The game turned 20 this year and the community is still thriving; over a thousand players online each night, and new custom online worlds being launched for the game every other month. The game is also being remastered, with the developers (Beamdog) having launched a free, massive HD remaster patch at the end of 2021 which the community is building upon and expanding. That should tell you all you need to know about how special this game is. It is the closest any video game has ever gotten to bringing the 'real' Dungeons & Dragons tabletop gaming experience into a digital form. NWN remains unique despite its age; no other game has ever allowed players to host massive, custom-built persistent online worlds, fill them with handcrafted adventures, creatures, scenery and terrain, entirely customised game mechanics and UI, visuals... everything, really... and no other game has allowed players to act as Dungeon Masters (like in tabletop D&D), manipulating the world around other players in order to craft live, on-the-fly adventures and make the world react realistically to players' actions. NWN is a treasure, and with the Enhanced Edition Beamdog has not only brought it back to life, but has massively expanded what players can create with this one-of-a-kind sandbox D&D toolkit, from huge expansions to the scripting language and creation tools, to adding a ton of new content and graphics upgrades for us to play with. May NWN: Enhanced Edition live for another 20 years, I say.
