History NeverwinterNights2 / TropesMToR

* ObviousBeta: Obsidian has a well-deserved reputation for this. Despite not looking much better visually than ''KOTOR'', ''[=NWN2=]'' is somewhat of a hardware hog, and it suffered from memory leak issues and a lack of polish. Then both expansions managed to [[GameBreakingBug break the previous campaign]] on release.

* RenovatingThePlayerHeadquarters: After the player drives out the King of Shadows' minions from Crossroad Keep, they are rewarded a title of nobility that grants them ownership of the keep and are given tasks such as recruiting NPCs to help man it, investing in renovating various parts of it and forming a militia unit to protect the land surrounding it.

* ReverseMole:
** [[spoiler:Torio]].
** Also potentially [[spoiler:the Knight Captain. This troper had him as a bard/Harper/Shadow Thief/Neverwinter Nine at the end, with choices publicly opposing Neverwinter, while privately undermining all its enemies. Due to a badly-written [[MultipleEndings ending]], however, this actually backfires. Despite the Shadow Thieves being cell-structured and having only two people in town who know enough members to lead them, at least one of whom dies canonically if the player joins the Thieves, killing both somehow causes the Shadow Thieves to be stronger and better organized.]]

** ''Volo's Guides'' are notorious in {{canon}} for being [[TropesForDummies an awful mix of brilliant investigations and silly hearsay]]. Elminster notably hunted down and destroyed every copy of ''Volo's Guide to All Things Magical'', partly because it exposed a number of wizardly trade secrets, and partly because the first edition contained a lot of recipes on how to kill oneself in new and exciting ways. In the OpeningMonologue to ''Storm of Zehir'', Volo mentions that Elminster judged his most recent book, ''Volo's Complete Guide to the Behavior of Nymphs'', to be "too naughty for print." (A little hypocritical, honestly, considering [[TheCasanova the guy will sleep with anything that has two X chromosomes and isn't related to him]].)

** Moon elf, sun elf, wild elf, wood elf, drow elf.
** Shield dwarf, gold dwarf, duergar dwarf.

* PragmaticVilliany: Axle, leader of the Neverwinter branch of the [[ThievesGuild Shadow Thieves]], gets annoyed at some of the violent and disruptive acts carried out by his [[TheDragon second-in-command]] Moire, as it creates tension he doesn't need and requires him to take expensive precautions like importing weapons and paying more bribes.

* {{Railroading}}: The most blatant example is [[https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=945 the gate to Blacklake District]]. You basically spend half of Act I doing all kinds of quests just so you can have a brief conversation with someone who lives on the other side, despite the fact that logically, the gate is a trivial obstacle that could be logically overcome [[https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/images/nwn2_door_players.jpg in a variety of ways]].

* {{Railroading}}

* NormalFishInATinyPond: White Harbor's favorite sons Cormak and Lorne are both legendary in town to the point that if you prove you're the best at everything in the harvest fair you're considered ''almost'' up to their level. Once they moved to Neverwinter Cormak's level of competence leveled out at "questionably competent city guard lower management" and Lorne was disgraced in the military and became a brute enforcer for a Luskan after the war.

** Averted with the majority of the other dwarves in the game. First of all, none of the dwarf characters with speaking roles have the "expected" Scottish accent except Khelgar. Brother Maxil is clean shaven, wears a simple robe, and appears to be the level-headed one in Daerrad's party. Brother Ivarr is a tall, thin healer. [[spoiler: Annaeus is responsible for the creation of the Guardian, and he's implied to take sadistic pleasure in it's suffering.]] Zinn is [[AffablyEvil Affably Evil]], politely introducing himself and his band of adventurers before telling you that he's here to kill you. Downplayed with Callum; he fits the bill of heavily armored axe-swinging warrior with a brunt and straight-forward attitude, but he serves a human lord as one of the Neverwinter Nine. [[HaveIMentionedIAmADwarfToday He doesn't go out of his way to draw attention to the fact that he's a dwarf, either.]]

* MuggingTheMonster: Khelgar's backstory features him picking a fight with a group of traveling Sun Soul monks during a particularly lively BarBrawl. Anybody who's read [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms the lore of the setting]] [[BareFistedMonk knows why this is an incredibly bad idea]]. Long-story short, they would beat the ever-loving crap out of him. In an amusing twist he ''thanked'' them for the thrashing and asked the surprised monks how you go about becoming one.

** One random encounter is a group of lower-level adventurers trying to kill your party and steal your better gear. Half of them will leg it if you point out how stupid that is.

* OurGiantsAreBigger: Fire giants take part in a late-game quest which serves as the recruitment quest for Clan Ironfist and the near-conclusion of Khelgar's CharacterDevelopment. They reseble large, red-haired, black-skinned dwarves, and have [[HornyVikings horned helmets]] and [[EvilSoundsDeep deep voices]].

** ''Volo's Guides'' are notorious in {{canon}} for being [[TropesForDummies an awful mix of brilliant investigations and silly hearsay]]. Elminster notably hunted down and destroyed every copy of ''Volo's Guide to All Things Magical'', partly because it exposed a number of wizardly trade secrets, and partly because the first edition contained a lot of recipes on how to kill oneself in new and exciting ways. In the OpeningNarration to ''Storm of Zehir'', Volo mentions that Elminster judged his most recent book, ''Volo's Complete Guide to the Behavior of Nymphs'', to be "too naughty for print." (A little hypocritical, honestly, considering [[TheCasanova the guy will sleep with anything that has two X chromosomes and isn't related to him]].)