Neverwinter Nights Hints

Miscellaneous Tips

• 1 of 8: Get in the habit of pressing and briefly holding the TAB key on frequent occasions, especially if you suspect there's an NPC, monster, door, or treasure container in a dimly lit area that's hard to see in. Anything you can interact with will glow as long as the TAB key is pressed. (You can also see the approximate condition of all living creatures within sight.)
• 2 of 8: Always put your most important skills and inventory items (like the Stone of Recall and healing potions) on the main quickbar for quickest access. For instance, if you have your Stone of Recall as #1 on the main quickbar, you can press F1 to quickly teleport out of a battle if you're barely alive and out of healing potions.
• 3 of 8: Many magic items and special character powers can allegedly be used a certain number of times per day. However, it's not the number of hours of game time that pass that's important, but whether or not you rest. If you use a once-a-day power and then adventure around for three days of game time without resting, you'll still be unable to use the power again until after you rest.
• 4 of 8: There's no such concept as stealing in this game, like there is in some other recent CRPGs (such as Morrowind). You can raid openable containers in someone's house right in front of them without worrying about being attacked or reported to the cops.
• 5 of 8: When you come across a door or chest with a lock or trap that you can't handle, one good strategy is to get Tomi Undergallows to join you so he can handle it. (I keep Tomi with me most of the time, only trading him in for special areas and combats that require other henchmen.) If even Tomi can't handle a lock, try bashing it. If there's a trap he can't disarm, try shooting it from a distance with arrows. Note that weapons and arrows that do extra elemental damage are best for bashing things with, since many items are unbashable otherwise.
• 6 of 8: Most containers in the game yield a randomly generated treasure when you open them. That means you can save in front of a container, open it, then restore your save and open it again to get something different, maybe better. You won't get wildly fluctuating treasure values from any one container, though, like 3 gold the first time and 1,000 gold the second. However, it pays to be picky with the containers in areas of the game that are set to have high-level treasure in them ("boss chests"). You might get a great magic sword the first time (which you can't use) and a great magic hammer the second time (which is your weapon specialty), for instance.
• 7 of 8: When you're about to talk to someone whom you need to pass a persuade check with, you should first ready all the items you have that enhance your Charisma stat and Persuade skill (even ones you don't normally wear) and maybe drink a Potion of Eagle's Splendor, too. Then save your game and keep trying to persuade the person until you succeed. This is especially useful when you're finishing a quest and trying to persuade the quest-giver to give you an extra reward (you only get one shot at doing this, and will have to restore in order to try again if you fail).
• 8 of 8: After you finish the game, one enjoyable way to replay it is to start it over with a new character of a different class. Another way is to import your level 20 character from your previous playthru and start a new game on the Prologue or Chapter 1. (Sure, you'll be doing the same quests and areas over again, but the monsters and level-dependent treasure will be appropriate for your level, making it worth your while.) And, of course, there are now the two expansion games to have fun with, too.

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