Neverwinter Nights 2 Designer Diary #6

GameSpot has published a sixth designer diary for Neverwinter Nights 2, this time with Obsidian Entertainment executive producer Darren Monahan talking about the game’s first patch and some of the plug-ins users have created so far. Sounds like the patch has quite a bit of content in it:

This first patch has a number of new goodies in it. First up is our initial release of the new Dungeon Master Client (DMC). The DMC is a powerful tool BioWare created in the original Neverwinter Nights that allows one or more players to act as a dungeon master, or DM. As a DM, a suite of tools are available for you to rapidly change content in a game, all while players are busy adventuring. The DMC being one of the multiplayer and persistent-world communities’ most popular features, we’re planning to continue to add more to it over the next couple patches, including interface refinements and even a few new features. With this patch, we’ve also included some new druid spells and fixed up a lot of things our community beta testers and quality-assurance folks have discovered along the way. For those of you picking up the game in the next few days, I highly recommend nabbing the patch.

They’ve also posted a seventh gameplay video showing off the RPG, so be sure to check that out as well.