[19:30] <+CodyPondsmith> Yep! Hey everybody, so I’m Cody Pondsmith, lead designer on the Witcher TRPG! For those of you who don’t know the franchise, the Witcher is a dark fantasy franchise that stemmed from the novels of a prolific polish author named Andrzej Sapkowski. The novels gained a ridiculous following, spawning comics and tv shows and eventually a series of Video games
[19:32] <+CodyPondsmith> a series of video games that most of you are probably familiar with! I was once told that Witcher is like the “Lord of the Rings of Eastern Europe”.
[19:33] <+CodyPondsmith> The world itself is a dark and dangerous world where due to a bunch of bits of magical hapenstance, including a dimensional rift, magic and monsters were dumped onto a bunch of unsuspecting folks who had to struggle to survive!
[19:34] <+CodyPondsmith> The result of this is the Witcher, a class of mutated human who is purpose built to slay monster and break curses! The only problem is, most people are deathly afraid of them due to their mutations and their grim work!
[19:35] <+CodyPondsmith> It’s a really deep lore and it would take hours for me to summarize it in depth but that should be a good intro for anyone who isn’t familiar! (Done)