Witch

Black magic is associated with hexes that cause pain and suffering, and spells that give rise to undeath. Harnessing such a craft can lend you great power, but inevitably carries a cost. Darkness cannot be contained, after all; it merely seeps forth from wherever it is kept.

Starting at 6th level, you have intertwined the magic of your familiar with the magic you use to animate the dead. When you use your bonus action to command your familiar, you can use the same bonus action to issue a command to any undead you control via the animate dead spell or similar magic.

At 10th level, as a reaction when you take damage from a creature you can see, you can transfer some of that damage to a creature that is the sole target of your hex. You take half the damage (rounded down) and the hexed creature takes the remaining damage. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Beginning at 14th level, if your familiar is within 10 feet of you, you can use your action to command it to dissolve its magical bond to this plane, which unleashes a torrent of necromantic energy. Each creature you choose within 20 feet of your familiar must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC. A creature takes 8d10 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one, and its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken. A target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0. Once you use this feature, you can't summon your familiar again until you finish a long rest.

Forbidden by most witch covens, blood magic centers on the use of dark spells and mortal hexes that draw from the spellcaster's very essence. It is fundamentally more perilous than other witch crafts, but its many risks come with copious rewards.

At 6th level, you can see those near death shrouded in a crimson aura. Even in heavily obscured conditions, you can detect the location of creatures within 60 feet of you that are missing any of their hit points. This sense can penetrate most barriers, but it is blocked by 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt.

Additionally, you have advantage on ability checks you make to track a creature you or your familiar has damaged within the last 24 hours.

Beginning at 10th level, you can perform a blood ritual to bolster your magic. Once per day when you finish a short rest, you can spend Hit Dice to recover expended spell slots. The cost for each spell slot is given on the table below. You can't use this ability to recover spell slots of 6th level or higher.

By 14th level, you can wield your own blood like a vicious lash. Once per round, when you cast a spell that deals damage to a creature that is under the effect of your hex, you can choose to lose hit points to increase the amount of damage dealt. For every 5 hit points you lose, you can deal an extra 2d8 necrotic damage to the creature, to a maximum of 6d8 damage. This feature only applies to a hostile creature that is the sole target of your hex.

Compared to all other crafts of magic, blue magic is unique, in that it reflects the essence of magic itself. Witches that specialize in blue magic forgo the ability to learn magic normally, instead adopting magic only by absorbing the energy of spells that affect them and letting the arcana imprint upon their souls.

By 6th level, you have learned to be frugal with the magical energy you absorb from spells. You have advantage on saving throws you make against spells that you know.

In addition, if you succeed a saving throw against a spell that you know, you can regain an expended spell slot of the same level. Once you regain a spell slot in this manner, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

At 10th level, you can copy a creature's skills, in addition to their magic. When you see another creature make an ability check using a skill in which it is proficient, you can gain proficiency with that skill, if you are not already proficient, until you take a long rest.

Once you use this ability, you must finish a long rest before using it again.

Beginning at 14th level, you can use your body as a conduit to transmit magic back at other casters. When you are subjected to a spell that allows you to make a saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail. If you succeed the saving throw by 10 or more, you can use your reaction to cast the spell back at the caster, as though it originated from you, turning the caster into the target.

Once you reflect a spell in this way, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Magic based on the swirling smoke of strong-smelling herbs has been practiced since the time of ancient wood elves. Today, the discipline, a mix of aromatherapy and mystical arcana, is kept alive by the so-called "perfumed witches", who can purify the body and still the mind with their collection of fragrances and herbal smokes. Their fragrant magic, however, is not always evident. Sometimes, it would appear their magic is more about relaxation and meditation, while other times, they summon foul clouds which disorientate and kill.

At 6th level, you can replace the verbal, somatic, and material components for a witch spell that you cast by burning a stick of incense. When you do so, the incense is always consumed by the spell, and if the spell would normally require material components with a gp value, you must use an equal value of incense.

A block of incense is worth 2 gp and contains 10 sticks of incense, each worth 2 sp. More exotic or valuable varieties of incense exist, and can be purchased to replace more expensive material components.

Beginning at 10th level, as an action, you can release a 20-foot radius cloud of multi-hued smoke centered on yourself. The area of the smoke is heavily obscured, but dissipates fully at the end of your turn. Each creature you choose within the area must make a Wisdom saving throw or be dazed for up to 1 minute. A dazed creature has disadvantage on attack rolls and Dexterity saving throws. Any creature that is immune to being stunned is also immune to being dazed.

An affected creature can repeat its saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

When you reach 14th level, you are constantly surrounded by a flowery fog that puts your allies into a positive state of mind. Whenever a friendly creature within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, they can add 1d4 to the roll.

Witches that learn the fine details of Gingerbread Magic become masters in all things confectionery. Some witches, particularly those with a sweet tooth of their own, use their magic to bring joy to others: for example, turning pebbles into gumdrops, and giving them to children. Evil gingerbread witches, however, have a penchant for cruelty, and use their delectable powers to tempt others into traps, or to transform their valuables into sweet treats.

By 6th level, as a bonus action, you can give an ally you touch a burst of quickly-fading energy. The creature can take the Dash action or Disengage action as a bonus action on its next turn.

Starting at 10th level, you can use your action to conjure an identical duplicate of yourself, created from chocolate, candy, and other sweet treats, in an empty space within 5 feet of you. You can choose to swap places with the decoy when you conjure it. The decoy is a construct with AC 10 and 20 HP, and ability scores equal to yours. It is immune to poison and psychic damage. It appears at first to be indistinguishable from you, but cracks in its candy shell appear when it takes damage. The decoy moves with your walking speed to a location that you choose when you move, but can't speak or take actions, bonus actions, or reactions. The decoy collapses into an inanimate pile of candy when it is reduced to 0 HP, or after 1 minute.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

By 14th level, as an action, you can transform a whole area into a field of confectionary delights. Choose a point you can see within 120 feet. For the next minute, a 30-foot radius sphere of magic centered on that point transforms every nonmagical object entirely within the area that isn't being worn or carried into an edible candy replica. Structures become gingerbread houses, trees are made of chocolate, and so on. The GM decides the type of candy into which objects are transformed. Candy objects have no damage threshold and vulnerability to all damage. If a candy object is not eaten by the end of the duration, it reverts to its original material.

Additionally, inside this area, everything appears to be joyous and colorful; the grass is made of licorice and the clouds are made of candy floss. Whenever you begin your turn in the area, you and your familiar each regain 5 hit points. You don't gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points, and your familiar doesn't gain this benefit if it is at 0 hit points or is dismissed.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Plants, nature, and things that grow are the domain of green magic. Normally a type of arcana championed by druids, some witches have a close tie to the powers of green magic and can coax plants and animals to do their bidding.

By 6th level, when you summon your familiar, you can divide its spirit into two bodies. When summoned in this way, your familiar is two identical creatures that share a single pool of hit points. Your twin familiars act on subsequent turns. You can use your bonus action to command one twin to attack and your action to command the other to attack. A spell or feature that targets or dismisses your familiar affects both twins.

By 10th level, you exude an aura of Green Magic that restores and reinvigorates life around you. When you finish a long rest, plant life within 120 feet of where you finished your long rest grows as if a month had passed with abundant food, water, and other necessities. If the plants would produce fruits, berries, or vegetables, the plants grow enough food to feed six creatures for one day.

Additionally, choose up to six creatures you can see at the end of the rest. Those creatures each gain temporary hit points equal to half your witch level + your Charisma modifier. You can also end one disease affecting each creature, or end one of the following conditions: blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned.

At 14th level, whenever you are targeted by a melee attack while your familiar is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to command it to dive in the way of the attack, causing the attack to target your familiar instead.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

The moon is a potent symbol for many witches—especially those who are forced to practice their art incognito. To them it represents a guiding light in the darkness, a confidant or keeper of secrets, and a link to the powerful natural forces that govern time and tide. Lunar witches are the masters of the night: shadowy, quiet, and exceptionally difficult to pin down.

By 6th level, you have developed a supernatural affinity for shadows. When you are in an area of dim light or darkness, you can use your bonus action to take the Hide action.

At 10th level, you can use your accursed powers to suppress light around you. As an action, you can cause all areas of direct sunlight within 300 feet of yourself to become bright light, bright light to become dim, and dim light to become total darkness for ten minutes. Sources of light are still visible; only the illumination they provide is reduced.

After using this ability, you must take a short or long rest before using it again.

At 14th level, you can see through illusions with ease. You have truesight out to a range of 60 feet and you perceive a shimmering halo of moonlight around any creature you can see that has the shapechanger subtype.

Purple magic holds sway over the domains of illusions and enchantments that take hold over people's minds, as well as anything that is not quite as it seems. Practitioners of this craft are puppet masters, shaping the apparent reality of those around them to their advantage.

By 6th level, as an action, you can wrap yourself in an illusory air of expectation. Any creature that can see you perceives you as a figure of authority. A blacksmith might see you as a guild master, whereas a soldier might see you as a captain. The changes perceived by a viewer fail to hold up to physical inspection. This illusion lasts for 1 hour or until you end it on your turn (no action required).

To discern that you are disguised, a creature can use its action to inspect your appearance and must succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Starting at 10th level, you can use your bonus action to create an illusory disguise over two creatures within 60 feet of you, making it seem as if they have teleported and switched places. The disguise makes it seem that the creatures are in one another's spaces, moving all sounds, smells, and other effects caused by each creature to their appropriate points of origin. Creatures under the effect of this disguise don't perceive any part of the illusion.

A creature can use its action to examine a magically disguised creature and make an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. On a success, the creature can see both illusory creatures for what they are.

This illusion lasts for 1 minute, and it ends early if one of the illusory creatures takes damage, or if one of the creatures performs any physical interaction that reveals itself to be an illusion.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

By 14th level, you can warp everything a creature sees into a hellscape, full of terrible creatures that wish them harm. When a creature fails its saving throw against your Hallucination hex, you can further distort its mind, causing it to lose the ability to distinguish friend from foe, regarding all creatures it sees as enemies until the hex ends. Whenever the hexed creature chooses a target for an attack, spell, or other effect, it must choose the target at random from among the creatures it can see within range. The hexed creature must always use its reaction to make an opportunity attack, if a creature provokes one.

This effect ends after 1 minute. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Arcane magic tied to channeling the elements is deemed red magic, and is extremely hazardous when used. Witches that specialize in this craft are among the deadliest spellcasters in existence, channeling their curse into unhindered arcane wrath.

At 6th level, whenever you cast a spell that deals acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, you can gain resistance to that damage type until the end of your next turn.

Beginning at 10th level, when an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to briefly become all but invulnerable. The damage you take from the attack is reduced by 50.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Starting at 14th level, when you cast a witch spell that deals acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, you can expend another spell slot of equal or higher level to maximize the damage dealt.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Although all witches appreciate the value of a good broom of flying, the Sky Magic craft takes things to another level. Known colloquially as "cloud witches", they spend as much time aloft as they do on the ground, claiming that the thrill of flight is the only thing that helps them forget the pain and loneliness that comes with a witch's curse.

At 6th level, your witch's familiar becomes a monstrous hybrid, with black feathers and beady eyes. It gains a flying speed of 50 feet (unless it already has a faster flying speed), the ability to speak Common and the following traits:

At 10th level, you can tangle the winds into a howling vortex. As an action, you can create a 5-foot radius sphere of twisting wind, centered on yourself. This area is difficult terrain for creatures other than yourself. The winds force fog, cloud, and other gases out of the area, as well as Small or smaller flying creatures or objects, which are directed upwards, above the sphere of wind. Attacks through this area using arrows, bolts, or other projectiles have disadvantage. Heavy projectiles, such as boulders and ballista bolts, are unaffected.

When you reach 14th level, your affinity for the skies grants you a supernatural grace while airborne. Whenever you are flying, falling, or levitating and are hit by an attack, you can roll a d4. On a 4, the attack misses.

Secret covens throughout the Material Plane practice their magic by drawing spells into their blades. Maniacally cackling and whirling their way across the battlefield, these witches weave their curses into a bloody tapestry whenever they bring their steel to bear.

At 6th level, when you use your Cackle feature, you can attack twice, instead of once, if you take the Attack action on that turn.

Starting at 10th level, as a bonus action, you can draw the essence of your familiar into your weapon, manifesting in a cloak of green flame. Your familiar is dismissed, and can't be resummoned until you finish a short or long rest. Until your familiar is resummoned, this weapon deals an extra 1d8 fire damage on a hit.

Starting at 14th level, your accursed magic has seeped into your weapon. Once per turn, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can perform a shrieking strike. The target must succeed a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or be frightened of you for up to 1 minute. The target can repeat this saving throw at the end of its turn, ending the effect on itself on a success.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Tea witches are among the calmest and friendliest of witches, radiating warmth and contentment despite their hideous faces and hollow souls. At their very worst, they can be cranky (if forced to drink their tea in a hurry), or twitchy (after too much tea), but even then, they are likely to look for peaceful solutions to their problems.

By 6th level, you can see deeper glimpses into the future through your tea leaves. When you finish a long rest, you can examine the shape of your tea leaves. The GM tells you a shape that hints at future events. For example, if you see a tower in your tea leaves, you might encounter a wizard on the following day. If you see a serpent, you might encounter a lair or a monster.

At 10th level, you can cast the greater restoration spell without using a spell slot or material components. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

By 14th level, as a bonus action, you can give yourself or a friendly creature you can see within 5 feet of you a temporary rush of energy by drinking an energizing cup of tea. On the target's next turn, the target can take one additional action.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

Technicolor Magic witches draw their power from the friendships they find around them. They have a penchant for collecting adorable animals of all shapes and sizes, which they will never endanger, no matter how dire the situation. Above all, these witches are defined by their relentlessly positive outlook, which empowers their arcana and spurs on their allies.

Beginning at 6th level, as an action, you can weave a small bracelet of string, beads, or some other inexpensive material. You can always determine the location of a creature wearing one of these bracelets, as long as you and it are on the same plane of existence. You can target the creature with spells and effects as if you could see it, even if the target is obscured from your view.

Starting at 10th level, you can leverage your bonds of friendship for protection. When an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to gain a bonus to your Armor Class equal to the number of friendly creatures within 5 feet of you, potentially causing the attack to miss you instead.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Beginning at 14th level, you can redeem your foes, instead of slaying them. When a hostile creature you can see is reduced to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to protect the creature from further harm. The creature is stable but unconscious until it regains any hit points. When the creature awakens, any magical effect causing it to be charmed, cursed, frightened, or possessed ends. Furthermore, the creature loses one of its Bonds or Flaws that inspired it to be hostile toward you.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

White magic is fundamentally good and benevolent for all living things. Witches that adopt this craft, in spite of the hateful curse that infects them, often dedicate themselves to healing and caretaking, with the intent of bettering the world.

At 6th level, you can craft a magical talisman that wards off harm. Creating a talisman takes 1 hour of work, which can be performed over the course of a short rest. You can only have one of these talismans at a time; crafting a new talisman causes the previous one to become mundane. Any creature wearing the talisman can add a d4 to all saving throws it makes.

At 10th level, when you, your familiar, or one of your allies you can see within 30 feet of you takes damage, you can use your reaction to cause that creature to regain hit points equal to 1d10 + your Charisma modifier.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Starting at 14th level, when you cast a spell or hex that restores a creature's hit points, that creature gains a +3 bonus to its Armor Class until the end of your next turn.