The scarcity of bdsm content has made me want the option for a hard personality Steele to kidnap some random sentient local and keep them in my Steele's fungeon to have their way with them for as long as they want, and then release them back on their home planet after a visit to Dr badger or some sort of sketchy character for a good ol' mind wipe. Been this way for as long as I can remember playing the game post-Tarkus implementation.
Would've written it myself but knowing I'll have to account for or put in new scenes for every Tom, Dick, and Harry of a native species implemented makes me lethargic just thinking about it.
Isn't real life bdsm based on willful submission and control though? Kidnapping and mental manipulation are hot but I wouldn't call it BDSM. If you're just looking for forced dom content that'd be more on the rape side (which especially in the case of mental manip I'm fine with).
That's a loaded question. The Witcher doesn't "only have white people in it", it only has polish people in it - and it's that way because its inspiration is polish folk tales. Americans tend to think 'whiteness' is this universally recognized thing but if you grew up in Europe you never developed that American sense that all of your neighbors are grouped into the same race as you. You have your ways up here, they have their ways over there. You might meet them on holiday but you'd never think you were the same race. Whiteness is only a factor when you travel further, and especially to a place with a colonial history, and it's less an indication of your brotherhood as your foreignness.
Americans like to see settings reflect their own land but do keep in mind that things are different in other places!
We can talk about blaming Americans for such a stigma but that's reductive, especially since the whole whites vs blacks thing got out of hand long before america was even a thing with colonialism. But lets not go there because, as an African American, I know a lot more about the subject than I care to, also it has the potential to derail the thread. We can talk about race in videogames tho I'm down for that convo if someone wants to make a thread about it.
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Now with respect to the witcher... The Witcher does not have only polish people in it. There's an entire area called Skelliga based on Scandinavia, specifically Vikings with clans, culture, and lore to back it up. Then you have the northern kingdoms which are a hodgepodge of poor medieval era European countries and Nilfguard which has a combination of French and German overtones along with subtle hints of other imperialistic doctrine. They may be mostly white but they're def not all polish.
And the witcher doesn't only have white people in it.
Taking into account that in the books a lot of the background character and crowds are left up to the imagination of the reader one can't really say with concern to the books so yes the author may have been thinking of a white person but any reader could implant their own race on the background chars.
Going back to the races though, the Witcher literally has analogs for every land aside from the Americas. I mean let's not forget about Zerrikania which is basically Africa, dark-skinned people central. There's also Haakland which is basically Asia but smaller and with more brown people than fair people, so Asia if Indians and Middle Eastern people dominated it. The main setting of the story just happens to be the Northern Kingdoms.
So the stigma that its only white people comes from the European setting and the fact that the game devs have a visual medium to work with. The npcs they generated were mostly white as a result of an oversight during asset creation, not a deliberate attempt to whitewash or to excluse any race.
But even then CDPR also took deliberate steps to correct this with the DLC Hears of Stone where they included a prince from Haakland (As the frog prince which was imo a subtle nod to the Disney movie) who was middle eastern and had a badass wind sorcerer that fucked Geralt's shit up.
