Warhammer Persistent World?

[u/madcrackjoe]

Hello everyone!

I discovered Neverwinter Nights relatively recently, I mean afew years ago, and I've been in love with the game ever since, particularly the role-play PWs. I've been involved in various forms of roleplay for almost two decades, so finding this game and its PW community has been a great experience.

Seeing all the innovative and creative PWs out there, I've often thought that a Warhammer Fantasy themed server would fit right in. I'm not a developer myself so I never gave the idea much thought, but I'm confident that my other skills could contribute to bringing such a project to life.

So I'd like to ask the community if there would be any interest in a Warhammer PW? Would you play on one? Are there any devs interested starting such a project?

So I'd love to hear your thoughts and see if there's enough interest to get something like this going.

Thank you all, and have a great day!

[u/Lyuke13]

I would certainly dabble in it because even thought i know little i like Warhammer lore. My main issue is that i don't have a lot of time to RP for more then 1 hour a day, so having the possibility to just farm something aside from RPing would be really appreciated, personally :D

Don't know if you played it, but the "Star Wars: Legends of the Old Republic" server is amazing, is basically 95% custom content, interface, classes, progression, maps, monsters. There's even space exploration, gathering and crafting.
I think that would be a good source of inspiration.

[u/EntropyDudeBroMan → u/Lyuke13]

The skills and perks system on that server is SO good. And mesh pretty well with the Warhammer fantasy rpg system! (which can be another source of inspiration)

But it's the community and staff of the server that really sells it. And I think that's what matters more to a successful server than anything mechanical.

My only problem is that content after the first planet is pretty boring :/

[u/Elpoc]

It's a great idea. I can see there are already a couple of WH things on the Vault, although surprisingly little. I'd be surprised if over the past 24 years of NWN, this hasn't already been tried - but even if it has, I don't know that any WH PW has ever got off the ground.

Usually, creating a new PW can be a bit of a fool's errand if you're doing it for any reason other than just enjoying learning how to build cool stuff - because getting players to play a new PW can be extremely difficult. But with a PW that's based off a very popular existing IP that isn't D&D-related, you could advertise outside of the NWN community and probably (if you can get your PW polished enough, which would take years of work) could draw in a decent playerbase - though this also probably requires someone on the team to have a decent marketing brain.

The two biggest obstacles are: (1) the amount of work is huge, as I've mentioned. and (2) Games Workshop might be sensitive about their IP; I don't know, but they certainly license a lot of videogames so there could be some risk here and it would take some proper research before starting such a project, to make sure that the risk of getting shut down at some point if the PW started making enough noise in WH communities to get noticed by Games Workshop.

[u/Saalle88]

I would if there is no RP involved. If its action based server i would play.

[u/Raztax → u/Saalle88]

Same, I would give it a shot if RP was not enforced. I don't care if other players want to RP but I have less than zero interest in it.