Dongattack posted:

The Bitcher 3

Archimago posted:

I know sorceresses can't get preggers, but can they give you diseases?

Dongattack posted:

Archimago posted:

I know sorceresses can't get preggers, but can they give you diseases?

OAquinas posted:

Magic basically makes your egg/sperm production areas wither and become nonfunctional for ~reasons~ though obviously the non-babymaking bits still work just fine. So a mage generally is unable to have kids after a few years of working magic.

As for diseases, barring some freak allergy to magic (*cough*Triss*cough*) they can cure themselves of just about anything they pick up magically. So they're probably safe partners in that regard.


Now, is the parrying of crossbow bolts with shields done actively or is it them just smartly hiding behind the shield? Because if its some reflex blocking that really takes the piss out of the Witchers' feared ability to parry bolts...

Stentorian Hoot posted:

I thought just his hair turned white from the trial of the grasses. He really isn't much of albino outside of that.

OAquinas posted:

Magic basically makes your egg/sperm production areas wither and become nonfunctional for ~reasons~ though obviously the non-babymaking bits still work just fine. So a mage generally is unable to have kids after a few years of working magic.

the wildest turkey posted:

Sorry to interrupt blood-sorceress-sex-magic chat, but I have a real question

I bought both W1&2 from GOG so I have the W3 discounted pre-order available which is tempting, except there's no way my PC will be able to run it - is there any way to get the discount applied towards a PS4 pre-order of W3 instead?

The Sharmat posted:

It's not just that, though that is a factor. Even the fertile ones tend to have kind of hosed up offspring that tend to be very powerful but also insane. Genes that allow magical talent seem to be linked to some generally maladaptive poo poo.

GuyUpNorth posted:

Yennefer goes through exact forms with Ciri in Blood of the Elves, where she smashes a shack accidentally.

Lareine posted:

Wasn't Geralt's mom a sorceress?

The Sharmat posted:

Yeah. Which may be why he's unusually good at signs.

GrossMurpel posted:

Is sorcery even genetic in any form?

GrossMurpel posted:

I know Ciri was a source which made her powerful but didn't Sapkowski mention in Last Wish how sorceresses were just ugly regular women who no one wanted to marry so their fathers shipped them off to the magic school?

the wildest turkey posted:

Sorry to interrupt blood-sorceress-sex-magic chat, but I have a real question

I bought both W1&2 from GOG so I have the W3 discounted pre-order available which is tempting, except there's no way my PC will be able to run it - is there any way to get the discount applied towards a PS4 pre-order of W3 instead?

Archimago posted:

No, the discount is just for GOG and there's no GOG version of the console edition.

The Sharmat posted:

Because the pretty girls were more useful being married off. Even if they were capable of magic, they weren't sent to learn it. Sorceresses are comparatively useless to the family because they produce no offspring.

Crigit posted:

I thought the point was just supposed to be that there were no ugly sorceresses, because even the ones that started ugly could change their looks with magic, not that only ugly girls were sent to become sorceresses. Also I'm pretty sure a sorceress could be plenty useful to her family even without being able to breed, what with all the magic making amassing enormous amounts of wealth and power easy.

The Sharmat posted:

The fun bit is the subtext of that scene is that Geralt is trying very hard not to find Yennefer attractive.

Avalanche posted:

Just cracked the first Witcher book after getting a used copy from Alibris for $3.

The first page or so is soft core porn...

But it is extremely well written soft core porn. Must continue anyways. O hey cool, incest already and I'm only like 5 pages deep.

Please tell me this starts to pick up and get less weird and splergy. It's like reading Twilight if it were written by Fiodor Dostojewski.

Archimago posted:

This is another drunk post.,

The Steam discount for owning both games is new.

You're a terrible person for buying it on Steam instead of supporting DRM-Free.

Has anyone read the fan translated version of books? Are they as terrible as the phrase "fan translated book" makes me think?

Arcsquad12 posted:

The best part is that Yennefer knows this and proceeds to gently caress with Geralt by bathing while invisible and then calling him out for perving on her. I also liked the topic of ugly sorceresses changing their looks via magic, but still being considered unattractive because nothing could hide the bitterness and low self esteem that drove them to change in the first place. Their eyes are still ugly.

Archimago posted:

This is another drunk post.,

The Steam discount for owning both games is new.

You're a terrible person for buying it on Steam instead of supporting DRM-Free.

Has anyone read the fan translated version of books? Are they as terrible as the phrase "fan translated book" makes me think?

Arcsquad12 posted:

The best part is that Yennefer knows this and proceeds to gently caress with Geralt by bathing while invisible and then calling him out for perving on her. I also liked the topic of ugly sorceresses changing their looks via magic, but still being considered unattractive because nothing could hide the bitterness and low self esteem that drove them to change in the first place. Their eyes are still ugly.


The Last Wish has kind of a wonky translation, and it can be wordy at times. As it stands, I found the later short stories better than The Witcher. The fight with the Striga is fun and well written, but the Butcher of Blaviken and the crazy Cintrian dinner party were the highlights of The Last Wish for me.

I swear that Gollancz got a different translator for Blood of Elves, because the difference in translation quality is enormous. While I could tell that Last Wish was translated, I was hard pressed to believe that Blood of Elves was written in anything but English.

GrossMurpel posted:

I got the feeling she didn't really gently caress with him. She sounded actually mad that he ogled her during that scene but was repulsed by the bitterness you mentioned.
Plus, I think it's mostly because of his Witcher senses and poo poo that he notices that, I don't think a normal person could read that much into sorceresses. Like Chireadan in that scene, he seems pretty smitten.

Strom Cuzewon posted:

I feel there was a little too much going on in that dinner party. This guys been cursed, but wants to marry the Princess, but she's magic, and so is her mum who wants to marry this other guy but can't, and his son wants to marry the Princess but these other nobles won't let him, and they both want to fight the first guy. There's like 5 different points where Geralt deduces something and doesn't reveal it to the audience until right at the end.

It's like if the finale of either Vizima Outskirts or Flotsam happened without the previous 10 hours of gradual buildup explaining just who the hell everybody is.

Strom Cuzewon posted:

I feel there was a little too much going on in that dinner party. This guys been cursed, but wants to marry the Princess, but she's magic, and so is her mum who wants to marry this other guy but can't, and his son wants to marry the Princess but these other nobles won't let him, and they both want to fight the first guy. There's like 5 different points where Geralt deduces something and doesn't reveal it to the audience until right at the end.

It's like if the finale of either Vizima Outskirts or Flotsam happened without the previous 10 hours of gradual buildup explaining just who the hell everybody is.