BioWare’s first everRPGopens with your unsuspecting Chosen One learning the ropes from the old sage Gorion.
For a while, Larian thought about rebuilding Candlekeep inBaldur’s Gate 3, which begins many years later.
Adam had many additional insights of the sexalicious persuasion when I spoke to him later.
Brace yourselves for them once I have worked out what to do with them.
In the meantime: the question of Candlekeep in Baldur’s Gate 3.
“I had a bunch of ideas for it,” Adam explained.
So that was always compelling.
It’s vast, you know, within the lore.
I’m a fan of enormous, sinister archives myself.
So why isn’t Candlekeep in Baldur’s Gate 3?
“So it’s like, are we going to stop on the way there?
And then we’re like, OK, do we, what do we want to do now?
And actually, what we wanted to do was get to the city.”
“Do you remember all the stuff, all the crazy shit that you put in there?”
“Yeah, yeah, there was a lot of crazy shit,” said Adam.
“There was the seer of the Far Realms.
Yeah, I remember it all.
“Because you were being very vague,” Vincke pressed, journalistically.
To which Adam responded: “Well, remember what I said about recycling your darlings.”
During his Digital Dragons presentation, Adam illustrated this with an image of a massive pile of corpses.
Sorry, illithidshippers.)
Thanks to Vincke’s intervention, our musings on Candlekeep were able to continue.
I still think it would have been very cool.
It’s just the pacing for me.”
“It’s a game in its own right,” suggested Vincke, journalistically.
“Probably, yeah,” Adam continued.
you’re free to have too many climaxes.
They’re exhausting as well.
I’m not talking about sex again."
Larian have now washed their hands of D&D.
“It’s where the Baldur’s Gate story began,” Adam concluded.
“So it’s always going to be in your head, you know?”
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