Witches

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Subtle spellcasters who draw power from the study of magic and the fabric of life, a witch's whisper can alter the course of the world.

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Witch Heroes

Prerequisite: 12 Wisdom
Starting Hit Points: 6 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Die: d6
Languages: You know the Arcane language.
Proficiencies: You are Trained in Initiative, Simple Weapons, Padded Armor, and Arcane Magic and its Arcane Defense, Detect Magic, and Dispel Magic features.
Skills: You possess the Arcana skill and can select two other Skills.

Witch Features

Charms

When you memorize spells, you can spend a hero's surge to store a Ritual you know in a mundane item you touch such as a broom, wineskin, candle, or pouch of spices. Rituals stored in charms can be cast as a Full-Round Action by anyone holding them, after you show them how.

You can use a charm as part of your turn once per turn if you have not hexed or warded a creature as part of your turn.
Boon Option: Make a charm permanent without the reservation of resources. If a boon-enhanced charm is ever destroyed, you can replace it with another by spending a witching hour enchanting it.

Odd Luck

When you roll a 13 on an attempt you treat it as if you rolled a 20.

Spellcasting

You know a number of Cantrips equal to twice your Wisdom modifier, chosen from the following list: Animate Rope, Cure Minor Wounds, Dancing Lights, Daze, False Life (cantrip), Friends, Inflict Minor Wounds, Know Direction, Magic Stone, Premonition, Prestidigitation, Resistance, Shillelagh, True Strike, Virtue. You treat all orisons you learn as cantrips. If your Wisdom modifier ever increases, you can learn additional cantrips from this list.

In addition, you possess a spellbook containing the Brew Potion and Find Familiar spells, plus four 1st Level spells of your choice from the Arcane schools of Abjuration, Divination, Enchantment, or Transmutation or the Nature domain.
You treat all Orisons you learn as Cantrips, and all Divine spells you learn as Arcane spells.
When you gain a level, scribe two additional spells from schools and domains you have access to into your spellbook.
You can scribe spells from scrolls or other spellbooks into your spellbook, up to a maximum number of spells of each level equal to your Wisdom score.
After a long rest, you can Memorize a number of spells from your spellbook as indicated in the Witch table. Boon Options:

• You can also learn spells, cantrips, and orisons from the Astral domain and the Conjuration school.
• You can also learn spells, cantrips, and orisons from the Death domain and the Necromancy school.

The Witch

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Level	Benefit	Hero’s Surges	Spells Per Day	Title
1	Witch Features, Charms, Odd Luck, Spellcasting	4	1	Fledgling
2	Broken Promises, Hexes, Wards, Witchcraft	5	2	Warder
3	Whispers of Witchery	5	2/1
4	Boon	6	2/2
5	Valor	6	2/2/1
6	Witchcraft Feature	7	2/2/2	Hexer
7	Boon	7	2/2/2/1
8	Witchcraft Feature	8	2/2/2/2	Covener
9	Boon	8	2/2/2/2/1
10	Heroism	9	2/2/2/2/2

LEVEL 2 Witch

Broken Promises

When one of your charms is used or one of your hexes or wards ends, you can move 5'.

Hexes

As an Attack action, you can hex a creature you can see within 30'. Your attack attempts against hexed targets which result in a 20 or odd rolls higher than 1 inflict 1d4 true damage. A hex lasts until you lose consciousness, hex a new creature, choose to end the hex, or the target dies. A hex is an arcane curse effect.

You can hex a creature as part of your turn once per turn if you have not used a charm or warded a creature as part of your turn.
Boon Options:

• Increase your hex damage by 1d4.
• Have an additional hex active at a time.

Wards

As an attack action, you can ward a creature you can see within 30', granting it temporary hit points equal to your level. In addition, when the target is subject to an effect an attempt can end, it can end the ward to attempt to end the effect. Otherwise, the ward lasts until you ward a new creature, the temporary hit points are lost, or you fall unconscious. A ward is an arcane abjuration effect.

You can ward a creature as part of your turn once per turn if you have not used a charm or hexed a creature as part of your turn.
Boon Options:

• Have an additional ward active at a time.
• Increase the speed of a warded creature by 5'.

Witchcraft

At level 2, you unlock secrets capable of opening new pathways to strength. Choose your road of Witchcraft.

Blind Witch

Blind Witches

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By birth, calamity, or thirst for power, you have replaced mortal sight with otherworldly understanding.

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Blindsense

You can touch a creature to Ward or Hex them. You also consider yourself able to see creatures you have hexed or warded or who are carrying your charms. In addition, if a creature you hexed or warded touches, successfully attacks, or damages a creature, you can immediately Hex or Ward that creature.

Familiar Eyes

When you have a familiar from the Find Familiar spell, you can spend a Full-Round Action to see through its eyes. This effect ends if you move or take an action, if either of you falls unconscious, or if you spend an attack action to end it.

Boon Option: Gain the ability to move without interrupting this sight.

Otherworldly Might

You become Adept with Arcane Magic, add your Wisdom modifier to your damage, healing, and hit points affected with it, and learn its Manipulate Magic feature.

Otherworldly Witchcraft

Increase the number of Charms, Hexes, and Wards you can have active at a time by one.

Sightless Spell

Once per day, you can cast a spell from your spellbook as if you had it memorized.

Boon Option: Increase this feature's use to twice per day.

LEVEL 6 Blind Witch

Blindsight

You gain the ability to perceive your surroundings within 10' as if you could see.

Boon Option: Increase your Blindsight distance by 20'.

Otherworldly Witchcraft

Increase the number of Charms, Hexes, and Wards you can have active at a time by one.

See the Magic

Increase any spell dice you roll by one size.

LEVEL 8 Blind Witch

Blindtouch

You can deliver touch effects to creatures you can see through Blindsense or Blindsight as if they were adjacent to you.

Otherworldly Patience

Creatures you choose who take their turns before yours in a round cannot observe your turn.

Otherworldly Witchcraft

Increase the number of Charms, Hexes, and Wards you can have active at a time by one.

Witch Eyes

By spending a hero's surge and a minute concentrating, you can choose a creature you have hexed or warded or that is carrying your charm. You are rendered helpless in a catatonic state and instead experience your target's senses as if they were your own. This Arcane Divination lasts for one minute or until you choose to end it.

Boon Option: Reduce the casting time of this ritual to a Full-Round Action.

Candlemaker

Candlemakers

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The most subtle of witches, your magical talents may never be uncovered by others. However, things that go unseen carry greater power.

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Contagious Hexes

If the target of your hex suffers a critical hit, you can hex any creature adjacent to it. These additional hex effects count as one active hex.

Improvise Components

You reduce your Brew Potion component costs by half.

Moonlight's Blessing

You add your Wisdom modifier to damage done and hit points affected with Arcane spells.

Boon Options:

• Add your Wisdom modifier to healing done with Arcane spells.
• Add your Wisdom modifier in place of your Strength or Dexterity modifier on weapon damage.

Subtle Magicks

You learn the Sleight of Hand (Spellcasting) and Stealth (Spellcasting) skills. In addition, you can cast your spells using words of your choosing, rather than the Arcane Language.

LEVEL 6 Candlemaker

Crafty Charms

You can imbue any single-target spell you know into a charm.

Tenacious Wards

Your ward does not end if the warded creature no longer possesses its temporary hit points or fails an attempt to end an effect.

LEVEL 8 Candlemaker

Sixth Sense

You can sense the direction and distance to your Wards and Charms, as well as the emotional state and health of any creature bearing them, so long as the creature or charm is within 1 mile per level.

Horrible Hexes

The target of your hex suffers any negative effect you are under which you wish to extend to it and it ages for both of you.

Potent Wards

You become aware of any magical effect placed on a creature you warded. In addition, you have Advantage on Dispel Magic attempts to end an effect an attempt can end on creatures you warded, and your wards grant Advantage on attempts to end effects with them.

Witcher

Witchers

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Your study of witchcraft extends into the art of combat, allowing you to combine blades and potions to powerful effect.

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Prerequisite: 12 Strength or 12 Dexterity

Alchemical Blood

Increase your hit dice to d12 and increase your maximum hit points by 6.

Alchemical Potions

Once per day when you memorize spells, you can use the Brew Potion ritual with no hero’s surge or component cost to turn some or all of the spells you would memorize into alchemical potions.

If another creature consumes your alchemical potion, they gain no effect. Instead, they feel slightly ill.

Witcher Expertise

You pursue a school of witcher training. Select one of the following options:

Classical Combat: Learn a Fighter Combat Feat of your choice. You use your Hex damage as your Telling Attacks damage.
Boon Option: Learn an additional Fighter Combat Feat.
Cunning Combat: Gain the Rogue Called Shot feature.
Boon Option: Learn both Witcher Expertise options.

Witcher Eyes

You gain darkvision 60'. If you already had darkvision, increase its range by 60'.

Witcher Training

You become Trained in Weapons, Bucklers and Light and Medium Shields, Light Armor, and Martial Maneuvers.

LEVEL 6 Witcher

Eye for Weakness

Against hexed targets, you increase your damage done and hit points affected by your Wisdom modifier.

Hex Drinker

When you deal your Hex damage on a major or better success, you gain temporary hit points equal to the Hex damage dealt. These temporary hit points last for one minute.

Scry Blood

You can allow your Hex to persist after its target dies. In addition, by spending one minute concentrating on an adjacent Hexed creature and succeeding on an Arcane Magic attempt, you can sense if there are other creatures of the hexed creature's type within 1000'. On a major success, you get a rough estimate of the number. On a critical success, you get a rough direction as well.

You can only do this once per hexed creature. As this is a knowledge attempt, your DM will usually roll the check for you.

LEVEL 8 Witcher

Full Moon Potions

When you drink a potion, you can expend a spell slot to increase your Strength or Dexterity by twice the spell slot's level, or current and maximum hit points by 8 per spell slot level. The effect ends when the potion's effects end, when you use this feature again, when you fall unconscious, or after a minute passes.

LEVEL 3 Witch

Whispers of Witchery

Double your Reknown amongst other witches. In addition, if you have a familiar from the Find Familiar spell, your Reknown extends to and doubles amongst creatures of its species.