Neverwinter Nights 2 Contest

[Oerwinde]

Nocturnal plant life remember?

Unless they use chemosynthesis, or some photosynthesis-substitute, they ain't going to live long.

People don't tend to be able to disgest chemosynthic plants for a long time. I think there's too much nitrites there or something akin.

 

Magic is a more probable option. Always stick with magic.

 

 

Oerwinde, while your premise doesn't sound that interesting, because it feels a bit like that Void-trilogy with the ram-riding dwarves and agoraphopic elves(striving too much to be different) Weis and Hickman did yon year ago, I do think that half-desert half-night world has something decidedly darksunian and even Moorcockian in it. That books good with me.

 

Are you going to set this in some particular location, like those temperate areas you talked about, or spread the adventure to see more of your world? I'd dig a bazaar-like feel of a nether city between an alien wasteland a nocturnal paradise. Could be like a trade region between the two wastly different zones. Unless you won't give the desert area any life. Of course, almost nothing could strive there, not to mention survive, in reality, but going with only half of the playground feels like slacking on potential.

 

I responded to this this morning but it didn't seem to have posted it... Anyway, its set in Reimar, the easternmost nation of the northern continent on the light side, which borders the elven nation, which I haven't named yet.

 

The desert actually is part of the largest and most powerful nation in my world. Before the Great Unmaking many of the nations were actually somewhat high tech. Much of this technology is buried in the sands of the desert, and has been rediscovered. I have some major low tech areas, and others are more steampunkish. The Terran Empire encompasses most of the central continent of the light side, including the desert, and I picture it something like Egypt, only steampunk. They enslaved the desert nomads and such to build railroads to key points in the empire, and also have huge steam powered hovercraft. The Daran Republic on the northern continent is the only nation powerful enough to stand up to them. They have a lower tech level, but much higher population, as well as many allies. They are whats left of the Daran Empire, which was the empire that enslaved the elves. The elves blame humans though, not the nations they were a part of.

 

The Dark side before the Great Unmaking was the New World type thing. So it has more of a frontier feel to it as well as the whole eternal night type thing. Its where the meteor actually hit, and the resulting magical backlash mutated a lot of the population creating Giants, Ogres, Goblins, Orcs, Darklings(drow), and Halflings. Before then, there were only Dwarves, Elves, and Humans. So the majority of all those races are on the dark side, though some Darklings and Halflings have gone through the Duskborder to the light side. The Duskborder is a huge mountain range that sprung up around the circumference of the world, as a result of the impact and magical backlash, with only one known channel through, where a rather large port has sprung up to manage the shipping traffic through.

 

Because of all the fallout of the great unmaking the Order of the Red Hand was formed to police magical activity. No one outside the order may use magic, and one of the three houses of the order is trained specifically to hunt rogue mages. Sorcerors, those with the innate ability to use magic, are required to join the order.

[Musopticon?]

You've given it a lot of thought, I see. Hope it comes to fruition.

 

As long as the steampunk doesn't feel forced, it'll be great.

[Llyranor]

Did anyone submit anything for the contest?

 

In any case, I'm still planning my Deekin mod. Though I'm thinking about changing the premise around a bit. Instead of hunting down Deekin, I lure in Deekin fanpeople with a "Relive the legend! You get to be Deekin! This is Deekin's greatest adventure yet!" and then proceed to kill the player in various sadistic ways. Or a "You're Deekin! People want to kill you! Try to survive! 'Try', hehehhehehhaehehshjheajsehaejaejse"

 

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I think it's bordering an obsession.

[Jorian Drake]

Did anyone submit anything for the contest?

 

In any case, I'm still planning my Deekin mod. Though I'm thinking about changing the premise around a bit. Instead of hunting down Deekin, I lure in Deekin fanpeople with a "Relive the legend! You get to be Deekin! This is Deekin's greatest adventure yet!" and then proceed to kill the player in various sadistic ways. Or a "You're Deekin! People want to kill you! Try to survive! 'Try', hehehhehehhaehehshjheajsehaejaejse"

 

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I think it's bordering an obsession.

specialists would say other words for it

[Llyranor]

Since I have the game reinstalled, I guess I'll go over the contest mods http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=nwn2m...ory_select_id=9

 

Only 16 submissions, so it shouldn't be much trouble to get through them. Reviews to come.

 

EDIT: Wait a minute.... This isn't just a writing contest. Some of these are supposed to be hours long. Hahahahahahahahasagasgasgashaa, I don't have the time for that. Anyway, the link is still there for those interested.

Edited May 5, 2007 by Llyranor