{"id":181,"date":"2013-10-14T18:17:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T02:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ame-gda.net\/ame-home\/?p=181"},"modified":"2013-10-14T19:10:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T03:10:26","slug":"nwn2-2010-11-debut-author-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/award-specific\/nwn2-2010-11-debut-author-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"NWN2 2010-11 Debut Author Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy for Modding Excellence is pleased to announce the finalists for the NWN2 2010-2011 Debut Author Award!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Kamal (for <a href=\"http:\/\/nwvault.ign.com\/View.php?view=NWN2ModulesEnglish.Detail&amp;id=466\" title=\"Path of Evil\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Path of Evil<\/em><\/a>)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Villains  have to start somewhere.&#8221; This is the motto of Path of Evil, where you  play the unusual role of the villain of the story, from the humble  begginings to the rise in power, until you become a serious menace to  the realms.<\/p>\n<p>Path of Evil is a huge sandbox module where you can  do evil deeds while you explore the whole map of Faerun. Unlike in many  other modules, you are the one who creates the story, always a step  forward of the heroes who are trying to stop you. It also allows the  player to be evil in an intelligent and manipulative way, rather than  the usual psychopatic, mass-murderous one.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Matt Rieder (for <a href=\"http:\/\/nwvault.ign.com\/View.php?view=NWN2ModulesEnglish.Detail&amp;id=450\" title=\"The Wizard's Apprentice\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Wizard&#8217;s Apprentice<\/em><\/a>)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As  its name implies, the first installment in Matt Rieder&#8217;s acclaimed  trilogy narrates &#8211; often in a Python-esque style &#8211; the story of a young  wizard student and his\/her early adventure days. Class-specific as it  is, the module features a good deal of wizard-related content, as well  as challenging combat and an increasingly complicated plot.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Shaughn78 (for <a href=\"http:\/\/nwvault.ign.com\/View.php?view=NWN2ModulesEnglish.Detail&amp;id=458\" title=\"Risen Hero\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Risen Hero<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Risen  Hero is a story-driven module that carries the protagonist on a journey  of self-discovery, from a mysterious beginning to an epic ending  against a world-shattering threat. All along the way, the player has the  opportunity to recruit an unusually high number of companions, as well  as completing quests through stealth, smooth talking, or in many other  different ways, making this one of the most replayable modules of its  year.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all the finalists!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy for Modding Excellence is pleased to announce the finalists for the NWN2 2010-2011 Debut Author Award! Kamal (for Path of Evil) &#8220;Villains have to start somewhere.&#8221; This is the motto of Path of Evil, where you play the unusual role of the villain of the story, from the humble begginings to the rise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-award-specific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}