Neverwinter Nights Ships

NEVERWINTER NIGHTS IN A NUTSHELL

It's a stand alone game. It has no connection to baldurs gate, other than it takes place in the forgotten realms world, and is based around AD&D 3rd edition rules (bg is 2nd ed rules though). You control one central character, but you can hire\meet NPC's to help you. there's a ~60 hour single player campaign, but the main focus of the game is the multiplayer aspect, where you get on with a group of friends, one is the dungeon master, and using the dungeon master client he can do almost anything a real DM would do in D&D, like take over a monster and control him, take over NPC's, add monsters, change things, etc etc. There's a powerful toolset to make your own worlds using tiles, and a very powerful C++-esque scripting language. 64 people per server max, although it's possible to link up servers to create a persistent world, and a dm can jump in at any time to add\delete monsters, etc etc.