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[Nemesis Destiny]

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (The Witch)

Check it out.

 

[Obryn]

The biggest news is this:

Some of the material in this chapter is for use with classes found in other books. The barbarian and the bard appear in Player's Handbook 2, the druid appears in Player's Handbook 2 and Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms, and the wizard material is for use with either the Player's Handbook or Heroes of the Fallen Lands.

Chapter 3 of Heroes of the Feywild includes the following material:

New powers for the barbarian, as well as alternate class features for the berserker subclass.
New powers for the bard, as well as alternate class features for the skald subclass.
New powers for the druid, as well as alternate class features for the protector subclass.
New powers for the wizard, as well as alternate class features for the witch subclass.

"O NOES WE WILL NEVAR SEE SUPORT FOR PBH2 AEDU CLASSES! MAH HPB2 IS OBSOLETED!"

-O

 

[Kzach]

Witches are solitary by nature, requiring little arcane instruction beyond the teachings of their familiar, and most prefer to keep their craft secret lest they be targeted by witch hunters.

Awesome, a built-in reason not to become an adventurer!

 

[Vael]

I love the picture of the witch using Foe to Frog on the Cyclops, it's pretty cool.

Overall, the Witch doesn't really excite me. It seems okay, but of the four subclasses in HoF, it's the one I'm least interested in.

 

[keterys]

Awesome, a built-in reason not to become an adventurer!

But, hey, every wizard can poach their powers at least

 

[Dragonhelm]

Can you just imagine what fun they would be in Dragonlance?

 

[Incenjucar]

The biggest news is this:

"O NOES WE WILL NEVAR SEE SUPORT FOR PBH2 AEDU CLASSES! MAH HPB2 IS OBSOLETED!"

-O

There were druid powers in Essentials. They tend to just be a bunch of utilities.

 

[Hussar]

Haven't read the full article yet, but that Witch At will is very, very powerful. Prone+Slide+target cannot make OA's until the next round? Wow! Grant CA to everyone else, stop the target from moving next round and make it so that monkey piling a target costs nothing.

Isn't that a tad overpowered?

 

[ForeverSlayer]

witch receives the gift of arcane power from a patron
such as an archfey, a god, a devil, an angel, a demon,
or another powerful being.

Sounds like a Warlock to me.

Edit: Your very presence
unnerves and intimidates other creatures, which naturally
find your eldritch powers either awe-inspiring
or frightening.

Sounds more like a Warlock the more you read.

 

[Obryn]

Haven't read the full article yet, but that Witch At will is very, very powerful. Prone+Slide+target cannot make OA's until the next round? Wow! Grant CA to everyone else, stop the target from moving next round and make it so that monkey piling a target costs nothing.

Isn't that a tad overpowered?

Note the range

Also, it's vs. Fortitude.

-O