'I wish Wyll had gotten more content' says the Baldur's Gate 3 writer who wrote him, and splitting his story between devils and dads 'might have been a mistake in hindsight'

Baldur's Gate 3, you may have heard, was quite a good videogame. Good enough to make PCG history, even. But not every part of it shines equally. Wyll, the origin character and (if you're not playing as him) party member, is notoriously a little underbaked. He's so straightforwardly good as to be, well, maybe a little dull, and he even gets outshone by other characters in some of his own big plot scenes—not because of a deficit in his performance, but because of how those scenes were written.

It turns out that Wyll's writer...