Walkthrough for the quest Gwent: Playing Innkeeps in the game Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. This page covers all main objectives, key steps, or helpful tips to guide you through the quest smoothly. Whenever possible, the guide points out locations for key items and details interactions with NPCs, among other tips. To ensure maximum clarity, in-game screenshots are included for easy-to-follow visual guidance.
Quest Group: Secondary Quests
Location: Novigrad
This quest will appear in your journal when, after an audience with the Emperor, you leave Vizima Castle and reach Velen for the first time.
It is an innkeeper's job to tend to his guests' needs. Usually this takes the form of serving strong drinks and listening to tales of loves lost and wounds received. Yet at times a patron will wish to play a hand of gwent, which is why all good innkeepers keep a deck at the ready at all times. And the excellent ones - they keep excellent decks, full of top-notch cards that can provide an evening of challenge and excitement to even the most refined gwent player. Geralt was determined to win some of these cards for himself.
The Alchemy
Velen / Novigrad
Inn at the Crossroads
Velen / Novigrad
Kingfisher Inn
Velen / Novigrad
Go to The Alchemy inn in Oxenfurt and talk to Stjepan. He uses the Nilfgaardian Empire deck. Once defeated he will hand over the Yennefer of Vengerberg card.
Go to the Inn at the Crossroads and talk to innkeeper. He uses the Nilfgaardian Empire deck. Once defeated he will hand over the Menno Coehoorn card.
He uses the Monsters deck. Once defeated he will hand over the Tibor Eggebracht card.
If Olivier dies during the Now or Never quest and you didn't win his card yet, then it can be found in the room near the counter.
Geralt played and defeated all the excellent innkeepers he could find and added many powerful new cards to his collection.