BioWare/NWN Interview

The foreign gaming site, GamesReview, was able to ask several questions of BioWare's co-founders, Raymond Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, as well as the Product Manager of Neverwinter Nights, Trent Oster. The resulting answers make for a pretty good read... here's a taste:

    Q: How has the implementation of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition rules affected the development of the game?

    Trent: The implementation of the 3rd Edition Dungeon and Dragons rules has been a great benefit to the game and also a great amount of work. The new rules are much more open and flexible than the previous 2nd Edition rules and as such offer many more user options in terms of class, race, equipment, skills and feats. Implementing all this flexibility requires a lot of extra time and requires a lot of careful design work. So, in summary, the 3rd Edition rules make NWN much broader in character advancement and much more open in terms of play styles.