{"id":1812,"date":"2014-07-03T22:51:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T22:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2022-09-19T21:01:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T21:01:50","slug":"the-road-to-nwn2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/the-road-to-nwn2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to NWN2"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is now an old game but I need to move on to it, maybe to complete the circle and go back to BG2 in the Aurora engine. Over the summer of 2014, the NWN Vault, the community repository for Neverwinter Nights has just shut<\/a>, and closed, the seemingly best alternative for user authored content is the new Neverwinter Vault<\/a><\/span>, and this is supplemented by NWN2 at wikia.com<\/a><\/span>. This page talks about character builds.
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This page relied heavily on the bioware site. In Sept 2022, I moved a number of build model references to the comments.<\/p>\n

5E<\/h3>\n

I made some comments on 5e character builds at the Dungeons and Dragons<\/a> article on this wiki.<\/p>\n

About Character Builds<\/h3>\n

http:\/\/nwn2db.com\/<\/a> is one of the community resources for character building.<\/p>\n

On the bioware forums, was a bible on building a character, How to build a decent character in NWN2<\/del>, written by Thorsson64<\/a>., it was rescued and is now on this thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Outside the bioware community domain there is a character build repository, called the NWN2 Character builder<\/a>. I came across this awhile ago, and mentioned it in my post “NWN class builds”<\/a> which points at an alternative repository\u00a0 which itself was a mirror of the original bioware epic build thread. I should look through this, using keyword finds.<\/p>\n

In 2022, I found a revised version the database together with its search form<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Druid\/Barbarian<\/h3>\n

I am thinking about either a Druid\/Barbarian which ought to be fun and should reinforce each other well, or maybe some sort of super-Bard. Thorsson reckons the Bard & Druid are about 4th in terms of effectiveness while he has the Barbarian and Paladin as least effective (9th rank). Common opinion is that the Druid & Barbarian do not complement each other enough. Interesting in that last time I read the PnP rules<\/acronym>, I felt the Paladin was the best fighter in 1st Edition although they eviscerated it in Unearthed Arcana, and that the Barbarian was pretty much No. 1 in the UA rules in which it was first published.\u00a0 Bottom line is I like the Barbarian<\/a> and Paladin<\/a> classes.<\/p>\n

My NWN experience as a pure play druid is pretty “meh!”. Am I doing it wrong? I have written up my thoughts at “NWN Playing a Druid”<\/a>, he is now Druid\/Barb\/Shifter (9\/1\/1), the shifter is a wyrmling (really?) and at every level choice I am always inclined to increase the Druid for better spells.<\/p>\n

I suppose I am inspired by the werebear<\/a> stories, but making an effective one is hard as the wildshape forms do not scale and as mentioned above, more and better spells always seem a better choice. but was particularly interested in this, the Viking Berserker (Bear Warrior) – Barbarian (23), Druid (12), Harper Scout<\/a> (5), gotta love Bears, mind you it’s straight Barbarian to 20. Fortunately I have mirrored the page here…<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On complementary classes.<\/h3>\n

One important factor is that they use the same prime attribute, or they compensate for class weaknesses either by innate definition such as a Monk\/Wizard and armour or by allowing access to especially desirable non-class feats by taking a couple of levels of fighter to get say exotic weapons, or one level of shadowdancer to get enhanced hide in shadows.<\/p>\n

Keadrin’s Class Pack<\/h3>\n

A community extension pack, a bunch of extra, mainly prestige classes; see Keadrin’s Wiki here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is now an old game but I need to move on to it, maybe to complete the circle and go back to BG2 in the Aurora engine. Over the summer of 2014, the NWN Vault, the community repository for Neverwinter Nights has just shut, and closed, the seemingly best alternative for user authored content…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[60,63],"tags":[692,921,361,922,217],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","category-nwn","tag-character-build","tag-games","tag-neverwinter-nights","tag-nwn","tag-nwn2"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/nwn2-1t.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}