I would love to see a 5th edition computer game set in the Forgotten Realms.
I really hope they do one that's a BG3 and one that's not a BG3, and I hope the one that isn't is set somewhere we've never seen a FR computer game go. For me what would really draw me to a unique Beamdog FR IP separate from BG would be places nowhere near the Sword Coast or Sword Coast North, and this is probably just my personal preference but I'd prefer if they set it somewhere aside from the Moonsea region, Al-Qadim, Menzoberranzan, the Icewind Dales or the Dalelands...but that said, the places you go in Demon Stone are far-flung enough from one another that any one of them as a focus would be welcome to me as a setting for a new game. I also wouldn't necessarily mind a game in the Utter East, even though Blood & Magic already went there, mostly because that was a strategy game rather than a proper RPG.
But basically anywhere else than where we've already been feels like a good bet, and if they wanted to emphasize the latter D in D&D, I think a game set in Skalnaedyr and surrounding areas in Murghôm would be AWESOME, setting a game in Sembia has lots of potential given their status as a vassal of the returned Netherese Empire...there's just so much out there that's got so much potential!
I would love to see a 5th edition computer game set in the Forgotten Realms.
I really hope they do one that's a BG3 and one that's not a BG3, and I hope the one that isn't is set somewhere we've never seen a FR computer game go. For me what would really draw me to a unique Beamdog FR IP separate from BG would be places nowhere near the Sword Coast or Sword Coast North, and this is probably just my personal preference but I'd prefer if they set it somewhere aside from the Moonsea region, Al-Qadim, Menzoberranzan, the Icewind Dales or the Dalelands...but that said, the places you go in Demon Stone are far-flung enough from one another that any one of them as a focus would be welcome to me as a setting for a new game. I also wouldn't necessarily mind a game in the Utter East, even though Blood & Magic already went there, mostly because that was a strategy game rather than a proper RPG.
But basically anywhere else than where we've already been feels like a good bet, and if they wanted to emphasize the latter D in D&D, I think a game set in Skalnaedyr and surrounding areas in Murghôm would be AWESOME, setting a game in Sembia has lots of potential given their status as a vassal of the returned Netherese Empire...there's just so much out there that's got so much potential!
I would like an al-qadim game so i can make a Aladdin-esque character and fight a black cloud of vengeance.
I mind. Not "won't buy it" mind, but "would roll my eyes and sigh at the press release" mind.
It would sort of be like if 80%+ of the episodes of every season of every series of Star Trek took place entirely on Bajor. DS9 doesn't even do that.
That's understandable.
But like a game set in Waterdeep would be relatively new. What was the last game set there? Hordes of the Underdark?
I mean there's a lot of the sword coast that hasn't been visited often. Even Baldur's Gate hasn't been featured all that much, given that there are two entire games named after it.
@BelleSorciere the Eye of the Beholder games before HotU as well IIRC, but even going North of Waterdeep and Neverwinter along Sword Coast North just feels too familiar to me, I wanna see environs geographically and politically distinct from the Sword Coast. Amn was actually pretty great in BG2 because that's getting south enough along it that it starts to feel slightly different from that Pacific Northwest inspired rugged frontiersy feel of most Sword Coast locations, so even further south of Amn might be a cool idea too if they're going to stick to the Sword Coast...but the Northwest of Faerun is just so, so overdone in computer gaming (IMHO)
which, again, isn't to say I'm not super pumped for BG3 (I mean, I'm from the Pacific NW so on one level I like all the dedication to a fantasy analogue of my homelands), and honestly I want BG3 equally as much as I want them to come out with their own 5e FR IP, I just want their own FR IP to feel very distinct from when they put out BG3
Well a idea for me to do a BG3, it have to be about two posibilities:
One should be the son of charname with Viconia / Jaheira / Aerie you have to choose in the character creation but the race of your character will be Charname
The other story can be happening at the same time of the bg2 but not related, like a new threat in bg city
But i prefer a new game, where you can visit a few cities from baldurs to nwn with a lot in the middle, call it Faerun if you will
Or a new place like Dragonlance or Darksun
Also you can do something new, non dnd, like pillars of eternity or non fantasy, maybe a post apocalyptic or even steampunk world
@BelleSorciere the Eye of the Beholder games before HotU as well IIRC, but even going North of Waterdeep and Neverwinter along Sword Coast North just feels too familiar to me, I wanna see environs geographically and politically distinct from the Sword Coast. Amn was actually pretty great in BG2 because that's getting south enough along it that it starts to feel slightly different from that Pacific Northwest inspired rugged frontiersy feel of most Sword Coast locations, so even further south of Amn might be a cool idea too if they're going to stick to the Sword Coast...but the Northwest of Faerun is just so, so overdone in computer gaming (IMHO)
which, again, isn't to say I'm not super pumped for BG3 (I mean, I'm from the Pacific NW so on one level I like all the dedication to a fantasy analogue of my homelands), and honestly I want BG3 equally as much as I want them to come out with their own 5e FR IP, I just want their own FR IP to feel very distinct from when they put out BG3
Hey, I'm not only from the Pacific Northwest, I live there! That's one reason I like the Sword Coast.
I never played the Eye of the Beholder games. I own them (and the other gold box games) but I never really got the hang of playing them properly and stuck to Infinity Engine and Neverwinter Nights stuff.
You know the Forgotten Realms player book for D&D 5e is Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide?
@BelleSorciere the Eye of the Beholder games before HotU as well IIRC, but even going North of Waterdeep and Neverwinter along Sword Coast North just feels too familiar to me, I wanna see environs geographically and politically distinct from the Sword Coast. Amn was actually pretty great in BG2 because that's getting south enough along it that it starts to feel slightly different from that Pacific Northwest inspired rugged frontiersy feel of most Sword Coast locations, so even further south of Amn might be a cool idea too if they're going to stick to the Sword Coast...but the Northwest of Faerun is just so, so overdone in computer gaming (IMHO)
which, again, isn't to say I'm not super pumped for BG3 (I mean, I'm from the Pacific NW so on one level I like all the dedication to a fantasy analogue of my homelands), and honestly I want BG3 equally as much as I want them to come out with their own 5e FR IP, I just want their own FR IP to feel very distinct from when they put out BG3
Hey, I'm not only from the Pacific Northwest, I live there! That's one reason I like the Sword Coast.
I never played the Eye of the Beholder games. I own them (and the other gold box games) but I never really got the hang of playing them properly and stuck to Infinity Engine and Neverwinter Nights stuff.
You know the Forgotten Realms player book for D&D 5e is Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide?
Indeed, I do know that and have glanced through it!
I'm back living here currently too, although I'm moving back out east pretty soon. Nature is prettier out here, but I got more goin' for me further east.
Hey, I'm not only from the Pacific Northwest, I live there! That's one reason I like the Sword Coast.
I never played the Eye of the Beholder games. I own them (and the other gold box games) but I never really got the hang of playing them properly and stuck to Infinity Engine and Neverwinter Nights stuff.
You know the Forgotten Realms player book for D&D 5e is Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide?
Indeed, I do know that and have glanced through it!
I'm back living here currently too, although I'm moving back out east pretty soon. Nature is prettier out here, but I got more goin' for me further east.
Aww, you'll move farther away! Which is okay, really.
Companies like this will buy up domain names in the hopes that someone will want to buy it off them someday.
Oh I know. It's been like that for the last two years at least. Trent registers his own domains. ATM there are 51 names registered via Beamdog (58 registered via Trent Oster)
Note there are none that start with a P. Also, the beamdog team has used Planescape as a red herring before. When they were about to release IWD, @Dee changed his profile pic to Morte driving the speculation that PST was next instead of IWD, even though all the signs pointed to IWD.
But I have been known to be wrong before. Maybe Trent learnt his lesson (he does that) and registers them all privately now. But it wouldn't explain the extra 20.
edit: oh btw, one of the websites is bg3ee.com registered to Jonathan Hill, instead of Trent. Who is he? Well is an art coordinator at Beamdog with a much harder name to narrow searches down so....
I would adore a new BG-style game using fifth edition rules. As someone who's been playing tabletops his whole life (D&D since AD&D and Shadowrun since Third Edition) I think I'd go as far as to say 5th is my favorite edition of D&D up there with Pathfinder. The way opens characters up is just far superior to previous editions. I can finally play my noble, dueling, rapier wielding dex Paladin without getting 'creative' with builds since Paladins can take the duelist path. It's the same with every class. Most have two separate branching paths to choose from, like an oath and a combat style. That really helps do away with a lot of the samey builds you came across in older games.
Just please keep it in the Forgotten Realms universe. This world, this realm is my baby. I even own all the source books for it.
I'm with you @Legendary I think 5e is the best interpretation of D&D rules out to date. I started on AD&D as well (and went backwards and played earlier iterations with friends who had the box sets and books) and 3.5/Pathfinder were great but combat still took forever among other, more minor quibbles. 4e was an absolute trainwreck, probably the worst edition of D&D by far, and I thought 3.5 was always going to stand as the best version they put out, but 5e somehow manages to capture that 1st-2nd ed feel with all the lessons of 3rd and 4th (what to do and not to do, respectively), and it plays so smooth, combat is quick and fun and as you say there is a lot of flexibility built in (and it's easier than ever to add your own customized options to add your own level of flexibility to it IMHO).
And I hope Beamdog branches out from FR eventually, but at the same time I also do want to see them tackle locations outside of the Sword Coast on Abeir-Toril as well as BG3 hopefully being set around Baldur's Gate itself in the 5e post-Sundering timeline. Especially since Minsc and Boo are still around due to flesh to stone in the 2e era and wild magic surge flesh to stone restoring him in the 5e era! I really want to stomp around Baldur's Gate with Minsc and Boo again!
I would adore a new BG-style game using fifth edition rules. As someone who's been playing tabletops his whole life (D&D since AD&D and Shadowrun since Third Edition) I think I'd go as far as to say 5th is my favorite edition of D&D up there with Pathfinder. The way opens characters up is just far superior to previous editions. I can finally play my noble, dueling, rapier wielding dex Paladin without getting 'creative' with builds since Paladins can take the duelist path. It's the same with every class. Most have two separate branching paths to choose from, like an oath and a combat style. That really helps do away with a lot of the samey builds you came across in older games.
Just please keep it in the Forgotten Realms universe. This world, this realm is my baby. I even own all the source books for it.
Oh geeze, while I love 3.5/Pathfinder some character ideas where do-able but required intense knowledge of the rules. Want a Bard that can cast druid spells like the 1e Bard? Rogue 2/Druid 2/Bard 1/Green Whisperer 5/Fochlucan Lyrist 10. Requires Core, Dragon Magazing #311, and Complete Adventurer. Add Advanced Race Guide from Pathfinder, Ultimate Intrigue, and Ultimate Magic and you can get a crazy good build like
Kitsune Trickster Rogue 2/Feyspeaker Druid 2/Animal Speaker Bard 1/Green Whisperer 5/Fochlucan Lyrist 10. All your spellcasting scales with Charisma since Feyspeaker Druids use Charisma as their casting stat.
Or say you want to make a Cleric/Wizard Necromancer.
Wizard 1 (Precocious Apprentice Feat)/Cleric 3/Mystic Theurge 2/True Necromancer 14. Good but requires a lot of supplement material to work.
In 5e you can create these crazy builds with just core.
You could go a Bard/Druid build or just be a Lore Bard that chooses Druid spells as his expanded spell list options.
Wizard 6/Cleirc 14 is a super cool Necromancer.
What use to require a bunch of suppliment material to work now only requires multiclassing or picking an archetype.
A 5e CRPG along the lines of NWN2 would be my favorite thing ever.
I would adore a new BG-style game using fifth edition rules. As someone who's been playing tabletops his whole life (D&D since AD&D and Shadowrun since Third Edition) I think I'd go as far as to say 5th is my favorite edition of D&D up there with Pathfinder. The way opens characters up is just far superior to previous editions. I can finally play my noble, dueling, rapier wielding dex Paladin without getting 'creative' with builds since Paladins can take the duelist path. It's the same with every class. Most have two separate branching paths to choose from, like an oath and a combat style. That really helps do away with a lot of the samey builds you came across in older games.
Just please keep it in the Forgotten Realms universe. This world, this realm is my baby. I even own all the source books for it.
Oh geeze, while I love 3.5/Pathfinder some character ideas where do-able but required intense knowledge of the rules. Want a Bard that can cast druid spells like the 1e Bard? Rogue 2/Druid 2/Bard 1/Green Whisperer 5/Fochlucan Lyrist 10. Requires Core, Dragon Magazing #311, and Complete Adventurer. Add Advanced Race Guide from Pathfinder, Ultimate Intrigue, and Ultimate Magic and you can get a crazy good build like
Kitsune Trickster Rogue 2/Feyspeaker Druid 2/Animal Speaker Bard 1/Green Whisperer 5/Fochlucan Lyrist 10. All your spellcasting scales with Charisma since Feyspeaker Druids use Charisma as their casting stat.
Or say you want to make a Cleric/Wizard Necromancer.
Wizard 1 (Precocious Apprentice Feat)/Cleric 3/Mystic Theurge 2/True Necromancer 14. Good but requires a lot of supplement material to work.
In 5e you can create these crazy builds with just core.
You could go a Bard/Druid build or just be a Lore Bard that chooses Druid spells as his expanded spell list options.
Wizard 6/Cleirc 14 is a super cool Necromancer.
What use to require a bunch of suppliment material to work now only requires multiclassing or picking an archetype.
A 5e CRPG along the lines of NWN2 would be my favorite thing ever.
All of this, plus (in my opinion, anyway) designing a balanced custom archetype for 5e is way easier than designing a balanced kit for 2e or PrC for 3.5/PF
OH YEAH 5e also provides lots of guidelines for homebrew content and WotC regularly posts homebrew content like the spell-less ranger and Favored Soul. I always love the promotion of homebrew. Not enough DMs that I play with really delve into it.
Companies like this will buy up domain names in the hopes that someone will want to buy it off them someday.
Oh I know. It's been like that for the last two years at least. Trent registers his own domains. ATM there are 51 names registered via Beamdog (58 registered via Trent Oster)
Note there are none that start with a P. Also, the beamdog team has used Planescape as a red herring before. When they were about to release IWD, @Dee changed his profile pic to Morte driving the speculation that PST was next instead of IWD, even though all the signs pointed to IWD.
But I have been known to be wrong before. Maybe Trent learnt his lesson (he does that) and registers them all privately now. But it wouldn't explain the extra 20.
edit: oh btw, one of the websites is bg3ee.com registered to Jonathan Hill, instead of Trent. Who is he? Well is an art coordinator at Beamdog with a much harder name to narrow searches down so....
Let's try to decrypt this! So far, I have :
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I really like both Pathfinder and 5e. I totally get what @Vallmyr said about system mastery in Pathfinder (esp. with material scattered across so many books) but I still dig it.
All of this, plus (in my opinion, anyway) designing a balanced custom archetype for 5e is way easier than designing a balanced kit for 2e or PrC for 3.5/PF
This is true.
I don't even remember how many prestige classes I've designed (more than 10 at least) but they're work.
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But basically anywhere else than where we've already been feels like a good bet, and if they wanted to emphasize the latter D in D&D, I think a game set in Skalnaedyr and surrounding areas in Murghôm would be AWESOME, setting a game in Sembia has lots of potential given their status as a vassal of the returned Netherese Empire...there's just so much out there that's got so much potential!
Not saying there's anything wrong with exploring new ground. That'd be pretty cool too, I just don't mind if they stick with the same locations.
It would sort of be like if 80%+ of the episodes of every season of every series of Star Trek took place entirely on Bajor. DS9 doesn't even do that.
looks promising.
But like a game set in Waterdeep would be relatively new. What was the last game set there? Hordes of the Underdark?
I mean there's a lot of the sword coast that hasn't been visited often. Even Baldur's Gate hasn't been featured all that much, given that there are two entire games named after it.
the Eye of the Beholder games before HotU as well IIRC, but even going North of Waterdeep and Neverwinter along Sword Coast North just feels too familiar to me, I wanna see environs geographically and politically distinct from the Sword Coast. Amn was actually pretty great in BG2 because that's getting south enough along it that it starts to feel slightly different from that Pacific Northwest inspired rugged frontiersy feel of most Sword Coast locations, so even further south of Amn might be a cool idea too if they're going to stick to the Sword Coast...but the Northwest of Faerun is just so, so overdone in computer gaming (IMHO)
which, again, isn't to say I'm not super pumped for BG3 (I mean, I'm from the Pacific NW so on one level I like all the dedication to a fantasy analogue of my homelands), and honestly I want BG3 equally as much as I want them to come out with their own 5e FR IP, I just want their own FR IP to feel very distinct from when they put out BG3
One should be the son of charname with Viconia / Jaheira / Aerie you have to choose in the character creation but the race of your character will be Charname
The other story can be happening at the same time of the bg2 but not related, like a new threat in bg city
But i prefer a new game, where you can visit a few cities from baldurs to nwn with a lot in the middle, call it Faerun if you will
Or a new place like Dragonlance or Darksun
Also you can do something new, non dnd, like pillars of eternity or non fantasy, maybe a post apocalyptic or even steampunk world
Edit: it was a year ago i brought that up... no change since then. Here is a link to the post https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/628527/#Comment_628527
I never played the Eye of the Beholder games. I own them (and the other gold box games) but I never really got the hang of playing them properly and stuck to Infinity Engine and Neverwinter Nights stuff.
You know the Forgotten Realms player book for D&D 5e is Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide?
I'm back living here currently too, although I'm moving back out east pretty soon. Nature is prettier out here, but I got more goin' for me further east.
Back in February 2014, there was only 32 according to @bengoshi
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/29946/icewind-dale-domain-registered-to-trent-oster-hint-hint/
So in those 20 extra probably lie the name of the next game Beamdog is going to release.
You all can speculate (or play hangman) via:
http://reversewhois.domaintools.com/beamdog
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Note there are none that start with a P. Also, the beamdog team has used Planescape as a red herring before. When they were about to release IWD, @Dee changed his profile pic to Morte driving the speculation that PST was next instead of IWD, even though all the signs pointed to IWD.
But I have been known to be wrong before. Maybe Trent learnt his lesson (he does that) and registers them all privately now. But it wouldn't explain the extra 20.
edit: oh btw, one of the websites is bg3ee.com registered to Jonathan Hill, instead of Trent. Who is he? Well is an art coordinator at Beamdog with a much harder name to narrow searches down so....
Just please keep it in the Forgotten Realms universe. This world, this realm is my baby. I even own all the source books for it.
And I hope Beamdog branches out from FR eventually, but at the same time I also do want to see them tackle locations outside of the Sword Coast on Abeir-Toril as well as BG3 hopefully being set around Baldur's Gate itself in the 5e post-Sundering timeline. Especially since Minsc and Boo are still around due to flesh to stone in the 2e era and wild magic surge flesh to stone restoring him in the 5e era! I really want to stomp around Baldur's Gate with Minsc and Boo again!
Kitsune Trickster Rogue 2/Feyspeaker Druid 2/Animal Speaker Bard 1/Green Whisperer 5/Fochlucan Lyrist 10. All your spellcasting scales with Charisma since Feyspeaker Druids use Charisma as their casting stat.
Or say you want to make a Cleric/Wizard Necromancer.
Wizard 1 (Precocious Apprentice Feat)/Cleric 3/Mystic Theurge 2/True Necromancer 14.
Good but requires a lot of supplement material to work.
In 5e you can create these crazy builds with just core.
You could go a Bard/Druid build or just be a Lore Bard that chooses Druid spells as his expanded spell list options.
Wizard 6/Cleirc 14 is a super cool Necromancer.
What use to require a bunch of suppliment material to work now only requires multiclassing or picking an archetype.
A 5e CRPG along the lines of NWN2 would be my favorite thing ever.
5e also provides lots of guidelines for homebrew content and WotC regularly posts homebrew content like the spell-less ranger and Favored Soul. I always love the promotion of homebrew. Not enough DMs that I play with really delve into it.
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o _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ s.com
o _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ e.com
o _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ o.com
r _ _ _ _ _ _ _ r.com
r _ _ _ _ _ _ _ p.com
r _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ r.com
r _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ h.com
r _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ y.com
r _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ e.com
r _ _ _ _ _ _ y.com
r _ _ _ _ _ _ g.com
s _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ r.com = s i e g e o f d r a g o n s p e a r.com
s _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ r.com
s _ _ _ _ _ _ y.com
s _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ e.com
t _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ s.com
I don't even remember how many prestige classes I've designed (more than 10 at least) but they're work.
baldursgate.net
baldursgate2ee.com
b _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ v.com
b _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ v.com
beamdog.com
beamdog.net
beamdogmac.com
b _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ s.com
bg3ee.com
castleseige.com
d _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ p.com
d _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ p.com
d _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ t.com
f _ _ _ _ d.com
g _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ s.com
g _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ s.com
icewidaleee.com
ideasparklabs.com
i _ _ _ _ _ _ e.com
i _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ s.com
i _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ y.com
k _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ r.com
k _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ r.com
l _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ k.com
loreform.com
malletstudios.com
m _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ r.com
m _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ s.com
m _ _ _ _ _ t.com
m _ _ _ _ _ _ m.com
neverwinternightsee.com
neverwinternightsenhanced.com
novabreaker.com
n _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ s.com
oilfieldrobotics.com
overhaulgame.com
overhaulstudio.com
r _ _ _ _ _ _ _ r.com
r _ _ _ _ _ _ _ p.com
r _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ r.com
rebelsmith.com
rebeltheory.com
r _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ e.com
r _ _ _ _ _ _ y.com
rxracing.com
siegeofdragonspear.com
seigeofdragonspear.com
s _ _ _ _ _ _ y.com
stygiangate.com
t _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ s.com
baldursgate.net
baldursgate2ee.com
baldursgateiv.com
baldursgatev.com
beamdog.com
beamdog.net
beamdogmac.com
bestingames.com
bg3ee.com
castleseige.com
deathbytrap.com
dungeondropp.com
dungeonhunt.com
funfed.com
grudgehounds.com
gameplayarts.com
icewidaleee.com
ideasparklabs.com
ironisle.com
ironislestudios.com
irontheory.com
keepbuilder.com
keepraider.com
legendpeak.com
loreform.com
malletstudios.com
massbreaker.com
m _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ s.com
mazdagt.com
mythform.com
neverwinternightsee.com
neverwinternightsenhanced.com
novabreaker.com
novabreakers.com
oilfieldrobotics.com
overhaulgame.com
overhaulstudio.com
realmswar.com
rebelkeep.com
rebelorder.com
rebelsmith.com
rebeltheory.com
renegadeforge.com
runeplay.com
rxracing.com
siegeofdragonspear.com
seigeofdragonspear.com
stormcry.com
stygiangate.com
thegrudgehounds.com
and some links not mentioned yet:
trentoster.com
trapcraft.com
baldursgate.net
beamdog.net
beamdog.studio