Familiar Friends: Unique Cards

ZOLTAN: DON’T SWEAT THE SHORT STUFF

Find Zoltan outside the Rosemary and Thyme, once the brothel is back in the hands of Dandelion, after Main Quest: A Poet Under Pressure is complete (you can play Gwent during this quest while you wait for the ambush). Don’t forget to help Zoltan during Secondary Quest: A Dangerous Game, especially as there are three additional cards to gather as rewards during this quest! Or, wait until after you finish Secondary Quest: A Deadly Plot. Locate Zoltan, challenge and crush him, and claim the following:

VERNO N ROCHE: A PATRIOT… AND A REAL SON-OF-A-BITCH

Journey east of Oxenfurt, into Gustfields Territory, and locate the Temerian Partisan Hideout, between quests that involve Vernon Roche, or just after the completion of Secondary Quest: A Deadly Plot. Find Roche around a campfire, and challenge him to a bout of Gwent. If you decided not to intervene when Dijkstra takes over after the Radovid assassination, Roche is killed and no longer accessible, but his card can be found at the resistance camp.

Note that if you discovered Thaler before you defeat Roche, Thaler will join this quest as well rather than having his own as detailed on the following page. Gather the following once you win:

LAMBERT: AN EFFUSIVE END TO AN ELUSIVE HUNT

Lambert is a slippery customer at the best of times, and his Gwent-playing access is no different! One option is to continue until Main Quest: The Final Trial has concluded, and play him in Kaer Morhen. Another option is to begin Secondary Quest: Following the Thread, and corner Lambert during this quest (usually as you’re walking with him to a location). Prior to Main Quest: The Battle of Kaer Morhen, you may also find Lambert at the Nowhere Inn (Novigrad). After this quest, Lambert either departs with Keira Metz, or dies in the battle; find the card in his bedroom in Kaer Morhen’s Grand Hall. Or gather it after the Gwent bout. The quest then concludes.