From edrants.com — dr. mabuse’s house of fun.

3. If it ever gets released, do you see “Neverwinter Nights” as something that could hypothetically dwarf or overtake TSR modules? Do you think that Interplay gave up on the title for reasons aside from economic woes?

[Neverwinter Nights is a game designed to also be used as a scenario planner, in which the GM can set up a whole scenario and ‘run’ it online as a multiplayer game for their group.]

I think it might become very popular as a GM’s tool and a means to play online games, simply because, as the role-playing hobby gets ‘older’, so do many of it’s participants: they move, they spread out, and they don’t find new gamers as easily.

Will it replace face to face games? I doubt it. I certainly hope not. Getting together for a game is really the main social activity I engage in — it’s the best kind of weekly party.