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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5706268" data-attributes="member: 35909">Ability ScoresStrength: You’re a feeble arcanist, and unlike a wizard your “spellbook” carries itself around.  Dump this.Dexterity: It adds to so many useful things, this is definitely an important attribute.  AC, Reflex saves, some important skills like Fly, and most importantly…Initiative!Constitution: You have a d6 HD and poor Fortitude saves.  Need I say more?Intelligence: Your casting and hexes both feed off of this.  Put it as high as you can without utterly crippling your other important scores.Wisdom: You already have good base will save.  Perception is nice, but a small penalty won’t hurt that much.Charisma: No one’s going to like you for being a witch anyway.Race SelectionI won’t list every possible choice, only those in the CR and specific choices from Bestiary I and II that would be well suited for witchery.  None of the core races are outright terrible choices for a Witch; a race would need a penalty to intelligence for that moniker.Core Races:Elf: Bonuses to Int and Dex, but a penalty to Con.  APG offers the Dreamspeaker variant racial feature, which will boost the DC of Slumber and your divination spells, which likely makes Elf the best Witch race.  The other racial abilities are alright, not great.  If for some reason your strength isn’t negative, you can use a longbow if you want.Human: They’re seriously great at everything.  Stat boost goes to Int.  The favored class option to learn extra low level spells is not worth it.Half-Orc: Half-Orcs are decent witch doctors.  The darkvision is always nice to have, Orc Ferocity is actually handy when you can heal yourself, and the favored class option to give a skill rank (NOT point!) to your familiar means your familiar can end up exceeding the normal limit on skill ranks.  Of course, a skill point spent on yourself benefits both of you, so the only reason to do this is explicitly to break the skill rank ceiling.Half-Elf: Like Human, but not quite as good.  The best choice if you want to multiclass, but why would you?  Same favored class option as Human.Gnome: Small size is a boon to casters, and Gnomes come with some spell-likes and an illusion save DC boost.Halfling: Also small sized and no Int boost.  The save bonuses are nice, but I think gnome is slightly better.Dwarf: Despite not boosting Int, Dwarf is still a decent choice just because of how many amazing racial features it grants.  The low speed isn’t as large a problem when you have flight magic available.Bestiary Races:Tiefling (BI): Almost perfect ability modifiers, darkvision, immunity to “person” spells, and a few other nice racial features.  Nearly on par with Elf for the best pick (and overtakes Elf if your DM nerfs Dreamspeaker to only benefit spells), and thematically appropriate, too.Sylph (BII): It’s an Elf that’s immune to “person” spells and trades all the other racial features and variant options for electricity resistance 5, darkvision, and feather fall 1/day.  It’s a step down from Elf, overall, though not by much.Hobgoblin (BI): It’s a very boring race and lacks an Int bonus, but it boosts the secondary scores and has darkvision, so you could do much worse.</blockquote>

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