Neverwinter Nights 2: A Second Dragon*Con Report

Major details:

• DM Client is still being worked on.
  [li] There were still some bugs in the game and toolset. Some helmet textures weren't present, and the game crashed once or twice on load screens.
  [li] Confirmed that the toolset will be available to those who pre-order one month before the official release.

Gameplay and Official Campaign

• You can multi-class up to four classes.
• The official campaign will be at a bare minimum 25 hours, and that's if you blow through through the dialog and have a "super-kill stick." A more realistic estimate is 40 - 50 hours if you skip most of the side quests.
  [li] Radial menu is gone. There is now a context sensitive menu with multiple levels.
  [li] Spells are accessible with a hotkey ('F' if I remember correctly.)
  [li] You get your own keep. Properly maintaining and upgrading it are important.
  [li] Stealthing your way through the entire game will not be possible. Rogues are intended more as combat support than stealthy assassins.
  [li] Many prestige classes are available. Sorry I don't have a complete list. I'm listing some below:
  [ul][li] Neverwinter Nine (sort of a bodyguard to Lord Nasher)
  [li] Duellist (yippee!)
  [li] Blackguard
  [li] Arcane Knight
  [li] Harper Agent
  [li] Warpriest
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[li] Subraces are supported and will have different abilities from other subraces. Drow are available and will have spell resistance but will have a substantially harder time gaining levels. Tieflings and Aasimar are also available.
[li] There will be a quickbar with 10 slots. You will also have access to other quickbars (at least 4 others.) Not sure if you can tie them to CTRL/ALT/SHIFT like you could with NWN 1.
[li] The parry skill has been reworked, though I'm not sure if they've addressed the multiple attack issue.
[li] The game will not be turn-based, but instead have the same pause functionality as NWN 1.
[li] NPCs will sometimes have different dialog depending on your class and race. In the tutorial, one NPC had a strong reaction to my Tiefling Paladin. (I know that should be impossible, but somehow I was able to make an LG tiefling.)
[li] System requirements were still fuzzy. The developer I spoke to said it will probably require 128MB of VRAM, and would need a 2 Ghz P4. He also commented that requirements would be similar to Oblivion, a very demanding game. The demo system they were running the game on was pretty choppy until the details were turned down.

Add your opinions in this thread on the official forums. Thanks, Jhelzei!