He is also noted for making established game mechanics part of the story. In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, he took his dislike of the way that the Force is often portrayed and used it to create a character that sought, for better or worse, to kill the Force entirely. In Planescape: Torment, he took his dislike of the Goomba tendencies of rats and utilized cranium rats, which are troublesome when encountered in large numbers. Though the details of the settlement are unknown, the accusers would issue a public retraction of their previous claims on social media and clearing Avellone of any wrongdoing.Īvellone is noted for subverting trends in RPGs that he often finds particularly infuriating. Avellone would eventually settle with his accusers outside of court in March 2023. In August 2022 his lawsuit was dismissed on the grounds that it was meritless and intended to suppress his victim's freedom of speech and he was ordered to pay over $130,000 in damages. After a year of silence, Avellone posted a response denying all accusations made against him, explaining the background that led to the accusations and stating that he had filed a libel lawsuit against the accusers. In June 2020, Avellone was faced with several allegations of sexual harassment and assault, which caused quite a few of the game studios who had employed him as a freelance writer to officially distance themselves from him and even remove his writing from the projects he had been involved with. His writing also appears in Into the Breach. He would later return to the industry, working on Prey (2017). The next project he worked on was Divinity: Original Sin II. He left Obsidian in June 2015 to work as a freelance game writer, due to radical disagreements with the higher-ups at the company. He has then gone on to be involved in a number of Kickstarter games (even styling himself as a "professional stretch-goal"), including Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity, inXile Entertainment's Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera and even became "special guest writer" for FTL: Faster Than Light: Advanced Edition. He also starred in Season 2 of the fan project called Fallout: Nuka Break, which contained numerous nods to the original two Fallouts. He then returned to the Fallout series with Fallout: New Vegas, for which he is a senior designer and was heavily involved in the development of the DLC campaigns. His first work there was Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, followed by Neverwinter Nights 2 and action RPG Alpha Protocol. He left Interplay after the cancellation of Fallout: Van Buren and headed over to Obsidian Entertainment. Interview with, regarding Fallout 2Ĭhris Avellone (born September 27, 1972) is an American video game designer and writer, who started out with Interplay Entertainment, working on such titles as Fallout 2, Planescape: Torment and the Icewind Dale series.
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