Neverwinter Nights: Infinite Dungeons is a downloadable content

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 module for Neverwinter Nights

Neverwinter Nights

Neverwinter Nights , produced by BioWare and published by Infogrames , is a third-person perspective computer role-playing game that is based on third edition Dungeons & Dragons and Forgotten Realms rules. It was originally to be published by Interplay Entertainment, but the publisher's financial...

. The module features vast dungeon areas and seven specially designed boss battles. As of December 2009 Atari

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 owns the rights to the module, which is not available for purchase.

Description

The module is set in Forgotten Realms

Forgotten Realms

The Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories...

' Undermountain of Waterdeep

Waterdeep (city)

Waterdeep is a fictional city-state that forms part of a popular Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game campaign setting called the Forgotten Realms. It is a port city that is located along the western coast of the Faerûn sub-continent...

, already visited in Hordes of the Underdark

Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark

Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark is an expansion pack for the role-playing video game Neverwinter Nights produced by BioWare and published by Infogrames Entertainment...

expansion. The game is a dungeon-crawler in style of Dungeon Siege

Dungeon Siege

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featuring D&D rules. The story follows character(s)

Player character

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 as they enter Undermountain in order to defeat its ruler, mad mage Halaster and his six powerful generals. A boy named Timmy helps the players while they are resting outside the dungeons, near the underground entrance to Undermountain.

Gameplay

The player(s) journeys through Undermountain, killing hordes of hostile creatures and encountering traders, quest givers and allies. The game split into seven sections each corresponding to its ruler, a game's boss. A unique feature of the module is the map, which, when used, appears under a player's feet, showing the entire level and its sections, and the player position.

Each of the seven dungeons of Undermountain consists of several levels. Each level, in turn, consists of a group of sections (locations). While the first few dungeons the player will enter will be relatively small, the following will include quite a big amount of sections to explore. In order to move to a next level of dungeon, player has to find a staircase deeper. In order to finish a dungeon, the player has to defeat a boss.

Bosses

The game include seven boss battles with specially designed opponents. There are seven bosses total, six are Halaster's generals and the seventh is Halaster himself.

• Lord Antoine - A nobleman with a passion to hunt, Lord Antoine is in fact a powerful wereboar
  Lycanthrope (Dungeons & Dragons)
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  .
• Hagatha - Once a cloud giant
  Giant (Dungeons & Dragons)
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, giant is a type of creature, or "creature type." Giants are humanoid-shaped creatures of great strength and size.-Dungeons & Dragons :...
  
  , Hagatha became a mad hag
  Hag (Dungeons & Dragons)
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, hags are witchlike beings that use magic to spread havoc and destruction, and slay all whom they encounter.-Dungeons & Dragons :...
  
   grieving about her lost love.
• Maggris - Giant, planar insect queen that breeds hordes of spiders and bugs as her children.
• G'Zhorb - An ancient beholder
  Beholder
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   tyrant.
• Masterius - Classical lich
  Lich (Dungeons & Dragons)
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the lich is an undead creature; a spellcaster who seeks to defy death by magical means.-Dungeons & Dragons :...
  
   of great power.
• Harat - Twisted demon
  Demon (Dungeons & Dragons)
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, demons are the most widespread race of fiends. The demons are chaotic evil by nature, and are native to the Abyss...
  
  that serves Halaster as a general.
• Halaster - The mad mage himself, the ruler of Undermountain. It is revealed during the confrontation with him that he is in fact a clone of original Halaster (created during the Hordes of the Underdark expansion pack) who overpowered the mad mage and took his place as Undermountain's master. The clone's scheme is put to an end when the boy, Timmy, reveals himself to be the real Halaster and vanquishes his copy.