Lords of Darkness by Fantus is probably my favorite user-created campaign. Interesting henchmen and plot twists that keep you guessing.

Dreamcatcher by Adam Miller (link to first module in the series) is another good campaign that really tests the limits of what the Neverwinter Nights engine is capable of. Optionally play through the prequel Shadowlords to introduce you to the characters first.

I'll second the recommendation for the Aielund Saga. It will keep you busy for a very long time. If like me you're one of those people who has to get through every side quest in the game, you can easily spend 10-15 hours on part 1 alone. It also makes use of a lot of game mechanics that feel a lot more like tabletop D&D - great use of the engine above and beyond what is in the original campaign.

You really should just go through the hall of fame one by one...
here are some of the exceptional ones:
1. Lone Wolf By Altaris
2. Necromancer, Part 1 - Allegiance by Phil Hanna
3. Shadowlords, Dreamcatcher, and Demon by Adam Miller
4. The Light Reborn
5. Bone Kenning I - Art of the Thanaturge version 1.04 by Wes Lewis
6. Elegia Eternum & Excrucio Rternum by Stefan Gagne
7. The Hex Coda 1 and 2 (incomplete) by Stefan Gagne
8. Sapphire Star HotU version 1.43 by Yaballa
9. Twilight version 2.2 and Midnight version 1.03 by Rick Burton

it was very hard to distil it to such a short list, I have 51 campaigns that i enjoyed and saved for replay, (and dozens more that I didn't like and deleted)... the above list is just what i consider the best of them. Note that they are in semi alphabetical order, not in order of quality.

Is anyone else having trouble making Aielund work?
I get a crash at the end of the initial load...

Otherwise, might I suggest Tortured Hearts 2?
http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Modules.Detail&id=5347...suprised no one else has jumped out in favor of it.

A Dance with Rogues is a fantastic module, but is not for the faint hearted and has adult themes. It also has a Discussion group on Bioware social site.

A list of modules which received the Reviewer's Award from the NWVault Reviewers Guild (YOu can join this guild and help to independently review new modules if you wish :) Just PM VPJ for details).

Sands of Fate is designed to take your HoTU finished character onto lvl40 so is a great first community made adventure for you to try.

Have fun :)

This was to be a premium module, wizards of the coast forbade its sale near its completion because its futuristic magitek steampunk "conflicted" with their vision of fantasy setting.
So it was instead released as a regular "fan made" mod.
The lead designer (a recruited fan modder) tried to finish the trilogy with a second installment, but ran out of steam halfway through and instead released the design notes so that people could read the "ending"... that being said, it is an absolute gem of a module... and 99% of modules don't have a complete story anyways...
I think king maker is the ONLY premium module (with a plot, I excluding the infinite dungeons) to actually have an ending (it was a very short module, but it was not built to have sequels that never came like the others)

Yah I remember when the sequel to Hex Coda was (sorta) released. I really enjoyed the first one. I just recently found out he did a bunch of others with NWN. I'll have to check 'em out.

Love "A Dance With Rogues". Great modules, but very, very adult oriented.

I agree that "Dance with Rogues" is a well-scripted and well-crafted module, but since I downloaded it, naively thinking "adult oriented" meant "sex scenes", and it ruined a nice Sunday evening, I'd issue an additional word of warning:

You are forced to watched your main character get raped (yes, videogame raped) in the first scene. As far as I could tell there was nothing the player could do to avoid it. I understand that's some folks' idea of fun, as a fantasy, but I found it quite off-putting.

This is not to make a "normative judgment" as they say in the academic world, just to make sure you know what to expect.

The other modules mentioned are great, espeically the Stefan Gagne stories.

For anyone reading this, the above is true, yet... The scene referred to is not glorified in any way, it is meant to be disturbing and the story allows you many ways to deal with this. 'Worse' is you will be confronted with more situations where men treat you badly. Part of the RP of the module is to deal with these situations in whatever way you feel appropriate: rogue skills, assassination, flirting, etc etc

It is the story of a girl and if you are a guy you need to get into a female mindset to appreciate the concepts. It can be a story of revenge, of love, of friends, of justice, of revolution, of the rogue way, of many things... and you can RP an innocent, a princess, a man-hater, a prostitute, a disturbed girl, someone who recovers... many many roles.

It is an adult module and requires a mature attitude to the story presented so please don't believe that it glorifies sexual abuse or is simply a sex module. Obviously it is not for everyone tho.

have fun :)

I have to second the Eye of the Beholder module. I fired it up last night and was surprised at the level of polish and quality. It simply blows away any official NWN module that I've ever played. Here's a nice introduction of what you'll get out of it. I highly recommend it, especially when played co-op with a couple friends.

On the other hand, I was a more than a little disappointed by the Shadowlords module. The opening couple areas were incredibly bland and unimaginative, and there were typos and grammar problems with a lot of the text. I was like, "seriously? You realize that the opening 5 minutes of a module is where you need to grab your player's attention, and you don't even spell-check it?"

Aside from the cosmetic problems, the story execution was a problem as well. There was absolutely no exposition as to what the crap was going on in the world, other than being given half a dozen fantasy names that mean absolutely nothing to me.

I'm not going to give up on the Shadowlords, Dreamcatcher, and Demon series quite yet though. Hopefully things get a little better, I've heard too many good things about it to not keep going.

The more I read about this mod the more it seems like... Whatever the anti-male counterpart to misogyny would be if such a word existed.

Either that or fetish fuel designed by a guy pretending to be a woman in order to avoid getting called a pervert.

I can't tell which.

On the other hand I thought the wedding dance mod for M&B was just a silly nudity mod, but after trying it I found out it's actually fantastic and adds all sorts of new features that aren't in any other mods including the original game, or even warband.

Umm basically because I am new here and a suggestion of mine is in danger of making a nice topic go way off topic.. I thought I would start this thread. I am just here to help new players 'cause I have been involved with NWN a long time and the GOG release is wonderful. :)

Let's allow the "Pearls" thread to be reccomendations, no? There are some wonderful modules mentioned.. let;s not confuse it all by talking about a contraversial module?

*smiling* ... It is not a module for eveeryone, and that's ok too.

Please keep this topic for your pearls (tho diamonds are preferred you know *cheeky grin*)

Thanks for the tip am downloading now and will give it a whirl at some point. (Still working through OC and then HotU)

Can you guys suggest any good modules that are mainly just Hack n' Slash? I'm not much of a roleplayer and love this game for the complex character building rather than the stories.

Preferably something where you start with a higher level character or the leveling is fast.

The more it resembles Diablo 2 the better :)

EDIT: I already tried to search for such in nwvault but either the search feature is not that good or I'm an idiot.