E3 Report @ FiringSquad

FiringSquad has posted an article that reports on several RPGs that were shown at this year’s E3. Included in the article are games such as Warcraft III, World of Warcraft, and Neverwinter Nights. A snippet from the NWN section:

After the play session, we had time to fiddle around with the Dungeon Master interface. With it, you can watch over the players in the game, communicate with them, and use simple menus to do just about anything spawn monsters, drop items, cast any spell in the game, teleport the players around, etc. There are even pre-made encounter groups so you can quickly spawn in a handful of similar monsters instead of madly clicking, trying to throw in several monsters one by one. To do any of this, you simply select what you want from a menu, then click into the map to drop in the monsters/items or cast a spell in that location. DMs can also possess NPCs within the game and speak through them.