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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 8173948" data-attributes="member: 63">In the ZEITGEIST setting we had a one-shot adventure - Bonds of Forced Faith - that was all about trying to stop a coven of witches before they do something bad on the night of a lunar eclipse. Each witch was basically a wizard who could cast fun flavorful curses on offensive, could punish you with a retaliatory curse if you hit her, could turn into a raven to escape, and either messed with people's minds or flew around in a cauldron or had spooky minions. But the curses were the big thing. The key thing was getting the flavor right: curses need to be spooky and a little horrifying, but not something that takes you out of the adventure. At least not until you face the leader of the witches in the climax, who had a suite of curses that were some variant of "if the PC does X, they get punished with Y," and they probably have to do X to win, but maybe they can be clever and avoid the curse.In the upcoming Adventures in ZEITGEIST book, we have a wizard subclass - the school of ravencraft. It's sort of a crime gang made up of witches, who filch enchantments off magic items and blackmail people with curses.</blockquote>