I’ve spent my whole weekend on this but it was well worth it. All known bugs in Neverwinter Nights are now fixed. That includes nwmouse and nwmovies being outdated and not always working, the elusive movie bug on amd64, some file collisions, and others that I can’t remember.
For those who don’t know the NWN ebuilds are rather hairy. The reason is we support a lot of things out of the box that are not even supposed to exist. Some are no more than the implementation of hacks available out there i.e. the hardware mouse and in-game movies, thanks to David Holland (see the ebuild for the url of his web site). But we also have multilingual installations from any language media. If you’re like me and are in an environment where more than one language is used then this is a handy feature. I’d usually play in english but my son prefers french, so I can have both versions installed from indifferently english or french CDs or DVDs. All is needed is to set the proper LINGUAS. I have to have quite a few different versions of the game to maintain the ebuild but for the normal international user it’s a real money saver. Oh and we have per-user directories too. So more than one person can play the game on a shared machine and have his/her own settings, saved games and languages (yes, each user can play with more than one language).
So do yourself a favor and get a copy of NWN. I bought yet another copy of the Diamond edition which contains everything ever available commercially for $13 a couple of months ago. Then simply emerge nwn, nwmouse (the hardware mouse, you absolutely want it) and nwmovies (nice for the commercial solo campaigns as the movies add a lot to the stories). Note that Bioware didn’t translate the latest version (1.69) so if you want at least one language that isn’t english then you’ll have to stick to 1.68. Don’t worry though, both versions are supposed to stay in the tree concurrently. Make sure you have the cdinstall and nowin USE flags and the ebuild will prompt you to insert the first disk and will recognize what edition you have. You should also add the hou and sou USE flags unless you have the original edition without the addons.
Finally, I have added two third-party campaigns: Penultima and Penultima Rerolled. Just emerge nwn-penultima and nwn-penultimarerolled. They’re epic parody campaigns and among the best available. I also have ebuilds for the Tortured Hearts series but they need updating. Those are two mega-campaigns for the hardcore role-player which have the potential to keep you busy for about 100 hours each. If you want more of those feel free to let me know. Many of these third-party modules are a pain though because they contain built-in versions of widely available hak packs which end up colliding. But it never hurts asking. As usual, the best way to get the package you want into the tree is to send a ready-to-use and not-half-baked ebuild.