(Image credit: Left: BioWare. Right: High North Studios)

As part of our ongoing coverage and commemoration of the closure of BioWare, we've been reaching out to RPG developers to hear what the studio meant to them. Lead SEO editor Lauren Morton got in touch with 16 devs who owe their careers to the legendary RPG studio , and today I can share the words of another, Skald: Against the Black Priory lead developer Anders Lauridsen.

Baldur’s Gate 1 was the first game I truly loved.

I’d played a bunch of CRPGs before but they were older, clunkier titles. Though I was deeply fascinated by the genre, I was also a little too young to grok some of those older titles. Meanwhile I had started dabbling in AD&D (second edition to be specific) and that blew my mind like nothing before it. Like all fledgling DMs, however, I very soon ran into the dreaded “scheduling conflicts” that are the bane of tabletop groups. I had been shown paradise and then had the keys snatched away. I was creatively and intellectually starved.…