History VideoGame / Neverwinter

** Oathbound Paladins are a slightly less resilient but more versatile version of the Guardian, whose resilience comes not from blocking damage but from being [[TheMedic able to heal]] [[HealingFactor it almost instantly]].

* DynamicEntry: The Great Weapon Fighter can do this with one of his encounter powers as well as one of their Daily powers.

* CombatMedic: Devoted Cleric's role

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Guardian Fighter's signature move - blocking the most powerful blows, or even magic, with his shield.

* AfterTheEnd: Set 100 years after the NWN games, and after the Spellplague that drastically changed the Forgotten Realms. By this point the titular city has been completely obliterated and rebuilt yet again.

* GlassCannon: The Trickster Rogue. Very high DPS, and capable of take down dungeon bosses alone if done correctly and the rest of the party is distracting the [[FlunkyBoss adds]], but they also can't take much of a beating without needing healing potions or a cleric quickly. Thankfully, Trickster Rogues come with a [[{{Invisibility}} stealth]] mode to evade enemies.

* GlassCannon: The Trickster Rogue. Very high DPS, and capable of take down dungeon bosses alone if done correctly and the rest of the party is distracting the [[FlunkyBoss add-ons]], but they also can't take much of a beating without needing healing potions or a cleric quickly. Thankfully, Trickster Rogues come with a [[{{Invisibility}} stealth]] mode to evade enemies.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The orcs in the Tower District are described(and describe themselves) as being members of the Many-Arrows Tribe. In the tabletop and novels, there is no "Many-Arrows Tribe"; rather, Many-Arrows is an orc kingdom made up of dozens of different orc tribes. Further, it's named for it's founder, Obould Many-Arrows, who was king of the ''Broken Arrow Tribe''.

* ShootTheMedicFirst: Clerics draw a sizeable amount of aggro from enemies by healing other players. As such, in high enemy areas, such as a boss battle, most of the enemies target the cleric after a minute or two of healing if the tank isn't doing a very good job at building threat.

* ChestMonster: Mimics, [[{{DungeonsAndDragons}} as per the source material.]] They focus solely on the adventurer who "opened" them, with slowing abilities to make them easier prey.

* HuskyRusskie: Karzov, the leader of the Sons of Alagondar (this game takes place in 4e after all) in the Blacklake District has a cheesy Russian accent, is ''huge'' and hits like freight train.

** The Great Weapon and Guardian Fighters do this with the Weapon Master Paragon path powers and the Great Weapon Fighter's Steel Blitz passive, in form of a damaging afterimage.

* AlledgedlyFreeGame: As you level up, free players face increasingly strict limitations on weapons, armor, enchanting, and all sorts of stuff, to the point that it literally becomes next to impossible to progress your character without paying ''some'' amount of money.

No, not the single-player RolePlayingGame series. For that, see ''NeverwinterNights'' and ''NeverwinterNights2''.

No, not even the original ''Neverwinter Nights'', the 2D {{MMORPG}} whose popularity was eclipsed by the [=BioWare=] RPG.

And definitely not TheNeverwinterTrilogy with Drizzt Do'Urden, of which the first novel, ''{{Gauntlgrym}}'', has been released.

...Confused yet? So are we.

''[[http://www.playneverwinter.com/ Neverwinter]]'' is an MMORPG in development by Cryptic Studios, set in the titular city of Neverwinter in the ForgottenRealms universe, which is also the setting of all of the above. Considered by {{Atari}} to be the continuation of the ''Neverwinter Nights'' series, it is the first game in the series to be based on the ''DungeonsAndDragons'' [=4th=] Edition ruleset. (The first and second ''NWN'' games used the 3 and 3.5 editions, respectively.)

According to Cryptic COO Jack Emmert, ''Neverwinter'' is going to be less of a traditional MMO and more of a story-driven game, "closer to things like ''Franchise/DragonAge'' or ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]''". He was right.

!!Provides examples of:

* WarmUpBoss: The Harbinger at the end of the tutorial.

* FlashStep: The Control Wizard class has a quick short-range teleport that allows them to dodge attacks and maneuver fairly freely in a fight, though the ability isn't really spammable. The Trickster Rogue has the super-speed version of this built into several powers, but executes it so rapidly that it becomes more of a TeleportSpam.

* WakeUpCallBoss: Chartilifax of the ''Lair of the Mad Dragon'' dungeon. The previous dungeons can easily be done through brute force, while Chartilifax reminds the players why teamwork and strategy are necessary.

* BFS: Great Weapon Fighters use only swords so big they wouldn't be out of place in the hands of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]] and [[VideoGame/SoulSeries Nightmare]].

* LightningBruiser: Great Weapon Fighter. High DPS and quick, easy methods to gain more health. Their drawback, compared to the [[PaperRam Trickster Rogue]], is that enemies will more likely target them.

* PaperRam: The Trickster Rogue. Very high DPS, and capable of take down dungeon bosses alone if done correctly and the rest of the party is distracting the [[FlunkyBoss add-ons]], but they also can't take much of a beating without needing healing potions or a cleric quickly. Thankfully, Trickster Rogues come with a [[{{Invisibility}} stealth]] mode to evade enemies.