Going Beyond the Game Engine

Creative DMing techniques allow players to go beyond how the NWN engine resolves in-game situations. This opens up many more possibilities for a DM to convey additional information about the environment, modify existing content, and create new situations. It includes a wide range of possible actions, ranging from simple and straightforward ones you can do “on-the-fly”, to complex new capabilities that may require additional preparation before a session.

This guide discusses three main types of techniques:
• Providing descriptions of the environment (areas, objects, creatures) to PCs, both for extra flavor and to call attention to key details
• Applying the results of PC actions going beyond the game engine, including using appropriate skill and ability checks
• Simulating the effects of spells/abilities not included in NWN

Download page: https://neverwinterconnections.org/pages/creative_dm_player_techniques

NWC periodically will post screenshots from games scheduled on the site. To share yours, you can post the screenshot in the NWC Discord #screenshots channel, along with a link to the game in the events calendar.

Today's is from the Westgate Campaign.

There is a DM client issue in patch 1.80 with not seeing custom palette changes in the Creator. This means that if you add or delete things to a module in the toolset, the DM client by default cannot see the changes in the UI.

The manual fix for this (thanks to virusman): look in your My Documents/Neverwinter Nights folder and delete the "tempclient" folder.

This has been reported to Beamdog's official bugfix site, hopefully the issue will be corrected in the next update.

Latest major patch has dropped. In addition to a number of new modding features, performance should be improved as well. For full details, see:

https://www.beamdog.com/news/nwnee-patch-windows-macos-linux/

NWC periodically will post screenshots from games scheduled on the site. To share yours, you can post the screenshot in the NWC Discord #screenshots channel, along with a link to the game in the events calendar.

Today's is from the Necropolis of the Wyrm Thursday Campaign.

NWC periodically will post screenshots from games scheduled on the site. To share yours, you can post the screenshot in the NWC Discord #screenshots channel, along with a link to the game in the events calendar.

Today's is from the Necropolis of the Wyrm Sunday Campaign.

Daylight saving time (DST) madness is coming again soon, which affects organizing group play across time zones. It starts on Sunday, March 8 in the U.S., with the clocks advancing one hour. This year there is a fairly large gap in time until Europe changes on March 29. And people in a number of places don't have DST, but will need to take into account other players who do shift. Worldwide list of DST dates is here: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/2020.html

Using the NWC Events Calendar can help provide a central point of reference for players across time zones. Registered users can adjust their time zone account settings as needed here: https://neverwinterconnections.org/users/edit

Events calendar items should have their start times updated, if needed, as a reminder.

NWC periodically will post screenshots from games scheduled on the site. To share yours, you can post the screenshot in the NWC Discord #screenshots channel, along with a link to the game in the events calendar.

Today's is from the Westgate Campaign.