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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9535917" data-attributes="member: 18">This is the scenario most people are expecting them to go with, I think, because it allows them to get rid of a lot of really troublesome and overpowered powers, and make things about Witcher-ing rather than teleporting or dimensional travel or the like.I suspect the general "no female witchers because only men can survive the Trial of Grasses due to having 'stronger bodies'" thing will be got rid of in general though, because it's an outdated idea, not just in that it's sexist, but it's scientifically/medically illiterate if the idea is, as it seems to be, that the Trial of Grasses is a powerful mutagen that's a lot like being really badly poisoned. In virtually every scenario that could relate to this women have equally strong or in some cases stronger bodies than men. It's not bloody weightlifting. But given Sapkowski's age and being educated in communist Poland it's perhaps not surprising that whilst he loves to chuck modern medical terms around in the Witcher books, his ideas are slightly stone-age. Probably CDPR will just have some wizard tweak the formula or something.</blockquote>