“Sapkowski is a kleptomaniac with mythology” - How Reigns: The Witcher coaxes out the improv chaos of Geralt's universe

Reigns: The Witcher narrative designer Oscar Harrington-Shaw thinks Geralt of Rivia has a promising future as a private eye. “Another source of inspiration which I quite like leaning on, which the games do and the books do, is hard-boiled crime detective stories,” he tells me, when I ask whether his work on Nerial’s latest narrative card RPG has given him any wild notions for Witcher projects. “Geralt actually sort of lives in that world. So it could be cool to have like a spin-off neo noir crime detective film. Almost like Knives Out, even, but with Geralt as the detective.” Read more