Octopus Overlords

This morning, Larian put up a teaser on the company’s website with a big ol’ three (see above), which led many of us to believe that Divinity: Original Sin 3 was en route. But some clever HTML snooping by Twitter user @kunkken (and confirmed by Kotaku) leads to a whole bunch of hints that this is Baldur’s Gate 3, officially licensed from Dungeons & Dragons makers Wizards of the Coast.

Jaymann wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2019 8:56 pm As long as you can re-roll your character stats.

NickAragua wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2019 1:21 pm The real question is, does it use 2nd edition AD&D rules, and can I import my level 30 demi-god who wields a five-headed elemental flail, wears armor made from dragon scale and can call flaming columns down from the sky at will?

NickAragua wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2019 1:21 pm The real question is, does it use 2nd edition AD&D rules

Anonymous Bosch wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2019 1:28 am If anyone can successfully pull this off, there's not a developer I'd much rather see doing it than the same talent behind Divinity: Original Sin 2 (as that easily ranks among the very best modern CRPGs around, IMHO).

NickAragua wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2019 9:42 pm The further adventures of Jan Jansen in the cutthroat turnip farming business. With guest appearance by Korgan and Aerie (if she survived).

El Guapo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 03, 2019 9:38 am

NickAragua wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2019 9:42 pm The further adventures of Jan Jansen in the cutthroat turnip farming business. With guest appearance by Korgan and Aerie (if she survived).

I demand a quest around Jan's army of trained monkey assassins.

According to a new report, Larian Studios will reveal Baldur's Gate 3 this week. More specifically, the new entry in the classic Dungeons & Dragons role-playing video game series will be revealed during Google Stadia's "Connect" on Thursday, likely as the opening of the show. The report comes way of journalist Liam Robertson, who has built a reputation in the industry for having scoops and accurately reporting on them. And this lines up mostly with what I've heard about the game's reveal as well.

An ancient evil has returned to Baldur's Gate, intent on devouring it from the inside out. The fate of Faerun lies in your hands. Alone, you may resist. But together, you can overcome.

When an Illithid undergoes ceremorphosis, it can occasionally take on some elements of the absorbed host creature's former mind, such as mannerisms. This typically manifests as a minor personality feature, such as a nervous habit or reaction (e.g., nail-biting or tapping one's foot), although the process that determines the type and number of traits so inherited appears to be stochastic. Some adult Illithids have even been known to hum a tune that its host knew in life. Usually, when a mind flayer inherits a trait like this, it keeps it a closely guarded secret, because, were its peers to learn of it, the Illithid in question would most likely be killed. This is due to an Illithid legend of a being called the "Adversary". The legend holds that, eventually, an Illithid larva that undergoes ceremorphosis will take on the host's personality and memory in its entirety. This Adversary would, mind and soul, still be the host, but with all the inherent abilities of an Illithid.

Watch how Swen and the team managed to convince Wizards of the Coast to allow us to unleash our own brand of madness on Baldur's Gate! Its a harrowing tale of knights, vampire swords, abductions and the horrifying effects of ceremorphosis...

BG3 is based on the fifth edition [of D&D]. We started by setting out the ruleset very meticulously, and then seeing what worked and what didn’t work – because it is a videogame, and D&D was made to play as a tabletop game. So for the things that didn’t work, we came up with solutions.

The cool thing we found is that a lot of what makes D&D, D&D, actually survived the translation, so I think that if you like Dungeons and Dragons and you want to play BG3, you’re going to be happy.

BG3 is set directly after Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus, which is the recently-announced pen-and-paper campaign from Wizards of the Coast, and is launching in September.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:09 pm How the heck is Minsc around as he is human.

Jaymann wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:33 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:09 pm How the heck is Minsc around as he is human.

A wizard did it.

Jaymann wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2019 3:31 pm That guy ate a bad order of calamari.