Create your characters any way you wish, choosing from a wide variety of races and subraces, such as Tiefling and Aasimar. Use all the wicked spells, feats, and prestige classes from the D&D 3.5 rules.

There are whiffs of artificially extended game-length, one particularly galling example coming later in the main quest, forcing you through hours of backtracking and drudgery to cobble together a frankly ludicrous amount of cash needed to progress. Neverwinter Nights 2: Complete is an epic RPG set in the fantasy world of the Forgotten Realms, one of the most popular campaign settings of Dungeons & Dragons. The central plot is erratic, with some truly exciting sections defused by unsure pacing. Interactions between the crew are well written, but your chats with the party have no obvious bearing on things. Soon joining your posse are pre-rolled companions: Rinara, a half-elf rogue, Mantides, a fallen paladin, and Charissa, a particularly self-righteous cleric. Yet although it’s undroppable and apparently the cause of horrific nightmares, the mask quickly becomes nothing more than a harmless MacGuffin there purely to drive the quest forward. Arriving in the glum city of Westgate (overriding color: brown, featured weather: rain), your character is burdened with a mysterious cursed mask. Neverwinter Nights 2: Complete is an epic RPG set in the fantasy world of the Forgotten Realms, one of the most popular campaign settings of Dungeons & Dragons. Neverwinter Nights 2 has one of the most exhaustive character creation and advancement systems you're likely to ever find in any role-playing game, for computers or consoles.

So, despite mod-team-done-good Ossian’s solid storyline and writing, the new content can’t help but feel like a step backwards. Westgate incorporates none of its technical advances. Meanwhile, game-changing add-on Storm of Zehir was released.

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