Rather than join the race to be the next to post a preview, I have chosen to take a different approach. Over the next little while, I will be offering you a Baldur's Gate Primer, with sections which will each discuss one specific aspect of the game. I hope this approach will enhance your knowledge of the game and increase your enjoyment of it when you are able to play it yourself. Today's initial topic is general background. The best known of these is the Forgotten Realms world where Baldur's Gate takes place.
Adventures can be short, or can evolve into entire worlds.
Characters are carried over from session to session, and from adventure to adventure. And dice rolls are used widely, in areas ranging from character creation to combat. The Baldur's Gate computer game is being created by BioWare which is located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Their first game, a mech title called Shattered Steel, was published by Interplay and became a mid-sized hit in 1995. Subsequent to its release, they developed an idea for an online game called Battleground Infinity which they showed to a number of potential publishers.