In ‘Baldur’s Gate’, Women Are Powerful… And So Are Their Breasts

Revisiting the game that taught me D&D and finding it more… well-endowed than I remember

Amanda Kay Oaks
Fanfare
Published in
6 min readOct 21, 2021

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Image from Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance, sourced from Nintendo Smash

Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance opens on a slender elven woman, the avatar of the character selected at the start menu. She walks through the empty streets of the city in what I can best describe as a skintight…

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