Pillars of Eternity director Josh Sawyer explains how RPGs can maintain complexity while welcoming newcomers through smart ...

Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer believes RPGs should let players choose difficulty, allowing gameplay to match ...

Josh Sawyer believes you can achieve accessibility through difficulty options, rather than needlessly simplifying mechanics.

Obsidian Entertainment's The Outer Worlds 2 got a helping hand from the team behind the Halo games which improved the gunplay ...

Avowed isn't Pillars of Eternity 3, but if the third RPG ever happens director Josh Sawyer reckons it should move to a proper 3D environment "more like Baldur’s Gate 3" ...

I personally never played any Pillars of Eternity game despite being praised as some of Obsidian's best PC games (my colleague Rich Edmonds even gave glowing reviews for Pillars of Eternity 1 and ...

So, who knows? Maybe someday.” Whether a Pillars of Eternity tactics game will come to be remains to be seen. In the meantime, Obsidian is still hard at work on its Xbox and PC fantasy RPG, Avowed.

So despite a Pillars of Eternity tactics game looking like it makes absolute sense as a concept, it would prove difficult to make a case for – at least on the business side.

Thankfully, both senior developers have stood firm in the belief that you don't need to have played games like Pillars of Eternity to enjoy Obsidian's forthcoming game.

IGN’s Pillars of Eternity review returned a 9/10. “Obsidian (and its Kickstarter backers) have done it: Pillars of Eternity is one of the best RPGs since Baldur's Gate,” we said.

Obsidian's Josh Sawyer joked on Twitter (also known as X) that he's waiting for a call from Microsoft to build Pillars of Eternity 3, with a beefy budget to match.

Obsidian is releasing a first-person RPG, set in the "Pillars of Eternity" world. I have no idea how open world it is. Since it is Obsidian, it will probably be buggy on release. But I'm intrigued.