Welcome to Dungeon Master, PC Gamer's regular RPG column, where Online Editor Fraser Brown delves into PC gaming's most beloved and enduring genre. Grab a seat in our badly-lit tavern and please ignore the goblin puke.
It's 4 am and I am sitting in front of my PC, the monitor perched on a makeshift desk in my bedroom. The lights are off but the room is illuminated by my desktop. In the bed, my girlfriend is sound asleep. I told her I wouldn't stay up all night playing Neverwinter Nights, but I am a liar.
The early '00s found me broke, lost and trying to figure out what to do once I'd received a useless degree. Though I wasn't putting much thought into it. Writing, maybe? My sanctuary from terrifying adult questions about my future was BioWare's first post-Infinity Engine game. I flung myself into Neverwinter Nights and then everything was OK.
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