Neverwinter Nights Info

 

Neverwinter Nights (NWN) is a new Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) roleplaying game from BioWare, the developers of Baldur's Gate and Tales of the Sword Coast. Neverwinter Nights has been designed specifically for the online, multiplayer environment and the latest in 3D technology and also allows you to experience all the magic of pen-and-paper Dungeon-Mastering on your home computer! Using Neverwinter Nights' powerful and user-friendly Neverwinter Toolset, you can create and populate entire new modular worlds and stories for others to adventure in. As an all-powerful Dungeon Master (DM), Neverwinter Nights even allows you to alter the plot, possess characters, and manage combat from behind the scenes, all in real-time.

Component Minimum for PC version
Processor PentiumII 300
Memory 32 MB
Graphics card TNT2 or Voodoo3
Sound card DirectX-certified sound card
Multiplayer TCP/IP, LAN, or 56K modem TCP/IP internet connection
Operating Systems Windows, MacIntosh or Linux

NWN Toolset

Intuitive and easy to use as possible, the Neverwinter Toolset will be powerful enough to recreate most home campaigns and classic modules. While you may not be able to faithfully recreate every trap in the Tomb of Horrors and there may not be models for this item or that exact monster or terrain type, the Neverwinter Toolset should be able to create an easily recognizable facsimile of that special tale or imaginary world you've grown to love, whatever it may be.

You will be able to draw from extensive libraries of pre-existing content or create your own. All buildings, terrain, and dungeon spaces, can be painted down using intuitive and context-sensitive tiles. At the same time, the powerful, Neverwinter Scripting Language allows you to weave your stories and create characters that behave in an intelligent fashion (this includes engaging in fully customizable conversations and dialog chains that you create). You will even be able to create new creatures and items based on templates provided for your convenience. And after the initial game ships, additional artwork and content is planned to be added expanding the capability and allowing more and more things possible over the course of time.

Features

  • Set in TSR's legendary Forgotten Realms, the game takes place in the northern Sword Coast region, running from Neverwinter in the south, to Luskan in the north.
  • Uses new 3rd edition D&D rules, allowing nearly any combination of 7 races, 12 classes, and 9 alignments.
  • Wield two weapons simultaneously. Over 200 spells.
  • Initially reach up to 20th level (to be expanded with future installments).
  • Over 200 monsters to fight - everything from lowly orcs to mighty dragons!
  • Import your character from Baldur's Gate.
  • Use the "Character Vault" to secure your characters or choose to keep your characters locally.

 

  • Uses real-time voice communication including whispering.
  • Play in either single-player or multiplayer mode.
  • Toggle player killing on or off at the start of every gaming session.
  • Customize your character by selecting clothing/armor, hair, and skin colors as well as importing your own character portraits and sounds.
  • Supports PC, MacIntosh, and Linux platforms. Create your own modules with the Neverwinter Toolkit.
  • Act as a live Dungeon Master controlling Non-Player Characters and monsters in realtime to dynamically adapt to players decisions.
  • Official 4-hour adventure modules to play, plus tons of unofficial modules created by players like you!
  • New official modules will follow the intial release chock-full of new story and game play in addition to new tilesets, items, monsters, spells, classes and races.

     

  • Uses a variant of the Bioware 3D "Omen" engine, developed for MDK2.
  • Resolution independent.
  • Dynamic lighting.
  • Supports a huge number of character moves for smooth 3D animation.
  • 3rd person, 3/4-down, isometric view.
  • Allows camera rotation around characters. Zoom in and out.
  • Download some footage to see for yourself http://www.rpgplanet.com/planetnw/content/downloads.shtml