My wife was concerned over the sometimes child-unfriendly portraits in Neverwinter Nights and asked me to fix it. (In addition, my wife felt that there was a certain level of sexism in the artwork. While some people may not see the mostly tame art in NWN as sexist, it personally makes me and my wife feel that it encourages sexual sterotypes about women that we personally wanted to teach our children to disagree with.)
My son has also started to build mods and play them with NWN, so I build this child guard as a parental control.
I have gathered artwork from NWVault and used them to override some of the more immodest images, particularly those that contained partial nudity, like the Succubus. I improved others as possible.
While I did this strictly for myself, I thought I'd make it available anyhow.
Please note this only affects the portraits in the game, the load screens, the initial interfaces, and a few models. If an artists wishes to help with this, I'll be glad to expand the scope of this work. Unfortunately I simply don't have the artistic talent to do this on my own.
Update: I have gotten a few responses from people very critical of the existence of this mod. It's not always possible for me to tell if these criticisms are sincere and thoughtful, misguided, or really just disguised hatred of choice. Due to the occasional posts I get from time to time, I ask that anyone that feels negatively over this mod, that does nothing but introduces additional parental choice, consider the following points before posting. If you post and it's obvious you didn't read this, don't expect to be taken seriously:
* There is no requirement that you download this mod. No one will come to your door and break your knee caps if you don't. In fact, nothing at all will happen to you. Please bear in mind that only people that *want* to download this mod will ever do so.
* I don't care to give out my child's age, but he's old enough to make mods.
* NWN with the the violence turned all the way down changes the game so that defeated monsters merely fall over and disappear. It's much less violent then Bugs Bunny cartoons. It's the same level of violence as the E-rated Legend of Zelda.
* I realize there are pacifists out there that sincerely won't let their kids watch Bugs Bunny cartoons because they are too violent, to say nothing of modern Y-7 cartoons like Batman. If this is you, please understand that I strongly disagree with you but also strongly respect your views. Feel free to post and tell me that you don't think it's okay for me to allow *any* kid to play NWN. I will simply respond and to say �I disagree with you, but your entitled to your opinion.�
* On the other hand, I doubt anyone that's posted here so far is a pacifist because the real life ones I know wouldn't dream of supporting a game like NWN.
* If you are not a pacifist, but honestly believe that allowing a child to see partial nudity like the Succubus, Dryad, and Nymph is better then having monsters fall down, you're certainly entitled to your opinion. However, I strongly disagree with you and I think you have some very messed up views of what is appropriate or inappropriate for children. Still, let's agree to disagree.
* I originally wrote that last point as a joke. However, Shadowsilk tells me he really does take his children to nude beaches but doesn't let them watch Bugs Bunny. Shadowsilk and I very strongly disagree with the other's view of what's appropriate for children. We have agreed to disagree. To say I think he's making a mistake is an understatement. I'm sure he feels the same way about me for not taking my children to clothing optional beaches.
* I also realize that there are people that somehow want to turn this into a �violence vs. sexuality in the media� discussion. While I encourage this discussion in an honest and civil manner, ignoring the obvious truth that it's a matter of degree is not helpful. Do you really believe XXX movies are more child-friendly than Bugs Bunny? Please state your full views so that I can respectfully respond to you and we can have a civil discussion.
* Finally, if you are someone that so hates the idea of choice that you actually feel anger over this mod and want to sabotage it to make it go away (as PIGSgrame, miraceti, akibara, Akirosette, CharisaB, and Enigmaticatious tried before Maximus stopped them), my advice to you is to seek counsellings to over come your intolerance.
If you, for some reason, aren't aware of the growing body of research on the concerns over exposing children to "sexualized" images (i.e. images that emphasize a person�s value coming only from his or her sexual appeal or behavior to the exclusion of other characteristics) then please read this article before posting: Link
One final note: I would like to point out that the nudity mods on this site aren't nearly as controversial as this mod has turned to to be. I want people to honestly ask themselves why that is and if they are okay with that fact.
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Posted by Christopher at on01/09/08
Thank you for this addition. I was going to replay the OC campaigns with my son and I will be adding your work.
Posted by RoAnnon at on01/07/08
Very well done, thanks for being concerned enough to put forth the effort. _________________________ I'm half human, on my mother's side
Posted by AnthroPlayer at on01/01/08
a good idea if one is to ever have a younger audience. _________________________ @===============================================@ Vinchenzo made a post here. Plz check out my entries. I'm currently making a few simple modules, designing 3 special characters, and hope to someday be good this stuff. This is Vinchenzo, finishing his post with the following advice: Don't use Latin improperly (Lupis means grey, Rufus is red, Canid is dog, so on.) Furries annoy me with their improper usage of such. And I'm a furry!!! Ugh... Don't vote for Beta things unless told they are finished, unless posted specifically by the author. Don't abuse the vote and post function, don't vote for your own/friends stuff just to get a high vote. Don't flame vote either just to be an ass. There is a voting system for how the points are used, even I forget, but we should follow it (and tattoo it to our forehead, lol) @===============================================@
Posted by KnightErrant at on12/11/07
Great idea. I don't have kids, but the idea of women who actually wear armor that protects vital organs appeals to me. _________________________ Urk's Greyhawk: Old school PnP style RP: Link
Posted by TheStoryteller01 at 2007-12-0313:38:42
I have probably a different POW than the author - mostly because I am European and imo its more a cultural thing than a question of values. However looking at the (still) growing number of nude haks on the vault its only fair and probably needed that ONE upload at least goes into the other direction and I fully support the effort. I can't vote though as I don't play NWN1 anymore and won't be downloading this. _________________________ In case you find my grammar/spelling weird sometimes -----> native german speaker ;-)
Posted by The at on11/05/07
I have kids too and am glad to have a tool like this available. Thanks!
Posted by bnielson at 14:42:24 Voted10.00
To Addicted-To-Coffee and Malak's Bane, Thanks for the vote and the feedback. I appreciate you taking time like this.
Posted by Addicted-To-Coffee at on09/18/07
This looks really good, and is a great idea. Shame to hear about that akibara moron causing you trouble - hes been sprouting off on the vault about the server I play on too. I think he is just a trouble making moron.
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