Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor, medium armor
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: Alchemist's supplies

• Saving Throws: Strength, Constitution
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Athletics, Intimidation, Investigation, Perception, and Survival

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) scale mail or (b) leather armor
• (a) a longsword, (b) a greatsword, or (c) two shortswords
• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon
• (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
• A silver witcher's medallion
• Alchemist's supplies

Witcher Potions

The crafting and ingestion of specialized potions to temporarily augment yourself is one of the most crucial aspects of witcher training. Beginning at 1st level, your alchemist's supplies kit contains a store of witcher potions, which are replenished every long rest. As long as you have your alchemist's supplies, you have access to all witcher potions.

Your body's ability to handle the toxic effects of these substances is represented by toxicity points. Your witcher level determines the number of toxicity points you have, as shown in the Toxicity Points column on the Witcher table. When you complete a short rest, you regain half of your expended toxicity points (rounded down). When you complete a long rest, you regain all of your expended toxicity points.

As an action, you can ingest a witcher potion. When you do so, you expend a number of toxicity points according to the potion and gain its benefits. If you do not have the required number of toxicity points, the potion has no effect.

The types of witcher potions and their effects are described below.

Blade Oils

Also at 1st level, your alchemist's supplies kit contains an extensive collection of special oils you can apply to your bladed weapons to deal extra damage to the monsters you hunt. As long as you have your alchemist's supplies, you have access to all blade oils.

Each type of blade oil affects only a certain type of creature. These types are as follows: aberrations, beasts, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, humanoids, monstrosities, oozes, plants, undead.

You can use a bonus action to coat your bladed weapons with one type of blade oil. Attacks with weapons coated in blade oil deal an extra 1d4 damage to creatures of the oil's corresponding type. The amount of extra damage increases as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Oil Damage column of the Witcher table.

Only one type of blade oil can be applied to a weapon at a time. Once applied, blade oil lasts for 1 minute. Whenever you apply a new blade oil to a weapon, the effects of the previous oil on that weapon dissipate.

Signs

At 2nd level, you have enough training to harness a simple type of magical spell called Signs. As an action, you can cast one of the following cantrips.

• Quen: blade ward
• Igni: firebolt
• Axii: friends
• Aard: gust^XGE
• Yrden: slowing circle*

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells. Only somatic components are needed to cast spells in this way. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once) per long rest.

Witcher Medallion

Also at 2nd level, you have learned to imbue your witcher medallion with magical energy, allowing it to detect magic in its vicinity.

As an action, you can activate the magical properties of your medallion. When activated, the medallion instantaneously senses the presence of any magic within 30 feet. If the medallion detects magic, it vibrates and hums faintly. The more powerful the magic is or the closer to a magical source the medallion is, the harder it vibrates and louder it hums.

This effect can penetrate most barriers, but is blocked by 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt.

The medallion can be activated a total number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of one) per long rest.

Witcher Schools

At 3rd level, your training starts to manifest in a discipline taught by one of the six witcher schools. Choose the Discipline of the Bear, the Discipline of the Cat, the Discipline of the Crane, the Discipline of the Griffin, the Discipline of the Manticore, or the Discipline of the Wolf, all detailed at the end of the class description.

Your discipline grants you features at 3rd level, and again at 7th, 11th, and 17th level.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Hunter's Intuition

By 6th level, you've become a particularly adept monster hunter. If you spend at least 1 minute observing or interacting with another creature outside of combat, you can learn certain information about it. You learn what type of creature it is (i.e. aberration, beast, celestial, construct, dragon, elemental, fey, fiend, giant, humanoid, monstrosity, ooze, plant, or undead), as well as its damage immunities, resistances, and vulnerabilities, and condition immunities.

At 18th level, your skills for identifying monsters are unparalleled. You can gain the benefit of Hunter's Intuition after spending an action to observe the creature.

Witcher's Resilience

At 9th level, your time spent hunting and fighting monsters and magical creatures has made you unshakeable. You are immune to being frightened, and have advantage on saving throws against being charmed.

Decoctions

Beginning at 10th level, you can craft decoctions, powerful potions containing the essence of monsters you have hunted. Your alchemist's supplies kit contains a store of decoctions, and the necessary materials to continuously brew more. Decoctions count as potions for all witcher features and abilities.

Unnatural Instincts

Starting at level 13, you can no longer be surprised. You also gain advantage on Intelligence (Investigation), Wisdom (Perception), and Wisdom (Survival) checks.

Arcane Expulsion

By 14th level, your witcher training has taught you how to expertly handle curses and dark magic. As an action, you can cast the spell remove curse without using a spell slot. This feature can only be used once per long rest.

Mutated Physique

By 15th level, your body has been subjected to alchemical concoctions to such a degree that it has permanently mutated. You no longer need to sleep. Instead you can put yourself into a trance, meditating deeply for 4 hours a day, remaining semiconscious. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit as 8 hours of sleep.

Also, you are immune to disease, and the rate at which you age is significantly slowed. You age five times slower than a creature of your race normally would.

Metabolism Control

At level 20, when you roll initiative and have no toxicity points remaining, you regain 3 toxicity points.

Witcher Schools

While the core principles of the witcher trade remain the same regardless of where and how one was taught, each witcher school has their own distinct discipline, a series of techniques and traditions passed down from generation to generation. Only once a witcher has learned their fundamentals, can they finally begin to study and eventually master the teachings of their chosen discipline.

Innate Magic

At 3rd level, you can tap into your intrinsic magical abilities, allowing you to gain additional spells. As a bonus action, you can expend 2 toxicity points to create a 1st level spell slot. You can choose to expend more toxicity points to raise the created spell slot's level. For every 2 additional toxicity points spent, the created spell slot's level increases by 1.

Any spell slot you create with this feature vanishes when you finish a short or long rest.

War Magic

Beginning at 7th level, when you use your action to cast a cantrip, you can make one melee weapon attack as a bonus action.

Potent Spellcasting

Starting at 11th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you do with any sorcerer cantrip.

Conductor of Magic

At 17th level, you learn how to deflect spell attacks away from yourself and redirect them at others. When you are the target of a ranged spell attack and the attack misses, as a reaction, you can make a ranged spell attack against a target within 30 feet of you. On a successful hit, the spell is redirected and hits your target instead.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

Discipline of the Manticore

Witchers that learn the Discipline of the Manticore concentrate their studies on alchemy. They seek to maximize the efficiency of their potions and blade oils to gain the upper hand in combat.

Side Effects Table

Regulated Effects

At 17th level, you gain a modicum of control over the strange alchemical reactions that occur when you consume witcher potions. Whenever you roll on the Side Effects table, you can roll twice and use either number.

Discipline of the Viper

The teachings of the Discipline of the Viper rely on tactics typically viewed as unsavory: the use of subterfuge, and blades lined with poison. These witchers operate most effectively from the shadows, doing damage to unsuspecting targets.

Discipline of the Wolf

Witchers of the Discipline of the Wolf are taught that mobility is the key to combat, and their style shares much in common with a dance. Their schooling puts a focus on defensive tactics, precise footwork, and controlling their opponent's movement in order to win battles.

Stride of the Wolf

At 11th level, you have learned to navigate terrain with the grace and instincts of your school's namesake. Your movement speed is increased by 10 feet and moving through difficult terrain doesn't cost you extra movement. In addition, you can move through the spaces of hostile creatures regardless of their size.

Wardancer

By 17th level, you can better manipulate the momentum of your enemies against them. Immediately after you you use your Pirouette feature to swap places with another creature, you can attempt a shove attack against them as part of the same reaction. The targeted creature has disadvantage on their Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check against this.