Owl's Witch Guide

[Northern Spotted Owl]

This guide builds on existing ones, which I've linked to in the document itself. These guides are excellent, and the only motivation for another is simply to broaden their coverage.

To keep its length within some reasonable range I've skipped some details. E.g. when listing patron spells I only list those that make the patron in questions worth taking. Please call out anything I've skipped over that you think is worth adding.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tYE8wheVXGAitQzgLW15X8RoPI8-d27o_GTgUXS VHZ0/edit?usp=sharing

Cheers,
Owl

[Melkiador]

You need to link that using the url tags. This site chops up urls when you post them like that so you can't just copy and paste them.

Also, I corrected the address, but it's still acting like it's not available for public viewing. It wants me to make a request to see it.

[Northern Spotted Owl]

Melkiador wrote:

You need to link that using the url tags. This site chops up urls when you post them like that so you can't just copy and paste them.

Also, I corrected the address, but it's still acting like it's not available for public viewing. It wants me to make a request to see it.

Thanks so much. I believe I've fixed the sharing.

Neither the Community Guidelines nor the FAQ show what markup this forum uses, unless I just missed it. I tried standard html anchor tags, but they're just escaped (which makes sense...). How do add a link properly?

[Northern Spotted Owl]

If this forum uses BBCode markup, then this link should work.

The guide

[Valandil Ancalime]

When I clicked on the link I got "Sorry, the file you have requested does not exist."

[avr]

Try this.

Paizo's forum does use BBCode, but the url in the first post had already had a space inserted into it and it looks like you copy/pasted from that. I deleted the space and it works.

Edit: read thru the guide now, it's not too controversial.

A couple of spells are listed as no save but do have a CMB check (not mentioned in the guide) which kills their value later on (CMD scales much faster than spell CMB).

Not all witch archetypes are listed, notably the ashiftah witch. That's good enough to be a dip on a martial character (!), and it's solid single-classed too.

I'd have put a few basic builds in at the end to illustrate what I'm talking about.

[Northern Spotted Owl]

avr wrote:

Try this.

Paizo's forum does use BBCode, but the url in the first post had already had a space inserted into it and it looks like you copy/pasted from that. I deleted the space and it works.

Edit: read thru the guide now, it's not too controversial.

A couple of spells are listed as no save but do have a CMB check (not mentioned in the guide) which kills their value later on (CMD scales much faster than spell CMB).

Not all witch archetypes are listed, notably the ashiftah witch. That's good enough to be a dip on a martial character (!), and it's solid single-classed too.

I'd have put a few basic builds in at the end to illustrate what I'm talking about.

Thanks so much. At this point, should I ask an admin to delete this thread and re-post?

I missed the ashiftah witch because she's not posted on d20pfsrd. I'll add her.

d20pfsrd witch archetypes

I'll also add CMB vs CMD notes, that's a good call. Black tentacles, hungry earth, and what else?

[Northern Spotted Owl]

The ashiftah witch also makes arcane trickster a viable prestige class (hex strike, vanish, hex strike, vanish...), so I added that.

[avr]

Reposting might not be necessary but there's nothing to stop you doing so. More important for future eyeballs is probably getting it on Zenith's guide to the guides which is pinned to the top of this forum.

It's mostly the 2 spells you named. Ice spears kind of does scale fast enough providing you're fighting a sufficiently big enemy, web has the initial save, strangling hair didn't make your list of favourites.

The arcane trickster is better than my thought for a prestige class (something like sohei monk 1 / ashiftah 6 / eldritch knight 10, maybe with the strength patron) since it makes real use of the invisibility.

[OmniMage]

Owl's Witch guide? For a moment, I thought it had something to do with the witches of the show The Owl House. I recently started watching that show. Talk about coincidences.