Percival

Try IWD2 sh..something fotress (the mission after the bridge) on the hardest difficulty. Without importing or cheating, your spellcasters should be without area damage spells such as fireball. The caves under the fotress are really hard, those goblins and orcs with cleric support really screwed me up. I have yet to see a harder non boss areas then that.

Wrong. Since you probably didnt read the post above yours, let me say it again. FR is just as magically rich as the next D&D universe. Just because NWN deals out magical items like candy doesnt mean it should be that way. According to FRCS, there's two kinds of magical items - the adventuring magical items and what they call gimmicks (commonplace items that are designed to amuse or entertain or even have some minor usefulness - eg. a broom that sweeps by itself) and even those items are in the possession of nobles or wealthy merchants, certanly not findable in the beggars nest. Adventuring magic in FRCS however says "Real magic - wands and rings, magic arms, and wondrous devices--is relagated to the wealthy, the powerful and those adventurers who stumble across such items in the course of their journeys and battles." If you want to argue that FR is filled with overpowering munckhinish chars, well, there's the circle of eight in greyhawk, a bunch of munckhins if I ever saw one. Same thing in Dragonlance. Basically, it comes down to personal preferences, you should try out the different D&D universes and see how you like them. You can also try the new Eberron setting, which I hear has some interesting new things that make it different to the previous D&D universes.

You really shouldnt judge FR by the computer games. In a 'proper' FR setting, there's very few magical items around, certanly not +5 swords in every 3rd barrel and drow hiding in every corner. Or did you mean that in your view, it's negative because the world has magic? In that case, you're out of luck with mainstream D&D worlds, they're all magical worlds with deities and such. Comparing FR to any number of other D&D worlds really comes down to personal preference, although I find it rather funny how for example, the greyhawk and dragonlance crowd tries to insult FR, saying how munckhinish it is, with 'overpowered characters and magical items', when in fact, most of the D&D settings is filled with the same munckhin elements. The setting is what you make of it.

Hmmm, looks like you either want uber performance or something just isnt right for you to spend 60$ every 2 months. My computer is quite outdated when compared to the newer computers that rich parents get their kids so they can run the newest FPS games at the highest setting, but my computer works fine with most games. Granted, I don't care that much about graphics, I rather play games with good gameplay and story then watching eye candy. As for the consoles, I don't really see the appeal of sever hundred dollars worth of equipment that can only play games.

Why you shouldnt try to explain how your friend ended up with an arrow in his shoulder after playing dungeons & dragons to the police: http://people.jyu.fi/~pejopeku/bar/dungeons_n_dragons.wmv

Not particulary impressed by the description of the game. Sounds pretty generic. As for the famous producers that made good games years before, after seeing so many sequels get butchered, I really dont hold much faith in famous names - either their oversized ego screws up the game or the suits ruin it in search of quick money and give the developers so little time/space to work. I'd recommend people don't buy games just because the producers worked on that X game so many years ago.

As far as I know, they're making D&D online based on Asheron's call 2 game engine.... and yes, that means it's going to suck. Besides, from the descriptions, it's going to be a glorified NWN2 that you're going to pay for monthly. Supposedly, only major cities will be really "mmporgish", the quest and stuff will be pretty much like NWN multiplayer, since you'll get teleported or something outside of towns and you and your party will be all alone with monsters to keep you company.