Bard multiclassing / dipping witch advice

[Marblz]

Admittedly this is pretty much only to get Prehensile Hair as a flavour thing (familiar would be a bonus flavour wise also). Enlarge person, stabilise and guidance are also attractive though.

It would just be 1 possibly 2 levels if the second level for the patron is worthwhile for any of them.

Currently a street perfomer bard with

Ghost Sound
Mage Hand
Prestigidation
Read Magic
Grease
Silent Image

Going for a kinda of magician feel (tricks, misdirection and smooth talking). Looking for clarification as to whether this is a completely stupid idea or not. Thanks haha

I think my stats are a bit lackluster from what I've read(first pnp rpg so likely newbie mistakes everywhere) but it's too late to change it now. Here they are if it helps though

Spoiler:

str 7
dex 16
con 10
int 12
wis 12
cha 18
Race is half elf so stat bonus to cha

[Corlindale]

You don't really gain much from a Witch dip. Some minor spells and powers (which will never advance much), and in exchange you are one level behind in your bard progression. Not worth it from an optimization perspective, but of course you can do it for flavour-reasons. The extra attack you can get from the hair likely won't see much use, given your low strength score I assume you're not doing much melee combat.

Eldritch Heritage (Arcane) is an easier way of gaining a familiar - and later on it will also let you add new spells to your list.

[Marblz]

The main reason is for prehensile hair pretty much. The familiar thing was just a bonus because I had been looking into whether it might be possible to get a rabbit pet (flavour again aha). Although currently there are no rabbit familiars in the source books anyway so both cases I probably need to approach the dm about it and I'm not sure whether the familiar thing would work in society play. You could take a hedgehog I guess and rp it as a rabbit, the stats would probably be about right but the perk it gives doesn't really suit it buuuut sidetracked there.

The character isn't actually as silly as it sounds to play haha, I'm having heaps of fun so far.

I've heard of prehensile hair being used for things like climb (checked against int rather than str) which could be situationally useful.

If it weren't for it being a society play character I think I would definitely go with it but I've heard it tends to cater for or need some level of minmaxing

Thanks for the reply though :D

[StreamOfTheSky]

Have you looked at the White Haired Witch archetype? It's laughably terrible for a witch, but as a dip specifically looking for hair abilities, it might be ok.

[Petty Alchemy]

Note you'll only get one minute of prehensile hair as a lvl1 witch...

[Marblz]

Yeah I realise that alchemy, it's more for flavour than anything. Although the ability to sub it for climb checks given the character's strength could be situationally useful. Coukd probably achieve a similar flavor with prestigidation (maybe) or other similar spells without the physical side of it, eh

With white haired witch you seem to lose any out of combat uses for the hair which is probably something I was interested in, you also lose 5' of reach. Ability to grapple and potentially use it more often (?) in combat could be handy but I probably don't really want to be so close to often given con anyway.

[Kerney]

Marblz wrote:

str 7

dex 16
con 10
int 12
wis 12
cha 18

Stat fix

Str 10
Dex 14
Con 14
Int 14
Wis 10
Cha 16

or

Str 8 (Better in Wisdom)
Dex 12
Con 14
Int 14
Wis 10
Cha 18

Basically, I agree with finding a trait or using prestidigitation rather than taking a level in witch.