A Baldur’s Gate 3 expansion isn’t currently in the works at Larian
In an interview with PC Gamer, Larian founder Swen Vincke stated that the studio isn’t currently working on a Baldur’s Gate 3 expansion, and though it isn’t impossible, it also isn’t very likely.
This is probably a surprising revelation for fans of the previous games in this series, which both had expansion packs after their initial release. Baldur’s Gate 3 also caps player levels at 12, despite the Dungeons & Dragons system it’s based on capping out at level 20. But the later levels in D&D give players some absolutely wild power-ups, ones that the developers weren’t sure they’d be able to successfully emulate within the game’s framework without a lot of work.
“[Level 12-20] adventures require a different way of doing things, in terms of antagonists you’re going to have to deal with, which require a lot of development to do them properly,” Vincke told PC Gamer. “Which would make this much more than an expansion in terms of development effort. A lot of D&D adventures are sub-level 12 for precisely that reason. So it sounds like neat, easy expansion material until you start thinking about it and it’s not as easy as one would imagine.”
Beyond the difficulty and work associated with creating more content for a level 13 and above adventure, Vincke and the team at Larian also noted that it would be extremely difficult to pick up more story content where the base game leaves off, since there are so many potential ways to end your BG3 campaign.
“I know what we want to make, and the team also knows where we’re heading,” he said in the PC Gamer interview. “We’ll see where that lands. I’ve learned in the past you need to be careful announcing things before they’re ready, because sometimes you have to cancel them because they don’t work out. We could work on an expansion and it could be boring, and we should stop working on it. Because if we would continue on something that’s boring, we would then have to sell it to you, and then we’d have to say ‘here’s a boring thing, and we want you to buy it.’ That would not be cool. So we have to have the freedom to experiment and do our stuff. And then when we’re ready to announce it we will.”
For now, you’ll just have to enjoy the breadth of content to be found in the base game, including all the underwear.
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