'We had talked about it going all the way back to Pillars of Eternity,' Sawyer confesses. But Sawyer and Urquhart aren't going to let tradition get in the way of making a better game. The party size will be reduced to five, combat is overhauledįor long-time fans of Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale, dropping the party size down a member might seem like heresy. Fortunately, you will be able to alter decisions with a new save, letting you experiment and see how consequences from Pillars of Eternity carry over. 'If you did, you have to live with it,' Sawyer laughs. Most importantly is that a few party members like Edér will return for a second round of adventuring-that is if you didn't kill them back in the Dyrwood. While Sawyer tells me not every decision from Pillars of Eternity will have an influence, some of the bigger decisions will have consequences that reach beyond the sea. You can carry over your character from the first gameīeing in such a foreign land as the Deadfire, I imagine it'll be a small comfort to be able to play your familiar character once again. While Sawyer was hesitant to give specifics, he did say that Pillars of Eternity 2 is 'roughly the size' of Pillars of Eternity. But we wanted to go in a different direction for Pillars 2.' Something that felt very traditional-Mediterranean or central European. 'When we made Pillars of Eternity, we were trying to make something that felt like the Sword Coast or the Dalelands. 'People know of it as an untamed land that is filled with pirates, sea monsters, and storms,' Sawyer says. Leaving the temperate forests of the Dyrwood behind, players sail to the Deadfire-a land unlike anything seen in Pillars of Eternity.

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