The server
A Dawn of Heroes is a persistent world for Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition. Characters live on the server, not on your disk. Everything below is specific to this server.
What is different from stock Neverwinter Nights
- 33 playable races with subraces on top, 27 classes, and a level cap of 40 - see Character development.
- You start at level 3, not at 1 - see Game client.
- 40 dungeons in 4 tiers, instanced per party, with their own bosses and their own loot.
- Spells and feats are rewritten. Many of them do something different here from what the base game's description says. Each spell and feat page states what it does on this server. See Magic.
- Its own economy: tokens, an account-wide vault, a player trade post, crafting and gathering, sockets, housing, mounts and pets.
- Hardcore, an opt-in status that a single death normally ends.
- The armory, which publishes character sheets, dungeon clears and a bestiary out of the live server.
The test area
A character with TEST in its name lives in a sealed test area, where it sets its own level and takes gear, skins and gems for free. Everything about it is on the Test area page.
Reboots
The server restarts once a day, around midday server time, once it has been up at least 12 hours. It warns 2 hours ahead and again 1 hour ahead. Everyone is saved and disconnected as part of the shutdown, so nothing is lost by being online for it. The daily armory publication happens in the same window.