NWN Intro Movie Download

While we are all here, I want to get people thinking about a shack NWN guild...

mostly a casual group that you can use to organise games with other shacks through...

maybe some people could play at a set time each week and whoever turns up joins in and plays

this looks cool! who cares if they aren't as polished as the blizzard trailers, not everyone can devote an entire wing of the company to producing the cinematics. that is not a slam, as blizzards efforts are CLEARLY visible in the results and they blow everything else away.

i just think there is room for others to try! the action in this video looked great, nice texturing and everything else. the characters didn't slide around or anything, and the whole thing didn't come off as a cheesy in-game cinematic.

was this in engine or prerendered?

-gren

jeez.... i suppose most of you guys don't own a PHB for DnD, eh?
well, at least someone is taking the time to put up all that info.

kinda boring for an intro video, they could learn alot from Blizzard

still excited about the game though

Ok, if you are thinking about your NWN character(s) already, and are wondering how they generate the players Attributes, here is a quick tutorial on the "point buy" method.

Point buy tutorial.

bioware are still deciding how many points to give, but they are likely to give at least 25 points to use. The current talk is probably starting with 30 point buy

Before you spend any points, you have an 8 in every stat.

So you would have

str:8
dex:8
con:8
int:8
wis:8
cha:8

and 25 points to spend.

now, you can raise the 8 score to any of the scores below for the listed number of points.

9 = 1 point
10 = 2 points
11 = 3 points
12 = 4 points
13 = 5 points
14 = 6 points
15 = 8 points
16 = 10 points
17 = 14 points
18 = 18 points

to raise your ability score from 8 to 9, costs 1 point. to raise the ability from 8 to 14 costs 6 points...

attribute scores give penalties / bonuses to anything associated with that score (skills, comabt actions, whatever).

6 = -2 penalty
7 = -2 penalty
8 = -1 penalty
9 = -1 penalty
10 = nothing
11 = nothing
12 = +1 bonus
13 = +1 bonus
14 = +2 bonus
15 = +2 bonus
16 = +3 bonus
17 = +3 bonus
18 = +4 bonus
19 = +4 bonus
20 = +5 bonus

and so on...

most people like to not have too many penalties for any attribute, and have nice bonuses on their important attributes.

now, you have 6 ability scores, so you have to choose which ones are important for your character. if you want to make a fighter, you could do:

str:14
dex:14
con:14
int:11
wis:10
cha:10

that would cost 25 points to do, and would be a balanced fighter with no penalties from mental abilities. You would get +2 to damage and to hit rolls from your strength, +2 to armor class from your dex and +2 hit points per level from your con. You would also get bonuses to any skills or saving throws associated with certain attributes.

you get an extra attribute point every 4 levels, so you could raise your int at level 4 (to get a +1 bonus on stuff associate with int), raise you strength at levels 8 and 12, and raise your con at levels 16 and 20...

so when you finish, the character would be

str:16
dex:14
con:16
int:12
wis:10
cha:10

which could be a very powerful and well rounded fighter...

you can mix and match the point buy to suit your needs, but a nice balance between your attributes is a good thing to aim for.

Any questions and I'm happy to answer :)

this game will own so bad... own! own! ;-)

Being an intro movie, this really doesn't say much about the game at all. But it sure was a giant step forward from the BG/BG2 into movies, so maybe that can account for something..

Anyway, that doesn't matter because this game is going to own!

not too bad speed, 50K/s

This game is gonna own

me first