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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. }}
'''''Neverwinter Nights 2''''' is what happens when you ask [[Obsidian Entertainment]] of all people to make a heroic fantasy game. Released in November 2006, it is the sequel to the 2002 RPG ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' by [[BioWare]]. It is set in the Forgotten Realms (more specifically, along the Sword Coast) and uses the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' 3.5 gameplay system.
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).
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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.
The game was re-release on [[GOG.com]] as '''Neverwinter Nights 2 Complete'''.
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* [[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.
* [[
** Slightly [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that there are several groups looking for the shards. It's not just the player and X enemy -- it's the player and X, Y, and Z factions -- some of which may be more friendly than others but all of which would much rather have the shards all to themselves.▼
* [[Only Idiots May Pass]]
* [[Optional Party Member]]: The Construct.
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* [[Sword of Plot Advancement]]: The Silver Sword of Gith, full stop.
* [[Take Your Time]]
▲* [[The One True Sequence]]: Although, unlike the ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' series, the sequence in which the player finds the many shards is strictly defined by the plot, the various enemies are ''always'' after the same shards at the same time.
▲** Slightly [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that there are several groups looking for the shards. It's not just the player and X enemy -- it's the player and X, Y, and Z factions -- some of which may be more friendly than others but all of which would much rather have the shards all to themselves.
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Bishop, and {{spoiler|Ammon Jerro}}. Qara could also qualify for her [[Chaotic Stupid]] nature.
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: {{spoiler|Bevil}}.
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* [[Bonus Boss]]: {{spoiler|The badger spirit}} and {{spoiler|Myrkul after possessing One of Many}}.
* [[Boxed Crook]]: Gann's initial reason for joining you.
* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: {{spoiler|Akachi's Scythe can be combined with Myrkul's spirit essence to make an [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity
** 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.}}
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* [[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.
<!-- * [[Promethean Punishment]]: {{spoiler|Akachi. Poor, poor, Akachi.}} MOD: Can someone who's played the game confirm whether Akachi suffered a Promethean Punishment or an ordinary one mistakenly catalogued under the old name of this trope, "The Punishment"? -->
* [[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.
* [[Reincarnation Romance]]: [[spoiler:Male [[Player Character|Player Characters]] can enter into one with Safiya. [http://www.formspring.me/GZiets/q/322955310316683214 Females could as well before ExecutiveMeddling.]{{Dead link}}
* [[Road Cone]]: The expansion assumes the player did not {{spoiler|join the King of Shadows}} at the end of the OC.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: There
* [[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]]
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* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: One Of Many, an insane [[Hive Mind]] that Kaelyn openly states "should not ''be''".
* [[Truly Single Parent]]: {{spoiler|The Founder}}
* [[The Ugly
* [[Villain-Beating Artifact]]: The Silver Sword of Gith. It's the only weapon to injure and even kill the the King of Shadows. The bad news is that the sword broke into several shards that last time it was used and let's just say that your character isn't the only one who wants to collect them.
* [[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.
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