Echoing something i herd yesterday.
Why would WoTC go to Larian to make this game if they wanted a game closer to what POE did? Or Pathfinder KM did?
I understand the disappointment and what you wanted and everything like that but They were chosen for a reason and interviews ive seen seem to imply that reason is because this game is supposed to mirror tabletop and TB does that.
WotC didn't go to Larian, Larian went to WotC and asked them for a license to make a Baldur's Gate game. WotC agreed to let them.
Larian have said in an interview that the decision to use TB combat was theirs, and not WotC's. I also read in another post that Larian originally were thinking of making it RTwP.
So, it sounds like the style of combat system is entirely in Larian's hands.
