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'Baldur's Gate 3' Guide for Best Origin Characters, Party Comps, and Act 1 Mistakes to Avoid

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Shadowheart and Lae'zel's Baldur's Gate 3 romance came naturally because their writers realised they 'were writing the same story from different directions'

Green alien lady, goth cult lady: tom-ay-to, tom-ah-to.

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Baldur's Gate 3 writer says the RPG's reputation system exists because Larian can't just let players "break" party members: "We would be working on the game forever"

"We can't have every character reacting to every situation"

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Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart writer had to sit down with his Lae'zel counterpart to make sure that their joint romance would actually make sense: "That allowed us to reframe their initial clash"

"We realized we were writing the same story from different directions"

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Baldur's Gate 3 TV show: Everything we know so far about the upcoming HBO fantasy series

All we know so far about HBO's upcoming Baldur's Gate 3 TV show

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Following a subtle Space Marine 2 cameo, Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel actor would "absolutely" be down to voice a Sister of Battle in a Warhammer game

"All Warhammer stuff is amazing," says Devora Wilde

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Shadowheart is the most-respecced Baldur's Gate 3 companion and it's not even close: everyone knew to make her a Life or Death Domain Cleric, which Larian says "checks out"

The Trickery Domain is for squares

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Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor was "pretty unsurprised" to learn she played the RPG's most-romanced character: "People are going to love this, and love her"

Jen English is never beating the 'God's favorite Princess' allegations

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Baldur's Gate 3 companions got official $50 D&D minis, and I am casting Vicious Mockery because what in the Nine Hells is this

Gale, you feeling all right?

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Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel actor had a little chair in the booth because she was still recording 2 days before giving birth: "My waters broke after the session"

"I'm gonna be here right up until the due date"

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Lae'zel's voice actor was recording Baldur's Gate 3 lines a mere 2 days before giving birth: 'I'm gonna be here right up until the due date, just you watch'

Downright Gith in determination.

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Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel actor was "paranoid" about making the githyanki girlfriend’s voice "lower and lower" through Act 3 until she realized "it really works with her character development"

"I think she comes in, you know, all guns blazing, all swords blazing, whatever"

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Lae'zel's voice actor Devora Wilde also auditioned for Shadowheart, Karlach, 'And probably Astarion?'

Honestly, I can see it.

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I faced my modding fears by testing out Larian's favorite Baldur's Gate 3 mods and now it just feels like I'm cheating

Now Playing | Surely this has to be illegal

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As Astarion, Karlach, and Shadowheart get Funko Pops, actor behind Baldur's Gate 3's least-popular companion asks "No hot green girlfriend?"

Poor, innocent Lae’zel

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Baldur's Gate 3 fan mods all of the RPG's companions into Tekken 8, effectively respeccing them all into the Monk class

Mortal Kombat next, please

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One Tekken 8 modder has crowbarred all of Baldur's Gate 3's origin characters into the fighting game

Works surprisingly well, as far as crossovers go.

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Lae'zel's new "evil" ending in Baldur's Gate 3 isn't actually evil – it's her best possible outcome

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Baldur's Gate 3 players are having their hearts thoroughly wrenched by the new evil endings to their companion romances: 'I'll never emotionally recover from this'

Sometimes love can be messy.

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Baldur's Gate 3 player hacks their way into the game's rarest ending to find an alternative that's literally impossible to achieve

Larian's hiding an ending that it made but never shipped

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Baldur's Gate 3's Lae'zel borrowed her fighting style from a legendary samurai's fight with his sleep paralysis demon

Gotta get your inspiration from somewhere

PC Gamer

Baldur's Gate 3's rarest ending has only been unlocked by 34 players, and it requires an obscenely specific sequence of poor decisions

You gotta be evil Lae'zel, and also very bad at it.

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Baldur's Gate 3's lead mocap choreographer reveals Lae'zel's combat stance is based on a real technique that came to an ancient samurai master in a dream

Lae'zel's "elusive" pose came from scriptures about a master developing his ultimate technique.

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It took me over a year to realize my favorite thing about Baldur's Gate 3 — Strangely enough, I have Dragon Age: Inquisition to thank for this discovery

I've loved Baldur's Gate 3 since I first played it last year, but it wasn't until just recently that I realized one of my favorite things about this game. Honestly, I have Dragon Age: Inquisition to thank for this discovery.

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Baldur's Gate 3's least-popular Origin character has an ending so rare that Larian says only 34 players have ever even seen it

"You read that right," Lae'zel fans

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