{"id":1546178,"date":"2026-04-06T17:39:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/L4hBzipYYizNmLgrQ7foCC"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:39:57","slug":"in-2007-two-game-music-goats-collaborated-on-the-criminally-underrated-soundtrack-to-a-similarly-underrated-dd-rpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/in-2007-two-game-music-goats-collaborated-on-the-criminally-underrated-soundtrack-to-a-similarly-underrated-dd-rpg\/","title":{"rendered":"In 2007, two game music GOATs collaborated on the criminally underrated soundtrack to a similarly underrated D&D RPG"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to Critical Hit (formerly known as Soundtrack Sunday<\/a>), where I celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I love Neverwinter Nights. I would count myself among the top 100, maybe even top 50 fans in the world of this joint BioWare-Obsidian, Forgotten Realms and D&D-based CRPG series. While not super obscure\u2060\u2014we’re not talking Brigand: Oaxaca<\/a> or The Sum: Nous Aurons\u2060<\/a>\u2014NwN 1 and 2 aren’t RPG A-listers. They’re not sexy. They don’t sit at the cool kids table with Baldur’s Gate 3 and Disco Elysium.<\/p>\n

Neverwinter Nights 2’s first expansion is a quiet all-timer, a realheads know CRPG with a surprisingly mature take on the Forgotten Realms and a uniquely haunting atmosphere\u2060\u2014it’s like the Heat to Planescape: Torment’s Manhunter. A big part of MotB’s unforgettable atmosphere is its music, a particularly underrated aspect of this already-underrated RPG. <\/p>\n

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