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Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor Samantha Béart was initially turned down for roles like 'Goblin 49,' but 2 years later they were hired 'within a day' of their audition as 'the muscle mummy we know and love'




Speaking to actor Samantha Béart about their fan (and PC Gamer)-favorite turn as Karlach in Baldur's Gate 3, I was surprised at how close we were to a different actor portraying the character...
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Leaked footage of "paused" Dungeons & Dragons RPG shows the thing doing a thing with the stuff

Some footage from a reportedly cancelled Dungeons and Dragons RPG from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive co-developers Hidden Path Entertainment has surfaced online, alongside concept art.


All of it paints a vague picture of a work-in-progress game - which was being assembled under the watchful eye of a Wizards of the Coast that's currently facing a post-Larian Baldur's Gate conundrum - that looked a bit like a bunch of the big fantasy RPGs we've gotten in recent years.


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Who the heck is Evelyn? Why a custom Baldur's Gate 3 character with millions of TikTok likes keeps getting confused for an actual NPC




Baldur's Gate 3 has many characters and NPCs to woo and romance, but an alarmingly large section of the internet is obsessed with one that does not, in fact, exist. Meet Evelyn—a modded character who has taken BG3 TikTok by storm. In the span of two short years, Evelyn's had cosplays and fan edits praising her in droves—here's one from last month with over 1.5 million likes and 250,000 bookmarks...
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Wizards of the Coast will make "CRPGs that are going to be as serious as BG3", and their D&D action game wants to be the stuff of gelatinous cube dreams

Wizards of the Coast knows the people thirst for more more Baldur's Gate 3-ish CRPGs, and the company's president has made it clear they still plan on making those kinds of things, even if the D&D action game they recently announced will be a different kettle of magic frogs


"Don’t get me wrong," said President John Hight when speaking to Polygon about the different possibilities making a D&D game offers being a factor in going that route with this latest game, "we are going to do CRPGs that are going to be as serious as BG3."


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Post-Larian Wizards of the Coast threatens us with more 'CRPGs that are going to be as serious as BG3'




Larian is, as you've no doubt heard, done with Baldur's Gate 3. There's no DLC in the pipeline, no sequel around the corner. Swen and co are off to pastures greener, creating something they're all very happy to tantalise us about while giving no details at all. I've decided it's Knights of the Old Republic 3, personally (it is not)...
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