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Baldur's Gate and how to get into D&D

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Aug 18, 2023
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This week on The Besties: Baldur’s Gate 3 and D&D

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is humongous, so we spend some more time talking about this incredible CRPG before Starfield and Armored Core 6 take over our lives. We also chat about Hammerwatch 2, an interesting game that makes some puzzling choices.

In the back half of the episode, the crew shares some helpful starter games and tools for listeners curious about getting into D&D. The recs include Quest, Lasers and Feelings, StartPlaying.games.

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Games discussed:

Baldur’s Gate 3, Hammerwatch 2, Wildermyth, Zero Escape, Outer Wilds, Minit, The Sexy Brutale, The Forgotten City, Pokemon Sleep, the original The Legend of Zelda


Movies discussed:

Brigsby Bear


Books discussed:

Wool


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Jordon
Aug 18Liked by The Besties

Wanted to chime in and say that I'm really enjoying the format and flow of the newsletters. Thanks for another great episode folks!

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Patrick C
Aug 18Liked by The Besties

For Justin and Griffin: do you expect BG3 to influence how you play TAZ? New-to-you mechanics you’ve discovered to change how you play a PC, new classes you’d like to try, new tricks/story beats/encounter types to incorporate into how you DM, etc? Does the vibe of how Larian have “DMed” this game translate at all to the TAZ setup or is it just hopelessly too much preproduction work?

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