Twenty tips
- Decide Merciful, Virgin and King Charming before Skalitz burns.
- Learn to read in Uzhitz as soon as you can afford it.
- Go back to Bernard for the master strike. Then go back again.
- Saviour Schnapps: nettle, belladonna, wine. Brew ten.
- Sleep to save, and sleep only in beds you are allowed in.
- Nest of Vipers: poison the food, burn the arrows. It halves Baptism of Fire.
- Everything before Baptism of Fire; everything else before The Die Is Cast.
- Pestilence in Merhojed is timed. Do it when it appears.
- Take nothing into the monastery. You will be searched.
- A mace for plate, a sword for everything else.
- Never clinch early. Step back.
- Sharpen at the grindstone before every trip; a dull blade is a missed kill.
- Bathe before you talk to a lord.
- Give beggars coins; it is the cheapest reputation there is.
- Poaching is a crime even in an empty forest.
- From the Ashes eats money. Do it after the story unless you are rich.
- The Rattay tourney is the best combat training after Bernard.
- Pebbles is in the sequel. Be nice to her.
- Completionist is eighty quests, not all of them.
- The 2026 PS5 and Xbox versions are the console ones to play; the 2018 ones are the reviews you read.