Pool of Radiance Forum Update

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(Originally posted by Nazgul)

Here are some more comments from Garrett Graham, Producer of Pool of Radiance on the Official PoR message boards.

How long will Pool of Radiance take to finish?
It took me well over 100 hours to complete the game, but I'm the kind of guy who has to uncover every inch of the map, complete every quest and open every chest. (In BG1 I carried a dead cat around with me for most of the game on the off chance that it would be useful). Chuck finished PoR in a little under 100 hours. He also did as much as possible, but he was much more familiar with the story and quests.

Any estimate on when you'll know if you can proceed with more D&D games? Or is this something Infogames wants to wait on to see how well PoR2 sells?
If they do allow you to make more D&D games, will you continue to use SF for the development or will you go with a different company or do internal development (i.e. by SSI)?
Its up to lawyers and suits to get the license and it will take as long as it takes (cruddy answer, I know, but *you* try getting a straight answer out of lawyers ). We would love to do a sequel and/or a new game. If we did another D&D game, it would be 3E, have all the races/classes, allow the player to select feats, and offer up prestige classes. I have no intention of spending another year reading posts titled "You freaking morons! How could you leave out (insert left out feature here)?!?!?!?"
If we can't get the D&D license, we'll try to license another system. As a last resort, Chuck and I would design something.
Correct me if I'm wrong but couldn't you use the D20 system and not need a license for it (I thought it was pretty much 'freeware' so to speak).

Now I don't know much about D20 but isn't it pretty much 80% of the PHB?
We asked about that. If you're doing a P&P game, no problem, but Infogrammes has all the interactive rights to any D20 system - probably because it *would* be so close to D&D. We'll keep trying, though.