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The Witch

Bending low over a cauldron,
a Human dressed in dark robes
mutters an incantation.
As the final act, she draws
a cruel black-iron dagger
across her own palm, and
lets fall the blood into the steaming maw of the cauldron. She draws in her breath sharply as an incorporeal spirit billows forth from the depths, and envelopes the witch and grants her powers beyond her reckoning.

Withered and gaunt, an old Halfling peeks out of his hut deep in the woods. He extends her hand, and a familiar pitch black raven with intelligent, fiendish yellow eyes alights on his arm, and caws quietly. He understands, and smiles.

A young Half-Orc woman strides into the midst of a battle, drawing forth from her soul the tendrils of spiritual magic. She whispers a forgotten name, and releases a spirit from its enslavement, sending its wrath to haunt her enemies on the field. She smiles as she hears a soldier's terrified screams.

Witches understand the power inherent in a creature's spirit, and draw their magic from the enchantment, or entrapment, of powerful spirits. Some witches tend toward goodness, forming an affectionate bond with the spirits they bind, but many witches tend toward chaos, and sometimes evil, forcing souls to do their bidding, and drawing strength from the spirit's pain.

The Commune

The common thought that all witches are female is not in the least bit true, though many women do seek the comfort of a witch's coven to abandon the world, so often dominated by cruel and selfish men.

As opposed to wizardry, in which the student often finds himself alone with a book in the study of magic, witchcraft is by its very nature communal --- rituals are passed down from generation to generation often only by word-of-mouth, and each coven tends to adopt its own traditions of magic, the magic words of one coven being alien to another.

The power of a witch is drawn from their coven, and from the covenant that each witch undergoes to join. Though some covens are drawn together solely for their thirst for power, other covens are bonded by a genuine love for one another, a magic that may equal their eldritch pursuits.

The Covenant

A witch has made a pact, a covenant, with the other members of the coven, and it is from this pact that their magic flows. A witch's covenant ritual often involves fire, blood, and sacrifices, and fundamentally changes the witch's soul, binding it to their coven and its members.

Oftentimes, the covenant also works slight physical changes in a witch, and the discerning eye may catch a witch by subtle signs: a strangely shaded eye, a curious tattoo, a vivid lock of hair, or perhaps even feathers growing like hair, as if it were always meant to be.

Creating a Witch

As you make your witch character, spend some time thinking about the coven to which you belong. Did you actively seek out a coven, or were you born in the coven and brought up in its rituals and traditions? Do you feel conflict regarding your coven's binding rituals, or do you revel in the promises of the knowledge and power that your coven seeks?

Perhaps most importantly: why have you left the safety of your coven? Do you seek further power that your coven could not promise? Do you adventure on behalf of your coven, or have you been exhiled?

Reflect on the relationship that you may have with your coven, and work with your DM to determine to what degree witchcraft will play in your adventure.

Quick Build

You can make a witch quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma your highest ability score, depending on your chosen Coven, followed by Constitution. Second, choose the hermit background. Third, choose the chill touch, infestation, and thaumaturgy cantrips, along with the 1st-level spells false life, hex, and witch bolt.

Class Features

As a witch, you have the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d6
Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your

Constitution modifier per witch level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: none
Weapons: Clubs, daggers, quarterstaffs, darts, slings,

short bows
Tools: Herbalism kit

Saving Throws: Intelligence or Charisma, Wisdom
Skills: Choose two from Animal Handling, Arcana,

Deception, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, and

Persuasion

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• a component pouch, herbalism kit, and a dagger
• (a) a sling or (b) a short bow and 20 arrows
• (a) an priest's pack or (b) a dungeoneer's pack
• (a) an arcane focus or (b) a druidic focus

Coven

At 1st level, you have joined a coven of your choice: the Covens of Blood, Pain, Peace, Secrets, or Shadows, each of which is detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice determines your spellcasting ability modifier, and grants you features at 1st level, and again at 6th, 14th, and 18th level.

Spellcasting

Your contact with the spirit world, and your other eldritch rituals within your coven have granted you the ability to cast spells. See chapter 10 of the PHB for the general rules of spellcasting, and p.11 of this document for the witch spell list.

Cantrips

You know three cantrips of your choice from the witch spell list. You learn additional witch cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Witch table.

Spell Slots

The Witch table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these witch spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all spell slots when you finish a long rest.

For example, if you know the 1st-level spell witch bolt and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast witch bolt using either slot.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

You know three 1st-level spells of your choice from the witch spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Witch table shows when you learn more witch spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 3rd level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level. Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the witch spells you know and replace it with another spell from the witch spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability

Your spellcasting ability for your witch spells is determined by the Coven that you belong to, since you draw your magic from your coven's traditions and binding rites. you use this ability whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use this ability's modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a witch spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Ritual Casting

You can cast any witch spell you know as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use an arcane focus or a druidic focus (chapter 5 of the PHB) as a spellcasting focus for your witch spells.

Binding Rites

At 2nd level, you can bind spirits to your service. You can bind a spirit in one of two ways, and both methods require the use of a small, special dagger, called an athame, and you add this dagger to your inventory at 2nd level. You are considered proficient with this weapon, and attack and damage rolls made with this weapon use your spellcasting ability modifier. Furthermore, you can use your athame as an spellcasting focus for your witch spells.

When you bind a spirit to your service, choose a spell slot which the spirit fills. That spell slot is no longer avilable for casting spells, and it remains unavailable for as long as that spirit remains bound to you. If you later release the spirit, the spell slot is expended, and can be recovered at the end of a long rest. The spirit's power equals the level of the spell slot filled. For example, a spirit of Hate occupying a 3rd level spell slot is a 3rd level spirit.

You can't have more than one spirit with the same disposition bound at one time, and you can have a number of spirits bound equal to the number in the Bound Spirits column of the Witch table.

Ritual. Binding a spirit using a ritual takes 1 hour, can be completed during a short rest or at the end of a long rest, and requires a component pouch and a source of flame, like a brazier or a bonfire. As the final act of the ritual, you must use the athame on yourself — you lose current hit points equal to the athame's damage roll, and your Max Hit Points are reduced by the same amount. Your Max Hit Points recover after you take a long rest. When you finish the ritual, you can choose any Bound Spirit for which you meet the prerequisites.

Violence. You can make an attack against a single creature with an Intelligence score of at least 6 with your athame. If the creature dies within 1 minute, you entrap the creature's spirit. Roll a d8, and consult the table below. The result of the roll determines the type of spirit that you bind to your service, even if you do not meet its prerequisite. If the type of spirit is the same as a type that you already have, the binding fails.

Violent Binding

Witch's Familiar

At 3rd level, you learn how to cast the spell find familiar as a ritual without expending material components, and you can cast it as a ritual even if it is not one of your known spells.

When you cast find familiar for the first time, you must choose whether the creature is a celestial, fey, or fiend. This choice is permanent, and whenever you cast this spell in the future, you conjure the same spirit. In addition, the familiar gains an Intelligence score of 6 if it is not already 6 or higher.

    You and your familiar benefit from a special bond. Your abilities to telepathically communicate with your familiar, as well as your ability to see and hear through it, are unaffected by distance, so long as you both are on the same plane.

In addition, when you conjure your familiar, and whenever you finish a long rest, your familiar gains temporary hit points equal to your witch level + your spellcasting ability modifier.

Finally, your bond grants you both a boon:

Celestial. Your familiar knows the light cantrip. It also knows either the guidance or resistance cantrip (you choose, and this choice can't be changed).

In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against being frightened as long as you are within 30 feet of your familiar.

Fey. Your familiar knows the cause fear spell, and can cast it once at 1st level. It uses your spellcasting ability modifier. It regains the use of this ability when you finish a rest.

In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and you can't be put to sleep by magical means, as long as you are within 30 feet of your familiar.

Fiend. Your familiar knows the produce flame cantrip, and can cast it as an action. The cantrip increases in damage by 1d8 at 5th level, and again at 11th level and 17th level.

In addition, you have advantage on Charisma (Deception) and Charisma (Intimidation) checks as long as you are within 30 feet of your familiar.

Abiliy Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your
choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores
of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase
an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Spiritual Spellcasting

At 10th level, you may dismiss a spirit as a bonus action to recover a spell slot of a level equal to that of the spirit’s. The release effect of the spirit you dismissed is not activated.

In addition, as an action, you can move a spirit from one spell slot to another. Moving a spirit expends the former spell slot, and fills the new one.

Familiar Magic

At 10th level, the bond you have formed with your familiar grows stronger. Your familiar gains the Attack action, and can make a single melee attack against another creature. The attack uses your spellcasting ability modifier for attack and damage rolls, and the attack deals 1d6 piercing, slashing, or bludgeoning damage as appropriate to its form. In addition, the familiar's attack is considered magical for overcoming resistances and immunities.

Finally, your familiar gains the following feature.

Celestial. The familiar can heal willing creatures a number of hit points equal to your spellcasting ability modifier, and can use this ability as an action.

Fey. The familiar adds your spellcasting ability modifier to its AC and bonus to initiative rolls.

Fiend. The familiar adds your spellcasting ability modifier to the damage rolls of its produce flame cantrip, and casts this cantrip as a bonus action.

Familiar Spirit

At 17th level, you have learned how to extend your binding powers to your familiar. You can use your Binding Rites feature to bind a single spirit to your familiar, and the level of the spirit is equal to your spellcasting modifier. This spirit does not count against your total number of Bound Spirits.

Your familiar benefits from the spirit’s passive effect, and you do as well as long as your familiar is within 100 feet of you, and on the same plane of existence. If you permanently dismiss your familiar or cast find familiar again to change the creature's form, the bound spirit is dismissed without produc-ing its release effect. If the familiar dies, the spirit that was bound to your familiar produces its release effect instantly.

Spirit Step

At 20th level, you gain the ability to project part of yourself into the Ethereal Plane. You and your belongings become invisible and incorporeal for up 1 minute. You gain immunity to all non-magical damage, restistance to magical damage, and are immune to being grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, and restrained. You can't attack or cast spells while in this state. You maintain concentration on this effect as if it were a spell.

During this time, you may move your normal speed and may pass through solid objects. As a bonus action, you can rematerialize and end the effect. If you are in a location occupied by a creature or solid object when this effect ends, you are shunted to the nearest occupied space and take force damage equal to twice the number of feet you are moved as a result. You may use this ability once, after which you must complete a long rest to use it again.

If you are already on the Ethereal Plane when you use this ability, nothing happens and the action is wasted.

Covens

Almost all witches belong to a coven, a loosely bound gathering of likeminded practicioners that share traditions and philosophies regarding their magic and binding rites of spirits. Some covens teach their brethren to coerce or force spirits into submission to gain their powers, yet other covens have gained their powers by learning eldritch secrets from ancient spirits.

Each coven grants its adherants unique magic, and as a witch delves deeper into its coven's traditions, they gain even more powerful abilities. Your choice grants you features at 1st level, and again at 6th, 14th, and 18th levels. The coven a witch belongs to also determines their spellcasting ability.

Coven of Blood

Witches of the Coven of Blood, known as red witches or blood witches, use sacrificial offerings in their rituals to bind spirits to serve the realm they formerly inhabited. These witches know the power of a soul's past, and of the tokens they left behind. The spellcasting ability for a witch of the Coven of Blood is Wisdom.

Expanded Spell List

The Coven of Blood lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a witch spell. The following spells are added to the witch spell list for you.

Blooded Spells

Blood Ties

At 1st level, you can cast a spell against a single creature over great distances. If you have a token belonging to another creature (blood, hair, clothing), you can cast a single-target spell on the token, and the spell affects the creature as long as the creature is within 1 mile. When you cast a spell using this feature, the token is consumed as a material component.

Blood Binding

At 6th level, if a living creature dies within 30 feet of you, you may use your reaction to bind its soul to one of your unexpended spell slots. Roll a d8 and consult the Violent Binding table to determine the type of spirit you have bound. You can't use this feature to exceed your total number of Bound Spirits.

The spirit is dismissed after you finish a long rest, or when you use a bonus action to dismiss the spirit, and the spell slot in which the spirit was bound is restored. You may also release the spirit normally and cause its release effect. The creature who provided the soul cannot be resurrected during the time that its spirit is bound. You may use this ability once, after which you must complete a long rest to use it again.

Bloody Dominion

At 14th level, you learn to gain control of the blood within a living being. Once per long rest, you can cast a unique version of dominate person that has the following changes: the target creature must make a Constitution saving throw, instead of a Wisdom saving throw, to avoid the effects of the spell, and if you or creatures that are friendly to you are fighting it, it doesn't have advantage on the saving throw. Humanoid creatures considered undead or incorporeal, as well as constructs, are unaffected by this feature.

Call Forth the Flesh

At 18th level, you can use your bonus action to release a spirit to bind any creature to the mortal realm. The creature must succeed at a Constitution saving throw, or lose any immunities and restistances it has to being grappled, paralyzed, petrified, prone, and restrained by you, and this effect lasts for 1 minute.

If the CR of the creature is lower than the spirit's level, the creature automatically fails its initial saving throw. The creature can make additional saving throws at the end of each of its turns, and the effect ends on a success. You may use this ability once, after which you must complete a long rest to use it again.

Coven of Pain

Witches of the Coven of Pain, known as grey witches, use coercion, pain, and psychological torture to subjgate spirits into service. Witches of this coven often have a natural inclination to use their force of will to bind spirits and extract power, with little regard to a spirit's well-being. The spell-casting ability for a witch of the Coven of Pain is Charisma.

Expanded Spell List

The Coven of Pain lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a witch spell. The following spells are added to the witch spell list for you.

Painful Spells

Ruin

At 1st level, whenever you score a critical hit with a weapon or spell, the target creature has disadvantage on its next attack roll, ability check, and saving throw that it attempts within the next minute.

Doom

At 6th level, you have learned to coerce your bound spirits to grant you more power. When you bind a spirit to your service, that spirit may be considered 1 level higher than the spell slot in which it resides. A spirit can't be a higher level than the highest level for which you can cast spells, and a spirit can't be higher than 9th level. Finally, you can only have 1 spirit bound in this way.

At 14th level, you can have 2 spirits bound in this way.

Vengeance

At 14th level, you can force your bound spirits to fight on your behalf. When you release a spirit of 6th level or lower, you can cast the spell conjure fey as a part of the same action instead of activating the spirit's release effect. The creature that you conjure is the released spirit embodied in the form of a fey or beast creature, and the creature's type is undead. The conjured creature is the same level as the released spirit. In addition, if you lose concentration over your control of the spirit conjured by this feature, it will attack any creatures in its vicinity besides you or your companions. All other effects of the spell still apply.

Sound of Silence

You have learned to harness the pain of your bound spirits into your spellcasting. Starting at 18th level, whenever you cast a spell that targets a single creature and deals fire, cold, lightning, thunder, radiant, or necrotic damage, the spell can deal psychic damage instead. In addition, if you are attuned to any magic weapon that has a bonus to attack and damage rolls, the bonus to damage rolls made by that weapon can deal psychic damage instead.

Coven of Peace

Witches of the Coven of Peace, known as white witches or good witches, offer safe haven and respite to spirits, and request power in return. Though not always true, witches of this coven tend to foster friendlier bonds with their spirits than other witches. The spellcasting ability for a witch of the Coven of Peace is Wisdom.

Expanded Spell List

The Coven of Peace lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a witch spell. The following spells are added to the witch spell list for you.

Peaceful Spells

Soothing Presence

At 1st level, you learn the friends cantrip, and a creature affected by this magic doesn't become hostile to you when the spell ends, although it still realizes it was charmed.

Spirit Ward

At 6th level, you learn a rite that offers protection against spiritual harm. As an action, you create a 15-foot-radius sphere centered on yourself. The ward lasts 1 minute and is stationary for the duration. A thin, glowing line of magical energy appears wherever the cylinder intersects with the floor or other surface. While inside the ward, all creatures gain the following benefits:

• You cannot be charmed, frightened, incapacitated, or possessed by undead creatures
• You have resistance to all damage from undead creatures
• If you are reduced to 0 hit points within the ward but are not killed outright, you automatically stabilize

In addition, any undead or incorporeal creature that attempts to enter the ward must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or have their movement reduced to 0.

Once you use this ability, you must finish a short or long rest to use this ability again.

Safe Haven

At 14th level, you can retain control over a spirit after you release it. After a spirit expends its release effect, it remains bound in the same spell slot, and you can release it again. You must finish a long rest in order to use this feature again.

Possession

At 18th level, if you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, your body is possessed by a bound spirit of your choice, and you continue to act for as many rounds as the level of the spirit. During this time, your hit points remain at 0 and you continue to make death saving throws. Dying does not end the possession.

When the possession is over, the spirit is dismissed, and your body collapses to the ground. If, however, your body is destroyed or transported to another plane, the spirit is instantly dismissed and the possession ends. This possession also ends early if you regain any hit points, and the spirit is still dismissed without activating its release effect. You must finish a long rest before using this feature again.

Coven of Secrets

Witches of the Coven of Secrets, known as green witches or fey witches, offer trinkets or bits of information to entice spirits into service. Witches belonging to this coven believe in the power of knowledge, and use their magic to distract and enthrall their enemies. The most powerful witches of this coven can even peer into the future, and use their magic to change another's fate. The spellcasting ability for a witch of the Coven of Secrets is Intelligence.

Expanded Spell List

The Coven of Secrets lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a witch spell. The following spells are added to the witch spell list for you.

Secretive Spells

Quickening

At 1st level, you can use an action to enter a special trance, allowing you to see into the Ethereal Plane up to 30 feet. You are also able to speak to any creature that you can see on this plane. This trance requires concentration up to a minute, as if it were a spell. You can use this ability once, and must finish a short or long rest to use this ability again.

Spiritual Gift

At 6th level, you learn how to share your spiritual bonds with your allies. You may temporarily bind one of your existing spirits to a non-magical object that can fit inside your hand, and at the end of this binding, give the object to another creature. As long as this creature is in possession of this gift, the bound spirit provides its passive effect to the creature, instead of to you.

The magic binding the spirit to the object expires after you finish a long rest, at which point the spirit is dismissed. If the object is returned to you, you can unbind the spirit from the object and return it to your service as a bonus action.

All Secrets

At 14th level, you learn the spell true seeing and add it to your list of known spells. It does not count against your number of known spells. In addition, you can cast it once without expending a spell slot or requiring material components. You must finish a long rest to cast the spell in this way again.

This spell ends early if you use your Quickening ability, and casting true seeing ends your Quickening ability if it is active.

Thread of Fate

At 18th level, you have discovered the eldritch secrets of destiny. As an action, you can peer into the life of one humanoid creature that you can see within 30 feet. You instantly know the creature's current hit points, as well as any magical conditions currently affecting the creature. You may also force the creature to make a Wisdom saving throw, and if it fails, you learn any actions or plans the creature intends to commit in the next 24 hours.

In addition, if you maintain concentration on this connection for 1 hour, you can release a spirit of 7th level or higher and enact one of the following fates of that creature, instead of using the spirit's release effect. The target creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be instantly affected by your choice.

You can use this ability a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier, and only once per long rest. Attempts to use this ability afterward have a 33 percent chance of failing. If the attempt fails, you suffer 10d10 psychic damage.

The Past. You know the creature's upbringing, and change its background to any other background listed in chapter 4 of the PHB, or another background of your choice. A creature with no background (i.e. an animal) is unaffected by this fate.

The Present. You know the creature's recent history, and change their memory of it. The creature is affected as if you cast the modify memory spell, and you can modify the creature's memory from the last 24 hours however you wish.

The Future. You can change how the creature will die. Roll 3d12, and subtract that total from the creature's average lifespan (100 years for Humans, 750 years for Elves, 75 years for Half-Orcs, etc). The resulting number determines the creature's maximum life expectancy. If the resulting number is lower than the creature's current age, the creature instantly dies. The DM may also determine that a creature might live to an age different than the creature's average lifespan. In this case, subtract the result of the roll from that age instead. Creatures that have no average lifespan (i.e. immortal creatures) cannot be affected by this fate.

Coven of Shadows

Witches of the Coven of Shadows, known as dark witches or wisp witches, understand the dangerous power of spirits, and treat them with respect. Witches belonging to this coven entreat with powerful spirits and ask for greater power in return. The spellcasting ability for a witch of the Coven of Shadows is Charisma.

Expanded Spell List

The Coven of Shadows lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a witch spell. The following spells are added to the witch spell list for you.

Shrouded Spells

Eye's Shadow

At 1st level, the magic of your coven grants you darkvision up to 120 feet in non-magical darkness.

In addition, you have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) or Intelligence (Investigation) checks in dim light or darkness.

See No Evil, Speak No Evil

Starting at 6th level, as long as you have at least one spirit bound, you may call upon nearby shadows to enact the verbal or somatic components of your spells. If you have at least two spirits bound, these spirits can enact both the verbal and somatic components of your spells. You may therefore cast spells with these components even if you yourself cannot.

Shadow Step

At 14th level, the shadows envelope you at your request. When you are in darkness, and have a spirit bound of at least 4th level, as an action you can magically teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space you can see that is also in darkness.

In addition, whenever you are in dim light or darkness, you also have advantage on all Dexterity checks.

Haunting Shades

At 18th level, the shadows obey your will. When you release a spirit of 6th level or higher, instead of its release effect, you can wreath it in shadow magic and summon a wraith in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of you. The wraith disappears when it drops to 0 hit points or after 1 hour.

The wraith is friendly to you and your companions for the duration. Roll initiative for the wraith, which has its own turns. It obeys any verbal commands that you issue to it (no action required by you). If you don't issue any commands to the wraith, it defends itself from hostile creatures but otherwise takes no actions.

You must maintain concentration, as if for a spell, to control the wraith. If your concentration is broken, the wraith doesn't disappear. Instead, you lose control of
it, it becomes hostile toward all
creatures it is aware of, and
it might attack. The wraith
can't be dismissed by you,
and it disappears
1 hour after you
summoned it.
The DM has
the wraith's statistics.

You can take this
action once, and you
must finish a long rest
to use this ability again.

Bound Spirits

If a bound spirit has prerequisites, you must meet them in order to bind the spirit. Unless the description of the spirit indicates otherwise, you can release a spirit as an action.

Agony

Prerequisite: 9th level

Bound. While in the presence of a spirit of Agony, the wounds of your enemies continue to bleed. While you are bound to Agony, any creature that you have damaged using a weapon or elemental magic takes additional necrotic or psychic damage equal to the spirit's level on its next turn.

Release. You release Agony as a part of any attack or spell which inflicts damage, after determining whether the attack or spell hits. The target creature must succeed a Constitution saving throw or be stunned with pain for a number of rounds equal to the spirit's level. The creature can make additional saving throws at the end of each of its turns, and the stunned effect is lifted on a successful save. Undead, constructs, and incorporeal creatures are unaffected by this effect.

Desire

Bound. This spirit impressses your will onto others and enhances existing desires. Friendly and charmed creatures within 30 feet have disadvantage on Wisdom and Charisma saving throws against your spells.

Release. As you release this spirit, you can cast the command spell on a creature within range. The creature doesn't need to understand you to be affected. If the spirit is 4th level or higher, undead can be affected by this spell.

Despair

Prerequisite: 7th level

Bound. While you are bound to this spirit, any creature within 30 feet of you that fails a saving throw against one of your spells of 1st level or higher is dealt additional psychic damage equal to the spirit's level, and this damage does not interrupt the spell's effect, as with sleep or hold person.

Release. When this spirit is released, it is sent to haunt another creature that you can see within 30 feet of you. The creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or suffer disadvantage on all ability checks and saving throws. This curse lasts for a number of rounds equal to the spirit's level. On a successful save, the creature is affected for 1 round.

Ego

Prerequisite: 15th level

Bound. You have a commanding presence while this spirit is bound to you. You can cast command as a 1st-level spell without expending a spell slot. If this spirit is 5th level or higher, you can cast command as a 2nd-level spell.

Release. When this spirit is released, you can command obedience from each creature of your choice that you can see within 60 feet of you. All targets must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by you for a number of hours equal to the spirit's level. While charmed in this way, the creature regards you as its trusted leader. If harmed by you or your companions, or commanded to do something contrary to its nature, a target ceases to be charmed in this way. You can only release a Spirit of Ego once per long rest.

Empathy

Prerequisite: 5th level

Bound. This spirit forces your enemies to share in your pain. While Empathy is bound, whenever you are dealt damage by a creature, you may use your reaction to cause the creature psychic damage equal to the spirit's level. The targeted creature must succeed on a Charisma saving throw to avoid damage. Undead and constructs are immune to this effect.

Release. You can release Empathy as a reaction when you or an adjacent ally takes damage from a creature. The attacking creature must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or take the same amount of damage you or the ally received. On a successful save, the damage is halved. The save DC for this effect is 8 + your proficiency bonus + the spirit's level.

Envy

Bound. Spirits of Envy take from others what they covet for themselves --- life. Whenever you deal damage to a creature with a levelled spell while this spirit is bound to you, you can use your bonus action to regain hit points equal to the spirit's level. You may only regain hit points in this way once per turn.

Release. When you release this spirit, you grant yourself and an ally within 30 feet of you temporary hit points equal to 5 times the spirit's level.

Fear

Prerequisite: fey familiar

Bound. This spirit reminds those it affects of its nightmares. While this spirit is bound, you add your proficiency bonus to Charisma (Intimidation) checks, or double it if you are already proficient with this check.

Release. When you release a spirit of Fear, a number of creatures equal to the spirit's level within 30 feet make a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you for 1 minute. When a fightened creature loses line of sight of you, it can make an additional saving throw at the end of each of its turns. On a success, the creature is no longer frightened.

Generosity

Prerequisite: celestial familiar

Bound. You are able to share your inherent gifts with others while this spirit is bound. You know the guidance cantrip, and can cast it upon any creature within 10 feet.

Release. When this spirit is released, you can gift it to an ally within 30 feet. The spirit grants the creature an additional d4 on all ability
checks and saving throws
for the duration of this
gift. At 1st level, this
gift lasts for 1 minute.
At 4th level, the gift
lasts for 1 hour. At 7th
level or higher, the gift
lasts for 8 hours.

Guilt

Prerequisite: 11th level

Bound. While this spirit is bound to you, enemies become hesitant to harm you. You may use your reaction to impose disadvantage on an attack made against you once per turn, and you may use your reaction in this way a number of times equal to the spirit's level. You can regain all uses of this feature when you finish a long rest.

Release. When this spirit is released, it is sent to haunt another creature that you can see within 30 feet of you. The creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have disadvantage on all attack rolls with weapons and spells made against you or a friendly creature of your choice. This curse lasts for a number of rounds equal to the spirit's level. On a successful save, the creature is affected for 1 round.

Hate

Prerequisite: fiendish familiar

Bound. Anger and hatred comes easily to you while this spirit is bound. Whenever you are damaged by a creature, you gain advantage on the next attack roll you make against that creature on your next turn.

Release. When you are hit by an attack or spell, you can use your reaction to release this spirit and use its raging energy to make an attack or cast a spell with an attack roll against the creature who struck you. The creature is dealt additional necrotic damage equal to 1d6 per spirit level on a hit, or 1d6 necrotic damage if the attack misses.

Hunger

Bound. While you have a spirit of Hunger bound to your service, you require no food nor water to survive. If the spirit is 4th level or higher, you also cannot become exhausted for any reason other than lack of sleep, and a short rest reduces your exhaustion by one level.

Release. When a spirit of Hunger is released, a number of creatures equal to the spirit's level within 30 feet of you must make a Constitution saving throw or suffer one level of exhaustion. If the spirit is 4th level or higher, creatures that succeed their saving throw suffer one level of exhaustion, or two levels if they fail. A creature can't be killed by the release of this spirit.

Passion

Prerequisite: 5th level

Bound. When this spirit is bound, you gain a set of special dice called passionate dice. These dice are d4s, and you have a number of passionate dice equal to the spirit's level. When you or a friendly creature within 5 feet of you makes an ability check, saving throw, or attack roll, you can use your reaction to roll a passionate die and add the result to the total. You regain all passionate dice after you finish a long rest, and you lose all passionate dice when this spirit is released.

Release. You may release this spirit as a part of an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, and you
take this action with advantage. In addition,
a number of creatures equal to the
spirit's level within 30 feet of you gain
advantage on their next ability check,
saving throw, or attack roll attempted
within the next minute.

Serenity

Bound. When this spirit is bound, you always have a sense of peace and clarity of thought. You only need to sleep for half of a long rest in order to benefit from the long rest, though the remaining time must still be spent engaging in light activity. In addition, you gain a bonus to your passive Wisdom (Perception) score equal to the spirit's level.

Release. When you release this spirit, you or a creature within 10 feet of you is released from one of the following conditions: charmed, frightened, or stunned. The number of conditions is equal to the spirit's level, therefore multiple creatures can benefit from this effect.

Sloth

Prerequisite: 7th level

Bound. While you have a spirit of Sloth bound to your service, the area in a 10 foot radius around you is considered difficult terrain. In addition, creatures provoke opportunity attacks from you even if they take the Disengage action.

Release. When you release this spirit, all creatures within 30 feet of you lose their reaction for a number of rounds equal to the spirit's level.

Valor

Prerequisite: 7th level

Bound. While this spirit is bound, you and your allies within 10 feet of you have advantage on saves against being frightened. If this spirit is 6th level or higher, you and all allies within 10 feet of you can't be frightened. You must be conscious for the spirit to grant this bonus.

Release. You cast the spell heroism as this spirit's release, and you cast the spell at the spirit's level. You don't need to maintain concentration for this release effect.

Wonder

Bound. While this spirit is bound to you, you radiate an aura of awe. When any creature within 10 feet of you attempts a Wisdom (Insight) check, it takes a penalty to its roll equal to the level of this spirit. The creature must be aware of your presence, and you must be conscious for the spirit to grant this effect.

Release. When this spell is released, it emits a flash of dazzling light. All creatures in a 15-foot radius of you must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be blinded for 1 round. If the spirit is 4th level or higher, all
affected creatures must succeed on a
second Constitution saving throw with
advantage, or be stunned for 1 round.
These effects occur
simultaneously.

Witch Spell List

Appendix

Multiclassing

When you advance in level, and at your DM's discretion, you may take the option to multiclass into a Witch. You must meet the following prerequisites to qualify for a Witch.

Multiclassing Prerequisites

Proficiences

When you first multiclass into Witch, you gain only some of the class's starting proficiences as shown below.

Multiclassing Proficiencies

Spellcasting

Spell Slots. You determine your available spell slots by adding all of your witch levels to the levels of your other classes (PHB p.164). Use this total to determine your spell slots by consulting the Multiclass Spellcaster table
(PHB p.165).

Alternate Starting Equipment

When you create a witch, you receive equipment based on a combination of your class and background. Alternatively, you can start with a number of gold pieces and spend them on items (Chapter 5 of the PHB).

Starting Wealth for Witches

Changelog

Version 1.1

• Changes to Witch's Familiar features: familiar gains temp HP, celestial and fey abilities simplified
• Familiar Magic : change to celestial healing ability

Credits

This version of The Witch D&D 5e class was created by Reddit user JPGenn. This homebrew class takes its inspiration and basic concept design from this excellent & inspired Witch class build by Zarieth.

Artistic Credits

• "The Druid King" : Dusan Markovic (deviantArt)
• "the Forest church 2" : weiweihua (deviantArt)
• "The Crow's Dagger"" : Elsa Kroese
• "shaman" : Paulos Varrus (flickriver)
• Homebrew Stains : DraceExe
• raven
• wraith
• fantasy forest wallpaper
• witches

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- "Witch Ritual," Andrei Pervukhin
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- the crow's dagger
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- emo druid
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- armoured witch
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https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/006/357/193/large/vezonia-lithium-bonewitch-1000x1500.jpg?1497980446
- "Witch Bones," Vezonia Lithium
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- "witch house (winter)," VityaR83 (deviantArt)
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- "witch's house," VeReskoO
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- "Willow, witch of the feywild" by primordialsquid
- *commissioned work* may not be usable
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