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'''Shandra''': Well, if it had been [[Player Character|the Captain]] doing it, the cat would be lost, the tree burned down, and the old lady would be traveling with us now. }}

 

 

As was the case with Obsidian's previous project, ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Knights of the Old Republic]] II: The Sith Lords'', this sequel, despite being set after the events of the original game, barely references them; unlike ''KOTOR II'', it does not allow the player to choose the ending of the previous game (partially because it was wrapped up in an expansion pack).

 

Since then, while there have been no plans in sight for a ''Neverwinter Nights 3'', the MMO ''[[Neverwinter]]'' is slated to be a sorta-sequel set 100 years after the events of the NWN games.

 

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* [[Continuity Nod]]: The game frequently references that Neverwinter is still recovering from the plague and the war with Luskan that the city suffered from in [[Neverwinter Nights|the previous game]]. Also, Deekin, the most [[Love It or Hate It|memorable]] companion from the two expansion packs ''Shadows of Undrentide'' and ''Hordes of the Underdark'', appears as a shopkeeper and references events from both expansions -- albeit in a way that only those familiar with them will have any idea what he's talking about.

** Also, a reference outside the plot but within their [[The Verse|universe]]: at one point, Zhjaeve actually talks about [[Planescape: Torment|Dak'kon]], who apparently is an almost legendary figure.

** The Sword of Gith also qualifies for [[Oddly-Shaped Sword]].

* [[Creepy Child]]: Marcus.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Callum}}

* [[Hero of Another Story]]: More than a dozen, including {{spoiler|every single one of the major villains.}} Not surprising, since deconstructing the idea of heroes is arguably the main theme of the story.

* [[Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure]]:

{{quote|'''Grobnar:''' No one really knows how big the Wendersnaven are. They could be thousands of Khelgars high!

* [[Non-Lethal KO]]: Only in the first game and ''Mask of the Betrayer''. ''Storm of Zehir'' plays it closer to the pen-and-paper rules: if a character reaches -10 HP, they're dead and have to be resurrected with a spell.

* [[Obvious Beta]]: Obsidian has a well-deserved reputation for this. Despite not looking much better visually than ''KOTOR'', ''NWN2'' is somewhat of a hardware hog, and it suffered from memory leak issues and a lack of polish. Then both expansions managed to [[Game Breaking Bug|break the previous campaign]] on release.

* [[Only Idiots May Pass]]

* [[Optional Party Member]]: The Construct.

* [[Rolling Pin of Doom]]: A couple of different clubs are rolling pins.

* [[Romance Sidequest]]

* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]

* [[Sequel Difficulty Drop]]: Unintentional example. The encounters are overall more difficult than ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'', but there are several factors that negate this.

* [[Sword of Plot Advancement]]: The Silver Sword of Gith, full stop.

* [[Take Your Time]]

* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Bishop, and {{spoiler|Ammon Jerro}}. Qara could also qualify for her [[Chaotic Stupid]] nature.

* [[Tragic Hero]]: {{spoiler|Ammon Jerro}}.

* [[Troperiffic]]: Some may call it a [[Cliché Storm]], but it's clear that the designers largely [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] these tropes intentionally and, as the page quote shows, [[Lampshade Hanging|often with a fair bit of their tongues in cheek]].

** When you finally meet somebody who speaks Gith, it turns out that {{spoiler|''kalach-cha'' directly translates as "shard-bearer".}} With full nuance applied, it means {{spoiler|"one who stole a silver sword and destroyed it to hide their crime".}} Which ironically makes the term more applicable to {{spoiler|''Ammon Jerro''}} rather than the [[Player Character]].

** The best part? {{spoiler|Such an event has never happened before and they created the Translated Foreign Word specifically to describe ''you''.}}

** So obviously telegraphed that {{spoiler|Garius was amazed Lorne came back at all.}}

* [[You Know What They Say About X...]]: Khelgar protests the Tyrran monks' accusations of him being [[Fantastic Racism|racist]] by saying he travels with a tiefling, "and you know what they're like!"

* [[Bonus Boss]]: {{spoiler|The badger spirit}} and {{spoiler|Myrkul after possessing One of Many}}.

* [[Boxed Crook]]: Gann's initial reason for joining you.

** A couple of different [[Game Mod|fan modules]] have an [[Infinity+1 Sword]] as an end-of-game reward. Modders, next time you decide to give out an [[Infinity+1 Sword]], give the player something to use it on. (I'm looking at ''you'', "Temple of Torm".)

* [[Cute Monster Girl|Cute Monster Guy]]: Gannayev the Hagspawn. [[Lampshaded]] when he jokingly denies that he's a Hagspawn simply on the basis that he's way too pretty to be one. {{spoiler|Gann looks so beautiful because his mother actually loved his father, whereas other hags/nighthags are incapable of love and thus give birth to hideously ugly hagspawns.}}

* [[The Power of Friendship]]: The player and his/her respective followers can get some really powerful feats and buffs when they have a high positive influence.

* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Potential which Gann gleefully abuses.

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Okku has many elements, most noticeable when he encounters carrion-eating spirts at the coven.

* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: You can actually take either side.

* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: Consisting of you, a somewhat Machiavellian wizard, a Hagspawn casanova, an exiled half-angel, and either an undead abomination or a giant talking SPIRIT RAINBOW BEAR.

* [[Rainbow Pimp Gear]]: [[Lampshaded]] with the item Rainbow Armor, which according to the item description was made by a color-blind mage.

* [[Road Cone]]: The expansion assumes the player did not {{spoiler|join the King of Shadows}} at the end of the OC.

* [[Sequence Breaking]]: Getting Gann's influence high enough before the end of Act I will tip you off to the {{spoiler|spirit eater curse}} before you're supposed to know about it.

* [[Soul Jar]]

* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: One Of Many, an insane [[Hive Mind]] that Kaelyn openly states "should not ''be''".

* [[Truly Single Parent]]: {{spoiler|The Founder}}

* [[Villains Never Lie]]: ({{spoiler|Myrkul. The player character can even lampshade it to Kaelyn. Later subverted when Kelemvor reveals that though he wasn't lying to ''her'', he was lying to ''you'' and to the founder.}})

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Kaelyn is on the verge of being one.

 

* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: One the [[Multiple Endings]] if you choose to retire before defeating the [[Big Bad]].

* [[Continuity Nod]]: Several companions were mentioned in previous campaigns -- Septimund is the Doomguide Nya from Port Llast fell in love with, while Finch, a bard known for losing his best hats, finally shows up. Ribsmasher also appeared in the Original Campaign.

* [[Easter Egg]]: One possible encounter is a man trapped in a beartrap. You can free him or kill him (standard stuff), but if you have a cleric of an evil deity, you can sacrifice him, ''[[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|with unique dialogue for each deity]]''. Annie Carlson notes that she found writing this to be fun.

* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: This expansion added two dinosaurs (as monsters), and lets druids have a ''dinosaur animal companion''. This can't be anything ''but'' [[Rule of Cool]].

* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: The initial version had an infamous one that made MOTB ''literally unplayable'' if installed after it.

* [[Hellfire]]: ''Storm of Zehir'' adds on the Hellfire Warlock class, which simply lives off this trope.

* [[Hero of Another Story]]: While the Knight-Captain was busy {{spoiler|dealing with Akachi}}, the SoZ protagonist was busy {{spoiler|saving the world from an evil god.}}

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