Layonara

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Neverwinter Nights persistent world
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Layonara
Description A family friendly roleplay focused setting. Layonara Online is run on 5 servers hosted at Mae West in San Francisco, California. Four of which are game servers, the fifth hosts the integrated databases and Layonara web content and forums.
Setting Layonara
Vault Type server
Magic Low to Medium
Hakpak Requires several downloads available from the official website
Schedule 24/7

Layonara is a campaign setting for Dungeons and Dragons created by Dan Scott (known on the web as Leanthar) in 1986. When it was first created, Layonara was a setting for pencil and paper Dungeons and Dragons campaigns.

Since then, Layonara has garnered a large fanbase, especially with its move online with the Neverwinter Nights persistent world Layonara Online (often referred to as Layonara, or even just "Layo.") It uses both expansion packs for Neverwinter Nights.

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Layonara has been interviewed twice on Bioware's official publication, Bioware Wednesday.

[edit] Gameplay

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As a persistent world, Layonara's gameplay expands the normal gameplay of Neverwinter Nights by allowing players to change the environment around them in a persistent way, i.e. the players affect the world around them. It uses several elements usually exclusive to pen and paper roleplaying games.

[edit] History

Layonara has passed through many stages of development since its inception as a NWN persistent world five years ago. The first version attempted to represent the setting in the online game world in a very detailed, "zoomed in" way. The local geography was very thoroughly represented and game areas were almost contiguous in their coverage of the physical area of the setting. This level of detail allowed for only two of the continents and a small number of the islands that exist in the setting to be represented in the online game world. The second version of Layonara Online was less detailed than Version 1. Version three continues to use NWN with the addition of new tilesets and areas.

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