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** Quite a few chess 'enthusiasts' appear during the backroom politicking of Chapter 3; among them, Declan and Triss could be considered masters.
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Geralt again.
* [[Close
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: For a game set in an 11th century medieval world, people sure have colorful vocabularies.
** Most characters do not swear or use only mild profanities. And then there is Thaler.
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* [[In Universe Game Clock]]: The Witcher has a day/night cycle set to approximately 60 real-life minutes to a in-game day.
** This and [[Take Your Time]] are averted in the quest to survive the striga to daybreak (if the player opts to). No matter where the sun/moon are, the period from the moment the striga is encountered until the final candle extinguishes at daybreak will always take the same amount of real time, and game time will adjust accordingly.
* [[Insurmountable Waist
* [[Ironic Echo]]: At the end of Chapter 3: {{spoiler|"Witchers ''can'' parry bolts in flight."}}
* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: Kalkstein mentions he has a theory that is effectively the basic concept of atoms; Geralt tells him to tell him about it later in a manner indicating disinterest, and the general consensus by NPCs is that Kalkstein is crazy.
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* [[Not in This For Your Revolution]]: One dialog option allows Geralt to claim his motivations for the first game are entirely because Salamandra robbed him and killed a friend.
* [[Not So Harmless]]: {{spoiler|The Reverend at first seems like a slightly [[Jerkass]], but ultimately well meaning priest. You quickly learn that he's actually a [[Knight Templar|fanatical]] nutjob who first had his own daughter thrown out of the village and now scapegoats the local mage as the cause of the recent increase in monsters, and even provokes most of the villagers into a howling lynch mob. Oh, and if you stop the (unjust) lynching? ''He sics his cronies on you, despite the fact that you just killed the monster that was plaguing the village''!}}
* [[Now Where Was I Going Again?]]: Overcome by a comprehensive journal carried by Geralt on his objectives, though there are sometimes too many things going on at once to easily keep track of.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: In the first game, {{spoiler|Princess Adda. She's not of [[Magnificent Bastard]] quality, but she plays a sweet idiot all the time while scheming a fairly big coup.}}
* [[Optional Sexual Encounter]]: ''Many'' in the game, to the point of infamy.
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* [[Public Domain Artifact]]: The Holy Grail is brought up at one point, all of the standard (touched by Jesus, ancient conspiracy, and "self perfection") ideas are theories about it in universe.
** Jesus is replaced by a prophet named Lebioda (as mentioned above) and various legends have slight name changes.
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]: You play as a man who hunts monsters for coin full-time, and on his spare time he enjoys drinking, gambling, arm-wrestling, fist-fighting, and having sex with [[Really Gets Around|lots of different women.]] He does not curse much (he still has his moments), but some of the people he associates with [[Cluster F-Bomb|more than make up for it.]] He also has a [[Perma Stubble]] and is [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|heavily scarred.]]
* [[Rated "M" for Money]]: [[Justified Trope]]; the original novels were characterized by strong sexual themes.
* [[Ready for Lovemaking]]: The "cards" collected in the first game depict Geralt's partners in this fashion.
* [[Retcon]]: Well, you probably know this already; Geralt was supposedly [[Killed Off for Real]] in the original novels, only to be resurrected in the game.
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* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: White Rayla becomes this if you side with the Order.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Alvin is a powerful Source who carries the Elder Blood who randomly uttered the Prophecy of Ithlinne, who is a catalyst for Geralt's growth as a person, who has a magical "accident" during his training with Triss involving a destroyed shed, and is sort-of raised by Geralt and (canonically) a sorceress....making him Ciri from the novel series, except somehow all this development is shoved into a few months or so (maybe) instead of close to seven years as it was in the novels. {{spoiler|He even ends up time-traveling and is wanted by the Wild Hunt like Ciri is.}}.
* [[Shout
** Detective [
** In the dialogue right before the boss fight in Chapter 1, one of dialogue options is "[[Sudden Impact|Go ahead, make my day.]]"
** The story of an alchemist named "Alfred Nebel" who invented a powder that could blast through granite for mining purposes, only for him to suffer the guilt of seeing it used in warfare.
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* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: Subverted in an early cutscene, in which Geralt throws his sword at an enemy only to have it get stuck in the wall. It ''would'' have worked, had the target not teleported away.
* [[Thunderbolt Iron]]: New weapons can be crafted from "meteorite ore".
* [[Trauma
** In the sequel, it's revealed that {{spoiler|he gave his life for Yennefer and that encounters with [[The Wild Hunt]] can cause madness or amnesia}}.
* [[Twenty Bear Asses]]: Recurring quests in every chapter. A few reviews have noted that because it is Geralt's job (and the quests are more of "collect as you do real quests"), it is more bearable than most examples. This also serves the gameplay purpose of familiarizing the player with where alchemical ingredients can be found, and giving an opportunity to collect a surplus for their own use.
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