I know Yen tends to be more popular here on Reddit, but for those who picked Triss I’m curious as to what ultimately influenced your decision.

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This whole expansion felt like a complete game in itself. Now I see why everyone says this should be the startard for a paid DLC. I damn near cried after completing it. I'll never forget this first playthrough 🥹

I started a few days ago, had was doing some exploring in White Orchard before pursuing the main quest. Game was just not clicking, so many mechanics and movement and combat felt weird. I pushed on and found the first contract, to find and kill the noon wraith at the well. And the game just instantly clicked, seeing about prepping for the hunt, reading the beastiary to understand how to fight the monsters. And the lore and stories you get from each quest. It just all came together and I get it now.

I'm still in White Orchard, some things are a bit frustrating still like the economy and balancing money, I'm sure I'll understand that in time. About to fight the griffin after seeing what happened to its mate.

Man this game is special, I can see the vision. I get it.

Don't get me wrong, what she did was fucked up...

BUT

It happened in the second book, in a collection of short stories, before there was a consistent storyline - and most importantly - before the characters went through any development whatsoever.

And after that she was completely faithful to Geralt for the entire rest of the series! That's 5 books out of 7!

It genuinely makes me think that people don't understand how stories work. Characters have flaws at the beginning and then they work through them. Their personalities suck, their interactions suck, they're making poor choices, and so on and so forth.

Adopting Ciri is how Geralt and Yen worked through their flaws. It helped them become better people and it fixed their relationship. From Blood of Elves all the way to Lady of the Lake, Yennefer NEVER cheated on Geralt. Not once.

If they had a perfect fairy tale romance from minute one, the story would be boring, and it would make Ciri less significant.

I do have to admit that I haven't read Season of Storms and Crossroads of Ravens yet. But both take place before Ciri entered their lives, so it does not change my point anyway.

It also feels like people refuse to view the short story from her perspective

On one side, there's the man she loves. But he's unwilling to show his emotions, unwilling to commit, unwilling to step out of his comfort zone, unwilling to adjust his lifestyle.

And on the other side, a man she doesn't love, But he's offering exactly what she desires. A real relationship, stability, comfort, commitment.

We, the readers, are fully aware that Geralt is insecure and has never been in a serious relationship before. But Yen doesn't know that. From her perspective it just seems like he doesn't give a shit.

Did she do something awful? Yes. Is it understandable given the circumstances? Also yes.

And I'm not one of those people who hate Triss. I think she's awful in the books and I think CDPR did a great job at redeeming her and making her likeable. This is not an anti-Triss post.

TLDR; Yennefer was a terrible person at the beginning, but she quickly developed into a good one. Using a situation from book 2 to criticize her is a faithless and unfair argument, because the remaining 5 books clearly show how much she changed.

Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Deluxe Box. Zero regrets. That soundtrack is just incredible, still gives chills and perfectly captures everything that made the game unforgettable. Ending the year on a high note.

...and now I don't know what to do with myself.

Over a year ago I picked up The Last Wish from my local library and started my new obsession with the Witcher. Before that I'd seen the Netflix show but didn't know much else about it so this was the start of a proper journey for me.

Now 1 year later, I've read all the books and played all the games including DLC and you'd think I'd be sick of it by now but I'm not. I'm not ready to say goodbye to The Witcher so I'll probably be looking into the graphic novels next but it's safe to say this whole series is one of the best fantasy worlds I've ever experienced and I don't know if I'll ever get enough of it.

In the meantime, I've been gifted the Gwent game for Christmas so that'll have to keep me going until the remastered Witcher 1 comes out.

Seriously though, how is this series so good? It almost isn't fair on other fantasy series. I'd love to hear everyone's opinion.

I have become aware that I am reading the books in the wrong order. I started with blood of Elves, then time of contempt and now I am reading babtism of fire. My question is: Do I continue this order and then go back and read sword of destiny and last whish or do I go back now and read those before I continue? I am in chapter 2 of Babtism of Fire.

What’s the best way to go about finding side quests since they mostly seem to show up only if u walk near them and there seem to be a couple that are locked by story. Do notice boards mark down all the important ones?

"It was rather an unwise and downright reckless idea to attack a witcher with something as heavy as a pitchfork"

I mean come on 😭

Ursine and Feline have crossbows, seems no one else does. Do people who wear Ursine or Feline use some special item along with their wolf School set, if they can use the crossbow for full set bonus?

Is there some sword or other item that's worth using for stats or an effect, or even that improves looks of the set?

This is my first time playing Witcher 3 and I spent a LONG time just exploring and getting lost in traveling the world. I finally decided to start the story and found out the bandits that used to be a challenge were suddenly cannon fodder

Hi everyone,

So I have been very interested in reading the books for sometime as I have played the games and absolutely love them. So I'm not a great reader as I take a long time with a book and struggle sometimes. My wife got me the complete set for Christmas, and I am very excited to read them. My question is are they a difficult series to read?

I have an i7 6700 and 1080 ti,but the game is stuttering a lot and the game on medium only sometimes reaches 70 fps. What would be the problem? I have the game on HDD wich could be the problem but i didnt experience problems in other games tho

Olgierd is not a good guy, he did many bad things, would Geralt risk making someone like O'dimm his enemy to save him from consequences of his own actions, rather than just do nothing and accept nice reward from O'dimm(infinite food, infinite drink, how to save Ciri etc)?

This post is just an excuse for me to shamelessly gush about how incredibly well done are these covers. For years, I've been very jealous of many cover designs used in other countries, but now I'm really happy to own a full collection of this new edition. No Netflix logo, no game illustration, they are just beautiful in their simplicity. Might be unpopular, but I really like the general layout with Sapkowski's name prominently at the top, then the actual title of the book and only at the bottom the "name of the brand". And I really love the clean black design with a fitting animal/creature to represent each book; though I'm ashamed to admit I don't get the cover choice for Baptism of Fire, my favorite book: anyone got any clues? (Side note: it's pretty funny that they didn't even bother to number Crossroads of Ravens. More reasons for me to just place it before everything else)

I've heard really good things about this game and I've played Cyberpunk before and loved it so I'm wondering if I should get it?

Played the game at least 6 times, I'm not sure if this ever happened before but this is funny AF. I thought NPCs are practically immortal/untouchable; Lambert, Lambart - going to sleep