Apparently, Witcher schools were never meant to be a thing. Try telling that to CD Projekt Red, which has poured this lore into the world of The Witcher, highlighting the differences between the schools of mutant monster hunters. However, according to the original author Andrzej Sapkowski, the idea of Witcher Schools was something he never meant to create.>"A single sentence about some 'school of the Wolf' mysteriously made its way into The Last Wish. I later deemed it unworthy of development and narratively incorrect, even detrimental to the plot. Therefore, later I never included or referenced any Witcher Gryffindors or Slytherins again. Never.">"Adaptors, particularly videogame people, these vermin, have clung to the idea with remarkable tenacity and have wonderfully multiplied these 'witcher schools.' Completely unnecessary," Sapkowski wrote.
I the Witcher games are alright but Sapkowski is a fucking horrible author and should not be giving out advice/opinions on writing.
>Griffin, Cat, Wolf schools mentioned in his original book series>Cat school witcher named Brehen in Season of Storms (2013)???????????
He's still being a pissy little faggot for taking the buyout.
>>722167375both sides in this are cringe
>>722167521He created the lore you love, even Warner Bros respects the lore created by JK Rowling.
>>722167375Who cares, Supcuc ksky is a faggot who couldn't write proper lore to save his life. His works were completely unknown until CDPR made Witcher good and well known. This post isn't spam you assfucking 4chin niggers.
>>722167375>yeah i wrote something dumb, but they used it so they are dumber!
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I wish this guy would just kill over already. I'm sick of reading about his bitching year after year after year after year.
he has bad memory, Bonhart fucking shows Ciri the medallions he took from the witchers he killed, Wolf, Cat, Griffin medallions. That's not from the last wish, that's from the tower of the swallow (6th book)
>>722167618I don't love it and making good lore doesn't make you a good author unless you think Brandon Sanderson is a master of the art.
>>722167375Should have supervised the development more. Can't blame people for misinterpreting your sloppy writing.
>writes fanfic about videogame>starts saying his fanfic is cannon???boomers are deranged
>>722167375I heard the books are absolute shit, haven't read them myself though
>>722167375My Polish is rusty but I think he's asking for more money.
>>722167678Pretty much the same with Demon Slayer. People act as if it was the pinnacle of writing. There's a reason nobody gave a rat's ass about that shitty manga before ufotable adapted it.
>>722167570He's just sperging out because he took the check instead of royalties KEKKYPOW
>>722167908they're okay as a whole, The last wish and sword of destiny are amazing
>>722167579Oh, because someone always asks, here's a very QRD:>CDPR wants to adapt Witcher books>offers Sapkowski choice between one-time payout for the rights to the books, or a much lower initial fee, but continued royalties and a consultancy position within the company; CDPR strongly recommends taking the latter>Sapkowski takes the buyout, thinking this whole "video game" thing was a passing fad that wouldn't last>game goes on to massive success>Sapkowski tries to sue, even though CDPR had all the receipts showing they offered him royalties multiple times>Sapkowski laughed out of court>CDPR gives him a token amount of money to get him to fuck off>still seething to this day
>>722167618Tim Cain created a lot of OG Fallout lore and /v/ shits on him and calls him irrelevant for being okay with Bethesda and also being a homosexual, so clearly the authority of the creator is conditional as fuck
>>722167375Bro will never stop seething over the fact that CDPR took the Witcher IP and did more with it than he ever could.
>>722167953He burned through the money they gave him TWICE and he is sperging for more again lmao. Hope he doesn't get another dime he will just spend it all on alcohol... again.
>>722167375 He's unironically going senile. They're not mentioned once - the Wolf, Cat, and Griphon Schools are mentioned several times throughout the various novels, including one from as late as 2013.Then there's the tabletop RPG campaign book he oversaw which also mentions several different Schools.So, unless someone really mistranslated something, means he's losing his fucking mind.
>Witcher author Sapkowski was 'excited and wiping away tears' on Netflix show's set
>>722167375CDPR simply expanded on those witcher schools, because it's a very elegant way to have witcher "clasess". Now you have Cat for rogues, Griffin for wizards, Bear for tanks and so on. It's and inevitable result of adapting the source material to a different medium. Just like the Force in Star Wars.It makes no narrative sense for Force Lightning to be a Dark Side power exclusively, but it makes sense from a videogame gameplay perspective. And Sapkowski naturally doesn't get how videogames work.
>>722168145>excited for the chance to live off royalties>show bombs>games still belovedImagine the kvetching.
>>722168117he's 77, I'm think he is losing it. It's hilarious how he forgot about Ciri's nemesis in his own books though
>>722167579100%
>>722167375>Be butthurt a scrappy (for the time) startup rode your "literal who?" story to MASSIVE success and leapfrogged you>because>you thought video games were children in the year of our lord 2000 and got paid $1 for infinite video game rights to your I.P.He's just butthurt that he made a stupid money decision and it continues to haunt him.Nobody would've gave a shit about his gówno książka's if the Witcher 1-3 hadn't released (especially 3 which references them).Anyway, he should finish his next Witcher novel like George should finish Game of Thrones or shut the fuck up.
>>722167908first 2 books are short stories and have very little ciri, they are decentafter that he made 5-longer-narrative books and these are pure garbage
I kind of feel bad for Mike Pondsmith. He actually should have taken a buyout, since Cyberpunk was nowhere near as successful as The Witcher, and now they're a big enough company he could have easily negotiated ten times what Sapkowski was paid.
>>722167375The quote is>"However, that one sentence was enough. Adaptors, particularly videogame people, have clung to the idea with remarkable tenacity and have wonderfully multiplied these 'witcher schools.' Completely unnecessary."He doesn't call them vermin.
>>722168145This guy is such a retarded fucking boomer
>>722168117>They're not mentioned once - the Wolf, Cat, and Griphon Schools are mentioned several times throughout the various novels, including one from as late as 2013.Technically, it's not flat out stated that those schools actually exist anywhere in the books, because they are "just" medallions that can mean anything, but it has been implied for years. Only now Sapkowski decides to retcon this and say this was never the case and those medallions mean nothing.
>>722167952>still this blown out about the manga sales years after 2019 has come and goneJust let it go old man
WHY did they drop the ball with 4 everyone wanted a character creater where you choose your school it would've pissed this retard off so much lmao. ciri is annoying too.
>>722168145I'd be crying too if someone showed me those sets of armor made of scrotum.
>>722168430Geralt dies three books in dude, the rest is about ciri
>>722168345anon, cyberpunk (1 game) sold over 30 million copies, officially announced by cdpr, that's more successful than the witcher
>>722167618And? Death of the author exists for a reason. Rowling also can't write for shit and the movies are objectively better than the books.
>>722168487Probably why the books are hot garbage.
>the shitcherIm not 12 anymoemre to give a shit about this whichalock nonsense
kwabStarting to think about why they invaded Poland
>>722168351Shut up. It's bait.
>>722168487>Geralt dies three books inWhat. Reread the books, you donkey.
>>722167375>Andrew "BITCH NIGGA" Sappykekypowski is still crying
>>722167375I like that sapek is the most stereotypical pollack in existanceHe should wear that one square military hat 24/7 and refer to poor people as cattle to complete the set
>someone told the boomer magic schools are gay>NOOO MY FETISH SLOP IS HIGH ART THAT NEVER HAPPENED, IT NEVER HAPPENED AAAAA
Then what is Kaer Morhen? And Geralts medallion?
>>722168487he dies in the last chapter of the last book, there's more Geralt/Nilfgaard war/sorceress shenanigans than Ciri in those books
>>722168487He also gets raped btw
>>722168570I will not.
>>722168565>theyRussia?Germany?Austria?Sweden?
>verminBased pole grandpa calling CD project red what they are
>>722168487he got pitchforked in the last chapter of the last book and Yen died trying to revive himbeing beat up by a cheating dude with a stick doesn't count as death
>>722167908They're serviceable novellas, but they're just mid fantasy novellas.Ciri arc is peak and why CDPR referenced it by bringing Ciri (and best boy Regis) into the games universe, however.
still not buying witcher 4
>>722168806all of them
>>722168794>wearing a bandana like Geralt in the booksman they should've kept this design
>>722168794If only she could look like this in W4
>>722168145>*Many viewers have an apparent issue with, for example, black Nilfgaardians and Northerners. Why do you think so few viewers pay attention to the black Zerrikanians (who were blonde in the book), but so many can’t get over a black elf?*>As far as I remember, skin color isn’t discussed in detail in my books, so the adaptors can freely show their craft, everything is possible and everything is allowed, that’s how it could’ve been, after all. They made my blonde Zerrikanians dark haired in the comic, because the artist had his artistic freedom. In Netflix's "Troy: Fall of a City", Achilles is played by a black actor. Achilles was, as we know, the son of king Peleus of Thessaly and the nereid Thetis. The series seems to question this "as we know" and suggest a Nubian interference. And this is what could’ve happened too, after all.
>>722168220Could've had it if they just listened to Henry and adapted his Witcher 3 runthrough.
>>722168351>Completely unnecessary.For him, sure. But from a videogame perspective, where you can have different builds and witcher "classes" that was a genius and elegant move.>you want to focus on signs? Here's the Griffin armor, the School of the Griffin are Sign-focused.
>“I have nothing against the game itself. I think it’s a high-level product. All the benefits CDPR received for it are absolutely well-earned. I have nothing against video games in general. I have nothing against the people who play them, even if I don’t and never will,” Sapkowski says. “The whole animosity started when the game began to spoil my market.”>“I wrote the first Witcher story 30 years ago,” he continues. “When I come to my author meetings, there’s no one in the audience close to my age. I am 69. There’s no one. Kids everywhere. How are some of them supposed to know—especially in Germany, Spain or the US—that my books are not game related? That I’m not writing books based on games? They may not know that, and CDPR bravely conceals the game’s origins. It’s written in fine print, you need a microscope to see it, that the game is ‘based on’ [my books].”>“The belief, widely spread by CDPR, that the games made me popular outside of Poland is completely false. I made the games popular. All of my translations in the West—including the English one—were published before the first game.”>But Sapkowski is on record as claiming that for every reader he gained thanks to the success of the games, he lost another. Does he still believe that?>“I think the result would be about equal, yes. If anything, there are more people who have played the games because they read the books. That’s my count, but I’m not sure. I never did any studies.”
>>722168829>and best boy RegisIs Regis a major player in the books? I didn't actually have much interest in reading them until Blood & Wine. I would play a whole game about Regis.
>>722168887What makes you think she won't look like this, given that Ciri's looks and armor will most likely be customizable, similarly to how Geralt's looks were.
>>722167375how can anybody take this retard seriously? he's been bitter about the games ever since they became popular because he sold them the story and rights for something laughable like 100 american dollars and a sandwich. I think he even tried to make them pay him more some years ago with a lot of his argument basically being he's a stupid old man who didn't understand video games are popular.
>>722168864Russia invaded sweden for their reason to invade poland and germany the same to russia. That you cannot recognize any one superior claim is why the country is still poland today.
>>722169013He shows up in book 3 (or 5 if you count the short stories) and he completely steals the show.
>>722169013Regis is goated in the books, he appears in the 4th (maybe 5th) book, but there isn't a single bad chapter he's in
>>722167375>sold the video game rights to CD Projekt for, like, $1000 because you were too retarded to see how popular video games are / were / would become>get INCREDIBLY asspained when Witcher 3 sells a trillion copies and makes billions of dollars>get none of that sweet, sweet, royalty moneyYeah, if I were as retarded as him I would be blasting too
>>722167375>CDPR brings far more attention to this books than he ever would've had otherwise>calls them vermin for trivial lore changesWhat is it with poles and being unappreciative?
>>722169013He comes in midway through the Ciri arc but steals the show out of "Geralt's party" for me and many others.Him and Milva were the best of the five. Geralt's just along for the ride and Dandelion is Dandelion.(Oh and Ciri's kidnapper turns to good. But who cares?)CDPR retconned Regis' death in the novella with Blood and Wine since the big bad literally fries him into ash as he distracts the big bad for Geralt and Ciri to kill in the last novel.
>>722168973>“The belief, widely spread by CDPR, that the games made me popular outside of Poland is completely false. I made the games popular. All of my translations in the West—including the English one—were published before the first game.”This is some industrial grade copium.Hell I'm pretty sure most non Pole Witcher fans never bothered with the first game, let alone the books
>>722169243It is copium. There's another interview, I'm trying to find it, but I assume it was before Witcher 3, where he almost sounds like he has the self-awareness to lament taking the buyout, and being kind of bummed out that when non-Poles see his books on shelves, they all assume he's doing adaptations of the games, not the other way around.
>>722167375he killed off geralt and yen in the books and fucked off into the sunset, the fuck is he going on about pretending that some grand true vision of his got ruined? he's lucky someone picked up that shit after he was done
>>722169243Hence they have shit taste, first witcher is the only good one and books are pretty fun till Ciri nonsense kicked in full force.
>>722168973>I made the games popular. All of my translations in the West—including the English one—were published before the first game.The Witcher released October, 2007. The Last Wish was published in June, the same year. He had whopping 3 months to generate hype. Except hardly anybody knew or cared about the franchise before the Wild Hunt
>>722168973>That I’m not writing books based on games? They may not know that, and CDPR bravely conceals the game’s origins. It’s written in fine print, you need a microscope to see it, that the game is ‘based on’ [my books].”>witchers are sword dancers>they are so nimble and quick that no mortal enemy could ever strike them>that's why they don't wear armor it would only hinder their movements>they don't swing their swords either but dance and twirl and pirouette and their enemies lie dead on the floor>btw emhyr wants to impregnate cirilla who was barely pubescent at the timeZapkowski can suck a fat one. His books are good source material but nothing more.
>>722167375>>"A single sentence about some 'school of the Wolf' mysteriously made its way into The Last Wishfat old retard. imagine taking anything he says when talking about cdpr seriously
Did he really say vermin? CDPR aren't THAT bad, are they?
>>722169557Don't be a faggot. It was a popular franchise even before the newfags flooded in with 3. It just wasn't on the same magnitude
>>722167375CDPR did ruin the lore but Sapkowski was fine with that when he was receiving royalties from them
>>722169239>Him and Milva were the best of the five.I like that Milva is the only character Regis has issues reeling in, because she's too dumb to get his snarky jabs at her expense and just ends up yelling at him to speak plainly.
>>722167375So does this dude just spend his while life being mad about the video games? I've never seen him doing anything else.
>>722167375i think diffrent schools are cool the games just didn't go very into diffrentiating the schools from another.like I think the school of the bear would work well for really tall witchers that use two headed axes, one silver, one steal. or a school of the snake who have reptilian eyes and skin and are more resistantto poison then even normal witchers.
>>722169663He doesn't get royalties from CDPR. That's why he's so butthurt. He turned the opportunity for royalties multiple times.
>>722169557Normalfags didn't, everyone else was busy fighting in w1 vs w2 holywar for awhile at that point.
Him being a hateful and miserable cunt was a known fact among Witcher fans even before the games. His first major sperg-out I'm aware of was over a fan-made map of the setting.KWAB.
>>722169059Because it's anti-ESG to have attractive women, even more so cute wavy long hair woman with a visible cleavage.
>>722167952The only way you'd think this is if you didn't pay attention to manga at all.
>>722167375CDProjekt made his shit more interesting, many such cases.
>>722168007>>CDPR gives him a token amount of money to get him to fuck offThis happened? They gave him extra? Nice of them
>>722169690I mostly rank her second due to defending at a battle while pregnant, if I remember right. She was basically ride-or-die for Geralt after a bit.
>>722169862She was already hot in the fake gameplay demo to shill UE
>>722169239melts into glass, not turned to ash
>>722167375This guy is such a sour asshole lel
>>722167579It's this and only this. If he was making gangbusters money he'd be relishing in the popularity of the games and singing their praises at every corner.
>>722167375who are you quoting
I don’t care if he has a chip on his shoulder about video games. I’m just sick of him whining year after year because he’s not competent and intelligent enough to make good business decisions. Fucking ols regard
>>722168007I'd understand going for the buyout if their negotiations took place in the 1980s post-market crash, but in the early 2000s?I can't believe this shit. Kek what a retard.
>>722169993Not really, he's always been a hater, hated his fans and fanfics even before the games.
>>722167375This guy is a total chode who hates the games because he couldn't get his precious royalties. He also goes on to praise the fucking Netflix show. Maybe he should talk about lore inconsistencies there. Cunt.
>>722169912He tried to sue and they settled it by giving him a lump sum because they didn't want to drag it out with him when they're legally in the right.
>keeps quiet about netflix >even though the show is so dogshit that Henry Cavill quitlol
>>722169059because its 2025 nigga do you live under a rock
The finale of Season of Storms written in 2013 literally has a fucking Cat School Witcher trying to start shit with Geralt. He's implied to be the first Witcher who took the Foltest/Adda job. Why is this dude so salty about shit he wrote
>>722170246He's mentally deranged and absolutely frothing at the mouth that the games will always be culturally significant while his books and the garbage netflix show will be forgotten.
>>722170197looks great to me
He’s exactly the type of guy who would go the Netflix set and rub himself in the scrotum armor mumbling about non important artisan bullshit. He made a generic smutty fantasy product, he needs to get over himself
>>722170159He bet it all on the Netflix show because he had the potential to make more money off it if it did well, iirc, but because he either didn't try to get more control or he's just a lazy fuck they ended up with the worst writing team imaginable with nobody to try and shut down their awful ideas besides Henry, so the show did as bad as you would expect a Nerflix adaptation to do and all he could do was sit there and cope about how he believes in it and they're doing a great job
>>722170246His latest book is where he tries to retcon other schools out. I think he's a dramawhore thinking the publicity will boost book sales
>>722170246He's salty because he didn't get the money he wanted from them. And he's salty because people buy his books because of the games. Hardly anyone buys his books first and then goes "oh I should play the games". The games are still making his books popular instead of the books making games popular. More people look forward to more Witcher games than they look forward to a new novel of his. It's just background material for the games at this point.
>>722169947Fun fact, in the original draft, Regis was supposed to survive the finale, because even Sapkowski noted that being melted into a glass is stupid when Regis demonstrated few books ago that he's flat out IMMUNE TO FIRE. But then he decided, that he's going for TPK, because fuck you.Then Sapkowski declared that Regis is not dead, because it doesn't make any sense. CDPR just drew the logical conclusion.Sapkowski REALLY likes changing his mind when he feels like it.
>>722168467>>722170382>scrotum armorI had almost forgotten about that.
>>722167375Shit writer that ripped off Micheal Moorcock's work,>>722167618He ripped off Elric and changed a few things like making the conjunction of spheres are world starting event instead of a world ending event in Elric, which also stars an lanklet albino spell sword mercenary that guzzles potions that's nicknamed the white wolf. CD Project red tried to change shit up by making geralt more of an uber chad in the games.
>>722170382Imagine your novels becoming a tv series and you see the scrotum armor in the first previews. Fucking hell.
>>722170478Razorfist, pls.
>>722167375Daily reminder that Andrzej Sapkowski hates everything CD projekt red does because he was offered stock or straight cash, he laughed in their faces when they offered him stock and took the cash only for the Witcher 3 to become such a massive success that it propelled their company to being comparable to AAA companies. He then tried to get stock claiming that they still owed him because he was upset that they had made profit off of his works. They told him to fuck off and ever since then he has spent his entire life seething over it
>>722167375Can you actually tell me what point he's making, because this sounds stupid considering the existence of such schools is confirmed by having a witcher from another school in the story.
>>722167375
>>722167375This is purely him just trying to exert some kind of control over what he views as his world and nothing about "narrative correctness" whatever the fuck that means about a throw away line for world building. This guy is a disgrace.
>>722167375you can be mad, it's okay, but he's right 125%, cdpr not only ruined book lore but also games lore, FUCK THEM
>>722168395The one witcher school clearly just ran out of Wolf medallions to give people and started giving them medallions whatever they had around!
>>722167846>>722167570So he has literally directly referenced different Witcher schools multiple times but still says shit like this?
The execs, marketing, sales, PR and actual crew pretending they want to deal with some old fat fuck waddling around was probably the most involved acting anyone displayed in that series
>>722170908what did they ruin exactly, besides retconning Geralt/Yen's death and the white frost being magic related? (which is cooler than some natural world event that may or may not happen)
>>722167375Some authors are good at creating setting, world, and lore. Some are good at telling a story. Narrative. It's like building a good car vs being a good driver. They share the same thing - the car - but they are not the same thing.His world was perfect for the games, but his books were nothing special. I put CDPR as better story tellers than him with his own creation.
>>722171074Made everyone white and good-looking.
>>722167375Why do people still listen to this washed up retard?This is the same guy who thought video games were so beneath him he fucked himself out of millions of dollars because he took a one time payment with no royalties when CDP bought the rights.I don't care what he says about Witcher anymore.
>>722168489the witcher 3 sold over 60M copies. for all its sales, majority of which occurred in first months upon release, cyberpunk ruined cdpr's reputation. albeit the company had already sold out to ESG Blackrock money long before its release so that should've been a wake up call. but normalfags are cattle that never learn until the truth slaps them on the face.
This is what he said btw, in case anybody actually cares.
>>722171219>cyberpunk ruined cdpr's reputation.at first maybe, but they turned things around so i'm guessing their overall reputation is now a benefit of the doubt kind of thing
this is one of the very few instances were the video game adaptation is better than the source material, book geralt is a pussy that gets killed by a peasant using a pitchfork, game geralt is a badass that beats a primal demon at his own game.
>>722171275that's not a single sentence, that's multiple sentences throughout the original book series, and again in the standalone prequel "Season of Storms" in 2013.
>>722171418after the complete overhaul they did with CP77 the company is back to good graces with normies, everyone is supper excited for what they do next.
>>722171481No game geralt is cool because he’s a 90 year old manchild sword otaku who still laughs at trashy penis jokes
>>722170478is that Elrond?
>>722168106Except new law suit and cd project paying him to fuck off.
Isn't he just mad he never got as much money as he could? Even when CDPR straight up told him that they could have sign a better contrat and he refused?
>>722171219>majority in the first monthsThat is a flat-out fucking lie.
>>722167375this is coming from the guy who made his female self insert hop through the multiverse into arthurian legend to have a happy ending with sir lancelot
>>722171859It was galahad, the virgin knight
>>722171732He took a buyout over royalties because he’s a retard with no business sense and chip on his shoulder who thought a market for a vidya gaem adaptation would never exist
>>722171968oh yeah you're right my badbut yeah that happened
>>722170132It happened in poland back in day. He would have won something. Mentality was. If someone made it big. People are entitled to that money. Court could have given him something. Cdpr lawers knew this. That's why they settled and gave him enough to fuck off. But clearly this has dried up. Now he wants another dip. And he will get it. There is possibility of new witcher dlc to bridge the gap between 3 and 4. And eventually 4 will come out.
>>722170614He sued. Cdpr gave him money to guck off. Then netflix shows bombed and now he sudendly targeting cdpr
>>722172028He even retconned the happy ending in season of stormed by implying that ciri got ELFED and her kid became elf moses who got all the elves out of witcher world before global cooling killed everyone
>>722172210He's literally always targeted them. Because he's forever upset that he made the deision to take a one time payment of $9500. He is incredibly dumb and goes on frequent tangents about how bad CDPR are because of his decisions
>>722167521Correct. He is a shit writer, a butthurt whining baby, and a liar. (see also >>722167521)
>>722172085>COPE: the PostCDPR offered him repeatedly royalties during the development of Witcher 1 over a lump sum. EACH. TIME. he took the Lump Sum because he didn't think it'd blow up into what it has become.Any court that isn't kangroos with nazis (Poland) would understand CDPR is in the right.
>>722167521they are alright for the short stories the saga turns it into feminists wet dream with muh lodge and Ciri MarySue.
The witcher is like one of the only edge cases where an adaption is straight up better than the original source material. That dumb boomer should be thanking them for making people actually give a shit about his series
>>722170478>muh proto edgelord that has 3 similarities
The old drunkard doesn't remember he wrote a Nilfgaardian bounty hunter who collected Witcher medallions from witchers he killed
>>722167375Sapkowski is The Bitcher
>>722167375Witcher 1 confirmed best game.
Why do witcherfags give this guy so much attention despite claiming he's irrelevant?
>>722171803>That is a flat-out fucking lie.okay retard shill.
>>722167375>DUDE THERE'S THIS WITCHER BUT EVEN BETTER AND MORE SPECIALTHAN THE OTHER WITCHERS ALSO HE HAS SILVER HAIR BECAUSE HE'S SO UNIQUE LIKE THAT>THE PEASANTS HATE HIM BUT ALL THE WOMEN WANT TO BANG HIM >ALSO THERE'S ELVES AND DWARVES BECAUSE UHH...THERE JUST ARE! OKAY?>ALSO THE PLOT IS BASED ON FABLES...BUT SUBVERTED! Why do people give a single shit about Witcher lore when it's so generic
>>722168489Why be wrong like this? Why only look up the numbers for one game when you are already looking up numbers? Why not kill yourself for this terrible post?
>>722173696I'm at the kikimore queen "boss fight" and it's honestly one of the worst gaming experiences of my life.
>>722167375Still mad that the games are better than his books I see.
>>722171580>suppersaar...
>>722167375Reminder that in the books Ciri turns into a dyke after being raped by one.
>>722167521Shorts are pretty good, novels suck.But he's just salty man, he sold the rights for peanuts because "lel vidya games" and now those vidya are overshadowing his own creation.In this case I side with him tho, multiple schools makes it a bit lame. Instead of just one special place where this shit happens they turned it into this cartoonesque super hero school thats everywhere where they are needed most
>get paid to say something>say something>retards believe it
>/v/ troons have a meltdown because J.K. Rowling said troons are not canon to the Harry Potter universe.> For multiple threads in a row.
>>722174336she is unsuccessfully groomed by the dyke rapist who molested her while she was underage and openly states that she is disgusted by her and doesn't want to be touched by herwhich is funny because reddit still says she is lesbian because of this
>>722167375Nigger doesn't even remember his own books, lmao. He described several Witcher schools in the books, and one of the characters, Leo Bonhart, has killed multiple and has three separate medallions from three separate schools on his person. This fag is senile and SEETHING.
>>722174492It's not really "superhero schools", but more like different specialisations. Griffins practised Sign magic, Bears were strong as fuck, Wolves tried to be good at fencing or some shit. It makes sense since the world was once populated by a shitton of monsters, so there had to be a lot of Witchers for all kinds of cases. After the monsters started running out, they naturally became rarer too.
Now that Witcher 4 is going to have Ciri as the protagonist will they be bringing back the cards? That's empowering right?
>>722173950books came out in 1990 and the w3 in 2015 shit is old afalso all the muh sapkowski took the bagyeah duh, before first game that wasnt that succesful until W3 before 1 it had like 2 failed games and 1 tv series that whole budget got embezzled in traditional polish fashionalso W2 almost bankrupted whole cdprojekt so its retard calling retards all over again.
>>722174072how many games and years did it take the witcher to sell what cyberpunk sold in 5 years? nothing wrong with my post, fucktard
>>722175262lol nope devs said they are removing them in remake so no chance, but you will have male prostitutes for sure.
>>722172692>see also the same post?
>>722167521SpbpSuckpowski is a fucking seething hack. His books were considered to be b-grade cheap slopfantasy in Europe, yet this fucker talks like he's GURRM after saying that games are a dead medium and CDPR made him world famous
>>722174492The 90s tv show had multiple schools and female witchers and he signed under that script(not the execution of it). He's just seething over the success and nothing else.
>>722175498the cards were funny and all but witcher 2-3 style sex scenes are far better.
>>722168813>polearms are cheatingThe eternal cry of the butthurt noble
>>722175498Wait they're removing them from the remake? Man that is KEKED. Why are they so embarassed about it?
>>722168345For long term success you're probably right, but 2077 did better on release than any Witcher game did, far as I know. Of course there were also way more refunds. Regardless, it did well enough I suppose
he likes his hussite books a lot more than witcher, after all witcher is just temu lotr for the slavs especially the russians.
>>722167375Sorry sweaty but no one cares about your lame books old man. CDPR Witcher is canon now.
>>722175726>Why are they so embarassed about it?yeah total mystery.
>>722175737>Of course there were also way more refunds2k people refunded the game according to their investor data.
>>722167908They're just ripoffs of Elric.
>>722175819Grim
>>722175874Does that include for consoles like the PS4, too? 2K seems way, way too low
>>722167375This guy is an idiot and people only care about the series thanks to the games.
>>722170442>Sapkowski REALLY likes changing his mind when he feels like it.You don't say...
>>722167375This retarded fucking old cunt would retcon anything he wrote and what people love about The Witcher if it meant he got 5 minutes of attention and 100 złoty. He'd go on camera and claim the trial of grass actually turns girls into witcher men and you just didn't understood it correctly.Here's what I will actually do instead: I will forget this retarded poolander exists and that he has any say or authority over the witcher lore. I will instead acknowledge that the entire reason people even know about it is exclusively a merit of CDPR. I will treat the CDPR version as canon and god forbid I will spit in this niggers face if I ever get the chance.
i wonder why sapkowski of all people gets misquoted so oftenespecially on the topic of video games, curiously
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>>722176242Clickbait and outrage culture. /v/ are sheep.
>>722170994YesThere's a reason nobody gives a shit about him as an authorEven authors of series like Metro have outright called him a bastard and a joke who should be glad the games gave him the notoriety they did and that CDPR have been plenty generous in further monetary gain even when they legally didn't need to upon the success of the gamesHe's just a greedy cunt who hates that others have done better with his world than he ever has or ever will
>>722175726>>722175819I watched a female twitch streamer play Witcher 1 recently for a bit yeah (you) me I don't care and collecting the cards was unironically the thing she was most excited about, she even spent over an hour in Murky Waters trying to get the peasant girl card only to find out she couldn't get it anymore after progressing the story a bit too far and she got mad at not being able to collect all of them anymoreTheir puritanism is purely for twitter and reddit faggots, normal people don't care or even enjoy this type of stuff
>>722168395There was definitely a line in the series about the symbols of the medallions being related to the witcher's school. Coen was also noted as coming from some other witcher school and that he just liked hanging out at Kaer Morhen. Does this dumb fuck not even read his own books?
>>722176298its for Larry Fink and big investment bucks. People dont matter.
>>722167375If you read the books you'd know only "school of the wolf" exists. Dunno how this is some kind of revelation.CDPR added other schools to have different builds in the games.>>722167570None of those are different schools. Just witchers from Kaer Morhen wearing different medallions. They wren't obligated to have wolf medallions, you know?
>>722176298>normal people = 1 female twitch streamer geeky enough to play the janky first witcher game
>>722170085well, his knowledge and opinion about videogames probably is from 1980'smy grandpa was completely flabbergasted when I showed him RDR2, I think he saw arcade machine in the 80's or 90's and genuinely thought that was it till this day
>>722176296While I agree with him being a cunt slob retard loser, he did technically win the legal battle. Poland has a dumb fucking retard investor law that protects stupid dipshit alcoholics from getting fucked out of royalties/revenue from things they put money into but don't negotiate a good deal at the time. It's mostly to stop lottery pool bullshit and people swindling each other for property post war.
>>722167375lol he's so butthurt the game is so much more popular than his comics he's been trying to torch the franchise ever since
>>722176296The difference between the Metro author embracing the games and the renewed popularity they brought him compared to the Witcher author being salty about it really shows the difference between Boomers and Gen X.
This is the equivalent of a girl having sex and then saying it was actually rape years later.
>>722167375Reminder he sold the rights to make the Witcher games for a packet of cigarettes because he thoughts games were nothing and has been seething ever since.
>>722167846>>722167570>>722176361>>722170246>Cum-guzzling liars keep pushing a fake narrative about "witcher schools" existing in a book.>Especially braindead cock-slurpers bring up Season of Storms, a book that was written after the Witcher 2 game, where the cat medallions are explicitly explained to be a symbol of "defect" witchers whose mutation process didn't happen right.
>>722177338I'm sure his book sales increased ten-thousandfold.
@grok is this true?
>>722177830From what I've read elsewhere, "schools" is a loose translation for a world that means "guild" in the original Polish language. I don't have my books on hand but someone in another thread was posting the direct pages from the book. But don't you have a bottle of vodka to be cradling? It's pretty late for an old man to be up.
>>722167375I love this retard being eternally butt blasted like this. cdpr took his idea and transformed it into something greater that everyone around the globe loves. It if stayed merely a book it would be largely irrelevant and forgotten, there was already some shitty movie adaptation and no one cared about any of that until cdpr picked it up
>>722167521He's just mad people only want to read his Witcher novels while Narrenturm will always be his magnum opus.
>>722177830The griffin medallion is mentioned once and then referred to as eagle medallion two more times, the cat medallion is mentioned three times, and Ciri specifically takes that one for herself. They appear in scenes with Yen and Bonhart, Ciri and Bonhart and Ciri and Geralt.
>>722180414To be fair, Daniel Vavra loves the Hussite Trilogy.To the point that he keeps saying that there wouldn't be Kingdom Come: Deliverance without the Hussite Trilogy. So there is that.Also, Vavra is not blind to the fact that in his opinion the best books about this period of Czech history were written by a Polish guy.
>>722180946He should license the books then, I'd love to play some Reynevan kino
So what is the meaning of the different medallions then?
>>722167908They're good but honestly the short stories books are better, the main books barely have any monsters
>>722170371She looks better than in the CGI trailer but her Witcher 3 model is better
>>722181396It's pretty much the same model, just with a differnt texturework in W4. Obviously.
>>722173950Tell another fantasy series where the world it takes place in it isnt native to any of the population there and everyone including the humans are aliens from outer space, nothing generic about Witcher lore
>>722181603To be fair, that's literally how Forgotten Realms operates. But in the Witcher it's actually put in the forefront, so that you can have various races pointing fingers at one another, arguing who exactly is a colonizer to whom.
>>722181396they already fixed her cgi model, thankfully, and i think she looks better than in 3
>>722181789It's the exact same model from the trailer, it's just that in this shot, nobody want bananas with a fisheye lens.
>>722167375Man, this dude is still seething after selling his IP. Like man, just let go. He is handling this shit worst than Notch. Learn how to keep and love the shit that you made.
>>722176447It was introduced in the boardgame from 2001. Andrew didn't say shit there, so he's 24 years late. Too bad, if you don't give a shit about your lore then it will change based on the most popular adaptations. The original is only the canon king when it's the most popular version
>>722177830>talks about cock sucking and cum guzzling>as he glazes the retarded boomer who was too stupid to take royalties
>>722167375Reminder that this nigga is still mega ass hurt that he sold the rights of witcher to CD PROJEKT RED for a lump sum because he didnt think the game would do well, and keeps trying to get royalties from the series. Meanwhile the metro 2033 author actively worked with the studio making the game
>>722181935>It was introduced in the boardgame from 2001.This boardgame is explicitly non-canon. If you consider it canon, you also have to accept the idea of female witchers being a thing since 2001, so pick your poison, /v/.But the idea of various witcher schools was a thing since at least the Witcher 1, so Sapkowski is too late to the party anyway.
>>722167375Nobody outside pooland cares about the books. Nobody even heard of the witcher until witcher 3
>>722167375>NOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST EXPAND UPON WHAT I WROTE EVEN THOUGH I ARBITRARILY DECIDED I DIDN'T LIKE IT 30 YEARS LATERcan this retard shut up and go away already
his new witcher book's translation just released, so of course he had to say some stupid shit to get attention
>>722167618>JK "actually the wizards just shit themselves and magic it away" Rowling That's not exactly a good thing
>>722181789I wish they had the TW3 levels of raccoon eye makeup but other than that she's an improvement
>says nothing when they add gay activism>says nothing when netflix adds a mountain of niggers and ugly people to his European fantasy >says nothing when all of his porn-fantasy female characters are swapped into disgusting looking brown women>notices fans faithfully expanded upon non-wolf witchers and established different schools without being lore-breaking and without making them clones or partners with the wolf school, hinting that they're an organic part of the world>"uh... actually... just because I said there were griffin and cat Witcher medallions and literally had a part where Gerald meets with a cat Witcher with special cat eyes which is not from his school it doesn't mean that there reeeeally was other Witcher schools, that's just a misunderstanding"
>>722182645>says nothingWRONGHe supported it wholeheartedly >>722168898
>>722182594She actually does have racoon eyes aplenty.
>>722181106Of all the main characters, Reynevan's probably the most boring one. Szarlej's the real deal.
>>722183054I want MORE
>>722183404maybe they'll give you raccoon eye customization since there's no beard customization anymore
>>722167375Will this nigger ever stop seething about not taking the royalties deal they offered him MULTIPLE times?
>>722181789>she looks better than in 3No she doesnt
>>722181761I don't anything about Forgotten Realms but is everyone there aliens too?
>>722167375>write words>publish words>people read those words and form thoughts about them>NOOOOOO STOP THAT'S WRONG I DIDN'T MEAN TO WRITE THOSE WORDS YOU SHOULD HAVE READ MY MIND AND KNOWN WHAT WORDS I MEANT TO WRITElmao. get death of the authored, faggot.
>>722170478Elric is fucking fanfic tier garbage for edgy kids.School shooters first fantasy series. Even the author is embarassed when someone mentions it to him.
>>722183943My FR lore is rusty, but IIRC, at first there were just dragons and lizardpeople, then elves showed up from a different dimension, then the gnomes, and so on and so forth. Then after a while humans showed up, but at this point I don't remember if they are native to Toril or also showed up from a different realms. Most recently (in 4e) we had dragonborn and tieflings showing up from different realms.Sure, tiefling kept popping up here and there in previous editions, but not to this extent.
>>722170478Have you even read SapkowskiThe good parts of the Witcher books are basically all satire
>>722180501>ciri takes a cat medallionsounds like they have fuck all to do with witchers then
>>722176296Sapkowski and William Gibson are the top two assholes who can nevertheless writeBoth apparently spend every waking hour either writing or seething about someone who referenced their work
>Witchers have existed for 400 years as an effective monster hunting force in a world filled to the brim with monsters >nobody ever tried to replicate their methods>no leaks ever occurred>no renegade Witchers ever created their own schools>the Cat Witcher with special cat eyes is from the same school as Gerald and all Witchers come from Kaer Morhen meaning the Cat and Grifin medallion is also from Kaer Morhen>except the cat Witcher is clearly a defector>AN NO YOU CAN'T COUNT THAT AS DIFFERENT SCHOOLS!!!! WITCHERS ARE THE POWER RANGERS OF THE WORLD IT WOULD MAKE THEM LESS SPECIAL
>>722184225Damn, Witcher lore is extremely similar but I still wouldnt call Witcher lore generic though
>>722181603>nothing generic about Witcher loreBecause of a fucking background history lore which is irrelevant to the main story?>legendary monster hunter that is hated by everyone for being an outsider/freak but saves the day anyway>Witcher : 1994>Vampire Hunter D: 1983And by the way it was the author of the book that drew these
>>722185931The joke is that Sapkowski was actively lifting a lot of lore from various tabletop games popular in the 90's, be it D&D or Warhammer Fantasy. He obviously is never going to admit that.
>>722167375Too bad the bear armor is still the best.
>>722187218>best stats>also looks the bestthe dev bias is real
>>722181902>It's the exact same model from the trailer
From all the shit they changed for the games, he cares about that.
>>722167375I can't take this dude and his "I can't believe it's not butter!" version of Elric of Melnibone seriously. Witcher is extremely derivative, and he should be happy it's as successful as it is.
>>722167375based subhuman polish trash making incel gaymers seethe
>>722182562>poo on floor like Dumbledore
>>722167618Sapkowski barely wrote any lore. He famously hates worldbuilding and thinks it's dumb. 99% of witcher lore was invented by CDPR.
>>722167846This lol. Different witcher schools are alluded to in the books, CDPR only expanded on what was already mentioned.
>>722183861Yes she does.
>>722182301Wrong
>>722187035>nothing generic about Witcher lore>Because of a fucking background history lore which is irrelevant to the main story?>>>legendary monster hunter that is hated by everyone for being an outsider/freak but saves the day anyway>Witcher : 1994>Vampire Hunter D: 1983>And by the way it was the author of the book that drew theseNo, Hideyuki Kikuchi wrote Vampire Hunter D and Amano was the illustrator.
>>722188275yikes it's like some sort of ogre goth
>>722167521the books are great thoughableitever. just never listen to the opinions of any author, they're almost all badIm more interested what he thinks about making ciri a witcher
I've been telling you retards that the books are garbage and the only Witcher worth anything was created by CDPR, but you didn't listen.
maybe i should read the books>english translation is notoriously unfaithful>author is a shitlord who is still butthurt that he insisted on taking a lump sum instead of ongoing royalties because he didn't think the games would be as popular as they aremaybe i shouldn't read the books
>>722167375Why is Sapkowski so dumb? He should have done the Gurrm thing and leaned heavily into the new hype, using it to promote himself. He should have offered CDPR to hire him as a "creative consultant" where he gets big money for little work, just so they can put a blurb of his on the game box. Man, what an idiot.
>>722167375he's still assblasted that he took one time payment from cdpr instead of royalties, cant wait until this retard falls over and dies
>>722173480*300
>>722189127in 2018 he sued CDPsa for $16 million in royalties.they settled out of court in 2019 in an undisclosed agreement to "solidify friendship"
>>722167521This. I hate people like him.
>>722167908They're fun.Ciri is a 14 year old horny slut that gets raped by a lesbian and then gets extremely horny as a dying old man starts sucking on her supple breasts but gets frustrated as he dies before finishing the deal
>>722175819fucking sellout scum. watching cdpr sell their souls for shekels hit me very hard. the witcher trilogy is my favorite series in all of vidya so it makes it all the more painful for me.i hope sandfall will not sellout next.
>>722167618No, he didn't. His original book is around trash Chinese novel level.
leave schools alone!
>>722167375If not for cdpr no one would know your franchise you ingrate
>>722168973>game began to spoil my market.what a fucking bitchThe games popularity skyrocketed the SHIT out of his books' sales
>>722167375This nigga still mad he sold the rights cheap? He's approaching David Hayter levels of crybaby bitchness
>>722173950Its fun
>>722176267>"y'all">from Los AngelesThat's cultural appropriation.
>>722173347If they dont like vidya games, why the fuck are they working in them?
>>722180946>ENSLAVED shirtWhen that photo was taken?
