Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer Review
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Now there's a good reason to dust off Neverwinter Nights 2. The first expansion, Mask of the Betrayer, is a potent reminder of just how entertaining games based on Dungeons & Dragons can be.
The heart of D&D is its system of rules, specifications and behaviors governed by statistical probabilities. In layman's terms, players roll dice to see what happens next. Swing a weapon at a monster, and several die rolls determine whether you hit and how hard.
This is pretty ponderous to do in real life, although plenty of people still do, and the majority of role-player game enthusiasts have moved to computer-based games that use D&D-esque game mechanics. In most computer role-player games, the actual probability calculations occur in the background, hidden from the player's eyes, but Neverwinter Nights 2 puts the dice rolling right up front in true D&D fashion, showing the outcome of each roll in a scrolling event log.
