HBO’s Baldur’s Gate Show Wants To Be a Sequel to BG3. That’s Impossible.

HBO's Baldur's Gate TV show will serve as a sequel to BG3, but faces a structural problem: the game has ~17,000 variations of its ending and hundreds of branching story paths. Showrunner Craig Mazin must declare certain events "canon," potentially alienating players whose experiences differed. The article argues the Fallout TV series avoided this by setting its story 15 years after the game, leaving the intervening period undefined.

Appeared in 2026-02-09.