How can I play the Mask of the Betrayer expansion natively on my Mac?

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I'm reliving all games and I would like to play the mask of the betrayer expansion on my Mac, but although the initial campaign has been ported, Mask of the Betrayer seems it hasn't. Please, no parallels, VMs or similar.

How can I play the Mask of the Betrayer expansion natively on my Mac?

Asked by mvime

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Take a look here

http://bbellina.blogspot.it/2011/11/getting-nwn2-expansions-working-on-mac.html

Looks like you need Bootcamp anyway, with a Windows version of NwN installed there to transfer files.

There's also a torrent somewhere on the Internet that lets you play MoB and SoZ on the Mac, but I don't think it can be linked here.

Answered by Kappei

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How are the World of Warcraft expansions related?

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I played vanilla WoW some years ago. I have lost my account and my cd-key, so would have to "start from scratch" if I decide to pick it up again. I've been reading some about the new Cataclysm expansions and is kind of curious and thinking about trying it out.

There are several expansions now, and my question is: How are they all related? Would I have to get all of them to try out Cataclysm? If not, if I skipped out on them, what would I be missing? Can I just get a free 10-day pass to try out Cataclysm, or do the 10-day passes limit me to vanilla unless I own other expansions first? If I have only certain expansions will I still run into people who have other expansions, or would my number of expansions decide what realms I would be able to play on?

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This question gets a bit tricky to answer... Starting from scratch, if you buy just vanilla WoW, you can experience the original world as it has been destroyed by the Cataclysm expansion. You can level up to level 60, but cannot access professions, areas, races, or other such things from any of the other expansions.

In order to access Outland, jewelcrafting profession, and Draenei? / Blood Elf races and starting areas, and level 61-70, you will need vanilla WoW + the Burning Crusade expansion.

In order to access Northrend, Inscription profession, and Death Knight class, and level 71-80, you will need vanilla Wow, Burning Crusade expansion, and Wrath of the Lich King expansion. Oh, and a prior level 55+ character on your account to play as a Death Knight.

In order to access the misc Cataclysm level 80+ areas, Archeology secondary profession, Worgen / Goblin races, and level 81-85, you will need vanilla WoW, Burning Crusade expanion, Wrath of the Lich King expansion, and the Cataclysm expansion.

Those are the restrictions. You can play on whatever realm you want with whoever you wish. You just may not be able to reach all the areas they can.

You can trial every bit of it with the 10 day trial, though I don't quite know how they treat it when your time is up.

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Which order do I play the Civilization IV expansion packs and the main game?

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I bought Civilization IV and all 3 expansion packs from the Steam Sale. I've heard numerous things about the packs - new units, civilizations, etc. I have no idea what that means since I'm new to the series. :)

I have 4 games listed on my Steam, excluding duplicates: Civ IV, Civ IV: Beyond the Sword, Civ IV: Colonization, and Civ IV: Warlords.

Can I just play Civ IV and access all the content from there? Or will I jsut be able to play the vanilla game without any of the expansions?

And I've heard that Colonization is a totally separate game..so would this need to be run separately? After a tiny bit of searching, I have found that Colonization is a standalone, separate game. However, my main question stands.

EDIT: It seems that Warlords scenarios are not included in BtS.

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Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword is the latest expansion, this is what you want to play if you're starting out. This contains the main game plus all the changes and additions from the two expansions.

You can play the vanilla game or just with the Warlords expansion, but then you'll miss out on the improvements made in Beyond the Sword. This option is more for players who prefer the old rules, as a new player I would ignore this option.

The Warlords expansion also contains some scenarios. You can't access those if you start Beyond the Sword. If you want to play the Warlords scenarios you have to launch Warlords instead.

Colonization is a completely different game, just using the Civ 4 engine, as you already said, this one you have to start separately.

Just start Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword to begin.

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