Earlier this week, Wizards of the Coast senior vice president of digital games Dan Ayoub said that we to see what the company has in store for D&D. In an interview with PC Gamer, I asked him just what that meant—did "soon" in fact mean sometime in 2025?

"Definitely," he told me.

While I couldn't lure Ayoub into saying the words "Baldur's Gate 4" in our interview, we did talk about the impact Baldur's Gate 3 has had on the company's future plans for videogame adaptations of D&D. It has made an impact—a big one—but Wizards is clearly looking to adapt the tabletop game in more forms than giant, systemic RPGs like Larian's.

"It certainly raised the bar in a really, really big way," Ayoub said. "It certainly changed the way we look at our big expressions of the game. But I think we want to have different entry points for people, and hopefully generally the expectations for a smaller indie title are not the same as for a BG3.

"I'll speak for myself: I was excited about BG3 for a lot of reasons, but I think it showed people what's possible in that universe. I've been playing D&D almost my whole life and it's probably why I make videogames today. I've been [[link]] so excited to make D&D videogames here, so I think we can [[link]] do some tremendous things with D&D."

Wizards currently has a number of games in development both internally and with partners, though the one we know is specifically D&D-related is from Invoke Studios in Montreal. Some other projects, including a planned big-budget D&D game being developed by Hidden Path Entertainment, .

"Whatever we do, we want to be diligent: we want to make sure whatever we're doing, we're executing to the best possible quality," Ayoub said. "That's for stuff we're doing ourselves [[link]] or with partners. We don't want to just throw games out there—Baldur's Gate kind of raised expectations and hopes of what these things can be, so whatever we do around D&D we want to make sure it's well thought-out, well executed, and just a great player experience at the end of the day."

I asked Ayoub if Wizards has any plans to remaster or rerelease some of the back catalog of D&D games, like, say, , but like the seasoned level 20 studio executive he is, he stayed right on message: "I really look forward to talking about some of our plans around D&D," he said with a laugh.