Neverwinter Nights 2 (NWN2) is a computer role-playing game set in the fantasy world of the Forgotten Realms, one of the popular campaign settings of Dungeons and Dragons. It takes the player from the tiniest of villages into a sweeping tale of danger and war, chronicling their rise from a peasant to a full-fledged hero of the Realms, defending it against one of the greatest threats of the age.

Build a character that suits your style of play - good or evil, chaotic or lawful, with any number of skills, feats and professions available at the click of a button. Whether lobbing fireballs and researching forgotten spells as a powerful Wizard, hacking a trail through legions of orcs as a Fighter armed only with a battle axe and your courage, or taking on the role of a Rogue that can slip into the shadows at a moment's notice, the choice is yours. Choose your alignment, your allies, your companions, and how you want your character to develop... design the character you want, role-play the way you want, and carry the battle to the enemy.

The design aspects of Neverwinter Nights 2 don't stop there, however. Past the campaign included with the game itself, Neverwinter Nights 2 also gives you all the tools you need to build your own modules, campaigns, and adventures for your friends - move buildings, terrain, script encounters, write dialogues, create quests and items - everything you need to create an epic adventure of your own is included in the toolset for you and any other worldbuilder to use.

So if you are interested in adventure - or building adventures of your own - look no further. Neverwinter Nights 2 is on the horizon, and adventure awaits.

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...I stand now on the Edge of the World and stare the Oblivion to open before my eyes.

All was silent; not the Stars nor the Moon no longer sung their songs, neither the Wind call me – for at last I had come to the end of my Journey.

How long I stood there, I do not know. I watched the barren Stars, silently gloom beyond the vast firmament, standing still with their faint haze slowly obscuring. Their beat stolen, they too, would be blinded by agony, their withdrawing souls now longing for Death.

My devoted love and sacrifice so profound took backward steps away, and loneliness aplenty stretched before me.

Long have I traveled, suffered the burden of the strenuous trek that led me here – beyond the reach of anyone who ever dared to follow me. 'Twas time for me to spread my broken wings and fly – fly towards the Pantheon. For all Eternity.

From the sole Throne of cold stone, I would watch the Moon grow old, singing its solitary song, and ponder upon the worthy, but futile attempts that took me here, condemning the loss of what once made me Immortal. What fires had burnt in my Heart, were now just the embers of a Sun's dying light...

My farewell soars in the Dark colonnade Halls, like a thousand echoes singing their irreverent verse. From my hand, I would release the remnants of my fate and let them form the Stars above for remembrance of what once was and shall never be again. Only the defiance of the burning Sun would smother it all away. But so it was, that its flicker had diminished and died and we would wander in the darkness, reaching out for a hand that would guide us towards to where the Sun would once rise again.

I sit there petrified, sailing down the eternal streams of my mind and close my eyes..”

- The Pantheon

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"Come, come to the balcony with me and see what you have wrought within this City. With so much blood in your hands, so many lives lost, so many people sacrificed for those who own you. And for what? What is it in your mind that you think that you achieved? For what you truly see with those blood-ridden eyes of yours, is an escape; escape from the trails of horrors you have so long walked. Hah! You are an incarnation of vanity and yours is the fate most fitting. Trust my words, for I know. Make yourself useful and plunge down to the already bloodied streets of Arabel and your escape is fulfilled..."

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Arabel, the mercantile City in Cormyr stands tall with its stony walls and citadel-like provenance, marking the wealth it boasts within the region as the vast promenades are filled with buzzling people from afar, as are the many secrets within. Arabel marks the second individual story of The Moonlight Path adventure that sets in after the horrific events of Alaghôn. Escaping the dark events, the Player comes back to His roots confronting the mischievous organization of The Zhentarim, now infiltrated within the very walls of Arabel. Dark secrets and happenings brood inside the immense walls and towering heights of the City that eventually unravels the true face of our wandering ”Hero”.

The story is a dark, immersive story of devoted love and escape from perpetual horrors that stalk the Playing character and everything that surrounds Him, for good and bad. There is no room for Good, Bad or Neutrality, for all is masked behind a mirage; mirage of not knowing who You really are.

Player is forced into a chaotic setting where one must decide the fate of the many factions and strive towards to the Final event that is the very start and esssence of the whole Moonlight Path adventure.

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About the adventure (in short for now):
And this is where all the devoted followers of this Mod come in.
As I have been away from this whole thing for the past 7 years, due to all kinds of crap going on and really losing my devotion, I decided to create the whole City of Arabel a-new. Just to see if I am still up to this whole thing. And while doing this for over a 100+hours, I was thinking how this all could really work the easiest, for all things concerned.

NWN 2 mechanics are old, sloppy and doesn't really do justice as to what I try to create here. It would take me an Aeon to create all the characters (for the infinity of events and settings considered) to be certain level, think of all the experience as how far the PC can be evolved and... well everything. I came to the conclusion it would really serve no purpose in the end and would be a far too strenuous task to perform.

Thus, here is a solution that would simplify the overall creation of the Mod and characters and how the story advances smoothly, yet in a bit of a linear way – whereas the ogirinal idea was far from this kind of ideology. I would suggest the following:

I would strip away most of the combat in game – I know, this sounds harsh and BORING at best – and would strive towards Torment: Tides of Numenera kind of approach, where PC goes through 80% of the adventure in a form of dialogue with all the possible choices to alter the events He/She is currently engaged with. This would tremendously strip off the nuisance of excessive coding/scripting (since I still haven't found anyone interested to do that for me, for I am 150% no good of doing that).

I would reduce mandatory combat events for bosses, certain surprise events depending on the choices made while doing certain quests and events that require that sweet old blood spilling, just to keep a little interest, not just running wild in vast locations reading and running from place to place.

There is much I need to reduce from the original setting, otherwise this whole adventure will not see a light of day at all... if it ever will. For this is the counting moment where YOU good folk decide, whether I do this in the simplified form or just thrash bin the whole idea of even trying to make this work for the NWN 2 game at all. It would be awesome to make this as an open-ended Mod in a sense of The Witcher or alike, but I don't think that would really be a good idea.

So, all in all, what do YOU think? The ball has been thrown to You now.
There's still over 200 pages of documentation for both of the Prologues (mostly for the first one at this point), over 3hours of usable music, most of the quests waiting to be implemented and a plethora of dialogue to be written.

Is this the very End of The Moonlight Path adventure where the Moon diminishes away and shatters to million pieces, or is there still a flicker of hope to be had....?

I will make a more coherent and fulfilling update later that makes more sense and fills up gaps and all.
Meanwhile, bombard me with questions and tell me what is it that you want. Thanks everyone in advance.

- Markus

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Second part of the series is coming...

Second part of the series is coming...

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Kyou.
Kyou.

Lots of goodtimes with this game

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goodone
goodone

engine information should be fixed: En.wikipedia.org.

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sethfc
sethfc

Love the new Screens cannot wait for more....this mods the only reason i still have neverwinternights installed * i played it to death and the only hope for it to regain much interest is something like this*

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Moohoo018
Moohoo018

Yes U can.

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AUG_DUDE
AUG_DUDE

well.. i don't have it, so i will ask: can we create characters?

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Wulfburk12
Wulfburk12

someone makes a star wars mod,THAT would be awesome! where you can play has the humans or zabrak,classes could be jedi,sith,clone trooper,clone commando,it would be huge!

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exdeath
exdeath

someone make a mod that tries to make this game more like the real d&d, and change the setting to greyhawk because with this setting will be more easy to make a mod like this (since greyhawnk has only 1 additional book)

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Marxist
Marxist

somebody please help me! I have a problem with running NWN2 - it goes to black screen after running the executable. I tried the amdxp.exe but also isnt working. I tried to search at official forums but their problem is different. I ve read on one site that i should turn the retail directX on , but when i got ot control panel i dont see any tab called DirectX. I have it installed , the newest version. If anybody has solutions please write to kacz1@post.sk ; i f youre solution works there might be a reward for you

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exdeath
exdeath

someone should make a mod that tries to make this game more like the real d&d.

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Dr.Noob
Dr.Noob

Super Rad, a birthday delay would suck.
Just like the Twilight Princess delays.

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