Neverwinter Nights (NWN) official campaigns (OC) are now officially finished. i loved the plot twists in underdark, and i’m itching to try out the premium modules. don’t have the funds for it yet though.
moving on, i’ve gotta think about how to create a richer NWN experience. besides the multiplayer party of 3, there are tons i can do. been looking into installing the CEP (community expansion pack) on the server to support a whole range of custom objects like new hairstyles and clothing. but that i’ll probably enable once we finish off our multiplayer OC storyline. don’t forget, i’ll need to find proper modules that support the CEP.
besides that, i could also join one of the many persistent worlds (PW) online. these are basically something like MMORPG worlds, with things to do and people to meet. Every NWN PW world is custom built, with different sets of rules and abilities.
can you imagine the number of hours i’ll waste on these activities?!
anyways, fish (JL) and i were discussing a few days ago about our respective solo campaign characters. since Shadows of Undrentide (SoU, first NWN expansion)’s storyline requires a fresh character, he was wondering how he’d want to transfer items from his OC character to his new one. one simple way is to save his OC character and then logon to the bangsar.net NWN server and leave his stuff there. then he’d be able to load his fresh character and pick them up, then start off his SoU campaign with that character. now NWN doesn’t restrict you from using your original character from OC, or any type of character for that matter. if you do that however, it’ll hurt your SoU, and ultimately Hordes of the Underdark (HotU) experience.
something else that we were thinking about was how to override the character in a save game. let’s say there’s this particular part of the game where you’re having utmost difficulty, and need a more souped up version of your NWN self.
i only just realised this: every save game has a player.bic file which i think contains the character information. you might be able to override this file with another from your localvault directory. never tried it before though, so proceed at your own risk. 😛
how did i just find that out? i was copying save games from home to my office pc this morning. we’re having a disaster recovery test today, and most of it is just waiting. so instead of waiting, why not NWN? 😀