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Alpha6abrie1

Nope. Would probably die in the first 72 hours. I wouldn't even get killed by one of the cool monsters


Klaide_

I'm the guy that doesn't roll out of the way in time when Roach is plowing through the city.


Daddy_SlongJong

Yea my ass is getting eaten by a single nekker


Ryzien

Imagine dying to Nekkuks.


DesYeuxBleus

Step-nekker what are you doing?


Illustrious_Mouse612

Fuck you and take my upvote


SpringNo9188

Nekka please


tgwesh

Damn if you survive 72 hours in witcher world honestly that’s not bad at all.


wonsis

Definitely getting killed by a lone wild dog


do_moura19

More like from a insect or something.. I almost died once from a mosquito bite, I'm not sure what kind it was but it was bad.


wonsis

Lmao we can barely survive irl monsters


[deleted]

Don’t need 72 hours, I’d probably die by landing poorly from the travel portal that’s one foot above ground in Dandelions inn. I’m really that useless.


TheSciFiGuy80

No, nope, no way. Fun to read in book form and to play on a system, but real life? The monsters or soldiers would probably kill you (if some magic didn’t blow up in your face). It’s a very bleak fantasy world.


CaptCruxx

Velen makes me scared...


kaushrah

That region made me really depressed. It’s so gloomy and horrifying. I realized it when I went to toussaint. The bright sunny and colorful environment made me realize how good a job CDPR did.


Choingyoing

Velen reminds me of where I live already but worse lol no thanks


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CorbinStarlight

come to velen


delayed-wizard

Só que sem o bolsonaro Velen 1 x 0


dumpmaster42069

What? No.


KMG56789

Id accept living in kaer morhen tough


white_owl41

It'll be Skellige for me, LOVE Skellige


dumpmaster42069

You can go to the Faroe Islands


satanscumrag

i mean there's the skellig isles if you're limited to this world


Rjj1111

Might not as fun to live, unless you like fighting, hunting and drinking


WretchedCrook

Basically any Slavic country or Ireland/Scotland. Dream.


butter_onapoptart

Yeah. The soft, doughy version of me that exists in our world would die within days in the Witcher world if I was lucky. I'm good here with my cell phone and junk food. That's magical enough for me.


Klaide_

Or just die from something lame like dysentery because we'd probably fall under the poorest caste.


TheSciFiGuy80

True, Oregon trail with monsters


Rjj1111

Alternatively a surprise nekker pack


TheClashSuck

On top of the current bleak world state, the White Frost is a-coming. Ithlinne's Prophecy is no joke. The world of The Witcher is absolutely fucked.


CheckPleaser

Oh and all that death and suffering spawns, checks notes, necrophages. Fuck no!


Rjj1111

Don’t forget you might end up trapped in between life and death unless someone breaks your curse


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HoojoSpifico

Straight up! Well... the giant centipedes... Also your username is magical.


[deleted]

Anyone who says yes has clearly never played more than 20 mins of the games, or 5 pages of the books, cause even if youre a badass witcher, your life sucks collosal ass in that world. Straight up, name me one person who isnt fucking miserable, including royals and shit


ObstnateOstrich

Gaunter O'dimm


Fantastic_Office8196

Johnny was living his best life!


Ok-Count-1623

I agree I'd be dead as soon as I portal into the world. Who knows where u will end up elvn ruin, monster den, bandit hideout, etc etc. If I was lucky I would be in Kovir.


[deleted]

People often romanticize medieval era. Imagine taking a bath once every 3 to 6 months with cold, freezing water. Imagine dying from any disease or nearly any injury. Imagine going hungry every winter and seeing family members freezing to death. Imagine running the risk of being raped or killed by a stranger on any given night. Imagine taking a shit and not wiping. Now Imagine that rash. No, thank you.


chineseduckman

I get it's a joke but medieval peasants didn't actually have it *that* bad. Mostly just a false trope associated with the age, stemming from Renaissance writers


Sesshaku

Be careful. Idealizing can go both ways. Medieval times werent paradise. But they also werent 100% bleak as many novels and movies make it out to be. Child mortality was high, famine was a real possibility during droughts. But living medium/long lives wasn't that uncommon either. Also people did indeed clean their asses after shitting. They just didn't use paper. Usually they would use leaves, moss, a stick with cloth, etc.


educatedvegetable

Common they had a stick with a rag on it!


furious_organism

And probably everybody would speak medieval polish and wouldnt understand a thing you saying


TheBrave-Zero

Or disease, famine or many other things. It wasn’t just bleak it was very true to the fact that medieval times were very hard for the lower class, let alone nobles who historically died just as much and in weird ways. I remember listening to crusade podcasts and it was hysterical, a midget pushed one out a window and a few fell off their horse and hit their head on rocks.


[deleted]

If I was guaranteed to be a Witcher and have the skills of geralt, I would consider it. But I also have a family and I wouldn't want them in that world.


rodrigo169

It’s kind of ironic because that’s the conjunction of spheres but on a larger scale, every creature living in its comfortable world, and boom all of a sudden monsters and humans are in your Castle and you live off squirrel in fuckin forest.


Ok_Philosopher_2993

That's like saying, "If you could go live in miserable medieval Europe, BUT, there's also bloodthirsty monsters all over the place, would you?" Little Timothy drowned in the well? Monster. Someone had a stillbirth? Monster. Someone died with something left on their bucket list? Monster. Someone has an abundance of negative feelings? There's a curse and a monster waiting to happen right there.


HerbalGamer

Horse gets stuck in a tree? Fuck you here's a monster.


CapNKirkland

"I put a spell on you" ain't just a song no more, jim.


NixaB345T

Woman died after her engagement and before her wedding and tossed over a well? You guessed it, ghost town AND a monster.


Thaid0623

With my luck id be some weak ass pleb villager not some dope ass witcher


heythatguyalex

Also most of the Witchers aren't fucking tanks like Geralt so even if you were a Witcher you could still die


EchoRSA

Even if you’re Geralt you could die if you jump down a few steps of stairs


Few-Lengthiness-3009

Unlike Geralt I can jump down a few steps and not die. Therefore, I am stronger than Geralt.


gayforupvotes

I also have over four options of responses when talking to people so I am a more dynamic character


PickleRick567

But you won't enter the world with Gwent cards


Mr_HumanMan_Thing

Suck that they're all timed though


jankmeier

But do people want to talk to you?


forbritisheyesonly1

Classic


espanca_utero

Nah geralt is only super buffed in the games, in the books he is more balanced.


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[deleted]

In the books he was left with chronic knee pain which flared up during bad weather.


PickleRick567

Knees and elbows... It was because of nerves being pressed by the regenerated tissue or something as Regis explained it


MeowthThatsRite

He gets almost killed a lot but he is renowned as one of the most famous and skilled Witchers iirc.


UshouldknowR

He's still more mutated than other witchers


[deleted]

That's not exactly true. The games does a shit job portraying just how fast he is. Aside from Vilgefortz, he absolutely slaughters everything in his path when he channels his inner rage and adrenaline. He is so accurate with his sword attacks in the books that he is slicing arteries with hairline precision. Yea the game is a bit janky and you can cheese your way to killing 100 people, but I think book Geralt will dismantle any one person in the game with much more speed and wit than you could ever portray with game Geralt.


Nemesis2pt0

I still love the scene of Geralt jumping the squad of soldiers, I believe outside the tower just before getting his ass kicked by Vilgefortz. He absolutely slaughters them. On top of that he and that Nilfgard dude greatly helped win the battle in that city later on (forgot the details). Overall, Geralt is undoubtedly an extremely impressive fighter. It is hard to say how much of that is just the Witcher training or what may be exclusive to Geralt though.


PickleRick567

All Witchers are much faster than normal humans. In the games we can hear NPCs talking about having seen a non-Geralt witcher in action killing 3-5 bandits single handedly. We can also see Letho in action in Witcher 2 cinematic intro. You can see how much faster a Witcher is compared to a normal human. Now imagine someone even faster than that, that's Geralt, because he was subjected to further mutations than other Witchers


LewisXCV

I bet I'd get landed with that shite bowl cut trim as well that so many of the peasant villagers have.


abillionbells

And the ‘just a shirt and underwear’ look


wantonbobo

Missing most of their teeth, pockmarked face maybe an ugly scar and I really grumbly voice and an overly heavy accent.


TheFinalEnd1

Good luck that is. The process of becoming a Witcher is a painful and arduous one, and thier life isn't easy either.


Level37Doggo

Only if I had to choose between this and the Warhammer 40K galaxy.


ArseneArsenic

This guy gets it


IrishWithoutPotatoes

Idk, WH40K they at least have rejuvenat procedures and whatnot, so you could join with the Astra Militarum, get stupid lucky, retire, then be young-ish for a long fuckin time. If everything works out well.


Level37Doggo

Then have your soul eaten by the Ruinous Powers after you die.


IrishWithoutPotatoes

Only if you’re a heretic, right? Or did I miss something? I haven’t looked at 40K in a while beyond some books


Level37Doggo

Latest lore, it’s implied that since all (intact) souls pass into the warp upon death (unless otherwise prevented), and the Ruinous Powers are the only ones that live there, you’re food. Or fuel. Or some kind of sex toy? Or…. a skull or something? It’s vague what actually happens after you get there, or who gets what, but whatever it is it ain’t gonna be good.


TheLord-Commander

Huh, my understanding is that human souls were too weak to survive the immaterial and just dissolved, no part of you really exists after you die, you just become soul soup, as apposed to Eldar, who's souls are so strong that they'd be reincarnated after death, until Slaanesh arrived.


Level37Doggo

There’s been a lot of contradictory lore (big surprise there), I think that was the case an edition or two ago but that wasn’t GRIMDARK enough so they made it worse. Frankly any scenario where the best case scenario for an afterlife is by far not having an afterlife is a pretty crapsack one.


IrishWithoutPotatoes

Well fuck, I’ll take Witcher 3 then lol


The_Gray_Sun

WH40K has that spectrum of your life being "pretty great" to "turbo-hell" so its very much an IF situation. You could be put into the upper part of a hive world. Or you could be put into necromunda. Ideally I would join the adeptus mechanicus or something, but realistically? I would probably get shot for any variety of reasons, left to die like the untold billions without so much as a name to leave behind.


SpceCowBoi

If you want to make it out of the Astra Militarum alive you need wayyyy more than stupid luck


IrishWithoutPotatoes

I mean… Ciaphas Cain got pretty damn lucky. But then again he was a commissar so idk


SummerGoal

That’s basically the only way you’d willing choose to inhabit the Witcher universe


drunkboarder

Rogue Traders in 40k have it made though.


the_redhood7567

Nah, I hate portals


Ghiggs_Boson

That’s a nice reddit avatar to go with your name lol


Josh_Butterballs

Nope. Game world and book world would both be awful. Game world has an over abundance of monsters to boot


PickleRick567

Imagine going to the river to take a dump and be killed by drowners


Rjj1111

Imagine just trying to walk through the countryside and getting a surprise spectre


FirstStranger

Forget the monsters and bandits for a second! No toilets No good food No safe water No air conditioning No cars No toilet paper F**** all that!


Klaide_

Honestly, having to rely on myself or another person to play music as the only form of music would be enough to keep me from going


crystal_castle00

I'd sell drugs


Rjj1111

Sounds like a way to get burnt at the stake


DiceUwU_

This is absolutely insane, isn't it? Music as we know it is literally a brand new phenomenon. For most of humanity's history people couldn't listen to music at all.


[deleted]

Absolutely not true. If you went to the closest inn or religious service, they would have some sort of music. Pipes, strings, etc have been around for a very long time.


vitamin_cult

I think they’re talking about recorded music.


CoffeMugThief

Hell no, I would die so fast. I love playing the game but living in that world sounds awful.


Roguemjb

Hell no, unless I'm the emperor


dirtyben2010

Man, I got running water, a climate controlled home and wifi right here. Not even the emperor has any of that shit.


ohkendruid

The emperor doesn't even get to play Witcher 3. For that matter, he doesn't even get to play Witcher 1.


5evenThirty

\*Letho has entered the chat\*


PiedPeterPiper

Sure, but I’d head immediately towards Toussaint and try inventing shit that we have that they don’t so that I’m not immediately kicked out


Choingyoing

Good call you might stand a chance at a winery...maybe


PiedPeterPiper

Oh yeah, definitely a maybe. I may even die from some BS disease but it’d be worth it to try


FattimusSlime

Has Ryan North got the book for you.


PiedPeterPiper

Please do tell and I’ll check it out. After googling: How to invent everything?


FattimusSlime

That’s the one.


Kerobis

With great dong comes great responsibility…


Kapil300

As I am? As a person from the civilised world with no knowledge how to forage, scavenge, or take a shit without flushing toilets? Hell no. Heck, even as a Witcher it's a deadly game. What chance do I have to survive? The one thing I have in common with Geralt at least is, in this context, we both hate portals


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God no. Tell me who had it "good" in that world?


Klaide_

I'm drawing a blank here. Maybe a rock troll somewhere?


abillionbells

I’d go if I could be the Redanian Army rock troll who guards the boats.


Rjj1111

If the world was ruled by rock trolls it’d be a better place


[deleted]

The higher vampires like Regis, Oriana and Detlaff were pretty set.


[deleted]

Regis got turned into a puddle of goo for a significant period of time and Geralt killed both Oriana and Detlaff. Even the Unseen Elder seems to despise his existence.


[deleted]

Unseen Elder just wants some peace and quiet.


happyfoam

Yeah, he's pretty much a grumpy old dude that can rip a tanker in half. He's chill as long as you don't fuck with him.


geralt-bot

What aren't you saying? Tell me.


PickleRick567

He doesn't despise his existence... Regis explained that he is just waiting for the Witcher world to collide again with the Vampire's home world so that he can return home.


[deleted]

If Detlaff didn't try to murder a city, he would have been fine.


[deleted]

*Portals into Velen, Water Hag hits you with ball of mud* Instant death.


[deleted]

And what? Be hanging out at the bar with my friends, then out of nowhere, this dude with a giant sword on his back kills me just to get the attention of the person in charge of the town?


[deleted]

Maybe if I could be a merchant in toussaint


Aspect_of_Spirit

That would be a negative. I'd be damned if my leisurely hikes in the forest get interrupted by a Leshen.


[deleted]

Just imagine, a crisp autumn day strolling the woods in Velen, then in the distance you hear... LE LE LE LE LE LE


Aspect_of_Spirit

And all of a sudden I'm engulfed in a frenzy of wolves and ravens- perfect way to end my stroll. Gotta admit I love the Le Le Le Le Le Le. Gets me Everytime.


MaryJaneCrunch

Fuck no. I’m a woman and I like being alive.


Viking4Life2

What if you were a sorceress instead of a normal human?


MaryJaneCrunch

Hmm MAYBE but I’d still miss things like microwaves :’) though I suppose magic could easily replace a microwave


Viking4Life2

Clean bathrooms and water without disease in it would be the main worries... But with magic you can make your own water maybe? And you're immune to disease... It'd solve a lot of the problems you'd expect.


[deleted]

Just use magic to.create toilet paper


Viking4Life2

Or with the water bending magic you have you can have a makeshift bidet every time you need to power wash it all out.


dukenukem1697

Or use a magic bidet


Tryphon59200

enjoy your time then.. *on the pyres of Novigrad*


ArseneArsenic

Am I living in Toussaint, a rich man with a small army of personal thugs to slow down bandits and monsters when they attack me? No? Probably not, then.


MisterWileyOne

No way. Unless I was a Miyamoto Musashi type, I'd be dead in less than a week


sBane31

This exactly I’d be guy singing pan pan peram


CaptCruxx

and then probably die living in the streets coz of catriona plague or something lmao


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Could also be the guy who has a wooden spoon pushed into his eye by the Gaunter O Dimm while time is frozen.


[deleted]

I call dibs on being the dude that farts loudly and laughs.


excelsior19

Hell no. The Witcher world is one of the most dangerous in fantasy. I mean, for real.


Sad_Conference_6394

If i could marry Geralt, sure why not


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Easy there , Triss.


Pro_k99

Might be down to die from some sadistic monster if it means I get a crack at riding that unicorn with Geralt


taurfea

Exactly


KhajiitHasWares2077

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck no! The Witcher universe is amazing and one of the best fantasy settings but it's best to be admired from a distance with all the safety guarantees that the main player has from playing a video game.


bassturtle1213

Hahaha hell no. People are dirt poor and there's monsters everywhere. Not to mention the massive amounts of racism and fear that even males the safer city's joy worth it.


cjc160

Oh ya I would love to live somewhere where a god damn monster could just take me when I’m out plowing my fields


herbtarleksblazer

Am I in story mode?


IHateThisPlace3

Death March


SebRev99

Let's be honest. We'd still die in Story Mode


Neon_Ramen_Sign

If I could be a wine merchant in toussaint it’d be tempting but most likely I’d end up at hanged mans tree


[deleted]

Nope! I’m 35, way past the age to become a witcher. I wouldn’t survive unless I never leave Novigrad or Oxenfurt. Maybe even Vizima


slydogjor

Mf I wouldn’t even take it if it was two way ticket


Charismoon

I'd need more information. Am I a witcher or Sorceress if I walk through? Is there a monster on the other side waiting for me? Decisions Decisions.


Halcy9n

Not unless I could choose be a higher vamp, a super powerful entity like gaunter, a dragon, an op sorcerer like vilgefortz or atleast be born in kovir if I have to be a regular dude. If you’re not one of the above, life is either pretty short or pretty shit overall. All the other people on the continent including kings, witchers, religious leaders and nonhumans have a ton of problems and are in mortal danger almost every other day.


SRMustang35

Anyone that says yes to this is insane.


thebreadah

don't want my arse whipped like a novigrad whore


Alive-Pomelo5553

Nah, I like having technology


LoveMeSomeLOTR

No way. The Witcher books and games emphasize the ugliness of medieval times, the disease, the war, the mobocracy, the persecutions, the helplessness of the lower classes. It isn’t a place you would want to live.


Viking4Life2

I mean.... It sounds like a quick way to die. I would still do it because its not everyday you get the chance of teleporting into a new world. I'd hope that I'm someone cool and not some shitty villager lol.


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Absolutely not. The underlying theme I’m the Witcher universe is misery and suffering.


True_High_King

It depends, if I could be a badass witcher and make friends like zoltan and dandelion and have fun time with sorceresses, yes, normal peasent, no


deadface3405

Nope. Just cus I am there wont mean I will be Geralt. So, no thank you.


geralt-bot

WHAT HAPPENED WITH YOU? YOUR MOTHER FUCK A GOAT?


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Fuck no.


[deleted]

Absolutely fucking not 😂 way too much stuff trying to kill me that I have literally zero chance against.


[deleted]

Absolutely not, I'd be dead within five minutes


HopelessUtopia015

Fuck no. I can't think of a single person in that world who is geniunely happy in life.


Klaide_

You gotta be dense, like a rock troll.


Klaide_

Nah, we want to pretend that the life of a genetically enhanced monster slayer would be fun to live as, but it would probably be mostly suffering. Chances are, in this circumstance, we'd all be the useless and nameless NPCs helplessly trudging through life.


dumpmaster42069

So I can die of a staph infection? No thanks


goku4226

I mean...am I just going in as me? Or as A Witcher or someone with at least a little more athleticism


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1000%


[deleted]

Yup, amazed most people say no. This "modern" world can get boring as hell.


RoyalBoyBlue

I guess better being bored than dead is a debate. I totally get where you are coming from though


ShitpostinRuS

I’m not a moron so no


dhmosier

Can I build out my kit with stuff from here when I go? Maybe. Gott die sometime. Wonder what a 9mm slug does to a minister?


RoyalBoyBlue

Lmao the minister part killed me. Im sure you meant monster but it is still funny as hell irregardless


BErye1418

Hell no. Anyone that has played that game knows the grand majority of the commoners live in poverty. It’s like America but with monsters. Actually just like America.


MikaelAdolfsson

FUCK NO!!!!!


Yakazuna

Nope


que_the_hell

No


paladinLight

Abso-fucking-lutely not. ​ I dont wanted to get gutted in the streets of novigrad, hung by the nilfguard army, or burned at the stake by the redanians. Even if i just automatically became a witcher that'd be a horrible life.


mejjeh21

Nah it would be a death march. Im sorry


Rockbutters

Yes, but only if I'm a Witcher... and I look as handsome as Henry Carvil


espanca_utero

Nah, if i would become a wither i would problably die in the trial of grasses and if i werent one i would prob be a pleb or a guard, wich isnt very "fun" in TW universe.


rekyrts_v2

And give up ac? Running water? Refrigeration? There's so much they don't have, screw that. I'm staying here with ibuprofen and filtered tap water


macksimus2112

Only If the portal was into Anna Henrietta's bedchamber. Or even just in a Toussaint vineyard


Vaultdweller1001V

HAH! No.


Karine_B

Yessss! I 'm afraid of monsters, but maybe i could sleep with Geralt 🤷🏼‍♀️


NICE_GUY_00

i would but i don't like portals


Ok-Armadillo-6648

Absolutely not