A Spiritual Successor for Neverwinter Nights at last

[SatelliteMind]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1468280928/shards-online-play-by-your-rules
The kickstarter met its funding goals in about 3 days and has been chugging away at its stretch goals ever since with about 5k until a story editor is included in the alpha toolset. It has about 63 hours left so if you want to back this I suggest you do it soon. The amount of customization avaibile to player run Shards is arguably even more than NWN with pretty much every aspect of the gameplay being modifiable. A dev already confirmed that it would be theoreticlly possible to write a D&D based ruleset as Lua, the scripting language their game is using is quite flexible. If your a NWN fan and have a desire to see this game become a success than I suggest you either back it or join the forums and help contribute that way as the devs are quite open. Here are some videos around modding and player built worlds.May the force be with us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTKj0NC_j8g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN82htrfGHQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLithI0Xr0A

 

[SatelliteMind]

Less than 19 hours until this kickstarter closes guys, if you want to back this I suggest you do it soon

 

[Cosmo]

It has more in common with Ultima Online. They lowered the kickstarter goal a lot.

 

[SatelliteMind]

It has influences in both; here the lead dev elaborates a bit more http://www.redbull.com/en/games/stories/1331694694055/shards-online-kickstarter-interview Also if you still acess to the alpha you can donate via Paypal http://shardsonline.com/pledge/

 

[Juniper]

Looks interesting. I'll see what it ends up being when it comes out... Kickstarter promises have been shown not to mean a great deal.

 

[Ker]

actually looks pretty neat

 

[Xzanron]

I thought you meant Neverwinter Nights.. the proper single player RPG, not hte online MMORPG. I really dislike MMORPGs. If you want a good RPG, then there's loads out there, many already funded by kickstarter/community and produced by some of the people that brought us the best RPGs ever, like Baldur;s Gate and KOTOR.

There's Divinity: Origin Sin (Kickstarter Funded & now Gamespot PC Game of the year) (All tools to create game have been released as well)
Wasteland 2 (InXile) (released)
Pillars of Eternity (Oblivion) currently in beta and looking very nice.
Torment: Tides of Namuria (InXile)

There is masses of great stuff out there, especially for people like me that prefer depth to grind.
What made NWN special for me wasn't the editors or tools, it was the DM/GM mode. I cannot see any way an MMORPG can give you that freedom to completely rewrite the rules and manipulate the game world.