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For the PC CD ROM.
Neverwinter Nights Guide and FAQ, written, and edited by Lyte It Up 420
Feel free to contact me for anything at Steveuo_die@yahoo.com
Website-www.geocities.com/steveuo_die
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CONTENTS:
I-Version History
II-Copyright
III-Intro
IV-Survey
V-Email system
VI-F.A.Q.
VII-The Basics
a.notes/tips
b.controls
c.character creation
VIII-Gameplay
IX-Walkthrough
a.prelude
b.chapter 1
c.chapter 2
d.chapter 3
e.chapter 4
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I-VERSION HISTORY.                                             CURRENT VERSION: 4.4
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Monday, July 01, 2002 Version 4.4
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FAQ update, walkthrough and quests of chapter 1 and 2 now completly done.
Sunday, June 30, 2002 Version 4.3
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Survey updates, minor walkthrough updates. Major update for the rolgan's trial
quest.
Saturday, June 29, 2002 Version 4.2
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Some major quest updates, walkthrough updates, and changes fixed with the final
battle.
Friday, June 28, 2002 Version 4.0
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Chapter 4 completed, some minor quest updates.
Friday, June 28, 2002 Version 3.0
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Chapter 3 walkthrough done. Some more Minor text format changes. Update to E-mail
System.
Thursday, June 27, 2002 Verion 2.1
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Minor text format updates. Quest updates in chapters 1 and 2. added E-mail
system(pls read b4 sending e-mail)
Tuesday, June 25, 2002 Version 2.0
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Chapter 2 walkthrough done.
Sunday, June 23, 2002 Version 1.0:
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Major update, please read the intro before starting on the walkthrough.  Chapter 1
pretty much done.
Saturday, June 22, 2002 Version 0.3:
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The basics and Gamplay are pretty much done. Started on the walkthrough, been up
all night working on it will have another update tomorrow.
Friday, June 21, 2002 Version 0.1 :
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This is the first version of the guide, which is not even considered a version.
-Set up the content menu a bit
-Set up copyright info
-Completed intro to the guide
-Posted first survey question
-Started some other aspects of guide, nothing much really done though.
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II-COPYRIGHT.
This FAQ is Copyrighted by the International Copyright Law. No webmaster may
duplicate this work and use it as thier own. If you wish to use this FAQ you must
recieve consent from me and give full credit where credit is due. Any un-authorized
duplication in ANY way will result in immidiate action. You may make copys for your
personal use. It is illegal to modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works,
rent, stake credit for the work, include in a promotional CD, publish in a magazine,
or sell for profit under any curcumstances without coming to an agreement with me.
Copyright  (c) 2002 a "Lyte It Up" Production, by Steve Eik, all rights reserved.
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III-INTRO
This is my first attempt at a guide, not just on Gamefaqs but anywhere. Not many
people know who I am, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if nobody did. The truth is
as I did come to GameFaqs very regularly, I really never posted anything on the msg
boards or made myself known. I'm sure there are alot of others of people like that
out there and hope noone holds it against me that it took me so long to get
involved and contribute to the community. My experience with games is great, mainly
RPGS, and have played and beaten just about every RPG, action, and platform game
for just about every system. So if my credentials meet your standards, go on with
my guide, if not then no harm done.
Please remember that I am writing this guide as I play the game, and even though I
will try and find everything I may miss something. If you notice I miss something
then please feel free to send it in, you will definatly be given credit for your
help. You may also send in suggestions, praises and even hate mail. Hey,  I enjoy a
good laugh as in my experience 99% of hate mail is little uneducated children who
feel they are having thier beliefs challenged because "the world revolves around
them only!" If you think something is wrong with the site or would like to see
something changed, thats suggestions not hate mail, and please label your mails
depending on what is inside the mail, will help me organize the mail when I
eventually put up a mail system.
*******IMPORTANT********* since most of the chests in this game give random items I
cannot give lists of items, furthormore I like it that way because this is a linear
game and since it is that, you should really try and do most of this on your own. I
will point out important items that you will need just incase you would miss them
but normal loot from chests, boxes, tables and the like will not be listed.
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IV-SURVEY
This is a section not really related to the FAQ but just a fun way to have your
opinion heard. Although this is an anonymous survey you can wish to have your
opinion heard as long as it is adult and non-vulger. The best opinion/answer will
be placed here with or without your name(depending on your wish)every time I update
the results. The results of each survey will be updated in each version,  and a new
survey question will be introduced every month or so.
Please remember that you do not have to enter an opinion for the "contest." You can
just leave your answer to the Survey and your answer will be added to count. Please
also know that winning this "contest" does not make you eligable for any prize(s).
I am a poor man and this is all for fun to see who can come up with creative
responces and answers. You can only vote ONE time, and if you vote more then once
for a question ALL of your votes will not be counted for that question, so MAKE
SURE you have the answer you want to put.
Mailing Survey answers...very simple, just put Survey Question #x (x should be the
survey question) in the topic, then type the letter (a,b,c,d, etc) in the body of
the e-mail, and if you want to add a comment or complaint or anything at all just
type it right after the letter of your answer. Thats it! Remember the comment is
TOTALLY OPTIONAL as is the entire survey.
Survey Question #1
Is Neverwinter Nights all that you Expected?
a)No, its more! The reviews didn't do this game justice! I cannot stop playing
it!!!!!(0 votes)
b)Yes! What an amazing game, it takes up all of my gaming time!(2 votes)
c)Yeah its good, but not worth obessing over...(4 votes)
d)Its alright, but I've played better.(0 votes)
e)I didn't like it.(0 votes)
f)I hated it! It was too overrated!(0 votes)
g)RPGs do not interest me.(0 votes)
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V.E-MAIL SYSTEM
I was hoping I wouldn't have to add one of these this soon but I guess i have to.
When answering a question please make sure to give all information needed so I know
what you are talking about! Don't just ask how to defeat a random monster without
telling me what chapter it is in, where you found the monster, etc because I havent
put up a beastiary yet.
When submitting information on a quest people be detailed please! I cannot stress
this enough. I got a quest submitted saying "you get a quest from a whore to bring
a brooch to some guy to do something else" he apoligized but still this doesn't
help me at all.
Just follow these two simple rules and it'll help me alot thanks.(i may have to add
more rules if i get more dumb e-mails in the future but luckily I haven't yet)
If you are asking a question about a quest, please make sure to look in the QUESTS
section under each chapter. I don't add everyone to talk to in the actual
walkthrough, and all optional quests will be listed under the actual chapter
walkthrough under the name of the quest, there is no number order, because there is
no way to determine a number for a quest, so please look in the quests section
before asking a question about a quest.
Don't feel bad if you don't receive a comment back, or if your name wasn't given
credit to something that you sent in. I give credit to the person who sends first,
sorry to say, and I've recieved many many e-mails about one particular thing I've
missed. I thank you all for your time to try and help but would be too time
consuming to give credit to everyone who sends in the info for the one event.
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VI-F.A.Q.(Frequlently Asked Questions)
Asking a question...Please don't ask stupid questions or questions already answered
in this section or in the guide. Please do not ask questions asking if any rumors
are true, as 99% of the time rumors are TOTAL BS. Please put Question in your
subject. You probably won't recieve a reply to these questions unless its a totally
unique question no one has asked and proved quite puzzling.
Please also remember that I am writing this walkthrough as I go through the game
and it may take awhile to answer your question. Remember that I am only one man and
I need time to find the answers to your questions. Please only submit a question
ONCE. Thank you.
Q. How do I get in Luskan?
A. I wasn't going to originally answer this question because it is explained in the
walkthrough, is explained totally in the game, and I wanted you guys to figure
things out for yourselves. But sadly because of all the questions regarding this
subject I will give you the full answer.
If you bothered to read the journal of the man in the caves it said that they are
sending people to NEVERWINTER WOODS and CHARDOCK. Now they want more then just one
proof that they are located in Luskan so hmmm, go to both NEVERWINTER WOODS and
CHARDOCK to get the evidence needed. Killing Vardoc is not needed to get there, and
I don't think Solomon is either(though theres no way to avoid killing her).
All you have to do is get the Journal from the people in The caves to the north,
Neverwinter woods, and Chardock, and they will open Luskan to you.
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VII-THE BASICS.
A. NOTES/TIPS
Just a few things to keep in mind.
-Make sure to update frequantly. There will be regular bug fixes no doubt about it,
so make sure you always have the newest version of the game.
-Change your settings, you can change controls, display, anything at all.
-REST OFTEN, I cannot stress this enough. By resting you get skills back that you
already used, and also complete restoration of HP. You can do this anywhere as long
as your not near an enemy(s)
-Save often! You'll hate yourself if you run into a trap or die unexpectadly and
your last save was hours ago. Rest and save are the most important things you can
do!
-Use your map often, even if you have it at smallest, you have the important
locations on there, and can also add your own
-Talk to your merc's, set up thier tactics the way you want them to be. Although
you cannot buy items or equipment for your merc's, they do automatically level when
you do, and upgrade weapons and armor automatically free of charge!
-Read books, alot of time they will have tips or hints or a special use, notes
especially, mostly books will teach you more about the history of this world, and
might help you later on in your journey.
-Persuasion is one of the most useful skills in the game. It allows you to access
quests you wouldn't be able to, ,enter places you wouldn't be allowed to without
paying, and make people give extra rewards for quests.
-Set hotkeys! This is most important for spellcasters and especially important in
multiplayer games. For item's you can drag them onto the hotkey, and for anything
and everything(and i mean everything) else just right click on the hotkey slot.
Right click to remove a hotkey as well. Hold shift or ctrl for another bar of
hotkey possibilities!
-When you level up you can check and see the amount of HP you will gain, and if you
want more cancel and go through it again, until you find the max amount of hp
gained for the level.(Thanks to Hauie!)
-For more tips when you are loading read the tips that they give you, sometimes
they are obvious tips, but sometimes they can really help
B. CONTROLS.
The controls in this game are really unique, and you can easily look and see what
the controls are, or change them, so I'll just list some of the major hotkeys.
The arrows move the camera around, and zoom in and out, and * on numberpad changes
the views of camera.
I-Inventory                         M-Map
V-Quick chat                      Player list-P
J-Journal                             Options-O
B-Spells                              Previous Inventory Tab [
R-Rest                                 Next Inventory Tab ]
These are the defaults, and you can easily change or look for the complete list of
moves in the options menu.
C-CHARACTER  CREATION
The staff at Neverwinter make making a character incredibly easy. First off you
have to pick weather you want to make a character of your own or choose from one of
thier pre-made ones. I made one for myself.
Next you choose your gender, easy choice.
Now you choose your race. Each race(with the acception of humans) have bonuses and
decreases in major stats. They also have special skills just for picking that class.
Also they even show the favored class for that race! And for those of you who have
no idea what your doing they have a recommended button which picks out the easiest
race/class/stats/etc.
-Dwarf-bonus to magic resistance but cannot read scrolls or use magic wands(thanks
to ThebirD)
Next is the classes. Again you see thier advantages and disadvantages and a basic
description of each class.
-Barbarian
-Bard
-Cleric
-Druid
-Fighter
-Monk
-Paladin
-Ranger
-Rogue
-Sorcerer
-WIzard
Again if you are totally new to these type of games, press the recommended and they
will choose the easiest one.
Next up is alignment. Again simple to choose, depending on what you want to
roleplay in the game, recommended moves to the highest, since it is usually easy to
be good rather then evil. I chose truely nueutral.
Next you get to set your stats. Click on each stat for a detailed discription for
what they do and which class needs what. From that you can either manually put
points into stats you want, press the recommended button and have them
automatically put points into skills determaned on your class, or have them
automatically put skills in, then take off points off of the skills you don't
want/need, and put them on skills you need for that class.
Next you get to pick your package...basically the subclass of the class. Each class
has different ones, and again it is easy to choose, just read the advantages of it
or press recommended.
Customize is just that, picking body's and heads and other physicall appearances.
Now just pick your name and voice and your ready to start the game!!
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VII-Gameplay
Gameplay is really easy if your familiar with the D&D system. Skills are reffered
too as checks. Each check has a certain amount of times that you can use it. Once
you use it that amount of time you must rest before you can use it again. The same
goes for spells.
Battle is dice related, and skills that you have help your rolls(either add or
decrease) same goes for armor and weapons. Spells also use the same rolling of the
die.
Pause is an awsome tool, because battle is in real time, and while the game is
paused you can use items or choose a magic spell to use, setting up a whole chain
of spells or attacks so you can stragegize your moves. Pause is usually unusable in
multiplayer games though.(thanks to Dejime for confermation!)
Movement is easy, just click where you want to run to and you run there, getting
used to that and moving the camera around with the arrows will determine how good
you are at this game.
Left clicking on people will bring up dialog, left click dragging items is how you
loot things as well as equip them or move them from different bags. Right clicking
an item will bring up a small menu, with things like drop, equip, look, etc.
The gameplay of this game is very nice and easy to learn and get used to. If anyone
has any other comments for this section send me in an email.
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IX-Walkthrough
A. PRELUDE
Training Facility
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You start off the game in a basic "learning" stage. Watch the intro and you start
in the barracks. Turn around and get the club out of the desk behind you and go
talk to Pavel. You can talk to him if you want, learning more about the story,  and
he tells you to see his brother across the hall. When you talk to Pavel's brother
he will tutor you in basic things, like click this and this will happen. You really
don't need this tutorial unless you really don't know what you are doing.
After talking with Bim go through and talk to the man there. He will give you some
items depending on your class and teach you about how to use items and stores, he
will also sell you some gear. You should at least have enough for a nice weapon or
armor, thats basically the only thing you really need to spend money on right now.
In the next room talk to the woman there if you need help with using your map and
journal. Still pretty simple stuff that you could figure out yourself but if you
need it then go ahead. Remember to keep picking up items along the way.
The next room is the weapon training hall. Here you learn how to use different
attacks, you can get  heavy x-bow, sling and long bow  with loads of ammo for all.
You can also go visit the rare monsters if you want, but there is nothing else to
do here.
Heading down the hall will take you to another training center. I believe its mage.
in here you can get melf's acid arrow, and magic missle scrolls, and if you are a
mage I believe learn how to use your skill.  You can also find the waterdeep and
tomb of troubles in here. Now you head down and you pass a locked door, don't worry
about that just yet and go in either the rogue training center or the other magic
training center. If you are combat then there is no need to go in either of these,
so talk to the guard.
If you haven't gotten a training quest yet then you chose a magic side or rogue
side and you will get your quest in one of these rooms, both very easy quests that
just show you your skills. After you finish go talk to the guard. He will allow you
to enter the graduation room.
Here you can get two piles of gold on the tables behind the women. Talk to her and
she will tell you that you graduated, listen to her story and all of a sudden you
get attacked! These guys are pretty tuff but luckily you have 3 or 4 people in that
room thatll help take care of them.  Now offer your help and she will give you the
key to the locked door.
Be prepared because now you will encounter battles. Nothing you can't handle but
just make sure to rest if your life gets too low. Unlock the door and fight your
way through the tunnels, picking up items along the way.  Fight through to the next
room till you meet up with the man from the first room. He will tell you how his
brother died and that he will join you for free instead of money that you'd have to
pay for hireling. It doesn't matter if you say yes or not because he will leave
once you exit the academy.
Contine through untill you get into a room with a man standing in the center. Here
he will explain leveling up, and give you enough experience to level up! (note:a
quest is now done) Use your points wisely and head to the next room.
Continue onward picking up loot and fighting off the monsters. There is no real
boss to this level and eventually you will get to the stables, where two warriors
are fighting off monsters. Help them out if you want, but you probably won't be
doing much damage compaired to them. When the monsters are defeated talk to the two
and learn more about the story. Make sure you tell them that you will indeed help,
and you will level up again! (quest completed)  Now they will leave, you can level
up and leave because theres nothing else for you here.
Congratulations you are now done with the prelude!
Quests:
1)Academy Training. This is automatically in your journal when you first start the
game. You get it after you finish your training quest, wheather it be combat, magic,
thievery, or wizardry, then talk to the man who shows you how to level up.
2)Combat Training-You get it when you first enter combat, simple enough right? You
finish this quest in the stables when you tell them that you will help them and
level up for the second time.
Just a word for the wise now, if you had any trouble at all with this first level
of the game you should seriously consider turning off your computer, because it is
about to get insanly harder. With that said lets move onto...
B. CHAPTER I
City Core
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You start off in the sancturium,  theres nothing much to do here but talk to the
people you just met in the previous section. You can pursuade the nurses to tell
you some information about Desther and his helmilles, that they showed up soon
after the plague hit.
Head north to the hall of justice and meet Aribeth. Learn some more about the
plague and recieve the stone of recall. Before leaving go to the door directly
across from where you came in, on the right. Its the only other door that isn't
locked.
In here talk to olef and get a quest(you might need to use persuasion to get the
quest) Collect items and go back out and you can choose to hire a thief(you may
want to wait till you get all the other choices)
As soon as you exit Bethony comes running up, if you help her then you get another
quest, more on this in the quest section.
In moonstone mas(you can see sign on map) Gills can give you an alternitive to the
Olef quest, if you want to be an evil allignment. I kept Olef's quest so I don't
know anything about it. Also in moonstone mas, ophala the owner will give you a
quest if you can persuade her to, again look at the quest section.(you do not need
to pursuade her to actually get the quest, you can aquire it later on)
In shining knights arms and armor, if you talk to the shopkeep about rare items he
will give you a key to the back room wherea dwarf will make rare and magic items if
you bring him combinations of jewels and magic items. He also gives you a book that
lists all the possible combinations.
In trade of blades you can now hire basically any class you want. Personally I
chose the bard, because she has every skill, especially the helpful attack and
defence bonus songs, as well as pick locks and melee. You get two quests as you
hire a mercenary, one just tells you the basic rules and what happens when your
merc dies(you can never complete this), another is the story of your merc, each
merc has a different background story and will eventually tell you the whole thing
leading to a quest.(you need to be lvl 5+ before they will tell you the whole story
and the quest goals become clear)When you picked your merc you can buy a ticket for
the gauntlet, a fighting pit type thing for 50 gold, the gauntlet is located in
black lake.(more info in quest secion)
You can now go around exploring the town, picking up odds and ends, please keep in
mind you have many choices ahead of you right now, you can head to blacklake, you
need to collect all four components for the cure, as well as the four tombs if you
accepted either the good or bad artifacts quest.
I suggest the Peninsula District first because it has the book that tells you the
locations for the temples(look at artifacts quest) even though in my opinion it had
the hardest boss. Remember you can do the districts in any order and complete the
quests in any order but I will list them in the order of "easiest" to "hardest".
Peninsula District
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There isn't much to do here, the guards tell you to report to the person in charge,
which is on the other side of the district. You don't really need to do this as she
just tells you the blatently obvious, and you can get the quest completed and pass
on without visiting her.
Your goal here is to get inside the prison and stop the revolt. There are two ways
to do this, one you can go through the underground tunnnels directly into the
prison, and another way is to go into the sewer system kill the gang of thugs and
retreive the key to the front door. Each involve a quest which arent listed at the
bottom because its basically just your access of getting in and no thought is
involved.
To be able to access the underground tunnels you need to talk to one of the two
servants of the queen. They will tell you that a key is hidden under the mat and
that they want you to check and make sure she's ok. The girl who tells you this is
on the west side, and the man is somewhere near the middle north-eastern part.  I
suggest going to the girl on the west side because that is where the tomb that
Olef/Gil gave you(see quest section below for more information)
Once you get in the prison you can choose to release a guard that is in one of the
cells, ,you don't gain any experience or quests but he tells you what is going on.
Make your way to the second floor, collecting items if you want and a man will
whisper for you to follow him.
You may be hesitant but don't worry, he will tell you more about what is going on
and describes the basic layout of the prison. Again just explore the level and head
downstairs.
This is the final floor of this dungeon and when you get to the end (alot of locked
doors) you see the chief of the prison run downstairs leaving an orc to kill you.
Mini-Boss: Orc
This guy packs quite a punch. Just keep using healing potions if you need to and he
will eventually give up. If you have alot of trouble you might want to consider
wandering the peninsula and trying to level up.
Once he gives up you can either kill him, get some more information and then kill
him, or get some information and let him go. Choice is totally up to you. No matter
what you choose you can now head downstairs and prepare yourself for a most
annoying boss fight.
Boss-Mind Eater
Definatly the most annoying boss in the first chapter, once you go downstairs the
head of the guard will attack you. He blabbers on as you fight, hits very hard and
has a decent amount of life. After he falls a little bug thing will pop out and
attack you. Do as much damage as you can before it runs to a nearby body and jumps
in.
You now have to go through the process of killing all these guards, fighting the
bug inbetween, and each time he comes out of a body his life is completly restored!
There are maybe 4 or 5 bodys for him to take, and when he runs out of places to run
he will finally fight you. He hits just as hard as the guard captain, and has a
little bit more life.
After you kill him take the 1/4th cure and use your stone of recall to go back to
the hall of hero's. You can give the 1/4th cure to her and you will get some gold
and experience,you can also give the artifact to whoever you accepted the quest
from.
Strategy hint by Kev:
You can also pursuade the guards down here to leave before fighting the brain eater,
therefore giving him no place to run,  you can do it with little persuade and it
makes the fight alot easier.
Begger's Nest
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Next head to Begger's Nest, where they inform you that the dead are rising from
thier grave. The entire district is packed with zombies and the like, so stay on
your toes.
Your ultimate goal here is to stop the zombie infestation. Again there are two ways
to do this, one is shorter and the other longer. You can also do both ways if you
want to fight more and get alot of experience.
Head to the inn to gain more information and quests. Go meet with the two people
the person in charge instructed you to, to gain the information and item needed for
each of the two ways. Jemanie will also give a quest.
Now you can either go in the secret clan's hideout(long way) or the factory (short
way). They all lead to the same thing, and each have a mini boss along the way. You
can go through the clan's hideout and instead of going out into the cemetary
continue the other way to go through the factory part if you want to do both ways
for experience, but you cannot go through the factory and do both, because you will
encounter a barred door.
Either way you go you will encounter a similar mini boss,  either the leader of the
gang of theives,  or the leader of the mysterious clan. These guys can be annoying,
and all depends on luck of the dice. They can disarm and knockdown so it can really
be aggrivating. They also hit pretty hard and if  I remember correctly the