Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 18 – Introduction

TL;DR: Go straight to part one. As Tolkien put it, "This tale grew in the telling." This is an introduction to my pictorial fanfic in general, and to the story I've prepared based on my eighteenth playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3. It consists of about 830 images, selected out of a pool of over 7500, with captions…

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More stuffed animal locations in BG3

Both Real Angela and I have continued to revised our stuffed-toy essays. For this post, please check the section "The task never ends!" for substantive edits I've made. Even before the fanfic, let's get this disclaimer out of the way: This essay is a supplement to Real Angela's excellent essay on stuffed bear locations in Baldur's Gate…

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BG3 – Virtual Photography – 4 of 4

This is part four of a four-part article that begins here. Observations In preparing this essay, I became aware of how much my process resembles that of making a movie: composing each shot; understanding the properties of the camera; consider what's in-frame; location scouting for the background in the images; organizing the cast (not all characters are…

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