Campaign Setting Book Included?

So, those of us out there that are fortunate enough to have our hands on the new Campaign Setting book have seen what this is going to be about.

How will Neverwinter Nights be implementing the TONS of new info that is packed into the book? Has BioWare seen the new stuff? Even though most of the info is just refined, reworded 2nd edition books compiled into one, it still has much needed descriptions and details. The prestige classes are nice, but what I’m really wondering about is the regional feats and the regional abilities that you can receive from just starting in a particular area. Items, Feats, Speech, Knowledges, etc are given to you depending on the area that you live/started in. Will Neverwinter be outfitted with these? The new deities, and their domains?

Of course I didn’t list it all but you get the idea. =^)

>Yes BioWare has seen the
>Forgotten Realms book..
>however it seems they get
>official material after we do.
>Sucks huh?

Actually… 🙂 we get our stuff much earlier. When I first started at BioWare in April 2000, we already had copies of the PHB and DMG and some Monster Manual stuff. The problem is that those items change very rapidly from version to version, and are often dramatically different from the final released version.

For example, our version of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting listed the populations of cities such as Neverwinter at around 1,500 or so. To be honest, though, I really enjoyed getting to see their early versions. They generally included lots of comments in their writing which suggested their reasonings for going one direction versus another… you could really see it all get pieced together. And we all know that those guys did a fantastic job 🙂

>Gotta remember the project
>started before the PHB came
>out. 🙂

Exactly. So hope for lots of expansions and hard work from some creative fans, so that together, we can create the total package 🙂

PS On a side note, Rob and I were talking about the weird things you can do with the Neverwinter Toolset, stuff that’s completely outside of what you would expect from the game. For example, two of our QA guys put together versions of games similar to Pong and Checkers.

I cannot wait to see where the community-at-large will take this…

Bob McCabe
Writing & Design