Last week I spoke to Larian’s founder and director Swen Vincke concerning the newest massive replace to Baldur’s Gate 3, and the highway to 1.0 launch. But additionally it was December the sixteenth, so I noticed match to waste his time asking a bunch of enjoyable seasonal questions that blended the love and goodwill of Baldur’s Gate 3, with the companion-wrangling and clutch technique of Christmas. D’you see what I did there?
My questions are in daring, and Vincke’s solutions are undeneath – and they’re each amusing and instructive. I for one hope that Wyll’s romcom go to house turns into a future winter DLC.
What class and subclass would Santa be?
He stated that he was a Paladin that had an Oath of Devotion. So who am I to disagree with Santa? He did inform us. But I personally consider him as a Rogue. I’ll put him down as a Rogue, Arcane Trickster
Who could be the perfect companion to get in Secret Santa and what would you get them as a Christmas current?
Oh my God. This is sort of a “your favorite companion” query, proper? I’ve to take care of the writers of those companions, so can I get a go on this?
Okay, perhaps… who do you assume could be the best to buy?
[Long pause while he thinks very seriously about the question]
Astarion, after all. I’d simply get him some harmless bystander. I simply should hope anyone would do – like, he is very straightforward, he is very open minded about who he feeds on, so there you go, it is tremendous.
What capacity from Baldur’s Gate 3 do you assume could be most helpful on Christmas Day?
So undoubtedly… Stability would undoubtedly be! Constitution or, perhaps Wisdom; select which one you need to choose.
You are including an entire roast turkey as a weapon into the game. How would you weaponise a turkey in Baldur’s Gate 3, and what what results wouldn’t it have?
Well, I’d clearly permit you to Animate Dead on it. That could be my go to schtick that I’d begin with… and I’d in all probability give it the power to bomb. We do not have carpet bombing but. So we may have an undead flying turkey carpet bombing your enemies with, er, eggs that produce Stinking Cloud; I feel that might be fairly cool.
Okay, this one is is perhaps a tough one. Are you acquainted with the sort of Christmas romcom tales which are, like, a excessive powered lawyer goes to her hometown and falls in love with like a rustic boy?
Mmhmm.
How would you set a Netflix type Christmas rom com in boulders gate three utilizing the characters at your disposal?
[Extremely long pause; deep thought]
…Oh! Wyll – who’s a Warlock within the game, and who has a pact with a Cambion named Mizora – returns to his hometown and meets the satan with whom he did not pact…
*GASP*
… and so from there, clearly, the story goes ahead…
Who would you wish to have over for Christmas dinner from the game? Is that too near a favorite companion query once more?
I’m not going to call a companion proper? So, child Owlbear. That needs to be enjoyable. Yeah, child Owlbear. And we will go within the woods and like, we will go on a hike collectively. The child Owlbear will probably be pleasant and never assault anyone. So yeah, it is that.
As lengthy as you have handled the mum Owlbear first, I suppose.
Yeah, there’s that drawback, proper? But I imply, child Owlbear would have eaten the mum by then, as a result of that is what it does in case you depart it alone. It’s truly what I wished to point out in my stream, however I ruined it!
Disclosure: Adam Smith used to work right here and now he is the lead author on BG3, however as a result of he left he’ll solely get coal in his stocking.