NWN2 - Designer Diary #6 & Movie @ GameSpot

Rather than impressions or a review, GameSpot has a sixth and final NWN2 Designer Diary with executive producer Darren Monahan offering final thoughts and comments on the first patch, as well as movie with senior designer Tony Evans showing off fortresses:

By Darren Monahan
Executive Producer, Obsidian Entertainment

Hi folks! First off, thank you for taking the time to read the final developer diary for Neverwinter Nights 2--at least the last one before the game is available in stores (which is tomorrow morning at the time of this writing!). We're wrapping up our first patch, which goes live in a few hours for a same-day release with the game.

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.