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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 9664677" data-attributes="member: 6802951">"As good a caster as a Wizard, but better at Rituals" would be a tricky needle to thread. I'm not sure how to make a class better than a wizard at rituals in a manner distinct from wizard mechanics whilst maintaining balance. The concept of the order of wizards performing their hermetic rituals from arcane tomes is baked into the class in a way that it is tricky to supersede.Regarding the familiar, here are a few ideas: All Witches know the Find Familiar spell and can cast it as a ritual without the presence of their familiar. In addition to its normal abilities, familiars are trained in Arcana, and can perform the Help action for any arcana checks.While the familiar is in physical contact with the witch, it can fulfil material component requirements as if the witch was wielding an arcane focus.When the witch casts a Summon spell, they may spend a separate, additional spell slot. If so, they may target the area occupied by the familiar despite normal vision or line of effect requirements and the familiar disappears for the duration of the spell.  The summoned creature becomes an amalgam of the features of the familiar and those of the creature the spell would normally summon. The summoned creature gains a bonus on all D20 tests equal to the level of the additional spell slot the witch spent, and deals an extra D6 on its attacks.(Note that I'm assuming that were talking normal familiars here. If you want to have the witch eat the warlocks lunch as well as the wizard's, and give them the pact of the chain additional options and abilities, that changes the scales quite a bit.)</blockquote>

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