I've been playing Pirates! and there's a lot ...

January 02, 2005 by Adam in NWN2

I've been playing Pirates! and there's a lot of excellent ideas to steal away. The ship-to-ship combat is great fun and is visually stunning. If I can even approach how the ships look moving around I'll be quite happy.

There's a number of things I probably wouldn't include. Pirates! doesn't have much of a plot while my campaign will be revolve heavily around its plot. I'll also skip the dancing mini-game and boarding actions will almost certainly use whatever DA melee combat allows. Still, there's some other fine ideas that I really like: treasure maps, upgrading ships, trading, and so on.

I'm also starting to take notes for the second module in the campaign. It's more free-form than the first one and will likely have a number of side quests. It's the first module that's solidly in the pirate genre as the first is mostly land based. I've still got to finish up the latter half of the first module, as it's mostly in skeleton form. When the ideas pop into my head, however, they demand that I put them to paper lest they vanish forever.