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Neverwinter Nights 2 provides examples of the following tropes:

• Sealed Evil in a Can: Unusual in that the Evil Sealed Itself In The Can. The King of Shadows was injured badly enough by Nolaloth's attack that it retreated to the Astral Plane for roughly a thousand years.
• Sequence Breaking: The game intend you to have killed the cleric in the graveyard before going to Highcliff. There are also others here and there, including in the form of Script Breaking.
• Sequel Difficulty Drop: Unintentional example. The encounters are overall more difficult than Neverwinter Nights, but there are several factors that negate this.
  • AI is much, much smarter. It's still overall bad, but you have limited control over some of its decision making process, it doesn't randomly stop moving or randomly run off to the other side of the map, and, if all else fails, you can manually take control of everyone in your party.
  • Many of the spell lists and classes were closer to their pen and paper counterparts than in the first game, removing some rather arbitrary restrictions. Druids probably benefited most since they didn't even get access to most of their spells, only counting the ones included in the game in NWN.
  • Larger party size meant that you could have a dedicated skill monkey, arcane caster and divine caster in the group. This results in a colossal increase in effectiveness of all party members well beyond numbers alone.
  • Better leveling curve. In NWN, early leveling was fairly slow, but in NWN you leveled fairly quickly initially and then it petered off. This is important since a lot of builds are not very effective until level 10 (give or take a couple levels). This meant in NWN, you spent a large amount of game time with characters with under-developed class abilities (especially hybrids) in comparison to NWN2 where you got past those rocky levels fairly quickly.
• Sliding Scale Of Law Enforcement: Neverwinter's Watch runs the gamut from honest and just fighters of corruption (mainly the upper echelon, including Captain Cormick) to guards who want to fight corruption and the Shadow Thieves but are too scared, to guards who are outright on the Shadow Thieves' payroll.
• Shout Out: Apparently Tarmas was part of the wagon train in Shadows of Undrentide, because he's met Deekin.
  Tarmas: (referring to a piece of doggerel he had to put together for the Harvest Festival) Count yourself fortunate for that. I once shared a wagon with a kobold bard. He rhymed "sadder" with "bladder" and sang fondly of his navel.
• Space Filling Path
• Stalker with a Crush: Elanee for a male Harborman.
• The Starscream: Garius tries to be this towards the King of Shadows halfway through the game. It doesn't exactly work out.
• Stock Scream: The sound file is even named Wilhelm.
• Story Branching: The game offers you a choice when you get to Neverwinter. You can either side with the Watch or with the Shadow Thieves. Either choice eventually gets you into the nobles' section of the city to advance the plot, and gives you different defense options during your murder trial in Act II.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: Of course! In one notable late-game encounter, you run into a group of bandits who intend to kill you for your magic items and the Luskan bounty on your head. You can remind them that you've already left thousands of bodies behind you. If you pass your Intimidate roll, some of them run off, while the rest charge into pointy death at the Knight Captain's hands.
• Sword of Plot Advancement: The Silver Sword of Gith, full stop.
• Take Your Time
• The One True Sequence: Although, unlike the Knights of the Old Republic series, the sequence in which the player finds the many shards is strictly defined by the plot. The various enemies are always after the same shards at the same time.
  • Slightly justified in that there are several groups looking for the shards. It's not just the player and X enemy — it's the player and X, Y, and Z factions — some of which may be more friendly than others but all of which would much rather have the shards all to themselves.
• Token Evil Teammate: Bishop, and Ammon Jerro. Qara could also qualify for her Chaotic Stupid nature.
• Took a Level in Badass: Bevil.
• Trading Bars for Stripes: You can choose to recruit criminals to your military unit.
• Tragic Hero: Ammon Jerro.
• Troperiffic: Some may call it a Cliché Storm, but it's clear that the designers largely invoked these tropes intentionally and, as the main page quote shows, often with a fair bit of their tongues in cheek.
• Unexpected Gameplay Change: Crossroad Keep. The game, however, mostly counts on you to continue adventuring, only returning to manage the keep from time to time.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight:
  • You can walk the streets with a half-demon, a robot, and a velociraptor in tow, and virtually nobody bats an eye.
    • Then again, this is D&D.
  • Averted once:
    Grishnak: You're a strange lookin' group. What'dya want?
    Knight-Captain: ... says the half-orc pirate.
• The Very Definitely Final Dungeon:
  • In the Original Campaign, the Vale of Merdelain.
  • In Mask of the Betrayer, literally battling for your soul inside your head on the Fugue Plane.
  • In Storm of Zehir, the comparatively much shorter Temple of the World Serpent.
• Villain Beating Artifact: The Silver Sword of Gith is the only weapon capable of harming the King of Shadows. Unfortunately, it was broken into several shards the last time it was used, and your character isn't the only person interested in collecting them.
• Violence is the Only Option: The trial. It takes up most of the second act and it doesn't matter one whit how well you do in court; the verdict will still be decided in Trial by Combat.
• Visible Silence: Extremely rare, though, and mostly for comedic effect.
• Warp Whistle: Exit points on exterior maps take you to a Point And Click Map in the OC and Mask of the Betrayer. In Storm of Zehir the exit took you to an overworld map instead.
• We Buy Anything: Except items worth 0 gold, which you're forced to drop. Also, vendors have a limited amount of cash on hand, and they stop buying when it runs out.
• We Wait
• Where It All Began:
  • The sealed ruins just outside of West Harbor for the final bit of the ritual. Perhaps more literally, the final dungeon, which is implied to be directly beneath West Harbor.
  • Plus the dream sequence that houses the final boss fight in Mask of the Betrayer takes place in West Harbor.
• Wild Card: Bishop. In his first interactions with the player, he makes it perfectly clear that no matter what, he is always on the winning side, loyalties and morals be damned. This comes back to bite you when the King of Shadows gains the upper hand near the end.
  • You can optionally make him desert the King of Shadows, but you can't make him fight alongside you again. Unless you play an Evil PC and choose to side with the King of Shadows yourself.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The King of Shadows started out as one of the greatest heroes of ancient Illefarn. He voluntarily underwent a horrifically painful ritual that transformed him into a construct of pure magic so as to make an effective deterrent to Netheril. When the Netherese wizard Karsus tried to usurp Mystryl's place as god of magic, the Weave was interrupted and the Guardian faced destruction. So he drew power from the Shadow Weave to continue his vigil and became the King of Shadows.
• World of Ham: The pattern for BioWare IPs seems to be for the characters to be Large Hams or Deadpan Snarkers. Sometimes both at the same time. NWN2 is no exception; the majority of the PC voices seem to channel BRIAN BLESSED, never mind all the NPCs hamming it up.
• You Are the Translated Foreign Word: You are the Kalach-cha!
  • This is subverted in that the Translated Foreign Word isn't translated right away by the people who call you by it. The first attempt to translate it doesn't go so well, though it does count as a Crowning Moment of Funny for Grobnar Gnomehands:
    Grobnar: Well, it's not Gnomish, Elvish, Dwarvish, Orcish, Goblin, or Draconic — well, unless the 'k' is silent, but that would make it "gizzard stone" or the equivalent.
  • When you finally meet somebody who speaks Gith, it turns out that kalach-cha directly translates as "shard-bearer". With full nuance applied, it means "one who stole a silver sword and destroyed it to hide their crime". Which ironically makes the term more applicable to Ammon Jerro rather than the Player Character.
  • The best part? Such an event has never happened before and they created the Translated Foreign Word specifically to describe you.
• You Have Failed Me: Garius to Lorne.
  • So obviously telegraphed that Garius was amazed Lorne came back at all.
• You Know What They Say About X: Khelgar protests the Tyrran monks' accusations of him being racist by saying he travels with a tiefling, "and you know what they're like!"
• You No Take Candle:
  • Deekin, in his cameo as a shopkeeper.
    Deekin: Yes, Deekin very kobold, last Deekin look in mirror. Deekin not do that much; mirrors usually too high for Deekin.
  • Some of the orcs also use this.