Hey everyone, I'm starting a new game, and I want Geralt to be a total jackass.

So, I've only thought about the early game options so far, but I'm asking for advice on which choices to take.

For example:
Telling Newboy that the amulet will save his butt
Climbing to the top of Aryan la Valette's tower, taking offence to "you've fallen far" and just slaughtering everyone.
Ignore the peasants being pushed around by Foltest's troops.
etc.

I will probably go roche path, not sure yet.

When Roche asks you during the interrogation about what you would do if he set you free, tell him it's none of his business, and keep refusing to help him in the following questions.

You'll thank me later.

I second this. It's sooooo funny what Roche says.

nice list of "jackass" decision :)

also don't forget to slap Tailles , lie to Foltest , denounce Malena , always intimidate everybody , force villagers to pay for your help in the prologue , save the war criminals of the haunted hospital , let the incense dealer sell his fisstech to the old women's son , help salamandra and give them the right recipe , kill all trolls , lie and deceive all demons , betray Iorveth , let Stennis live , kill Henselt , befriend Dethmold , kill the dragon , let Dandelion be charmed by succubus , choose Roche path , ignore Triss at the end , don't win the fistfight and take a dive in Loredo's tournament , let Roche beat the guys that called him whoreson etc :)

If you go with Roche, in Proximo's fights, incinerate Ves and then surrender. :D

Hmmm...

Eh, that one is actually not a jackass move ... Dandelion gets to have some fun, and I usually side with the Succubus anyway.

This is probably my favourite right now ... "negotiating" with Aryan La Valette
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuHWIyoKWvk

Perhaps you are right , But the way i see it , initially it was not agreed as such , Dandelion was afraid of doing it and was supposed to just lure the Succubus at midnight , he wasn't supposed to go alone and unarmed into its lair .

I mean it may be pretty scary to get drawin a succubus lair at night , especially since at that point of the story , we don't know if the Succubus was the murderer or if it was the Iorveth's commando Elf

Also when you let Dandelion go into the Succubus lair , Geralt is really angry , because it could have killed Dandelion had the Succubus been a ruthless one , i mean surely if you have a friend you like , you don't let him walk toward his death , even if in the end , Dandelion was lucky it was only a "kind" Succubus that never kill its preys , but really , the "jackass" decision was the one that had the most risks in it , and clearly , it was less risky to prevent Dandelion from walking into it's lair risking his life just out of pure curiosity

Makes for a short game. LOL

Well, be that as it may, Dandelion is the one who walks into that lair .. rather than Geralt being the jackass.

Although, now that I think about it, I might let him walk in, then try to leave or mediatate for 24 hours.

lol , yea , leave him with the Succubus , just don't finish the quest , bye bye Dandelion , he'd become a permanent sex slave to her , that would be the most evil decision for sure :)

Killing Stennis and not killing Henselt? They are both "arsehull"s, you should let both of them live. Saving Gridley and Rupert and letting the incense dealer sell his incense, i don't know about these two as; 1. You can not be sure if they are criminals or not, journal and the Gridley's story almost completely differ from each other and the only way to learn about the info on the journal is listening to Gridley so it means they changed the plot of that story and we cannot know for sure which one is the canon one now, the one they torture the prisoner or the one they gave him herbs. 2. Dealer sells the incense, not fisstech but another addictive thing, true but the incense was not meant to be a drug, it is just a coincidence/accident and he doesn't force people to use them, people buy it themselves because they got addicted but with self control you can drop an addiction(don't know if this is the term because i am not a native speaker) instantly, people who cease using drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and such and cease using or doing many addictive things are enough proof for that.

@Ianis Dandelion going in the lair is not jackassness because:
1. If you had examined the corpse of one of the victims SPOILERS FOLLOW which lies somewhere in the place ghost of the banner resides(to do this you need to buy a few things from Phillippa's APRENTICE, not his leash sorceress) SPOILERS ENDED you would knew that the death of the victim was not in succubus hands but someone who could use a weapon and you would immediately suspect on Iorveth's right hand as he told you not to examine the bodies of the victims.
2. He goes into the lair on his own volition even though the Geralt told him not to go in because the Succubi can be dangerous creatures.

Erm.. i said "let Stennis live" (not kill) in the part you quoted :)

I said "Kill Henselt " because of th rape of Ves , but i agree with you that Henselt is in fact a good King for the most part , one of the characters i like the most in the game ;)

so i thought killing him was like "jackass" , because it meant you lost control to Roche and got caught up in emotions , instead of realizing he's one of the best asset of the northern kingdom , a capable , efficient ruler and king with a formidable army faithful to him only and better able to defend the north in the future

for the haunted hospital , the two guys defintely have bloods on their hands , the blood of innocents , maybe i'm wrong , but i was pretty sure of it . it"s funny you believed the incense dealer , IMO he's a liar fully aware of the addictive properties of his incense that sells so well , and the guy from salamandra clearly says the recipe gives excellent fisstech .. maybe the incense dealer does not lie , but again , the "kind" decision was to close his shop and avoid more people being intoxicated (and possibly die from overdose ) by an addictive incense they did not know it was like fisstech (if you listen well when you are brought into the secret laboratory , it is fisstech according to the salamandra alchemist )

I have plenty of self-control, but I still blow all my money on candy and hookers. Myth busted.

But yeah, shutting that incense dealer down is probably the "good" thing to do since it keeps a number of potential addicts from having to break an addiction that they hadn't asked for in the first place. Thus, in accordance with OPs desired jackassedness, the incense dealer must remain open.

I went to the Laboratory in my every playthrough and like i said on my above post i know it is something like fisstech but like i said, it was an accidental product, not meant to be addictive, he knows about the properties and it is addictive, true but again, like i said on my above post, he doesn't force people to use it, people buy them on their own volition, they should be able to tell that the thing is addictive since they use it a lot and try to stop using it. Real jackassness is forcing him to close his shop.

And a jackassness tip: During your first conversation with Roche, when he offers his hand for a shake, choose "very funny".
I've dropped quite a few bad habits, most of the people around me with serious bad habits dropped thath habits, many people drop their bad habits like taking drugs, smoking and alcohol. Myth not busted, it is only your lack of self control... Or maybe self control isn't the right expression, but i don't know which one is if this isn't, like i said, i am not a native speaker even though i am a citizen of the US.

Oh and also, about "not having them have to break an addiction they hadn't ask in the first place" Do you know anyone who is addicted to something because he/she wanted to be addicted to it? I don't and i doubt someone would like to be addicted to something. If the right thing to do is closing the shop for the people are addicted but not wanted to be addicted we should, in your example, ban the candies too because some people, like you, for instance, are addicted to it.