NWN American Revolution

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(Originally posted by chevalier)

The Education Arcade have created a Neverwinter Nights multiplayer roleplaying setting to teach American Revolution history. Here's a clip:

In the late 18th century, tensions between the British Empire and its colonies on the eastern coast of North America were reaching a critical point. From Georgia to Massachusetts talk of revolt hung heavy in the air, and the threat of war lingered on the horizon. The colonists were about to suffer the bloody birth of a nation, a nation that would eventually shape the course of human history. But this couldn't be known by the peoples of the time, who went about their everyday lives much as anyone had through the ages—one day at a time, their only goal to make their way through the world into which they were born. A world that was about to receive a catastrophic shock that could only be expressed by the word on the tip of everyone’s lips: "revolution."

Read the whole thing at The Education Arcade.