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Oct 2023
1h 12m

379: Baldur’s Gate 3

The Short Game
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This week Shane and Raygan betray the premise of the podcast and have a nice long chat about Baldur’s Gate 3, an immense game we’re both enjoying immensely, with some digressions into D&D and (ding) Magic the Gathering.

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