#the witcher trpg

[thornethenorn]

playing the next storyline in my solo ttrpg campaign with the three idiots (Aiden, Lambert, and Thorne) and in this storyline you MEET A FUCKING CAT WITCHER

im playing two other cat witchers this will be FUNNN

(also cant get over the ttrpg not being able to decide how to spell Dyn Marv. sometimes they use Dyn Marw (the actual irl words that mean dead folks) and they mistyped it as Dyn Mawr here and im laughing because thats like a sound a cat would make. mawr. mraow)

[thornethenorn]

Sketched a scene from my TRPG campaign where Thorne fails the werecat control check and returns in the morning dragging a dead animal

[thornethenorn]

Playing a solo Witcher TRPG campaign with Aiden, Lambert, and Thorne set after Colony of Two.

They're escaping a weirdly powerful warg across a frozen lake.

Lambert. Lambert, the single one of them raised in Kaedwen, in the fucking mountains of Kaedwen, fell and ate shit.

Thorne is from Skellige but left when he was 5. He also hunts on bare paws for menuvaerability, so his whole ass toe beans are out on the ice here.

Aiden is from the desert and is currently suffering from withdrawal from failing an addiction roll.

And it's LAMBERT who falls and eats shit

[thornethenorn]

So making my Aiden into a character for the Witcher TRPG even though I have nobody to play it with and I rolled him the most cat Witcher stats I've ever seen

Like yeah you're agile as hell but your actual strength is shit and you have no self control and also the gods hate you

[tanukitheater]

The last episode of the first season of The Witcher TRPG series I’ve been working on has just come out. I’m really proud of the work me and my friends do on it, and I’m especially proud of this episode. I love Kaspar so much as a character and I love playing him.

If you like the Witcher or TRPG actual plays I really recommend that you check out our series.

[tanukitheater]

Thank you so much @lokh for drawing my Witcher Edric. I’m still so sad about Kaspar dying and not being able to play him again, but I’m excited to start this new chapter of our Witcher TTRPG live play. Come see Edric’s debut on The Obsidian Cabaret YouTube channel!

[ttrpgadventurer]

So... The Witcher has a TTRPG??

So, The Witcher TTRPG is going on hiatus... which would upset me, if it wasn't for the fact that I only learned about its existence literally 5 years after its announcement. Anyways, unfortunately for The Witcher and TTRPG fans who are aware of the TTRPG's existence, Comic Book announced on the 27th of August, 2023, that the TTRPG's development has been put on hiatus until The Witcher 4 is released. This was first announced at Gen Con 2023, and later also announced via R. Talsorian Games' blog, on the 21st of August. It is a shame, but it is nice to see that unlike the director of the TV series, R. Talsorian Games and CD Projekt Red are actually interested in keeping things lore accurate.

If you're like me, having just learnt about its existence, R. Talsorian does have a quick-start guide or 'Easy Mode', as they put it. You can download it for free via the link on their website, and it's free! If you have the money to spare, there is the Core Rulebook available for $24.99 USD, and the Lords and Lands expansion for $8 USD. If you're more of a visual learner, R Talsorian Games published a playlist of videos explaining the rules and gameplay of the entire system on YouTube. If you'd like to see an actual session being run, you can watch the full 2-hour playthrough that IGN did here.

From a glance at the pregenerated character sheets, and from the first 30 minutes of the Witcher TTRPG playthrough, the system runs pretty similarly to D&D. It's set in a fantasy setting, you've got racial abilities, skills and also something similar to an armour class. The main differences is the dice system (you only need d10s and d6s), the inclusion of the Witcher as a race, the combat system, inclusion of critical wounds and the fumbling system (aka when you roll a nat 1). The inclusion of Critical Wounds definitely makes damage and getting hurt a lot more dangerous, since it's not as simple as getting someone to heal you and moving on with your day. It's a ruthless system, and the creators of the TRPG definitely intended for it be to so. Quite fitting for the Witcher, with how it's advertised as a "dark and dangerous world".

Lorewise, the Witcher TRPG is pretty friendly to people unfamiliar with Witcher, and according to the easy mode guide, the Core Rulebook has a full rundown of the history of the Witcher world. Even someone like me with little to no knowledge of the Witcher understood some of it pretty quickly once the GM for the IGN game gave the rundown of the Witcher world. Of course, I know it's not that simple, and I welcome anyone who's more familiar with Witcher lore to give a more thorough explanation of it.

I guess, putting aside the dumpster fire that the TV series is becoming (Henry Cavill as Geralt will be missed), at least the video games seem to be good? I have to admit, I only started watching the TV series recently and looking up The Witcher's video game series to be caught up on the lore and other specifics of it. I'm just a casual TTRPG fan running a TTRPG blog that's based around finding out about all sorts of TTRPGs aside from D&D. Learning about the TRPG's existence has certainly piqued my interest in the video game lore!

The Witcher 4's development is still pretty under wraps by CD Projekt Red. However, considering how the mainline games have been released about 4 years apart, it should have been released 4 years ago? But delays in production do happen, so I reckon it should be a year or two until 'Project Sirius' is released. While that is happening, I think I'll take the time and catch myself up on the video games series.

[oxenfurt-archives]

Ogroids

Ogroids occupy an uncomfortable place in our study. They are monsters that are not quite human but in some ways they are very similar. Some may have enormous feet, some may have a single eye, but they all are recognizable as like humans. In many cases the difference is simply scale. Giants, trolls, ogres, are like us but huge. Many also have a recognizable intelligence even if it is very primitive. In fact as their occurrence become ever more rare, our fear of them has decreased, and we are learning to live with some of the ogroids. Ogroids that have not made their peace with humans are fierce warriors and more than happy to eat people. Extremely accurate rock throwing is common among trolls and creatures like knockers who are can also run as fast as a horse. No, keep moving so the rocks don’t get you, and dodge the charge so you can attack it from its unprotected sides. They are susceptible to silver but their skin is so thick that it may take a while before they notice your strikes. Remember that in some the skin of the back is extra thick and rugged, while attacking from the front is walking into its vice-like grip. The smaller ogroids, not being as formidable, tend to be social and attack in numbers. While most ogroids use simple or crudely fashioned tools, these smaller types, perhaps because of their social nature, even think far enough to plan simple traps and ambushes.

Brandon of Oxenfurt, A Witcher’s Journal

The Witcher Lore (196/∞)