Posted August 21, 2023
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Larian Studios says they havent started on an expansion and that it would require an excessive amount of work to make one, because they would have to implement higher level spells and abilities and those arent easy to do. Also somehow the players couldnt handle that.
Personally I'm 100% fine if they make a BG4 instead. Just as long as BG4 continues BG3 and actually goes to level 20, of course.
Considering how massively downgraded highlevel players have become at highlevel compared to how powerful they've been in AD&D, I dont really agree that any player would be overwhelmed by the power of a level 20 player.
For example, in AD&D, at level 20, a BG2 Sorcerer could cast 6 level 9 spells. In D&D5 you can just cast one.
By the way, the BG1 addon Tales of the Sword Coast (TotSC) only raised the XP bar from 89,000 to 161,000. Which really was just one or two levels, depending upon class. So if Larian makes an expansion that raises the level cap to level 13 or 14, that shouldnt bee too much work from the viewpoint of the new abilities to implement.
Larian Studios says they havent started on an expansion and that it would require an excessive amount of work to make one, because they would have to implement higher level spells and abilities and those arent easy to do. Also somehow the players couldnt handle that.
Personally I'm 100% fine if they make a BG4 instead. Just as long as BG4 continues BG3 and actually goes to level 20, of course.
Considering how massively downgraded highlevel players have become at highlevel compared to how powerful they've been in AD&D, I dont really agree that any player would be overwhelmed by the power of a level 20 player.
For example, in AD&D, at level 20, a BG2 Sorcerer could cast 6 level 9 spells. In D&D5 you can just cast one.
By the way, the BG1 addon Tales of the Sword Coast (TotSC) only raised the XP bar from 89,000 to 161,000. Which really was just one or two levels, depending upon class. So if Larian makes an expansion that raises the level cap to level 13 or 14, that shouldnt bee too much work from the viewpoint of the new abilities to implement.
