Neverwinter Nights (AOL game)

Neverwinter Nights is a computer game released in 1991. It was developed by Stormfront Studios and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. and ran on MS-DOS. It was the first multiplayer online role-playing game to display graphics, and was hosted on AOL.

Gameplay
Neverwinter Nights was developed with gameplay similar to other games in the Gold Box series. Players begin by creating a character. After creating the character, gameplay takes place on a screen that displays text interactions, the names and current status of one's party of characters, and a window which displays images of geography marked with various pictures of characters or events. When combat occurs, gameplay switches to full-screen combat mode, in which a player's characters and enemies are represented by icons which move around in the course of battle.

Situated in the city of Neverwinter and more than twenty surrounding regions/areas, the game itself was similar to other official AD&D Forgotten Realms games of its time. As it was an online game, it had several additional menus for online purposes, as well as features unknown to standard AD&D games of the time, such as the ability to teleport from one region/area to another.

Characters

 * Nasher Alagondar

Creatures

 * crocodile • giant toad • gnoll • goblin • hobgoblin • iron golem • kobold • orc • skeleton • zombie

Locations

 * Buildings: Castle Never • Rankled Boar Inn • Sinda's Trading Post
 * Settlements: Floodblest • Neverwinter
 * Wilderness: Neverwinter River • Neverwinter Wood • Sea of Swords
 * Fireshear • Gundarlun • Ice Peak • Mintarn • Orlumbor
 * Fireshear • Gundarlun • Ice Peak • Mintarn • Orlumbor

Organizations

 * Company of the Brazen Pennant • Kraken Society

Religions

 * Chauntea • Helm • Tyr

Miscellaneous

 * Materials: gold • silver
 * Weapons: arrows • dagger • dart • long sword • short sword • two-handed sword