Sven before : I'd love doing BG3 because I love the Baldur's Gate video games and D&D is awesome.
Sven today : D&D is not so fun, we have to custom everything^^
I did not get this from this interview(maybe I missed the sentence where Swen talked about hating D&D?) what he was talking about is how non-D&D players feel about RNG and how they will try to provide a mode(optional) for them and if you do not like it, you can go full RNG just like the way it is right now
This was a joke, but it looks like everything they changed is because of D&D. D20 sucks, D&D has not enough things to do when you play with low level characters (there is still many spells or "actions" they could implement from D&D).
I really think they even don't try to implement D&D's rules. What about the cover mechanic that also add more tactical depths to combats ?
It looks like he could have said something like : D&D is not that fun, that's why we completely altered the mechanics. They added tons of things to improve the fact that they didn't implement enough D&D in BG3.
That's a strange way of doing a D&D game according to me... So reading 2 times in the interview "this is because of D&D" looks a little bit unreal.
But whatever, they do what they want with their game. I'm way less a fan of D&D than a I'm a fan of BG... So I guess my only concern should be the "RTWP" (if I trust what I read).
Actually if you are mostly fan of BG, not D&D, and still you notice D&D critique by the team (Sven) as the main reason mentioned for homebrew changes, it says exactly what you've said first in this thread. Not a pleasant thought, in a perspective.
