Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Sven Vincke BG3 interview (6/18/20)

A short but detailed interview with Larian´s CEO Sven Vincke and some new gameplay footage

https://twitter.com/baldursgate3/status/1273342584472166401

All PHB classes confirmed (Not all subclasses and races, tho)


More tomorrow June 18 at 10 AM PST in https://www.twitch.tv/dnd

i swear if dragonborn and half orcs aint in ill be mad

Very interesting, I think we have a new Origin Character in that Male Drow Sorcerer (Gale is a Wizard and Wyll a Warlock so that just leaves Sorcerer left). Cohh and Sven a match made in CRPG heaven.

Could also be a bard or artificer, but it would be strange.

Artificer is from Eberron I think not the Base game. A Drow bard, while interesting a concept, not the most likely of combinations. Sorcerer is more likely because of the Charisma bonus as a Drow and the inherent magic of being an Elf gives.

I do not think the companions are optimized. They are more story-driven than power gaming.

I mean, there´s a trickery cleric half-elf, a high-elf rogue and a human wizard.

Also, bard´s casting ability is Charisma, like sorcerers. And the drow wears armour.

ed: But let´s see what they use.... I hope for a wild magic sorcerer, but I think those are mechanically very difficult to put in a videogame. Lots of fun if you do it right, tho.

With any luck, he will show up in the gameplay reveal today and we will uncover what class he is.

He´ll be a drow ranger beastmaster with a panther and two scimitars. Just for the lulz.

Well, people were saying they want characters from BG1 and BG2 to show up in BG3.

drow is an origin character?
god damn it.

Male drow are cringe

Well, Minsc and Coran are confirmed to be alive by 1480. Viconia is killed if you romance her, but if this isn't canon, she could be alive as well.

Wathing to the stream. Is impression or the "3x longer jump" has cooldown?

Please. Don't ruin Eldritch Blast and other iconic cantrips with that mechanic....

Githyanky can use the Jump spell once per long rest.

Yep; But seems like he used it twice without resting...

Do you mean twice within one minute?

Now we know that the Drow Male seen in various videos was just a Custom character by Sven.

He din't rested a single time and i believe that he mentioned a cooldown on 59:45 here > https://youtu.be/XSc17QXxfyU?t=3586

But rewatching seems that is not exactly a cooldown.

IGN interview with Swen Vincke




The Jump spell gives you 10 rounds of triple jump distance - it does not give you "one and only one jump at triple distance". Swen specifically entered turn-based mode at that time to make sure that those 10 rounds wouldn't expire before he could do his second enhanced jump. This is within the rules as written, even if Swen used a slightly incorrect phrase (not an unusual occurence) to describe it.

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I'm re-watching the stream, and even though the text does say "Cooldown", and Swen uses the word "Cooldown", the power does not return, the button remains greyed out.

The tooltip also calls it a transmutation cantrip, even though it would probably more accurately be described as a daily power.