By the way, I am running elementary OS Freya with NVidia drivers.
Success! I ran NWN2 in multiplayer using the directions with the only change being to use Wine 1.7.41. It ran for over 3 hours before I logged out....
Thank you, Booman. Seems changing to 1.7.41 has fixed it. Multiplayer no longer crashes at log in. I'll give it a day or two and report back if that...
To preface this topic, I followed to the letter the instructions at this link and the game does launch and plays pretty decent:...
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