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Certainly that's just a cleric with an appropriate set of spells?I would love to see a Wicca-inspired occultist, personally. Rituals of a cleric, nature magic of a Druid, enchantment from a Bard merged together.
Certainly that's just a cleric with an appropriate set of spells?I would love to see a Wicca-inspired occultist, personally. Rituals of a cleric, nature magic of a Druid, enchantment from a Bard merged together.
Ever hear the saying one person's witch is there adversaries sainted holy worker?Certainly that's just a cleric with an appropriate set of spells?
The 3e warlock was mechanically an arcane class with at will eldritch blast and a few at will powers and no real spells.Isnt that just a Warlock?
Warlock is the masculine form of Witch after all.
Pathfinder 1e Witches are cousins of 5e Warlocks. They get hexes instead of invocations, and get incomplete and slightly odd casting. And are known for having a single spell they spam the living daylights out of (the pathfinder one puts you to sleep).
The 5e warlock has about two spells per short rest, at will strong eldritch blast and some powers.
But almost no group actually follows the pattern of encounters and rests laid out by the DMG, whether it's bold faced or not.assuming a median of 2-3 short rests per long rest (as per the DMG)
A lot of people disagree with this, as has been discussed on previous pages. Google shows a lot of people very opposed to this assertion and to the idea that all witches have made pacts with otherworldly patrons.Plus the name. 'Warlock' which is just a Male witch
replace Druid with Shaman (druid can be be a subclass) and add witch as a separate class.I'd be interested in WotC doing a survey to see how players and prospective players felt about nuking Druid and Warlock from the next edition and putting in a Witch class that would subsume them as variants, and kicking something up. Feels like a thing to me!
I have not read the article. However, from what you have wrote, it sounds like she practices the Dianic tradition of Wicca which arose in the 70's and is a feminist oriented Wicca that views Wicca as "woman's religion" (Britanica.com), but is not representative of all Wiccan traditions. British Traditional Wicca (i.e. Gardnerian (and its offshoot branches such as Alexandrian) and Cochranian (which may or may not be an offshoot of Gardenian) predates Dianic Wicca. There are also other modern Wicca in addition to Dianic Wicca (e.g. 1734 which is an offshoot of Cochranian Wicca)Uff. Hoping to raise the conversation up a notch, there's a 2019 Time article I've been reading from Pam Grossman (a self-proclaimed witch and author) called Are Witches Real? I've found it to be a wonderfully insightful read. I don't know anything else about Ms. Grossman beyond this article, I haven't read her book, I'm not affiliated with her in anyway – I just thought she was giving voice to something I felt but struggled to articulate far better than I could.
I've drawn on a few quotes, hopefully not too out of context, which were touching when I read them.
Ms. Grossman wonderfully articulates what makes the design space around interpreting a witch for D&D so challenging and invigorating. It is a nebulous concept because the bounding box that ends up being placed around it (out of practical necessity – design "everything" and you design nothing) ends up reflecting the designer's beliefs on some level.
As much as I like the chassis of the witch from Dragon #114 by Bill Muhlhausen, maybe the lesson from Ms. Grossman is if there is a witch class introduced in D&D, the "high concept" class design needs to come from a woman who is versed in the multiplicity of feminist lenses around the witch. So, in part I'm saying we should let women speak for themselves, but further than that, I'm also saying that the right woman for that particular design challenge is probably out there.
But almost no group actually follows the pattern of encounters and rests laid out by the DMG, whether it's bold faced or not.
Engage with the rest of my post. Waving a dictionary around doesn't address the other issues and is why there are so many versions of the witch floating around out there DMs Guild, Drive Thru RPG, Kickstarter, etc.Regardless, its irrelevant. A Warlock is a Witch. In name and in fluff.
I mean, if we're doing that...Regardless, its irrelevant. A Warlock is a Witch. In name and in fluff.
There are other versions of the 'Warlord' and they clearly already exist as well with Battlemaster Fighters (adding in what else you want from Bard and or Paladin as well).Engage with the rest of my post. Waving a dictionary around doesn't address the other issues and is why there are so many versions of the witch floating around out there DMs Guild, Drive Thru RPG, Kickstarter, etc.
... what?There are other versions of the 'Warlord' and they clearly already exist as well with Battlemaster Fighters (adding in what else you want from Bard and or Paladin as well).
... what?
You know I was talking about witches not warlords, right?We have a Warlord already, but that doesnt stop people from repeatedly trying to recreate the wheel.
Welllll, I'd make the argument (And have made the argument) the Battlemaster is too Fighter-y stillWe have a Warlord already, but that doesnt stop people from repeatedly trying to recreate the wheel.
Yeah, but my OP was 'we already have witches'.You know I was talking about witches not warlords, right?
All due respect, but the above Warlord BM is very different to a BM with GWM, Precise strike and Tripping attack, and they play remarkably differently.Welllll, I'd make the argument (And have made the argument) the Battlemaster is too Fighter-y still
We don't have a Witch. We have a Warlock that does different things and fills a different niche. Warlock has not universally been used as the male equivilent to 'Witch', and Witch itself has been gender neutral at timesYou only seem to dislike the fact that the witches we have are short rest based classes instead of long rest ones.
A Warlock has made a pact with an eldritch being like a Devil, Old One or Fey, has a familiar, and runs around Hexing and Cursing people and casting spells and 'invocations'.We don't have a Witch. We have a Warlock that does different things and fills a different niche.