Also, non-player characters improve or adjusted your alignment, which is measured from 0 to 100 based on your actions. Unlike DDO, NWN allows Evil-aligned player characters and presents dialogue responses that reflect your choice. Like DDO, NWN has a great dialogue engine with PCs. This is in an elven crypt in “Shadows of Undrentide.” Great graphics for its time (if you had a PC that supported them). The Character Sheet looks more familiar now than ever. I rarely tried to go multiplayer at the time I wasn’t inclined to try them after the cluster-frakking I experienced in “Diablo II” multiplayer mode, with player killing rampant and cheating abundant. NWN was a single-player game that supported player-based campaigns with larger parties, as well as even a Dungeonmaster driven campaign. That’s especially true for the Monk, of which I played a lot. The CampaignsĮverything I learned about basic D&D mechanics I first learned from NWN. And now I can copy the installer to a USB stick so I’ll never lose the damn media again. Thankfully the character files are text-based files that worked fine if switched between the Mac and PC clients. It was my first venture into D&D official game mechanics and campaigns (several attempts to enjoy the original “Baldur’s Gate” ended with crushing confusion and failure).īecause hope springs eternal for me, I even had saved my “localvault” character saves folder. NWN was the game I began to play as my “Diablo II” high finally began to recede. So given that my iMac is mostly in Boot Camp (native Windows) mode 90% of the time, the Windows version was a better plan. On second thought, the NWN Mac port, unless rewritten, will not work with current Mac OS versions because the software engine requires compatibility tools long since removed from Mac OS. Too bad I didn’t think of switching to Mac mode to download the Mac binaries at the time. So I saw this free opportunity to download it for Windows play as a blessing. Lord knows how many times I’ve actually purchased the game for both platforms. This was the “Diamond” release, which included the original campaign, the first expansion, “Shadows of Undrentide,” and the last major expansion, “Hordes of the Underdark.” It also included three smaller modules I could not play on my Mac as they were released for the Windows code base only. It was “Neverwinter Nights,” the original 2002 Bioware game. This game, however, I could not resist downloading. One of the desktop promo shots, showing the lovely, poised and eventually traitorous Aribeth de Tylmarande.

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