Baldur's Gate 3's wild success this year has made enormous waves in all corners of the gaming community. It signals continued success for sprawling RPGs, even more players taking up an interest in Dungeons & Dragons, and it's becoming the new home for a very particular brand of player—the fandom freaks (affectionate).
When Larian first started revealing Baldur's Gate 3's party of weirdos, complete with interwoven backstories and the new-for-Larian cinematic, eye-level character conversations, I started to hope that it would attract this specific kind of player. It's the fans who dedicate entire channels in their Discord server to one specific character, the ones who spend just as much time creating fanart and fanfiction and cosplays as they did playing the game, the Nexus gremlins modding an RPG within an inch of its life just to get the perfect aesthetic shots for their new profile picture.
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