Baldur's Gate 3 News

Dear diary, this Baldur's Gate 3 mod lets you write in-game journals documenting your characters' adventures

What happened today? Well, Astarion said something sassy, Lae'zel tried to teach Gale how to build a shed, and Shadowheart wrote a Gauntlet of Shar-themed parody of 'Is This The Way To Amarillo'. That's about how I imagine the journal entries a new Baldur's Gate 3 mod lets you write as part of an impressive in-game diary system will go.

Well, that and at least 100 words per day of moaning about having a little squid thing in your brain.

Our annual Top 100 games list was published this week—a monumental undertaking that involved more than 30 writers and editors debating, discussing, pleading and even putting on presentations to sway colleagues. We are very tired. But that might also have something to do with the fact that we spend so much time playing massive RPGs..
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The top 100 PC games

Welcome to the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best games you can play right now. For the last few months, the PC Gamer team has been busy whittling down the hundreds of thousands of games available on PC; campaigning, voting and arguing until we arrived at the 100 games you'll find below...
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Veteran DnD designer bestows the ultimate praise on "fantastic" Baldur's Gate 3

You don't need me to tell you that Baldur's Gate 3 is absolutely brilliant - Larian's trophy cabinet speaks for itself. At this point, the studio is likely used to the glowing praise, but hearing it from a Dungeons and Dragons veteran will feel particularly satisfying. In a new interview, Bruce Nesmith - a former creative director at TSR who shaped the tabletop universe, before working for Bethesda on The Elder Scrolls and Fallout series - has labeled BG3 as the best DnD game ever made.

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Baldur's Gate 3 needed a "cowboy wizard extraordinaire" and its latest custom companion mod delivers

Baldur's Gate 3 modders continue to dig deep into the bag of tools Larian gave them and unleash their creativity on mods which don't just remix existing bits of the game, but add entirely custom elements. While custom campaigns and new areas rightly grab a lot of the headlines, custom companions have also been starting to arrive. The latest is a "cowboy wizard extraordinaire", a vocation that'll fit right in among the established party.

After all, people will likely be too busy staring at Withers' modded big naturals to question whether cowboys are a thing in the Forgotten Realms.