UPDATE: Game Day: October 18th
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Neverwinter+Nights+Treasure+Hunt&iso=20141018T08&p1=171&ah=5

About my previous Treasure Hunts:
I've had some previous treasure hunts. ( see here for my last)

Before, it was an RPG Maker game. This time around, you'll be engaging one another in a multiplayer game of Neverwinter Nights. You won't know what is coming -- coop, vs, who knows. But you will need your wits to survive. That much is guaranteed. And death will be permanent.

How to Sign Up:
If you want a spot, post that you'd like to sign up. I don't have a limit, but the more people we get, I may have to hold more events or have a first-come-first-serve and when someone dies, the next person will get their chance to enter the game.

About the Game:
Players will begin with a level 1 character. They will find quests in a very large world. Inside of those quests will be hints, treasure maps and rewards of equipment and real-life video games.

Players will be able to team up or hunt each other. Death will be costly and knocking out your competition is a viable strategy. However, without friends, you will surely die. And murders don't tend to last very long in the cold hard world of Leefe.

Death does not work quite like it does in regular NWN. When you fall down, you lie there unconscious until there are are no enemies around you. So if you fall in battle with a friend, you will have 5 minutes to have your friend clear out the remaining baddies (or kite them away from you). You should note that if you try to cheat the system and log off and then log back on, you will be dead. So be sure to stay logged in if your character falls in battle.

All the while, an arch-villain will do all he can to disrupt the players from messing up his plans (which would involve saving the world and earning some games).

When games are found as part of a team, your team will need to discuss who gets which games. There is a game redemption maximum of 2 per player. That max may go up as time goes on.

Sound like fun? I hope so! We start October 18th.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Neverwinter+Nights+Treasure+Hunt&iso=20141018T08&p1=403

If you can't come on time but can still play a bit later (early riser in California?) you can still get into the game. You'll be leveled up to an approximate average level of the players when you get on so that you can join in the fun. You'll need to find your own equipment, though.

I will try to make the game last somewhere around 5 hours or so, from start to finish. I'm sure the time will fly quickly.

You will need Neverwinter Nights and have already applied for a unique multiplayer code to play.

About the Winnings:

Games to Win: (total: 21)
Steam
Crusader Kings II
Deadlight
Legend of Grimrock
Avadon: The Black Fortress
Avernum 4-6
Avernum: Escape from the Pit
The Bard's Tale x2
Syberia
Syberia 2
Terraria
Europa Universalis 4
Cortex Command
Wastleland Angel

Origin
Dead Space
Mirror's Edge

GOG
BloodRayne 2 (2)
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy
Carmageddon 2
The Witcher

You win these games by finding an item in game that says "Tier # Game." You then send a DM message to alert me that you found it and choose your game from that tier. Games disappear on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Here are the games in their tiers: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_great_neverwinter_nights_treasure_hunt_donations_and_signup/post66

Generous Donors:

Ingsoc85
JMich
trentonlf
Tallima
HypersomniacLive
OvaltineJenkins
johnnygoging
(If I'm missing someone, PM me. I'm not quite organized with this GA yet)

Current Players:
Will be there or be square:
Ragnarblackmane
pi4t
Karwelas
AcidFlux
advancedhero
rodrolliv
johnnygoging

Might come, might not:
akhilber (maybe)
IAmSinistar (maybe)
lxamyakxim (maybe) -- note: if you've never played before, just load it up with your NWN multiplayer key (request from support) and get in the game. It's a simple click to move, click to attack. Use A-Z to chat. You'll do fine. Fighter is a very easy class to play.
Green_Hilltop (I think, right?)
trentonlf (maybe)
iphgix (tentative w/ baby) (ha! just noticed I included the WTF. Too funny.)
Cyberevil (highly likely)

If your name is not on this list, post in the forums or send me a PM if you want to play. I'm only sending these people my IP address.

I'm going to favorite this thread and keep an eye on it. I may end up interested in participating if you're in need of folks, but I'm an unreliable sort, so will leave this as a place-holder in the meantime. I love Neverwinter Nights, but it's been ages, and I never did get to try multiplayer at all, so this could be quite interesting.
In any case, great idea! This will make for a fun thread to keep up with at the very least. :)

I'M IN

Been awhile since I've played neverwinter nights, but I will fire it up again. I have never played MP before though, do I need to do anything special for that?

Nice idea! I'll have to play around with NWN and see if my skills are worthy of participation, but kudos for the fun concept whether I'm there or not!

As an avid NWN player I am really really interested in this, but not sure I'll enter for the GA. May I offer to help with the hunt instead? I've used the DMFI toolkit before. As an avid NWN player I am really really interested in this, but not sure I'll enter for the GA. May I offer to help with the hunt instead? I've used the DMFI toolkit before. If not then that's fine and I'll look forward to participating.

I believe you'll need to contact support to get a multiplayer key, if you haven't contacted them for one already. I need to find mine.

Besides getting a unique key, you'll need to get my IP address once we start. I'll share that on the day of the event. That's it. You'll connect, create a character, and then face constant peril. :) I won't need any help on the DM side at all, but thank you. I have had connection issues in the past, but I'm hoping to test everything and have it all configured so it goes smoothly. Connecting can be a tricky thing with NWN sometimes. I'm secretly hoping that GOG Galaxy will be out by then and they'll have a magical NWN lobby.

Right on...and yes a lobby would be awesome. The lack of gamespy service has sadly killed a lot of the momentum that GoG's release of NWN Diamond had started to build insofar as breathing life back into some of the MP community.

So we should start putting together a party of adventurer's then?:)

Don't put together a party. But you can think about what class you'd like to play. There will likely be class-specific rewards, but that hasn't been finalized. It'll probably be divine/spellcast/physical characters to distinguishes classes for class-specific rewards, but again, not finalized.

Games to win right now:

(many gaems for Steam and Origin require a Humble Bundle account)

Steam
Crusader Kings II
Deadlight
Legend of Grimrock
Avadon: The Black Fortress
Avernum 4-6
Avernum: Escape from the Pit
The Bard's Tale x2
Syberia
Syberia 2
Terraria

Origin
Dead Space
Mirror's Edge

GOG
Masters of Orion
BloodRayne 2

I assume we start with level 1 characters?

I'd like to sign up, but I may not be free at that time from the next few weeks. Could I provisionally be in until further notice?

This... sounds awesome! I always told myself I'd fire up NWN2 before 1, but I think I could make an exception for a one shot social gathering. One of my greatest video game letdowns was knowing I'd never get to participate in any User-DMed modules or campaigns for these games. Rarely do I go beyond single player in RPGs, but what these games had going was amazing - it always sounded exactly like sitting around the tabletop with a "real" DM dragging and dropping encounters, jumping into NPCs to voice them - all that good stuff.

I've never played NWN and I'm not sure I'll be caught up enough (perhaps even backlog-wise ;) ) to get in on this, but because it's still a month or so off do keep me in mind. I'll be a tentative leaning to yes.

I'd love to try, but I'm probably not gonna be on next Saturday.

I'm in if that's not a problem.

Are the games starting next saturday or in late October?