NWN2 Mask of the Betrayer at AKON?

Obsidian – the developer of Neverwinter Nights 2 and its forthcoming expansion pack, made a special trip to AKON in Dallas last weekend. The developer hosted two special events at the convention to highlight the new content and NWN2 Lead Designer Josh Sawyer and Betrayer programmer Andrew Woo were on hand to interact with fans.

Unfortunately because of the short notice no one really caught the backdoor announcement so anyone who went to AKON, we’d like to know more about how the event went and what interesting tidbits you as an audience were able to extract from Josh and  Andrew.

The remainder of the weekly update follows:

1)Will some of the missing creatures from the original campaign, and new creatures from Rasheman be added?

Answer: We are adding many new creatures, both to bolster the options for the mod community and to correctly portray the inhabitants of Rashemen.

2) How much of a cultural shock will our PC experience? Will it be so different that he may actually *go crazy*? As Dracula says “Our ways are not your ways…”. Will he fall of the straight and narrow road into dark temptation? Will paladins, so far away from anything they know become Blackguards at last?

Sorry, that would be telling. Lets just say that there will be unique challenges that your character will experience.

3) Will Liriel Beanre make an appearance?

Nope, sorry.

Fans of the game will probably get more from those comments than anyone else but the root of the first two questions concerns the announcement that the player character in the expansion will be relocated to an entirely new area of the Forgotten Realms to explore – the desert kingdom of Rashemon. Rashemon has appeared in mentioned during a number of the Bioware, Obsidian and Black Isle produced games but this expansion is the first game to be set in the kingdom. Fans of Baldur’s Gate will recall that Dynaheir and the memorable brain-dead Ranger Minsc called the area home.