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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2998659" data-attributes="member: 5171">I really love the versatility of NWN. For awhile, we actually prototyped plots for our upcoming games in Neverwinter -- it didn't always look perfect, but you could test the plots and the dialogues, and you knew you were getting a stable engine, as opposed to whatever engine the actual game had that week. (Beyond just-plain-crashes, I've run into fun things like "Randomly falling through the floor" and "Became stuck to a low-hanging ceiling for all eternity" while trying to test games in the actual game engine as it was being developed.)To answer the large-world issue, I'd note that while people have sometimes bagged on the NWN original campaign's writing, it has a BUNCH of side-content out there in the world. Beyond the critical-path plots, there are a ton of little side quests that you can take care of while in a given area. The big world isn't seamless, and you will definitely have to choose between reality (long areas of wide open space in which there's nothing fun to do) or game-ishness (all kinds of nasty monsters within spitting distance of each other) if you design a module yourself, but I think you can create the FEEL of a big world pretty easily.The biggest thing I've noticed in NWN when trying to build modules for friends to play (I never got into DMing on the fly -- I preferred to make modules and then give them to people) was that combat went a LOT faster in NWN. The bad news was that the module the DM thought might take five weeks to play actually got done in about four hours. The good news is that you can put in a lot more combat as a DM, then -- the half-dragon manticore and the dire stirges don't take all night to defeat as everyone looks up the rules for how the tail spikes work and whether Dwarves have special resistance to Constitution drain.</blockquote>

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