"Divinity: Original Sin developer Larian Studios have announced that veteran RPG developer Chris Avellone will be joining them to work on the game's super-successful Kickstarted sequel. Avellone, whose credits include Planescape: Torment, Star Wars: KOTOR II, Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity, left Obsidian earlier this year, and with news of his availability circulating, RPG Codex launched a campaign to make Avellone's involvement in D:OS2 a stretch goal. Many, many upvotes later, Avellone signed on the dotted line with Larian.
Avellone helped to co-found Obsidian Entertainment back in 2003 after working at legendary RPG studio Black Isle for several years.
The list of celebrated role-playing titles on his portfolio is damn impressive: excluding the titles previously mentioned, he's worked on Icewind Dale I&II, Fallout 2, Neverwinter Nights 2 and the divisive Alpha Protocol. All games with devoted fanbases, and they're generally darker in tone than Divinity: Original Sin. "
Really great news, Chris is one of the best designers/writers (if not the best) in genre, what is shaping to be a great game will get even better with him - it's again great time to be a cRPG fan, this few years feel a lot like late 90's and Interplay's Infinity engine period.
