Witch

Vitae

Vitae is the life energy that witchs manipulate to fuel their magic. It is drawn from various sources, depending on the type of Thaumaturgy being practiced. Each school of Thaumaturgy has a cantrip which can be used to gain Vitae.

You have zero Vitae by default, and must gain it through your powers. You can spend Vitae to fuel more powerful effects, or to enhance your spells.

Your maximum Vitae is equal to your witch rank + your spellcasting ability modifier.

Spells

Antimagic

Vitae: you can use Absorb Magic to absorb 1 Vitae from a spell, which may dispel it.

Blood

Ideas:

• Blood Nova (target can be friendly or enemy, but only harms others)

Death

Vitae: you can use Kiss of Death to gain 1 Vitae from any living creature.

Eyes

Mirror

Vitae: you can use Magic Mirror to gain Vitae by trapping a portion of a creature's soul when they look into it.

Soul

Vitae: you can use Drain Soul on a creature with a soul to gain 1 Vitae.

Transmutation

Vitae: you can use Transform Object to destroy a crafted object. It must be something requiring skill to create, and at least one day of work. This grants you 1 Vitae.

At higher ranks, you can use Transform Object to destroy more valuable objects to gain more Vitae.

Undeath

Vitae: you can use Control Undead to take control of a mindless undead creature. Once under your control, you can snuff out its animating force to gain 1 Vitae. More powerful undead yield more Vitae.

Ideas:

• Walking Dead: you become undead, gaining undead traits and powers, for a while

Voice

Vitae: you can use Curse to gain 1 Vitae from a creature that can hear you.

Winter

Ritual

• Create Phylactery
• Evoke Flame
• Death and Rebirth (rk2)
• Create Hearthstone (rk3)
• Create Greater Phylactery (rk3)

Feats

Each level, you may select a feat from the list below. There are also feats specific to Witch spells, noted in their descriptions.

Felicity

The Seven Wonders of Witchcraft.

Clarity

• Weavesight: You can detect magical auras precisely and accurately on sight, without spending multiple rounds concentration.
• Anti-magic Specialist: You have advantage to dispel and counterspell checks.
• Scan: When using Sense Magic or Weavesight, you can detect which spells a given creature has available, and how many charges/Mana/etc, as a swift action.

Rapture

• Re-Vitae: Whenever you spend Vitae, you heal yourself for medium damage per Vitae expended.

Sympathy

• Sympathetic Magic: Whenever you encounter a hostile spell that can distinguish between friend and foe, you can roll a proficient Charisma skill check against the DC to convince the spell you are its friend. The result of this check remains true for the duration of that particular instance of the spell.
• Spell Stowaway: Whenever an enemy within range casts a beneficial spell, you may, as a reaction, manifest a copy of their spell affecting you or an ally.
• Vital Shield: Whenever you are harmed by a spell, you can expend 1 Vitae to reduce the damage by half, or to gain advantage to the saving throw.

Revelation

• Foresight: once/day, react to anything
• Prognostication: at-will, swift, ranged; you predict the target's next action. When they take it, whatever it is, you may spend a reaction to react to it.

Transference

• Manifest Phylactery: at-will, swift, requires a sympathetic component; you manifest a temporary phylactery of the target, lasting until a short rest. You can convert this to a permanent phylactery if you conduct the normal ritual immediately after combat.
• Spell Channel: if you inflict harm with a spell, natural attack, or a weapon you're currently wielding, you can use that as a channel to puncture that opponent's defenses. This can be used to target them with a spell regardless of line of sight or effect at will. If expended, it can grant advantage to one spell or attack roll against them, as well as increasing damage by 50%.

Verity

• Mystic Eyes: at will, you can see through glamours, figments, and invisibility spells.

Entropy

• Bad Luck: Shit happens. It's a well-known axiom of witchcraft. But with careful study and perception, you can learn not to be in front of the fan when it happens. When you roll a d20, and the result is at or below your Entropy rank, you can "store" the result, rolling again. When you have a stored result, you can impose it upon any other PC or NPC whenever they roll a d20, expending it and forcing them to take your result.
• Death and Decay: All things decay. This is something you've accepted. But you don't have to dive into the grave on purpose. You gain Resist 50% (necrotic), and advantage to saves against death magic and ability damage/drain.
• Death Becomes You: The undead are the antithesis of the living, and naturally hate, fear, and long to feed upon them. You understand that, and sympathize with them, and, to an extent, they respect that. Mindless undead become indifferent to you unless actively commanded to attack. Your own undead servants gain inspiration once per encounter.

Blood Magic

Winter

Transmutation

Familiar

Necromancy

Hedgecraft

Soul