The Origin of the Project

Ben and I were huge fans of NWN. We played through the whole first campaign, bought all of the official expansions, and then a few low-cost expansions available online. It was great fun, and because we like playing co-op more than playing against one another, it was one of the few games really ideally suited to our weekly gaming sessions. After NWN2 came down in price (we play cheap games mostly) it was an obvious choice.

This time, my brother John joined us, and we play a couple of times a week now. One night, while I was playing guitar through Steam voice chat (much to the annoyance of Ben and John), I said we should make a module for NWN2. Ben and I had tried at one point to make a NWN module that was based on on the Robert E. Howard Conan stories, but we never really got that far with it, because Ben wouldn't actually work on it, and I got busy and so never really finished. As I struck a particularly raging chord, I said we ought to make a rock opera using NWN2. Ben instantly said that was an amazing idea, one he could actually spend some time working on.

Being the songwriter and the only one with music recording capabilities, I'm in charge of the songs. Ben is supposed to be designing levels, but I think I've got to really do most of that work myself as well, since he's demonstrated no real commitment to getting it done. If nothing else, it will be a good excuse for me to write and record and album worth of songs in a genre that is a bit of a change for me, and get some more practice recording rock music. I'm hoping to post on this blog regularly about my progress, and eventually get the mod out on a mod site. We'll see how it goes.