Originally Posted by Zerubbabel
Originally Posted by Saito Hikari
Larian has other interests. I highly doubt they’ll be chained to DnD, there’s a significant faction that wants them to return to Divinity for instance.

If they don’t plan on any further DnD games, it’d be an argument to not bother putting in the effort to overhaul their engine in order to have it handle reactions, for instance.

Meanwhile the Solasta devs are new and their entire history is based on DnD, and probably would be open to an acquisition or direct partnership rather than licensing. Safer bet than Larian for the future.
This is a good point. Personally, I would prefer a new IP from Larian if not a DnD product. I don't hate Rivellon, but I don't find it to be the most compelling world at its lore bones and DNA. I think DOS2 tried (so did Dragon Commander), and I appreciate that, but I worry that's the furthest they're willing to stretch the world and its lore. Rivellon has always seemed so surface-level, without a universal world map that expresses physical, political, and demographic geography, without a firmly established history of its races' cultures and subcultures from beginning to end, without a greater description of the theology or theologies of the world, without having greater written works establishing the background of the world.

Since DnD as a brand on its own is getting stronger, it would make sense for a studio to take over the license as a whole and as its identity. Perhaps it should be Tactical Adventures, while the Larian gang get to continue making whatever games they feel like making.

OK, so the optimal future would be:
- WotC buys the Solasta devs and they make the next official DnD game with a much bigger budged.
- Larian makes DOS4 (bacause most people consider BG3 to be DOS3). It will be set in Rivallon. The story could be anything, they don´t care if it contradicts existing games.

spoiler alarm:
- The game will start with you being stranded on a beach after your ship broke.
- You can chose between several origin chars. All of them will be super special, even more than ever before. Like one of them combines all stuff from BG3, so one origin char is the child of a demon lord, is a vampire and he/she also had an affair with a diety and you just just escaped the lair of an evil mage who made you also a werewolf. And thats just one char and the others are even stranger.
- They lerned from BG3. Now shove and throw will be added to barrelmancy and necrofire everywhere.
- Dating all companions is not just an achievement. It is required to continue.
- The 4th wall breaks completely and companions/NPC will make constant jokes about video game characters.
- You will still not be able to make a full custom party without using some tricks.

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