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Baldur's Gate

A journal that tracks what you were told, so nonlinear questing stops needing a notepad.

Released 1998 Developer BioWare Publisher Interplay Entertainment Platform PC Genre CRPG Era The 3D rupture

Mechanics this game introduced

These are recorded as first appearing here. Each links to a full history of where the idea went next.

Interface & Meta · 1998
Quest Journal
A quest journal records what characters have told the player, tracking objectives, leads and completion states so seve…
Origin: Baldur's Gate

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Baldur's Gate inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Experience Points and Levels 1980Character Classes 1981Isometric Projection 1982Branching Dialogue Trees 1985Full Voice Performance 1994

Directly influenced

Pillars of Eternity 2015Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous 2021

The Baldur's Gate series in this dataset

1998
Baldur's Gate this page
2000
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