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12. Hidden Area Encounters - Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir
Neverwinter Nights 2’s DLC, Storm of Zehir, features a radically different campaign to the base game. Instead of a somewhat linear story, Storm of Zehir allows the player to access a fully interactable open-world map, where they get to explore the world, operate caravans between towns, and experience a wide variety of random encounters.
Some less so than others.
While most random encounters in the game are repeatable battles, there are also special hidden area events that can only be experienced once. These events appear exclusively in specific areas on the map and typically feature uniquely named NPCs, such as Liam Harvestead, who asks you to kill a hag who trapped him under a log, or Christov Darkmoor, a pirate who can be attacked for a special eyepatch that lets you see invisible characters.
The special areas spawn in randomly, so you have to scour specific regions hoping that they appear. After you interact with the characters inside them, most of them don’t become interactable again, and even cases where you can go back, they will remain empty, so it’s advisable to explore them as quickly as possible.