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How the Baldur's Gate 3 bear sex scene came to be, and why it's "a watershed moment in game history"

In a talk at Brighton's Develop conference this week, former Larian writer Baudelaire Welch declared the bear romance s…

In a talk at Brighton's Develop conference this week, former Larian writer Baudelaire Welch declared the bear romance scene in Baldur's Gate 3 "a watershed moment in game history". Welch was responsible for overseeing the companion romances in the game, and wrote the Dark Urge storyline, but didn't join the team until partway through development. They'd written Astarion fanfiction before applying to work at the studio, and were partially hired for their embedded knowledge about what that community wanted (they also have a game design background alongside this).

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