Classic-style RPG Pillars of Eternity has been a critical (and as far as we can tell, commercial) success for Obsidian, and they're looking to expand the universe to non-digital games.
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Speaking to PC Gamer, Obsidan CEO Feargus Urquhart explained the company's plans to release a card game and tabletop RPG, though both are in the early stages. The tabletop game sounds farther off than the card game, the idea for which seems a little more fully formed at this time.
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When PC Gamer asked if the developer has plans to expand into those areas, Urquhart said the following:
"Absolutely. So, actually one of the things we're going to announce very soon, I don't even know if I talked about it. Not in the latest backer update but the next backer update, we're definitely going to talk about how we're going to be Kickstarting... not us, but another group is going to be Kickstarting a Pillars of Eternity card game. This isn't like a CCG or anything like that, but it's more just a fun, kind of, four people get around and play a single session card game. You have heros, and you have a village, and all that kind of stuff, and you can take your heroes into a dungeon, and you can also take your heroes and armies and attack your friends while they're playing, so it's kind a very fun card game and it's actually designed by Chris Taylor. Not... there's two Chris Taylors. [Laughs] It's Chris Taylor, a friend of mine for many many years who was the lead designer of Fallout."
"So, that's the first thing we're really looking at, and also, absolutely on the tabletop roleplaying. We're not sure yet how we're going to do it, we were kind of going back and forth on, do we use the game's rules, do we use someone else's rules, do we come up with another set of rules? And it's something we're going to be talking [about] soon. But absolutely, we want to expand. New books, roleplaying, all that kind of stuff."
In regard to the Chris Taylor confusion, Urquhart was making clear that he was not referring to the Total Annihilation and Dungeon Siege creator, an industry icon and founder of Gas Powered Games (now Wargaming Seattle). These new properties sound great--Pillars of Eternity provides a deep universe that can serve as a good setting for additional games, and CRPG fans are likely to intersect with tabletop players.
