Allgame praised "Neverwinter Night"s DM tools, calling the game's level creation options "impressive" and the multiplayer options "great". "GamePro" thought that "Neverwinter Nights" is the closest that any video game has come to accurately representing the full "Dungeons & Dragons" rules, a statement further reinforced by Greg Kasavin of GameSpot, who said that "Neverwinter Nights isn't the first "Dungeons & Dragons" game for the computer to make use of the pen-and-paper game's 3rd Edition rules, but it's the first to implement them so well". GameZone said that the Aurora Toolset was one of the "best features" of the game. John Breeden II of "The Washington Post" said including the tool set was "smartest thing Bioware did". He went on to say that giving such tools to the players became more commonplace, but was a bold move at the time of the game's release. Chan commented, "you could use the Aurora tools to create a dream world".