I was on the Bioware main site and reading the round table discussion. It seems that bioware is making Neverwinter Nights II but it will not be D&D or AD&D based because they don't want to pay Wizards of the Coast for the use of of the D&D or AD&D name and characters.
Mods will not be allowed to be made by the public that use any D&D names like the Undermountain, Grayhawk, Forgotten Realms...ect. that can or will be used in The NWN II game. in fact Bioware has not desided yet if they will even use the name NWN II at all. The have given it a name of Dragon Age and that they are building a whole new world in which they will desige whole new cities, forests and dungeons as well as a new rule set that has nothing to do with the world of Neverwinter or anything that resembles D&D.

[ 09-01-2004, 12:14 AM: Message edited by: TheCrimsomBlade ]

NWN 2 is not Dragon Age.

NWN 2 is being made by Obsidian ( with help from Bioware ) and will be using 3.5 Ed rules. Forums for NWN 2 are here.

http://nwn2.obsidianent.com/

Dragon age is being made by Bioware in a world they made up and control. Should be good to get out of the forgotten realms for a while.

Still looking forward to both games.

<font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00FF00">I would be OK with that. Every RPG doesn't have to be D&D. There are some really good ones out there that are not D&D and a switch is OK once in awhile. I don't think it would be called NWN however.</font>

[ 09-01-2004, 01:52 PM: Message edited by: pritchke ]

Yeah NWN 2 will definatly be D&D.

Dragon Age will be something totally new.

Dick! You scared the CRAP outta me! Choc came to TEARS!!!! :D :D Whew. Damn, give me a heart attack +5 why don'cha? ;)

<font color=skyblue>Man...I had already come to the conclusion of not even buying NWN by the end of your post! Thanks be to the Gods of Toril that you were misinformed in your post! Whew!</font>

LOL you guys should spend a little bit of time over at the bioware forums.

Some good ideas for characters and addon to mods.

Plus plenty of information on both Dragon age and NWN2

http://nwvault.ign.com/DragonAge/E3Preview.shtml

This is one of the links I read that calls Dragon Age NWN 2. and if you read beyond you will see that Bioware lost the contract with Dragons of the coast and that NWN 2 will be using a complete new engine and WILL NOT BE D&D but a completety different story line unrelated to D&D. I will find the other Post and link it.


http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/baldurs-gate-iii/?fromint=1

Just as a little extra Atari Has plans to make Baldurs Gate III

[ 09-03-2004, 12:01 AM: Message edited by: TheCrimsomBlade ]

Some more links.

Bioware Dragon Age Website.

http://www.bioware.com/games/dragon_age/

Atari & Bioware NWN 2.

http://www.atari.com/nwn2/

DEFINATLY 2 seperate games. BOTH of them I'm really looking forward to.

I think Bio has said on a number of occasions that Dragon Age and NWN 2 are not the same thing, so we're safe. ;)