Neverwinter Nights 2: The Known Lands: A NWN 2 Persistent World

http://www.knownlands.com/

The Known Lands is a 'home grown' world that is being developed around the PW structure. Our ultimate goal with this project is to make a PW that is roleplay (RP) focused with the feel of a 'pen and paper' (PnP) game.

In order to get that PnP feel, we plan on adding a feature that is the most similar to traditional PnP. This is the use of adventuring parties in the world (described below).

Adventuring Parties
The way these will work is:

-When you apply to play in the Known Lands, you will have the option to request joining a party. If you decide to do this, you will give us some times that you can make on a weekly basis. We will match these times to existing groups that needs PCs to find a party for you. (Note - we will have a cap on the number of PCs in a party. I am hoping that number will never break 8 in a group so that everyone in the party can be involved.)

-Each party will be employed by a DM run NPC. Your new PC will be hired and added to the party.

-Every week, this party will meet for a DM run session. Each party will have one DM who will run plots for this group. Picture this like a regular, weekly PnP session.

-Our plan is for these parties to be where the most important, world altering activities occur. Expect many long, running plotlines to be run for the parties.

Beyond making the world more PnPish, it is also our hope that this will allow new players coming into the world to feel included more quickly as well as allow players who can only play once or twice/week to be more involved in the world.

Aside from the adventuring parties - as a PW that is up 24-7 we intend to have a great many automated quests for you to enjoy whenever you log on. We are proud to say we have many highly experienced and talented builders and coders that will make a variety of quests to suit and challenge characters. To add further fun challenges as well as a greater degree of the unexpected, we have a quality staff of creative DMs who will run events when they are on.

So now you have an overview of what the Known Lands are about. If this interests you, please register to our boards. We will start accepting player applications when we get close to our launch date (expected to be sometime before Christmas '06).

Lasher

PS - if you have any question or comments, please feel free to PM me.