The Campaign Builder's Guild

There will be no changing of the system. A BG3 could happen if this sells really well but it might not.

As awesome as the prospect of a BG3 is, I don't think the team behind 1 and 2 will be behind BG3, so despite the brand, I'm not getting my hopes up that it will be as good or better than the first two. Except hearing that they're keeping the second edition ruleset is a step in the right direction.

Apparently a lot of that team is with this company, working on the Enhanced Edition...so it is possible.

When you say really well is that characterizing a hope or is there a certain profit margin that you think could net BG 3? I ask because books in the RPG business often have their content expanded on through sequels and tie-ins if they do well, where as I don't know if that's how video games model decisions except in he broadest economic sense.

To be honest, the use of AD&D as a game system is a turn off. I didn't love it tabletop--though I had fun memories with it--but I feel it's just not well suited as the base system for a video game. For that matter, no D&D system is really a great fit, but I think 3rd or 4th fit video games better.

IMO stuff like THAC0 actually work better on a computer. I could possibly see 3e on a computer (though it doesn't need a computer as much) but not 4e.

as much as I have railed against THAC0 and the strange AC system that comes with it, I think changing the BG series to another edition would border on heresy. That -10 AC or the 1 THAC0 was a beautiful thing to see...

I played 2E DnD and I still have difficulty understanding the AC/Attack numbers. For whatever reason, even though it shouldn't be, it was non-intuitive. Nomadic is right that THAC0 makes more sense on a computer, but it's still unnecessarily complicated.

At least 2E DnD didn't have the tables of 1E... or at least so many.

This all serves to remind me that I really want to run a game using the older D&D rules.  I remember playing BG / NWN before I'd gotten into tabletops and not having the slightest clue what was going on.

M.

4E would be perfect for a turn based tactical game.