Neverwinter Nights - The revenge

[duke o' york]

Last night I triumphed, successfully reaching the second level of the first part of the Dungeon of Apolyton. W00t!
I've got a nifty monk character and fannied about for ages killing enough goblins to get to level 2 before proceeding downstairs. Then, like a dumbass, I chose to take my second level in monk too, which means that I can't use the mace thing that the bloke at the end of the level gave me because it's only for rogues and simple weapon users. Damn! Never mind, I got the potion from Asmodean and would now like to know what it does before using it merrily. I realise it casts a spell, but what does the spell do?

Cheers all.

[Dis]

Dungeon of Apolyton can be challening in a couple areas. Wait until you get into the city. I had to use a few cheese tactics to when one battle.

[General Ludd]

I take back what I said about ranger/monks being best. Cleric/monks are the best. All those wonderful buffs. And if you want dual wield, you can still take a single level in ranger.

[Jamski]

Cleric/Monks are indeed VERY good, especially if you take the cheeze domains that give you stoneskin and mage armour and so on. Of course in PvP the first spell coming your way will almost always be Mordikain's Disjuction, so much better used against baddies than other players.

Duke - The potion gives you damage reduction 5/-, immunity vs level 1 spells and 10% concealment. Very useful early on to stay alive.

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Today and yesterday I did something I should really have done before. I played SoU all the way through, doing all the quests I could find and taking Deekin with me from as soon as he would join. I ended up with a nice Fighter 9/Paladin 2/Rogue 1 who dual-wields Longsword and Shortsword. Yes, I really took advantage of the gear I knew came in the module. Holy Avenger and the Cold Shortsword really helped.

Now onto HotU for me!

-Jam

[Jamski]

Ok, to finish the post I wanted to make earlier...

HotU... y'know, I never played past Chapter 2 in this, either, so its really being quite entertaing so far. I never saw the Golems the last time, and I didn't build a very good character or use any henchmen... this time I'm really appreciating all the work the designers did in making the HotU module. One thing that strikes me time after time is the thought that "This could have been done in the OC" - there's very little in HotU or SoU that could not have been done using the bog-standard NWN Toolkit - it makes me shake my head.

I'm expecting a GREAT module to be part of any future expansion packs, as the design team are still learning what can be done with the engine Bioware built. HotU is up to the standard of the best community-made modules, and that is high praise - I'm hoping that a professional team can go that one step further in any new XP.

Anyway... I'm continuing on with my character, now Fighter 17/ Paladin 2/ Rogue 2, and about to enter the Underdark proper, having visited both islands. I got as far as the Dracolich last time before quitting (It was HARD) but this time I hope to go all the way to the end. Deekin is singing for my benefit and shooting his VERY upgraded x-bow over my shoulder (I told him to quit casting spells as soon as I met him) and the Drow girl is standing next to me sneaking like crazy (or holding back with that cool bow the Drider captain dropped - I turned off her spells too, and told her only to level as an Assassin)

I have to say HotU is really impressing me, from a building point of view, as did SoU - I don't know why the hell I never got past Chapter 1 in SoU and Chapter 2 in HotU.

Odd.

-Jam

[Nostromo]

I don't know i you guys knew this, but according to Gamespy Atari has annouced Neverwinter nights 2.

The biggest surprise in today's announcement comes not from the announcement itself, but rather who has been named as the game's developer. Rather than create it themselves, BioWare and Atari have once again farmed out development chores to Obsidian Entertainment. Obsidian is a development house founded by Feargus Urquhart and several other refugees from Interplay, where they made up the bulk of the famed Black Isle Studios and were responsible for such classic RPGs as Fallout 2, the Icewind Dale series, and Planescape: Torment. This is the second such coup for the new studio. Recently, the company revealed that its also developing the sequel to Knights of the Old Republic.

[Jamski]

http://www.atari.com/nwn2/

They have forums here... and J.E.Sawyer and Gromnir post there! OMFG! These guys are legends of the old (sadly defunct) Interplay boards!

Wheeeeeeeee!

/me goes into a D&D CRPG related daze*

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Jamski
Ok, to finish the post I wanted to make earlier...

HotU... y'know, I never played past Chapter 2 in this, either, so its really being quite entertaing so far. I never saw the Golems the last time, and I didn't build a very good character or use any henchmen... this time I'm really appreciating all the work the designers did in making the HotU module. One thing that strikes me time after time is the thought that "This could have been done in the OC" - there's very little in HotU or SoU that could not have been done using the bog-standard NWN Toolkit - it makes me shake my head.

I'm expecting a GREAT module to be part of any future expansion packs, as the design team are still learning what can be done with the engine Bioware built. HotU is up to the standard of the best community-made modules, and that is high praise - I'm hoping that a professional team can go that one step further in any new XP.

Anyway... I'm continuing on with my character, now Fighter 17/ Paladin 2/ Rogue 2, and about to enter the Underdark proper, having visited both islands. I got as far as the Dracolich last time before quitting (It was HARD) but this time I hope to go all the way to the end. Deekin is singing for my benefit and shooting his VERY upgraded x-bow over my shoulder (I told him to quit casting spells as soon as I met him) and the Drow girl is standing next to me sneaking like crazy (or holding back with that cool bow the Drider captain dropped - I turned off her spells too, and told her only to level as an Assassin)

I have to say HotU is really impressing me, from a building point of view, as did SoU - I don't know why the hell I never got past Chapter 1 in SoU and Chapter 2 in HotU.

Odd.

-Jam

Yes, it is odd, since you are always singing the praises of NWN.

[Jamski]

Yes, although I never finished the Bioware-made modules. They're turning out to be much less bad than I thought... although the fan-made modules are still much better, on the whole. HotU plays nice, but its TOTALLY unbalanced wrt the crazy weapons you can get. (+10 Keen Longsword with Hast, Trueseeing and 2d6 fire damage? Oh and 20 Spell Resistance? OMFG!)

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Yeah, I used Enserric (already insanely good with no upgrades) as a fully upgraded Greatsword. By the end (and it takes a while since the upgrades are pricey) no one could stop me not even

Spoiler:

Mephistopheles.

[Jamski]

Well, with all the loot I carried over from SoU, which luckily I had Deekin and a STR belt to help with at the end of Chapter 1, I sold it in the Drow town, and made nearly 1,000,000 gold. Enserric is now one HELL of a good Longsword, Deekin has a good xbow, and I'm working on the Drow girl's rapier

Its quite fun to rampage over baddies

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Maybe my memory is playing tricks but you don't get to keep your loot right? There is a box you can find some in well into the game, but I didn't think it had it all.

[Jamski]

The box I found near the end of chapter 1 had 9 pages of my loot in it. I guess that would be most of it I even had the 3 "winds" from Undrentide and a bunch of keys for doors I would never see again

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Damn I must have screwed up. Still, I fully upgraded Enserric even so.

[Jamski]

I'm just looking at the NWN2 forums, and it seems that they'll be using the latest version of the Aurora Engine (as in NWN and KotOR) This is GOOD NEWS If its not broken, etc etc....

Ah well, Autumn 2006 isn't so far away.....

-Jam