Baldur's Gate 3 casts a long shadow over any RPG that's going to follow, and even the genre legends at Avowed developer Obsidian seem to feel there are some lessons to learn - particularly with the D&D game's approach to party members.
Feargus Urquhart - head of Obsidian and a storied RPG developer in his own right - says Baldur's Gate 3's take on companion characters is the subject of plenty of scrutiny from the Avowed devs. In Baldur's Gate 3, "the companions can be very mercurial in a lot of ways, and they have distinct personalities," Urquhart said on the Hit the Limit Break podcast. "I looked at a lot of that stuff. I want to take a lot from that and compare that to what we've been doing with companions. That's a lot of what we've been talking about internally about Baldur's Gate 3."
