bumblebee would. The music accelerates as does my car, dancing too and fro. Someone shows me that I am number 1 on their hand and I smile and return the compliment. I squeel and do a sliding Y turn Ronin-style into the parking lot, some kids look at me funny and parents move them away. I open the door to the smell of burnt Perellis and it's so sweet scent.

I sally ontoward the door of the mall, open it up and calmly, calculatingly move toward my objective: EB. I walk into the store and see my prey hidden behind the counter in it's small 8" box. A insipet fool asks me what I want and smiles. I picture taking an axe toward his arms and watching him flail around like a fountain squirting blood everywhere for asking me that silly question, but I grit my teeth and smile "I am here for NeverWinter Nights" I grind out. He goes behind the counter and I follow him, stalking him like a lion would a wildebeast on the sarengheti. He reaches over to pick up my copy and says "Oh did you have it reserved?" I nearly lose my calm cool and want to bash his head in with a mallet and say "Yes i did it's under my name" and I tell him as my eye twitches as I see the ebony box sitting on the counter. He pulls it up and starts talking to me about customers while ringing me, up. I have to hold myself back from taking a stick of C4 and planting it on his torso and wanting to press the button to shower the store in body parts, he still holds my copy of NWN. I give him my CC, he smiles again, I smile back, hating him the whole time. How can he smile like me knowing what he has in his hands is rightfully mine?!?!? He rings me up, I sign my copy, having to stop myself from spearing his chubby hand with the pen as I snatch my copy of NWN from his clutches and walk off with my prey in my hands cackling the whole way shouting "MINE MINE MINE!! ITS ALL MINE!""

I make it halfway out the door and the box calls to me "Open me up it says, come on you want to". Who am I to argue with it? I tear it open like a 4 yr old on christmas and discover it's golden contents:

4 CD's
1 Cloth Map
1 Huge manual.

I disregard the cloth map as useless and stare at the bounty that I have infront of me. The 4 CD's that hold the end to my quest is in my hands! I howl with glee as I sprint toward the car, turn her on and do a doughnut while peeling out of the parking lot shouting "ITS MINE ALLLLL MINE!!!!"


Now I sit at my desk, calmly relating the story to y'all. Staring at the 4 CD's before me, they call to me I tell you, install me, run me, let's play, they say. I hear them..and soon I will obey....