CEO of Larian Studios and director of Baldur’s Gate 3 Swen Vincke claims that Wizards of the Coasts gave the team “all the freedom we needed” to develop a game based on the Dungeons & Dragons IP, but did feel some limitations when it came to adapting the tabletop game system for the video game format.
In a Reddit AMA that includes 11 lead developers from Larian, the team answers numerous questions about the studio’s upcoming game Divinity. One of the questions comes from a user curious as to whether the developers were held back by Wizards of the Coast as the owner of the Dungeons & Dragons moniker, and if being Divinity’s license owner will allow Larian to do anything differently.
“The game was based on 5e,” Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition rule set, “which is a system that was made for tabletop, not for video games. Most of the limitations came from that,” Vincke says. No one from the studio explains what these limitations are, but players in the comments believe they include the restricted level-ups.
With complete freedom over the upcoming game, Divinity, we wonder what Larian is cooking up for us.