Bioware Announces New Neverwinter Module

Despite assurances that we'd seen the last of new NWN modules, Joystiq is reporting that Darkness over Daggerford is now available for download, thanks to the folks at Ossian Studios. From the article: "Ossian Studios is comprised of BioWare veterans and RPG enthusiasts, and while they had originally planned Darkness over Daggerford as a premium module release, this lengthy single-player campaign is now available as a free download at the Neverwinter Nights Vault. Check out BioWare's interview with Ossian co-founder Alan Miranda, and let us know what you think of Daggerford."

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Re:NWN is piles and piles of fun

[SScorpio]

You mentioned Baldur's Gate and Champions of Norrath. I have to assume that you are referring to the console Baldur's Gate which where action hack and slash games. The Baldur's Gate games you'll hear people talking fondly of are PC only, and they are 2.5D and will run on an older computer than Neverwinter Nights. I highly recommend picking up both games, You can get a pack that includes both Baldur's Gate 2 it's expansion for $20 and will give you 200+ hours of gameplay. There is also a pack for Baldur's Gate 1 and it's expansion, but it's a little harder to find.

There has been user created content for both games; however, nothing on the scale of Neverwinter Nights which was create with this in mind. But if you like a good store I highly recommend checking them out.

Great transition from the PnP experience

[gtmaneki]

NWN is the first and only PC game I've bought for a long time. My best experiences with it revolve around using it to continue playing D&D with my old friends from college. Now that we've graduated, moved, gotten jobs, gotten married, and have kids, it's a lot harder to get together.

NWN helped with all this. It also streamlined a lot of the 3rd edition stuff, which was good for most of us who never bother to learn the updated and expanded rules. Thanks to the mod community we can also change the in-game rules, as well as perform dice rolls and customize the Faerun setting to reflect our own little world. And most of it runs on Linux!

Article seems a bit misleading

[Shilkanni]

My understanding is that Atari canned the support for Neverwinter Nights and any future "Premium Modules". These were modules released through Bioware which you had to pay for (usually small-medium size modules for small-medium price). This was 'official' content and the ability for them to make a bit more money from NWN carried with it new features and content in patches.

There were no "assurances that we'd seen the last of new NWN modules" - no-one was ever suggesting that there would be no more user created modules, just that we wouldn't see any more "Premium Modules" and official content from Bioware.

This was one of the modules which was going to be a "Premium Module" but got cancelled, and they are releasing it for free, as is the case for a couple of other projects as well. I think it was pretty obvious this was going to happen when we learned that several work in progress modules were cancelled.

However, this does not signify a change of position from Bioware or Atari about the Premium Modules, and it's not an official release from Bioware. It's just another example of stellar quality free content from NWN.