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3.09 - Will other players be able to ‘know’ what class I am right away?

Neverwinter Nights is all about roleplaying - what's on your character sheet is between you and the DM and the look of your character is yours to define. If you are a fighter, you can still dress in peasant clothes if you wish or even a wizard's enchanted garments. The look of your character is not determined by his or her class but by the race, body type, and coloration you choose at character creation, and the clothing and equipment you acquire along the way. This will allow players to play any role they wish, such as a paranoid mage who hides within his clumsy armor or a petty rogue who puts on airs of royal birth.

3.10 - To what degree can I customize my characters?

From a rules perspective, you will be able to create any type of character you want from those available in the new 3rd edition D&D ruleset. This includes 7 races, 11 classes, and a wide variety of skills and heroic feats with which to further customize the statistics and abilities of your character. On a visual level, your choice of race will have a big impact on the look of your character. From there, you will be able to choose a body type (such as fat or muscular), a suitable head for your character, and the colors of your skin and hair. As with Baldur's Gate, you will be able to select character portrait and sound sets from our extensive library, or even import your own. To top it all off, within the toolset, armor and clothing is constructed from a wide variety of interchangeable parts. This will allow for literally billions of unique armor and clothing sets for your character and that's not even including the wide variety of available major and minor cloth, leather, and metal colors. In short, we want the characters in Neverwinter Nights to be as unique and varied as the people that play them.

3.11 - Is the format of the posted character portraits final, so that we can start making our own ?

The portraits in Neverwinter Nights are 110x170 pixels, the same size that we used for the large portraits in Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2. They are stored in 24-bit *.bmp format. We will be providing a wide selection of portraits but we will also be allowing you to customize your character even further by importing your own.

3.12 - Will I be controlling an individual character or an entire party?

In Neverwinter Nights you control only your character directly. In multiplayer mode, your fellow party members will be other real players from around the world and you will only be controlling a single character: your own. In certain circumstances, such as a mage's use of a familiar, it will be possible to transfer control from one creature to another. We will also provide you with partial control over henchmen and summoned creatures. Within the context of a given module, it may be possible for a player to acquire different types of non-player followers and freelancers but they will always remain under the primary control of the computer… or a Dungeon Master with a trick up his or her sleeve. ;-)

3.13 - Will I be limited to adventuring with the rest of my party or can I go exploring by myself?

By default, individual players will be able to explore the world freely and independently. We feel that this freedom is very important in a multiplayer RPG and will be designing the official campaign with this in mind. If you wish, however, it will be possible to designate an area transition as ‘party-required’ within the toolset. This will require the entire party to assemble near the transition and cross it together.

3.14 - Can I use my single-player character in a multiplayer game?

Yes. You will be able to transfer your character back and forth between single- and multiplayer mode with ease. The official Neverwinter Nights campaign has even been designed with this in mind so you won't have to sacrifice your character's story in order to share it with your friends.

3.15 - Can I carry over items and experience between modules?

Yes. Neverwinter Nights will ship with an epic story in which your character will be able to grow and develop in very real and substantial ways. Or, if you are more interested in playing custom modules and persistent worlds, feel free. In all cases, your character's progression is independently tracked and maintained over the course of his or her adventuring life. Keep in mind that, for story and gameplay reasons, some Dungeon Masters may choose to disallow certain types of items or direct their modules towards characters of certain levels.

3.16 - Can I import my character from Baldur's Gate?

You can import your protagonist from any game in the Baldur's Gate franchise. If you don't mind them being ‘unofficial’ (ie: non-Vault) characters, they will be modified to fit the 3rd Edition rules but will remain essentially intact. If you want the imported character to have ‘official’ ranking and a space in the Character Vault, however, they will lose all of their experience and items, essentially return to a Level 1 state. Ability scores will also be screened and modified to ensure that they conform to the ‘Standard Point-Buy’ system outlined in the 3rd Edition Dungeon Master's Guide. This is necessary to ensure that official Vault characters remain fair and balanced for everyone's enjoyment.

3.17 - Is player killing allowed?

The host will determine the nature of player vs player combat at the start of the game session and this will be broadcast to anyone attempting to join. The possible settings will range from Full Player vs Player Combat where all players can be a potential target, to Party vs Party Combat where players can only target members of an opposing team, to a Safe Mode where player vs player combat is banned altogether. It will also be possible to determine player vs player settings on a per-area basis within the module. Should further needs arise during our development cycle, we will develop the necessary settings to accommodate them. We are very aware of both the positive and negative aspects that can emerge from player vs player combat in an online game, and are therefore putting a lot of thought into this issue.

3.18 - What happens when my character dies?

In the official Neverwinter Nights campaign, the default method for handling character death will be as follows: At 0 hit points, your character will rendered unconscious and will begin slowly losing hit points towards -10. You will immediately be presented with the option of respawning at an assigned location and accepting a small XP loss. Alternatively, you can continue to observe the combat and wait for a party member to bring you back to consciousness via a potion or healing spell. Monsters and NPC opponents will only attempt to finish you off once they have neutralized your remaining allies. Death will occur at -10 hit points. At that point, you will need more than a simple healing spell to return you to the land of the living. You can respawn at this point or you can wait for a friend to raise or resurrect you.

For those that want them, there will be server settings offering a few variations on the default death option presented above. More importantly, ‘on unconsciousness’ and ‘on death’ events will be included in the scripting language, allowing module creators to develop their own methods for handling character death within the context of their modules. There will be a wide diversity of modules and styles of gameplay created using our Neverwinter Toolset and we want to ensure that important game mechanics such as character death can take enough different forms to be suitable for all of them.

4.01 - Is the Dungeon Master there just to dump monsters in the players' path or is there something more to it?

The Dungeon Master role is whatever you make it. If you want to run a simple dungeon hack, you're more than welcome to. However, the tools at your disposal are far more powerful and evocative than simply plopping down monsters and treasure. We give you the ability to interact with your players on a one-to-one basis, to truly *be* the character they are talking to. Tell a tale of love lost, have a feared orc chieftain sheathe his sword in the midst of battle when he learns that it is his half-orc daughter who opposes him, breath life into everything. We envision the Dungeon Master as a master storyteller, bringing wit and emotion to the gameworld and enriching the roleplaying experience of the players. We want to challenge you, as DM, to have a deep emotional impact on your players. Possess the game's characters and fill them with drama. Build mood and atmosphere in everything you do. Your players will love you for it and spread word of your campaigns everywhere they go.

4.02 - Can I DM my friends through a module that I have created?

Yes. We intend to make the module creation process as simple as possible. When your story is ready, launch it on either a LAN or, better yet, on our dedicated matching service, and let players from around the world enter into the one dominion where you have absolute control.

4.03 - How difficult is it to DM a Neverwinter game?

Being a Dungeon Master, even in pen-and-paper, is definitely an art rather than a science. Here at BioWare, we definitely feel that the Dungeon Master is a very special person - someone to be catered to. With Neverwinter Nights, we want to allow our DMs to focus on that art of telling stories and drawing people into their world, rather than on trying to navigate a clumsy interface or learn a poorly documented system. For familiarity and ease of use, the Dungeon Master interface is designed as an extension of the player interface. If you know the one, you should be right at home in the other and if you have any questions, we're committed to providing extensive documentation on how to use the DM interface to its fullest. Along with the class-based player tutorials that mark the start of our official campaign, we're also working on a thorough offline tutorial for potential DMs, thereby providing a safe environment in which to get a feel for the game, without the pressure of having live players actually in the module.

4.04 - As a DM, can I alter a character's dialogue while in the game?

Even better! When ‘possessing’ a character, you can not only control their actions but also speak through them in real-time. Drop a clue for a player in need, respond to an unanticipated question, or heighten the dramatic tension of the moment. The story is literally yours for the telling.

4.05 - Can the DM make up his own magical items and rewards for dungeons/missions?

Absolutely. The DM will be able to create custom magical items within the Neverwinter Toolset. You will be free to create a large variety of items ranging from mundane swords to artifacts of great power. Provided you construct these items using the standardized effects provided in our toolset, these items will be fully transferable between servers. Any item that is dependent on custom scripting for its powers, however, will only retain those powers in modules that contain the relevant scripts.

4.06 - Can there be multiple Dungeon Masters in a single game?

Definitely. The Dungeon Masters will be on equal footing but we may give the initial DM the ability to modify the abilities and permissions of other DMs if he or she sees fit. A good DM team could enact complex scenes between non-player characters, manage intricate multiparty battles, or even go head-to-head in some strange new form of adversarial DM contest.

4.07 - Can I log in as a Dungeon Master from a remote (ie: non-server) location?

Certainly. The Dungeon Master does not have to be the host of the game. It is possible, for instance, to establish your work computer with a nifty T1 connection as a weekend Neverwinter server. The DM role is always password-protected so you can be sure that it's ready and waiting for you to jump in and manage once you get home.

5.01 - Will Neverwinter Nights use a real-time or a turn-based system?

Neverwinter Nights is a real-time game with a strong tactical focus. The Dungeon Master will have the power to pause the game at any time. Overall, however, the game is being designed and balanced with non-pausing, real-time gameplay in mind.

5.02 - How will Neverwinter Nights' real-time combat system work?

While Neverwinter takes place in a real-time environment, we have been very careful to keep our combat system from becoming a ‘click-fest’ where the player with the highest ping and fastest reflexes wins. Instead, we are opting for a multi-layered approach to combat. The base layer consists of a ‘single-click’ combat system: Your character will repeat basic attack actions until either your target is slain or you have assigned other actions to your character. The second layer consists of a ‘queued’ combat system: You can select special combat actions for your character, such as disarming your opponent or using your monk's ‘flurry of blows’ ability, and these are entered into your combat queue to be performed in the coming round. These actions do not repeat and, once you have finished performing them, you will revert back to your base layer action. The result is a very lag-tolerant system that keeps the player actively engaged in what's going on while not penalizing those with high-latency Internet connections

5.03 - What will the combat animation in Neverwinter look like?

We are currently working on a very detailed and realistic combat animation system for Neverwinter Nights. Reflexive combat actions, such as dodges, thrusts, and parries, will be visually represented in the game, with combatants interacting in a dynamic and believable fashion that remains true to the 3rd Edition D&D combat rules. Don't expect to just sit back and watch it play out, though. Dungeons & Dragons is a game of both action and tactics - even the greatest fighter must decide when it is best to disarm his opponent, knock them down, or make a tactical retreat.

5.04 - How tactical of a game is Neverwinter Nights going to be?

That really depends on the modules you choose to play. Some people may use the toolset to create modules where the gameplay is based around intrigue and manipulation, and combat is the exception rather than the norm. Others might create modules with more of a real-time strategy flair to them while still others will design dungeon crawls and gladiatorial arenas where brute force is all that's required. As for the official Neverwinter Nights campaign, you'll be faced with a lot of the same tactical choices you would be faced with in a typical pen-and-paper session and these become increasingly apparent as you and your fellow players learn to work together as a party. Bards will need to inspire their companions in battle and fighters will need to place themselves in the way of harm to protect the vulnerable wizard. Clerics must show wisdom in who they heal and when and rogues must be willing to act as scouts, assessing the foe and recommending a means of approach. The Neverwinter Nights combat system is structured to bring the cooperation and camaraderie of the pen-and-paper Dungeons & Dragons experience to your computer. A solid, tactical approach won't be necessary to win every battle but it will always come in handy.

5.05 - How will I communicate with non-player characters in Neverwinter Nights?

In the official campaign, you will be communicating with non-player characters (NPCs) through a system of pre-defined responses (similar to the system used in the Baldur's Gate series). This allows us to weave a tighter, more gripping story for your enjoyment. We acknowledge, however, the power and flexibility of a keyword-based text parsing system, especially in a multiplayer environment. While we have opted for the former system in the official campaign, both are supported in the engine and toolset, so you can customize the way players interact with your world to suit your needs.

5.06 - How will I communicate with other players?

Communication with other players will take on a number of forms. A robust chat system is available, including separate modes for whispers, shouts, and party chat. Also, when you select your voice set during character creation, it will include a wide range of vocal lines appropriate to various roleplaying and combat situations. These are hotkey-activated, allowing for rapid and easy communication in most situations. Another benefit of these voice sets is that they allow for cross-language communication, meaning that our German and Spanish players can still interact with their French and English counterparts at the simple press of a button. We also feel it is very important to support real-time voice communication between players. We are actively seeking third party voice-over-net solutions but have yet to decide on the specific software package that would be best for Neverwinter.

5.07 - Will NWN have support for the hearing impaired?

In Neverwinter Nights, text will always be associated with any instance of pre-recorded voice (NPC dialog, the hotkey voice system, etc). Also, we expect that most players will communicate with each other via text-based chat. The only time you may have trouble is when players are speaking to each other directly over microphones. If you want, you can turn this option off on your server or agree not to make use of it (a lot of people have expressed a desire to stick with text chat for roleplaying reasons, for instance). The hard of hearing shouldn't have any trouble finding other players willing to accommodate their needs.

5.08 - What is the quickbar?

The quickbar is a series of twelve slots that we have placed along the bottom of the screen. A rogue might fill them with a series of trap kits and magic arrows for his bow, while a wizard might fill them with favorite spells and a fighter might fill them with potions and the new Disarm ability she just acquired through a heroic feat. In basic terms, these twelve quickslots are an easy way to keep your favorite abilities, actions, and items close at hand and ready for use at a moment's notice.

5.09 - Can I customise the hotkeys and controls?

Yes. Beyond the customisability made available through the quickbar, we will be providing our players with a wide range of configurable options. We are designing our control system to be as customisable and as streamlined as possible.

5.10 - When you cast a spell such as magic missile or melf's acid arrow, do you have to aim it?

In Dungeons & Dragons, some spells such as melf's acid arrow require you to make a successful attack roll in order for them to take effect. Others, such as magic missile, will never miss their target (though your opponent may still shrug off or negate the spell's magical effects). Both of these official rulings are supported in Neverwinter Nights but are hidden behind the scenes. In each case, you simply select the spell and click on the creature - the computer handles any remaining calculations. <BR