OK I guess I'll give wineskin and crossover a try. how do I do this?
with Wineskin...
you'd download Wineskin Winery (
http://wineskin.doh123.com/Latest_Update.html), then in there get the latest engine WS7Wine1.3.21 (should work fine for NWN, though I think mine is still running on WS7Wine1.2.2). Then you'd hit Update under the wrapper section to get Wineskin 2.3 master wrapper.
After that you can create a wrapper, and call it Neverwinter Nights.... you won't need gecko when it prompts, so just hit cancel when it asks about that. When the wrapper is done, hit the "View In Finder" button (or it will be in Your home folders's Application folder under Wineskin).
Right click the new nwn wrapper and select "Show Package Contents" and you can see inside of it. Run the Wineskin.app program that is just inside, and use its "Install Windows Software" button to select the setup program from the install disc and run through the install... if at all possible never install DirectX or other junk it tries to add on. When its done installing, do not let it run if there is a checkmark option for that. It will prompt asking what exe is the main exe its supposed to run, and you should choose nwn.exe (this can always be changed later under the Advanced menu).
At that point, the game should run fine... just double clicking the wrapper in Finder like any other app, but you'd want to download the 1.69 patch (for Windows) and run the patch (you can just drag and drop the patch exe on the wrapper and it'll run it). You can look in the Advanced menu in Wineskin.app and change out the icon, or set the Version listed in Finder or whatever else you want... but the game has always worked really easy for me.... and you'll now have a normal Mac app you can double click and run like any other app... you can move it anywhere you want, like throw it over in /Applications.... or zip it and move it to a different Mac and still play it fine, since you just got done porting it
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