The big difference is that BioWare insists these persistent worlds be free of charge. The campaign included with the game can be played with friends, for example, or a team of builders can build a virtual world similar in scope and size to commercial MMORPGs. NWN game modules run as a variety of separate genres and themes, including persistent worlds (which are similar to MUDs), combat arenas (player versus player modules), and simple social gatherings similar to a chat room.
Each server, depending on hardware and bandwidth, can support up to 72 players or more in the same module.
The robust multiplayer component separates Neverwinter Nights from previous Dungeons & Dragons games, as there are many servers for players to choose from. The game's actual mechanics are based on the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition rule set – most important actions (fighting, persuasion, etc.) are based on a die or dice roll. Following a small prelude, there are four "chapters" in the original game, with each chapter consisting of a general storyline (the first chapter, for example, deals with a mysterious plague in the city of Neverwinter), and within each chapter, there are many quests, subquests, and mini-storylines. The actual game is lengthy (original NWN has three CDs, while the expansions each add one CD). After Morag's death, he escapes the stone as the world inside it implodes. He uses the words to enter the Source Stone and battle with Morag. He then confronts Maugrim for the final word. He confronts Aribeth, and depending on how he handles the meeting, she either surrenders to the player character or he is forced to kill her. He discovers that the words open a portal to a pocket world inside the Source Stone, where Morag and the other Old Ones are. The player character retrieves all of the Words of Power except for one, held by the cult. They seek magical relics called Words of Power. These fears are confirmed when he finds her meeting with Maugrim and Morag, Queen of the Old Ones.
Aribeth goes ahead to Luskan, and the player character follows after speaking once more to Gend.Īfter arriving in Luskan, the player character hears rumors that Aribeth is joining with the cultists. With the help of Aarin Gend, Neverwinter's spymaster, the player character retrieves diaries of dead cultists and letters from a person named Maugrim, which convinced Aribeth that the cult's headquarters are in Luskan. The player character meets up with Aribeth and they begin searching for the cult responsible for the plague and the attack on Neverwinter. Desther is sentenced to burn at the stake, and Fenthick, despite being unaware of Desther’s true intentions, is sentenced to hang. When they catch up to Desther, he surrenders after a short battle. He takes the completed cure and escapes the castle, with the player character and Fenthick in pursuit. As he is collecting these monsters, he is attacked by mysterious assassins from the cult that is behind the spreading of the plague.Īs the cure is being made, Castle Neverwinter is attacked by Desther’s minions. With the help of Fenthick Moss, Aribeth’s love interest, and Desther, Fenthick’s friend, the player character is able to retrieve the monsters. The story begins in 1372 DR with the player character being sent by Lady Aribeth to recover four monsters needed to make a cure for the Wailing Death, a plague that is sweeping the city of Neverwinter. It is part of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. Neverwinter is a city on the Sword Coast of Faerûn. The first and final chapters of the story in the official campaign deal with the city of Neverwinter itself, but the lengthy mid-story requires the player to venture into the countryside and then northward to the city of Luskan. In the original NWN scenario supplied with the game engine, the player is single-handedly responsible for defeating a powerful cult stopping an insatiable plague thwarting an attack on the city of Neverwinter, and many other side quests. Play centers on the development of a character that becomes the ultimate hero of the story.
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