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Arcane Fury posted a message in the modules forum asking what puts people off a mod. Here's a quick list:

• A lame story
• Bad Grammar
• Bad spelling
• Absurd design decisions
• Too-large maps that have mostly nothing in them.
• Illogical alignment shifts
• Authors using settings not their own (such as the Forgotten Realms) but not trying hard enough, or at all, to follow established lore.
• Dialogue that railroads the PC into a specific personality.
• Overly difficult combat.
• Grinding monsters for XP and too much combat for the sake of combat.
• Endlessly fightingfightingfighting the same battle over and over and over again.
• Tedious things you have to do which do not aid the storytelling.
• Editing enemy stats to just flat out stupid levels
• Making things overly complicated or trying to emulate life too closely (i.e. - Having to worry about food, actual weight for coins)
• Quest rewards that do not match the difficulty of said quest
• Totally useless quest rewards (i.e. - plate armor for a mage type character)
• Monty Haul campaigns (overabundance of money and magic items)
• Unrealistic merchants (magic weapons/armors for sale, full plate or exotic weapons for sale on a village smith)
• Magic items with no history to them
• Unrealistic treasure placement
• Too many exp and a resulting fast level progression
• Standing helplessly by (e.g., in dialog mode) while something important happens.
• Limited dialog choices, especially when dialog has an impact on alignment and influence. Apparently, there are only two alignments in Faerun: Lawful Tight@$$ and Chaotic Stupid.
• Uninspiring conversations.
• Stagnant background. Townsfolk who just stand in the same spot all day and night, having the same non-conversation, until the end of time.
• Experience Penalties
• Impossible to solo.
• Too many instant death situations and attacks
• Too restrictive resting

Check out the full thread:
http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=536202&forum=1...