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Larian founder Swen Vincke says the studio isn't working on one, and it sounds unlikely (though not impossible) that it'll happen.

"Honestly, we haven't started on an expansion,"

Vincke said in an interview with PC Gamer on Monday.

Vincke said that he would find it "very hard" to make an adventure that takes players from level 12 to level 20, because in D&D, those levels start awarding players with godlike powers. For example, some of D&D's highest level spells include things like:

• Astral projection, letting you mosey around the astral plane
• Foresight, letting you literally see into the future and gain advantage on rolls while enemies gain disadvantage (because you know what they're going to do)
• Power Word Kill, a spell that just makes any creature with less than 100 HP immediately die
• Wish, which is just as powerful and open-ended as it sounds

[Level 12-20] adventures require a different way of doing things, in terms of antagonists you're going to have to deal with, which require a lot of development to do them properly," Vincke said. "Which would make this much more than an expansion in terms of development effort. A lot of D&D adventures are sub-level 12 for precisely that reason. So it sounds like neat, easy expansion material until you start thinking about it and it's not as easy as one would imagine.

There'd be one other complicating factor to making a Baldur's Gate 3 expansion that picks up at level 13: all the possible permutations of a finished Baldur's Gate 3 campaign feeding into that starting point. If Larian were to build something like that, "you'd have to wait for a long time," Vincke said.