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NEWS ITEMS

Baldur’s Gate 3. IGN reports that Larian has shown off graphs indicating the most popular lineage and class choices in Baldur’s Gate 3. Half-elf, human, and elf all ranked very closely, with half-elf taking the top spot among lineages. Among classes, paladin was the most popular by a wide margin. Cleric and githyanki were the least popular choices. 93% of players chose to create a custom character instead of using one of the origin characters.

Daggerheart. ComicBook Gaming reported on its first impressions of Critical Role’s upcoming fantasy TTRPG. Designed with inspiration from systems like Blades in the Dark and Powered by the Apocalypse, it seeks to capture the tone of Dungeons & Dragons while being more approachable. Notable features include a 2d12 system with Hope and Fear dice, cards that detail features of your character, a damage threshold system instead of standard HP, and a more cinematic system for character death.

Discord.io. Mashable reports that the third-party service for Discord has suffered a large data breach affecting roughly 760,000 users. The service is stopping all operations for the foreseeable future as it seeks to fix the issue.

Dungeons & Dragons. Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants is now available.

Overwatch 2. IGN reports that Blizzard has announced that its shooter sequel will graduate from early access to a full live-service game with the release of Season 6.

Pokemon Scarlet/Violet. GameInformer reports that The Indigo Disk will include every starter Pokemon from previous games in the series. The starters will be available as wild Pokemon encounters, rather than acquired through trading or special mechanics.

Super Mario Bros. Gamespot reports that the terrible 1993 film is returning to Japanese theaters in 4K for its 30th anniversary.

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