Cantrips

Grimoire

Preparing and Casting Spells

Spellcasting Ability

Spellcasting Focus

Ritual Casting

Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher

Your Grimoire

Replacing the Book. You can copy a spell from your own grimoire or another witches into another book—for example, if you want to make a backup copy of your grimoire. This is just like copying a new spell into your grimoire, but faster and easier, since you understand your own notation and already know how to cast the spell. You need spend only 1 hour and 10 gp for each level of the copied spell.   If you lose your grimoire, you can use the same procedure to transcribe the spells that you have prepared into a new grimoire. Filling out the remainder of your grimoire requires you to find new spells to do so, as normal. For this reason, many witches keep backup grimoire in a safe place.   The Book’s Appearance. Your grimoire is a unique compilation of spells, with its own decorative flourishes and margin notes. It might be a plain, functional leather volume that you received as a gift from your master, a finely bound gilt-edged tome you found in an ancient library, or even a loose collection of notes scrounged together after you lost your previous grimoire in a mishap.

Rules for Curses

Escalation. Escalation represents the curse gaining power as time goes on. At dawn once a day, a cursed creature must make an escalation check to see if their curse escalates. To pass, a creature needs to repeat the relevant saving throw made when the curse was placed. The DC of this check is 5 + the number of days the curse hasn’t escalated. On a failed save, the cursed creature applies the effects of the next stage of the curse, in addition to any previous stages. The escalation check is reset once the cursed creature reaches the next escalation stage.   Culmination. All curses have a culmination. This is the final intent of the curse, and often involves transforming the victim into a twisted creature, barely resembling who they once were. Culminations are truly evil effects and are almost always permanent. When a creature fails an escalation check at stage 3 of a curse, they apply the effects of the curse’s culmination. They continue to apply the effects of the previous stages, but cease making escalation checks. Once a curse’s culmination has been reached, it can only be cured with the use of a wish spell.   Curing. Once they have begun, curses are notoriously difficult to cure. Many adventurers have fallen to a curse before they were able to find the witch who cursed them and reverse it. As a result, it is not unheard of for travelling merchants to carry multiple ingredients to slow down or cure a curse. To cure a curse, the object acting as the curse’s origin must be targeted with the remove curse spell. In addition, a cure component related to the specific curse is required. For example, a curse affecting the mind of a cursed target might requires a rose bathed in moon light. A DM can determine what components may be required based on their setting, campaign story or game mechanic they wish to include.

Familiar

• The familiar speaks, reads, and understands all languages you know.
• The familiar gains a number of additional hit points equal to your Witch level
• If the familiar succeeds on a saving throw and would take half damage, it instead takes no damage.
• The familiar’s Intelligence score becomes 10 unless it is already higher.

Witches Brew

Witch Coven

Ability Score Improvement

Create Effigy

Fine Fettle

Witches Sanctum

Split Mind

Coven of Destiny

Many diviners hold fate in the highest regard and see struggling against destiny as fruitless and unwise. However, witches of the destiny coven view fate as a tool to be manipulated and controlled. These witches consider themselves to be the arbiters of destiny, reading fate and either averting it or ensuring its completion. They believe that gaining a deeper understanding of a creature's destiny grants the power to change it.  

Divining Item

When you join this coven at 2nd level, you learn how to contact the spirits of dead witches to answer questions about the past and future. You obtain an item which fuels your coven features, called a "divining item": choose from a deck of tarot cards, a crystal ball, or a bag of carved bone runes. If your divining item is lost or destroyed, you can create a new one over the course of a long rest and by expending 50gp of materials.   You can enter a 10 minute long ritual to use your divining item to ask the spirits a question. Unless something magical prohibits you from receiving an answer, your DM will answer with a "yes" or "no".   You can ask a question this way a number of times equal to your proficiency modifier (minimum once), after which you require a long rest to refresh its uses.  

Twisted Prophecy

At 6th level, you learn to glimpse the future and then twist it to your liking. When you finish a long rest, roll one d20 and record the number rolled. You can replace any attack roll, saving throw, or ability check made by you or a creature that you can see with one of these reshaped fate rolls. You may do so immediately after the roll has been made, demonstrating your ability to twist fate that would have otherwise occurred.   Each reshaped fate roll can be used only once. When you finish a long rest, you lose any unused rolls.  

Pierce the Veil

At 10th level, your powers of manipulating fate have grown to the point you can cheat death. As a recation, when you or a creature of your choice that you can see within 30 feet would die as a result of failing a death saving throw (including due to taking damage while at 0 hit points), you may allow that creature to roll an additional death saving throw and take the new result. If the new result is a success, the creature regains one hit point.   Altering one's fated death has its consequences and you gain one level of exhaustion. You can use this ability twice per day, and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.  

Weaver of Fates Strings

At 14th level, you learn to see, pull, cut, and weave the strings of fate that pull everyone towards their uncertain destinies. You roll three d20s for your twisted portent feature, rather than one, when you take a long rest.   In addition, you roll one d20 when you finish a short rest and add it to your current pool of reshaped fate rolls. You may have up to four reshaped fate rolls stored at any time.

Coven of Nature

Hidden deep within the woods around their communities, these witches prefer live peaceful and reclusive lives. Witches of this coven spend their time restoring life and vitality to all manner of plants, animals and people seeking aid. However, those that dare harm the land, people, or animals under the protection of a witch will face their unbridled wrath.  

Floral Growth

When you join this coven at 2nd level, your summoned familiar has its creature type changed to a plant instead of it's normal type. Additionally, you learn the secrets to cause nature to be attracted to you. You gain a natural growth of vines, plants, or fungus that cover your body to protect you from harm. Your AC is equal to 10 + your dexterity modifier + your wisdom modifier. You must be unarmored and not wearing a shield to benefit from this.  

Healing Spores

Starting at 6th level, you learn to utilize your ties to nature through your familiar to heal those around you. Your familiar gains a pool of healing that replenishes when you finish a long rest. With that pool, it can restore a total number of hit points equal to your witch level × 5.   Your familiar gains an action it can use on its turn. As an action, while within 5ft of another creature it can draw power from the pool to restore a number of hit points to that creature.  

Forest Guardian

At 10th level, you learn to harness the power of the wilds to summon a powerful construct, called a forest guardian. This creature takes the general appearance of a beast that inhabits the land around your home, but also has features that clearly mark it as a creature made from magic, such as plant growths that emanate from its body or similar unnatural qualities.   It's friendly to you and your companions and it obeys your commands. See its game statistics in the Forest Guardian stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You can summon this guardian as a ritual that takes 10 minutes to perform, but can only have one guardian summoned at a time. If you die, the guardian is immediately dismissed.   In combat, the guardian shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action.   Forest Gaurdian

Forest Guardian

Enemy of Nature

Beginning at 14th level, you become so infused with nature that you become a part of it. As an action, you can mark any number of creatures within 20 feet of you as an Enemy of Nature until the end of your next turn. The next time you or an ally of yours hits the marked creature with an attack or a spell, any damage dealt by is doubled, and then the mark fades away.   You can use this ability once per long rest.

Coven of Death

The speakers of those who are already dead, the intermediaries, the guardians of the veil, mediums stand in the gap between the living and the dead. Some utilize this special gift to protect the ones they love, or to restore the balance between life and death. While other seek to bind the spirits of the fallen to command them to do their bidding.

Death's Advocate

Starting at 2nd level, your connection to the dead allows you to partially harness it’s power. As a bonus action on your turn, you call an ancient warrior spirit into your body, allowing you to transform into it for 1 minute. While transformed this way, you gain the following benefits:   • While not wearing armor, your AC equals 13 + Your Wisdom Modifier.   • You gain 30 feet of ethereal sight.   • Creatures have disadvantage on attacks of opportunity against you.   • You conjure a spectral simple weapon with the versatile property. It deals 1d6 (1d8) slashing damage on hit. You are considered proficient with your spectral weapon and can use your Wisdom modifier, instead of Strength, for attack and damage rolls.   You have two uses of this feature. The number of uses of this feature increases to three at 10th level. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.  

Souls of the Wicked

At 6th level, you have an almost reflexive grasp on the dark energies at your command, and can use them to summon the spirits of the dead to your aid. If a Medium or Small humanoid dies while within 10 feet of you or your familiar, you can use a reaction to instantly animate its spirits as a specter (Monster manual, p. 279) with the following additional benefits:   • The creature adds your proficiency bonus to its weapon damage rolls.   • The creature gains additional hit point equal to your witch level.   • The creature adds your proficiency bonus on rolls to resist effects that turn, control, or destroy undead.   In combat, the specter's turn comes immediately after yours. It obeys your mental commands, and the only action it can take is the Attack action, making one melee attack. Additionally, this creature lasts for up to one hour or until it is destroyed, after which it disintegrates into dust.   You can use this ability a number of times equal to your proficiency modifier (minimum once), after which you require a long rest to refresh its uses.  

Undead Fortitude

At 10th level, you can force an undead under your control to take a lethal blow instead of yourself. If damage reduces you to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to redirect the damage to an undead under your control that is within range of the triggering attack. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.  

Limbo

At 14th level, your connection to death corrupts your soul. If you are killed, your soul will latch on to the nearest inanimate object current being worn or carried by a friendly creature. You may remain in this object for an hour or depart towards the afterlife.   You may return to life by possessing the corpse of a creature that has been dead no longer than a week and is of the same size as your previous body. You lose your previous racial features and gain those of the new body. Coming back from the dead is an ordeal. You take a -4 penalty to all attack rolls, saving throws, and ability checks. Every time you finish a long rest, the penalty is reduced by 1 until it disappears.   Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until the penalty has disappeared.