NWN as a single player

[Bagpuss]

I heard dial-up was fine for hosting although the limit is about 8 players. Which isn't really that much of a limit if you think about it since thats the maximum size of most adventuring parties.

 

[RobNJ]

On the other hand, I'd forgotten how *pathetic* a low level wizard actually is without a party to back him up. Time to hire me some Henchmen.

Try hire a HenchmAn, singular. If what I read on the web is right, you're limited to just 1.

 

[Wormwood]

Well, I've been playing for about 10 hours...

1. The single player game is pretty good.
2. The Toolset, on the other hand, if amazing. I can't wait to use it! Actually, I can't wait for some *other* people to use it...so I can play *their* modules!

 

[uv23]

I recently discovered that you could only have one henchman and I was totally pissed. I love the game and am having a blast but am very very very dissapointed by not being able to have a full party. Right now I'm a level 5 rogue. I originally hired on the bard for some healing, some magic, and because she was damn sexy. But I was getting destroed in the prison district so I went back and got the barbarian.

 

[ForceUser]

My entire party consists of myself (5th lvl human ranger), a halfling rogue I hired, and my little dire badger that I call with summon monster I. The summon spells, by the way, last an entire 24 hours.

Luckily, the rogue makes me rich because he can get into anything, and thus I have plenty of potions of cure wounds (light, moderate, and serious...critical still too expensive).

It is a joy to watch my character melee. I know the mechanic of flanking bonuses isn't in the game, but it's fun to watch the characters jockey for position during a fight. Both my associates seem to try to flank off me quite a bit

 

[Lazybones]

Actually, flanking is important for sneak attacks. I'm playing a ftr/rog with the half-orc henchman, and he opens up all kinds of SAs for me. But you're right, the combat graphics are cool .

I don't mind having only two members in the party. They've buffed up the familiars, so that a wizard has for all intents and purposes 3 party members, and as someone noted, the summoned monsters last a full day so they're virtually another party member as well.

I've run a few test MP games (arena-style, the easiest mods to create), and I am really looking forward to running a real module in MP.