There have been many scripting tutorials written for NWN (since 2002). David Gaider (Lead Writer, Bioware) once compiled a long list of tutorials for beginning scripters at Bioware NWN Forum based on many of Celowin’s works (see this thread). The list of tutorials proved very useful when I set out to find resources for my graduate gaming course. However, one problem I faced was that the thread was more than 4 years old (posted in 2002), and as a result, many of the links had gone cold.

Even Celowin himself (?) has disappeared from the community altogether. According to the Forum, Celowin has not been contactable for some time (years). Also the email listed by him (James Foxglove) is also no longer active. Several tutorials have subsequently been added to this list by other moderators, including Lilac Soul. Eventually, the list of “tutorials” has grown into a much bigger document than what Celowin originally wrote. After I have located all the relevant postings from the thread, I found printing the tutorials to be a nightmare! For one, the Bioware forum was never meant to be printer-friendly: meaning, if I want to print the tutorials I will need to reformat it, perhaps in MS Word. (Sigh!)

Well if not for myself, for my students then. I have since reformatted all the entries into one large Word document, and added a Table of Content so that it will be easier for my students to find the various chapters.

Because so many people have been involved in the re-making of this scripting tutorial, I have decided to rename this “bundle” of lessons as the “Neverwinter Night Scripting Compendium“. In this way, we can acknowledge the compendium as a combined effort of those involved. [Note: You will need WinRAR to uncompress the Word file.]

Download: NWN Scripting Compendium (version 1.01)

Last updated on: 02-21-2007