BALDUR’S GATE III

Druids are set to turn Larian’s RPG sandbox into a zoo

Jeremy Peel

ook,” David Walgrave pleads with his fellow Larian developers. “The player will respect the fact that they’re a bear. They will not fit through the door, they’ll just have to change back. If my dungeon master told me ‘You can’t get in that house, you’re a huge bear’, I would go ‘OK, you’re the DM, you make the rules’. You just have to accept it.” Walgrave is a producer, and producers are the reason you’ve ever played a finished game. They are the bulwark against feature creep, the developers who say ‘no’ when everyone else is saying yes. In Baldur’s Gate terms, they are Elminster – the sage advisor who shows up in the woods to remind wayward adventurers of their purpose in the game. It’s not clear what Walgrave…

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PC Gamer United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2021

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