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Obsidian's RPG design expert reckons he knows why no one's maining Cleric in Baldur's Gate 3, and it's the same reason no one plays them in his games either

Josh Sawyer has worked on or led design in games like Fallout: New Vegas, Icewind Dale, and Pillars of Eternity.

Nobody wants to play a Cleric in Baldur's Gate 3, and one veteran RPG dev says it's got nothing to do with D&D rules

Nobody wants to play a Cleric in Baldur's Gate 3, and one veteran RPG dev says it's got nothing to do with D&D rules

"In my experience this has nothing to do with the specifics of BG3 or 5E"

'A triumph': Brian Fargo, Mike Laidlaw, and other RPG architects weigh in on Baldur's Gate 3

'A triumph': Brian Fargo, Mike Laidlaw, and other RPG architects weigh in on Baldur's Gate 3

Creative forces behind series like Fallout, Dragon Age, The Elder Scrolls, and Pillars of Eternity react to Baldur's Gate 3.

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The best CRPGs to play after Baldur's Gate 3

Defeated the Absolute already? Here are some options for your next adventure.

Baldur's Gate 3 is the game of the moment – don't ruin that moment

Opinion | Baldur's Gate 3 is too good to be reduced to an arbitrary moral bludgeon

Pentiment gets updated with more languages and a new map area

Pentiment, the award-winning narrative RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, is getting updated with expanded language support and a new area.

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Josh Sawyer: 'The most compromised games I worked on were Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2'

Though he's still proud of them, Pillars of Eternity's game director would have liked them to be different.

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RPG roundtable podcast: Josh Sawyer, Mike Laidlaw, Strix Beltran, Paweł Sasko, and Lis Moberly go deep on writing and playing RPGs

RPG roundtable podcast: Josh Sawyer, Mike Laidlaw, Strix Beltran, Paweł Sasko, and Lis Moberly go deep on writing and playing RPGs

Listen to our 80-minute discussion with five veteran RPG designers.

Fallout: New Vegas studio was once developing an Aliens RPG, but Sega scrapped it for Alpha Protocol

Fallout: New Vegas studio was once developing an Aliens RPG, but Sega scrapped it for Alpha Protocol

Obsidian developer Josh Sawyer shares what happened to the studio's Aliens RPG

'Hi-Fi Rush' Reveals How Xbox Game Pass Can Save a Dying Breed of Games

'Hi-Fi Rush' Reveals How Xbox Game Pass Can Save a Dying Breed of Games

'Hi-Fi Rush' and 'Pentiment' represent a dying breed of games. Xbox Game Pass could be the answer to saving them.

Xbox Game Pass's next big indie draws a "bonkers" link between painters and game devs

Xbox Game Pass's next big indie draws a "bonkers" link between painters and game devs

The gorgeous wood-block style art of Obsidian's 'Pentiment' required a lot of historical research, and it made the devs reflect on the role of art in society.

Pentiment, the 16th-century murder mystery that looks like a playable tapestry

Pentiment, the 16th-century murder mystery that looks like a playable tapestry

Director Josh Sawyer explains why developer Obsidian decided to make a narrative adventure about a painter-detective

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