Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer on romances: 'sex is not the goal, it's just sex'

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Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer on romances: 'sex is not the goal, it's just sex'
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Lauren started writing for PC Gamer as a freelancer in 2017 while chasing the Dark Souls fashion police and accepted her role as Associate Editor and Chief Minecraft Liker in 2021. She originally started her career in game development and is still fascinated by how games tick in the modding and speedrunning scenes. She likes long books, longer RPGs, multiplayer cryptids, and can't stop playing co-op crafting games.

, where he shared his thoughts on the nuances of party relationships in Baldur's Gate 3.

RPG's with romances tend to do that: give you an approval bar that you fill up partly by saying all the"right" things in dialogue and partly by repeatedly gifting them that one item they like. After enough right lines and offerings of trinkets, a confession pops out. Congrats, you romanced! "It always started with the story. Who is Astarion? How did he get like this? You see the people who say 'I can fix him. I can fix him!'" Smith says."And we joke about it and I love joking about it and being silly about it. But they have trauma, a lot of them. And I hope that when we get to the end of their stories a lot of the time you see it exposed."

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