Indie developer Ossian Studios is a bit of a people's champion for a certain brand of RPG sicko (I'm a certain brand of RPG sicko). Company founder Alan Miranda worked at BioWare on Baldur's Gate 2 and Neverwinter Nights before striking out on his own. With the exception of an Android RPG released in 2013, Ossian's work hasn't strayed far from Neverwinter Nights' umbrella, with its portfolio mostly consisting of ambitious, unique RPGs built on NwN's foundation—expansions like Darkness Over Daggerford and Mysteries of Westgate that punch well above their weight.
But now Ossian's going bigger than before, crowdfunding Pathfinder: The Dragon's Demand, a standalone CRPG it's building from scratch, based on the new second edition rules for the Dungeons & Dragons-derived system. I spoke with Miranda, who is also the project's director, as well as Ossian lead designer and longtime Neverwinter Nights modder Luke Scull about the project and their ambition to make a highly reactive, Baldur's Gate 3 or Divinity: Original Sin-style RPG work at a much smaller scale.
