{"id":19795,"date":"2025-01-28T14:35:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/baldurs-gate-3-developer-reveals-orin-kidnapping-was-originally-very-different-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:35:18","slug":"baldurs-gate-3-developer-reveals-orin-kidnapping-was-originally-very-different-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/baldurs-gate-3-developer-reveals-orin-kidnapping-was-originally-very-different-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 developer reveals Orin kidnapping was originally very different &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 developer reveals Orin kidnapping was originally very different Larian StudiosOne of the writers who worked on Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 has opened up with some interesting new information about earlier versions of the story, which would have featured a new target for Orin in Act 3. The last act of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 ups the stakes significantly. Not only are you constantly brushing shoulders with the remaining chosen of the Dead Three, but your camp, which has been a safe space throughout the entire game, becomes a much more threatening place. Once you arrive at the city of Baldur\u2019s Gate, Orin, chosen of Bhaal, will kidnap one of your camp dwellers and take their place, and it\u2019s up to you to rescue them from her lair. However, in an interview with IGN, Lead Writer Adam Smith goes into detail about how Orin originally always targeted the character you had romanced, but said it was later changed after the idea proved to be unpopular. Larian Studios dev reveals Orin originally targeted your romance Speaking to IGN\u2019s Kat Bailey, Smith said that the change also meant that players didn\u2019t feel forced to instantly confront one of the strongest enemies in the game the moment they discovered who got kidnapped. He said: \u201cThat was a creative risk, the kidnapping of a companion a thing. Once you do it, and you don\u2019t go after them right away, you lose a whole bunch of story depending on how you\u2019re going to take it. But at the same time, we needed something where the stakes were high. \u201cSo that\u2019s why we did it that way, and we had a lot of rules that changed over time. Originally it was always your romantic partner, which wasn\u2019t very popular. \u201cIt can happen still, which usually send you on a beeline to the Bhaal Temple, which has its problems then because you\u2019re rushing toward a very high-level area, maybe a little bit too early.\u201d Currently, the only characters who can be kidnapped are Halsin, Minthara, Gale and Lae\u2019zel, provided one of them is in camp. If none of them are, Orin will kidnap Yenna. For all the latest news and updates on Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, check out what one player new to the game decided to do with Shadowheart\u2019s artifact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 developer reveals Orin kidnapping was originally very different Larian StudiosOne of the writers who worked on Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 has opened up with some interesting new information about earlier versions of the story, which would have featured a new target for Orin in Act 3. The last act of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}