[Franbeard]

It took a lot of playing around, but I managed to figure out how to get NWN multiplayer working using the Private Server Loader and the FBSA crack found on gamecopyworld.

I have the 1.27 patch installed on the game, too. Before trying, you also have to crack your copy of nwmain.exe using FBSA's crack.

Once that's all ready, you need to create a dedicated server on your machine using the private loader with the '-server' argument. Then, run your cracked nwmain.exe (or the standard neverwinter loader if you want to use the DM client), go into multiplayer (It will give you a message about not finding the authentication client, but that's ok), and into join LAN or internet game.

Go right to Direct Connect, and enter 127.0.0.1 (your machine's loopback) as the IP, and whatever port you use (usually 5122 for dedicated servers). It should find your own server, and you should be able to join it.

Whoever is playing with you has to run the same Private Server Loader to play, I believe. But I haven't yet tested joining the game with only the FBSA crack...that probably works just as well.

Even though my machine is running both the dedicated server, AND the client, it seems to perform well. I'm guessing that running the dedicated server separately from the game client is no more CPU intensive than starting a server from within the game.

I hope that helps.