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[Loki_999]

I know many people don't have building/scripting skills/experience.

 

But just imagine for the moment you had the skills to make a module/persistent world based on any genre using the NWN2 toolset, which would you go for?  Perhaps your own custom world, perhaps based off an official D&D setting, or maybe something from another source.

 

I was thinking about one based on Weiss and Hickmans Death Gate cycle.  4 main distinct worlds, each difficult to travel between, each with their own different perils.  And as a way of getting rid of epic characters, the Labyrinth with the nexus at the center. Having to travel through an insanely difficult area full of monsters and traps and potentially hostile Patryn.... but make it to the nexus and you get your character immortalized in some way (Hall of Fame or something). The 4 worlds would be good places for RP and the laybyrinth would suit the grinders. Something for everyone.

 

Your preferences?

[kamal_]

As long as it's not another standard humans western europe fantasy world.

[rjshae]

*COUGH*guilty*COUGH* Well I'll confess to having some temptation regarding the Enemy Within campaign, using the original Warhammer career system. I think I have the skills; just not the time and persistence.

[Dann-J]

Endor Nights: an Ewok adventure.

[GCoyote]

Philip Jose' Farmer's "World of Tiers"

[Loki_999]

As long as it's not another standard humans western europe fantasy world.

 

Hell yeah, why did nobody ever do an Oriental Adventures based PW?

[kamal_]

▲▲▲ lack of themed content.

[rjshae]

There is (or was) oriental content available on the old vault.

[kamal_]

Imperial Mali, with one of the cultural capitals of the world at the time in Timbuktu. Deserts to the north, jungle to the south, savanna to the east.

Southeast asia, many small states under the constant demands and threats coming from imperial china. Lots of jungle, and a long history of pirates in the seas that continues until this day.

Aboriginal australia, before Europe showed up, with the aboriginal dreamtime as a separate strange world. Think Mulsantir and Shadow Mulsantir except less civilized and much more spirit focused.

India during the time of the Mahabarata, (various gods incarnate and leading high magic level armies against each other).

[ShinsFortress]

Weiss and Hickman?  Oh no, please no....

[Arkalezth]

As long as it's not another standard humans western europe fantasy world.

Yeah, much better to do something completely original, like... Forgotten Realms.

 

An oriental setting sounds cool, but my favourite setting so far in a NWN2 PW is, by far, Dammendrech (which went down almost 2 years ago). Yes, it was based on medieval Europe. Rather realistic, dark, low fantasy, and with witches (i.e. magic users) being hunted and burnt.

 

I'm not necessarily saying that's what I'd do or that I wouldn't enjoy other settings, but I miss that PW and it was, as far as I can tell, unique in many aspects.

[kamal_]

The most commonly seen in game areas of the forgotten realms are western european fantasy. However there are places like Var the Golden (India), Mulhorand (Egypt), Kara Tur (various asian cultures depending on location). There is also Maztica which is the Americas, and iirc at least one continent that barely gets a mention and all the lore is essentially legends, so its open. So you can be in the forgotten realms and not use western european fantasy.

[Psionic-Entity]

Well, right now I'm working on a steampunk-based world and so far I've found nwn2 very accommodating to that sort of thing.

 

Previously we did a PW set in Arthurian times, which was a cool break from the standard FR stuff.

 

If I had unlimited time I might want to try a completely underwater setting like in Bioshock, but that would be a tall order with this game engine.

[kamal_]

No one has said Dark Sun yet. The amount of custom content required would be crazy (thri-keen as a player race and a psionics system for example). I consider it not really doable due to the amount of custom work necessary to get it right.

[Arkalezth]

The most commonly seen in game areas of the forgotten realms are western european fantasy. However there are places like Var the Golden (India), Mulhorand (Egypt), Kara Tur (various asian cultures depending on location). There is also Maztica which is the Americas, and iirc at least one continent that barely gets a mention and all the lore is essentially legends, so its open. So you can be in the forgotten realms and not use western european fantasy.

Oh, okay. I thought you meant non-FR Europe.

[Loki_999]

No one has said Dark Sun yet. The amount of custom content required would be crazy (thri-keen as a player race and a psionics system for example). I consider it not really doable due to the amount of custom work necessary to get it right.

 

And everyone loves cannibal halflings!

[Kanis-Greataxe]

Even though there is some Oriental based content there is still a lot missing to be able to do a proper Kara-Tur PW. A lot of the player races are missing along with most of the creatures you would run into, not to mention classes. I have played around with the idea of building an Oriental based PW and even done some initial work on a few of the classes but its slow going as there is as far as I know only 1 good source book on the subject that I can find.

[Happycrow]

I'd roll the upcoming module concept I'm working on for The Sunset World* into a PW easy...but experience on three different PWs has shown that the number of people who enjoy survival horror and the more hardcore "you are squishy and likely to die" sort of tension are very, very few.  It'd have 3 people logged in on a good day, two of whom would be DMs.  

 

* For those of you who aren't older than dirt like me, here's a reference:  http://www.angelfire...unsetWorld.html

[Happycrow]

I'm making the base setting similar to the Persian Empire, though.  Lots to play with, and the conflict between The Truth and The Lie is good rich a subject not to mine for fantasy.

[Luminus]

Even though there is some Oriental based content there is still a lot missing to be able to do a proper Kara-Tur PW. A lot of the player races are missing along with most of the creatures you would run into, not to mention classes. I have played around with the idea of building an Oriental based PW and even done some initial work on a few of the classes but its slow going as there is as far as I know only 1 good source book on the subject that I can find.

 

Amen. There are no modules or PWs based on Kara-Tur. I am kind of an oriental freak but really, I would love a Kara-Tur PW.

Or please, ANYTHING that is not Faerun/Forgotten Realms/typical european fantasy based.

Al-Qadim, Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Kara-Tur, Chessenta (ancient greek setting), Icewind Dale/Spine of the World, Chult (or jungles like SoZ), perhaps something darker like a PW going into the Plane of Shadow.

There are SO many original and different things you can do and most people go for the easy and generic stuff.

But I noticed something sad, unfortunately. All the really original setting PWs, don't have people or are closed:
Middle Earth. Closed.
Sigil. Empty.
Xenograph Arms (sci-fi). Closed

Maybe people choose the easy and generic ones because the others are probably niche ones. But I would love some really original PWs. And no freaking permadeath.

[Loki_999]

But I noticed something sad, unfortunately. All the really original setting PWs, don't have people or are closed:
Middle Earth. Closed.
Sigil. Empty.
Xenograph Arms (sci-fi). Closed
 

 

Heard lots of good things about Middle Earth from some people who played there. Some really good crafting and mining/farming stuff.

 

But excuse me sir, but Sigil is far from empty these days. In spring we were suffering with very low player base, a lot of the time zero, 5 online if we were lucky.

 

Thanks to the efforts of myself and the new DMs, regular events, more content (and of course promotion efforts), the server is rarely empty, and we are often averaging 10 or more players. Just took a look, 16 players on at the moment.  That's amazing considering what it was just a couple of months ago.  Sure, we haven't got the numbers of BG or Dalelands, but we are slowly creeping up behind Realms of Trinity (although have to count carefully with them because they have 3 servers).

 

So if you are looking for that different experience, pop on over and take a look. As someone on the Port of Shadows forums said, "Sigil is a zoo".. yeah, what a zoo though!

[kamal_]

Sigil is one of the few PW's that interest me. Mostly because it would be amusing to play as some of the crazier races available.

[Kanis-Greataxe]

Actually SDJ had been working on an oriental based PW-Senderos de Jade(SP)  (was going to be in Spanish from what I understand) but not sure if he ever finished it or is still active.

[Pitdmn]

I like the idea of Ravenloft.  I have read several books from this series, and enjoy the setting.

[ShinsFortress]

NOOO Ravenloft.  That jumped up, self-absorbed, pretentious, not-as-clever-as-it-thinks-it-is, system and setting won't have me queing up!