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Aug. 3rd, 2023 12:23 am* I was going to post a waffle on whether to get Baldur's Gate 3, but now I've already bought it. I don't really want a big game right now and fighting a dark urge doesn't sound super awesome as a plot, but current big hype RPG. I am going in very blind. I haven't played the earlier games. I don't know the Forgotten Realms world setting very well. D&D is not my system of choice, and for all I know about TTRPG culture and having gone to cons and also some LGBT+ specific cons on when I lived back east, I haven not played a ton of D&D.
* The game released tomorrow and I wonder if that will go smoothly or be a clusterfuck. They can't do pre-downloads so everyone is going to try to DL it at once! Something about how early access to the beta worked on Steam means they can't also do pre-downloads.
* I did a post about Baldur's Gate 1 for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
transmediaclub Man, running down some details was a pain. I know the gender swap relics in D&D did not originate in Baldur's Gate because there are jokes about them in Munchkin which came out in 2001!
At some point I'll ramble about how all the history of queerness in TTRPGs and even TTRPG history in general is really hidden and undocumented due to both the OG satanic panic case and also the satantic panic falling into a cultural memory hole for a while. But not tonight! I will write and be productive. I will also not wonder how much of SThings fandom even knows that satanic panic was a thing and who the starting point for Eddie was. Some night I will ramble, but not now.
* The game released tomorrow and I wonder if that will go smoothly or be a clusterfuck. They can't do pre-downloads so everyone is going to try to DL it at once! Something about how early access to the beta worked on Steam means they can't also do pre-downloads.
* I did a post about Baldur's Gate 1 for
transmediaclub Man, running down some details was a pain. I know the gender swap relics in D&D did not originate in Baldur's Gate because there are jokes about them in Munchkin which came out in 2001! At some point I'll ramble about how all the history of queerness in TTRPGs and even TTRPG history in general is really hidden and undocumented due to both the OG satanic panic case and also the satantic panic falling into a cultural memory hole for a while. But not tonight! I will write and be productive. I will also not wonder how much of SThings fandom even knows that satanic panic was a thing and who the starting point for Eddie was. Some night I will ramble, but not now.
