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The lead designer of Obsidian's upcoming Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game, Neverwinter Nights 2, has just been sacked. The person who wrote this post has just been sacked. The person who sacked the person who wrote this post who was just sacked has been sacked. Fill in your own Monty Pythonesque infinite recursion here!
Anyway, sacked is probably too strong a word: Ferret Badouin has left the project for unstated reasons (which he hints may have something to do with an upcoming candidacy for President, although we're pretty sure he's a Frenchie).
It's usually bad news when a lead designer leaves this far into a project, but the good news is that J.E. Sawyer of Icewind Dale and Icewind Dale 2 is filling his position. At least JE knows RPGs. Quoth J.E...
Ferret did work at BIS on both Jefferson and Van Buren (The Black Hound and Fallout 3). On F3 he was designing the highly nutty (but cool) Brotherhood of Steel/Circle of Steel stuff.I'm now the acting lead designer on NWN2.
J.E. Sawyer takes the helm of NWN2 in the interim [NWN2News]
