Larian Says Making a Story Expansion for Baldur's Gate 3 Would Be Challenging

Baldur's Gate 3 has been out for just a week and it will take you 1 or 2 more months to complete the game's storyline but many have already started wondering whether Larian is thinking about making story expansions. 

Larian's Head, Swen Vincke, acknowledged that the idea of an expansion may seem logical at first glance, but the idea becomes super complicated when you consider the power levels of the main characters. The game is based on the rules of Dungeons & Dragons, and when you talk about D&D, you know that characters at levels 12-20 are some of the strongest beings in the universe due to their acquired abilities. Vincke believes this should be reflected in the gameplay.

"Honestly, we haven't started on an expansion," Vincke said.

"Level 12-20 adventures require a different way of doing things, in terms of antagonists you're going to have to deal with, which require a lot of development to do them properly. Which would make this much more than an expansion in terms of development effort. A lot of D&D adventures are sub-level 12 for precisely that reason. So it sounds like neat, easy expansion material until you start thinking about it and it's not as easy as one would imagine."

The studio head did not rule out the possibility of releasing such an expansion, but they might eventually just switch to developing their next game. 

"I know what we want to make, and the team also knows where we're heading. We'll see where that lands. I've learned in the past you need to be careful announcing things before they're ready because sometimes you have to cancel them because they don't work out. We could work on an expansion and it could be boring, and we should stop working on it," added Vincke. 

You can find the original story here. Do you think the studio should find a way to make an expansion or should they focus on a new project? 

Previously, Software Engineer Frans Bouma created a mod that adds photo mode to Baldur's Gate 3. Learn more here. 

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