Witcher prestige Class and Template


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Grand Lodge

Merry Christmas, because I am apparently a joyless dolt I spent half the day creating this template and prestige class for the witchers from the amazing series of games. Tell me how I did.

Sovereign Court

Not bad.
I would not have designed it as a prestige class, otherwise, fairly, good.
MAster Witcher may seem a bit too efficient, but then again, I'd need time to think about it.

Grand Lodge

reason behind doing it as a prestige class is that it feels too powerful to be a 1-20 class. That and the restrictions on being a Witcher (must be human and take the trials) feels more like a prestige class to me.


It really represents the witcher really well, i like it. But it is quite a bit stronger then other classes... And the only thing that offsets it is the high Fort Save to become one.

Sovereign Court

Balancer wrote:
reason behind doing it as a prestige class is that it feels too powerful to be a 1-20 class. That and the restrictions on being a Witcher (must be human and take the trials) feels more like a prestige class to me.

Sure, except lore-wise you start young. So you are not really something else until you mutate.

Well this one is difficult to adapt, so good job.

Grand Lodge

Yeah lore wise this should be 1-20 but I wasn't sure how to do the prerequisites which are more a prestige class thing.

And yeah it's a very powerful class by design, given that Witchers are designed to solo what in pathfinder is supposed to take four or five people it's not surprising how it turned out. Yeah it's a high save and it's made harder by the fact that (Not sure how well it was communicated) that you're not allowed any assistance from spell or items. Also I just sort of guessed at what the dc for 3/10 ratio would look like, if anyone has a better idea let me know.

Certainly an NPC class, no DM would let anyone touch this with a 10ft pole.


I could see this being a prestige class and still fitting the lore. You just take other classes for your "training period" until you can take the trial. Doesn't need full progression to fit with lore. I agree that it is very powerful, but there is no other way to match the inspiration it's drawn from.

Grand Lodge

Yeah. Though it does give the funny mental image of castles full of badass level 5 children.

Honestly the hardest parts of this were the talents, getting the school disciplines to match the feel of the schools and the witcher potions.

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