FWIW, D&D in space is kind of a thing. When D&D got away from numbers and calculation and tried to make itself simpler to appeal to broader audiences, Pathfinder became a competitor that stuck with the numbers and calculations popular with D&D 3.5 and 4e. Starfinder is a spinoff of Pathfinder set in space, and from what I hear, it's a lot of fun. However, Pathfinder doesn't appeal to me (and neither do old versions of D&D), but Starfinder is an interesting thing. It's a shame it's not more popular or even more well known.

Just watched the trailer... game looks awesome. Wishlisted on Xbox. My first thought was, "nice, they're putting a female lead first with the potential option to play a guy," since FemShep was the superior option in Mass Effect, just like Valerie was the superior option in Cyberpunk... many other games benefited from playing a girl/woman. But by the end I'm not so sure who you'll play. Maybe both of them? Or maybe it'll be like Andromeda where if you swap the gender, it swaps the gender of the other Ryder? They also used first names in the trailer, implying you won't be able to change them. Or maybe it'll be like Fallout 4 where if you use one of about a thousand names, it'll be spoken... though, these days, they can just use an AI voice to fill in how your name sounds, opening the door to letting you use some exotic name... you just have to speak it three times, and the game can then speak it, in whatever voice it wants.

I saw a lot of Mass Effect DNA in the game, and a lot of Andromeda influence, which is a good thing. Andromeda kinda sucked in the second half, and didn't go over well with fans, but pretending it didn't exist would be a mistake. Taking what it did right and working that into the evolution of the developers — it seems that Exodus is made by some former BioWare talent — is the right move.

Also, it seems like we'll get Exodus before we get Mass Effect 5?