Divinity Will Be Turn-based With A 'new Ruleset' Based On...

No Divinity ARPG for thee, we're keeping things old school.

In the wake of its gruesome Game Awards reveal, everyone was arguing about whether Divinity would be turn-based like Baldur's Gate 3, or an action RPG. Wonder no more: in a post-TGA interview with PC Gamer, Larian boss Swen Vincke confirmed that Divinity will be a turn-based RPG, and elaborated a bit on what we can expect from its combat and systems.

"It's not a clone of D:OS 2 in that sense, it's a new ruleset, a ruleset built on everything that we learned from all the previous games that we've done," said Vincke. "I think you're gonna enjoy it. It's very easy to learn, very hard to master, but it allows you to do fantastic things, which is the most important bit.

"It's going to give you a really good time figuring things out, and how you can chain things to one another and come up with all kinds of shenanigans."

When asked whether Divinity would be turn-based and have a similar party size to Baldur's Gate 3, Vincke responded in the affirmative. Baldur's Gate 3, as well as both Original Sin games, allow four characters in your active party at any time. So while Vincke didn't provide the exact number, four seems like a sure bet. An open question remains whether we'll see the return of BG3's party camp, or if you'll be limited to only the four characters in your active party for the whole game, which was the case in Divinity: Original Sin 2.

From there, we've got room to speculate. I'd expect at least as much of a change in rules and mechanics as the one from Original Sin to OS 2, but there are fundamental design choices they share in common, some of which strike me as core to the series identity.

Here are some of the key mechanical commonalities between the Original Sin games, ordered by most to least likely to return in Divinity, according to my gut:

We got answers to some of our most burning Divinity questions during the conversation, and you can see them all in our rundown of the six biggest things we learned about Divinity. We also have a guide to how you should get into the series if the only Larian game you've played is Baldur's Gate 3.

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Source: PC Gamer