Here are today's Neverwinter Nights 2 forum highlights, collected by NWVault (http://nwvault.ign.com). Please take into account that these are only single parts of various threads and should not be taken out of context. Bear in mind also that the posts presented here are copied as-is, and that any bad spelling and grammar does not get corrected on our end.

<font size="3" face="Verdana, Arial" color="#cc6600">Brian D. Lawson, Programmer</font>

NWN2 Q&A and 4 new screenshots at Gamespot (http://nwn2forums.bioware.com//forums/viewpost.html?topic=475577&post=4054484&forum=95&highlight=)
<hr />What is that animal? The one that looks like some sort of spikey porcupine hybrid beast?<hr />Dire wolf? ... http://forums.bioware.com/_commonext/images/smiles/icon_confused.gif

<font size="3" face="Verdana, Arial" color="#cc6600">J.E. Sawyer, NWN2 Lead Designer</font>

Siege Engines? (http://nwn2forums.bioware.com//forums/viewpost.html?topic=475509&post=4054006&forum=95&highlight=)
<hr />Not sure if anyone has asked this, but will Seige Engines of any kind be in the game? It would be really cool to have a catapult launch flaming pots.<hr />It is a mystery.

Chat Channels & Options (http://nwn2forums.bioware.com//forums/viewpost.html?topic=475138&post=4054095&forum=95&highlight=)
Grand Master Rich Taylor actually laid some groundwork for message filtering in the chat windows and running multiple chat windows to filter different times of messages. This does not mean it's going to be implemented. However, it's not out of the question, even at this stage.