Class Features

As a Witcher, you gain the following class features

Changes

Saving throws.

Some alchemical items require a saving throw to resist its effect. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Alchemy Save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier.

Your alchemy is improved at level 9

Aard

You blow a powerful burst of air at a Large or smaller creature within 15 feet. It must succeed on a Strength saving throw. On failure, the creature is pushed back up to 10 feet and knocked prone. On success, they are only pushed back 5ft instead and do not fall prone.

Axii

A creature within 30 feet must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, you can add your Intelligence Modifier to all Charisma checks directed at the creature for 10 minutes. Alternatively, you may add this bonus to Animal Handling checks. If you attack the creature or target it with a harmful spell or ability, the effect ends. On a successful saving throw, the creature knows you attempted to influence it.

Heliotrop

Whenever you are hit by a weapon attack, or subjected to a Strength or Dexterity saving throw from a physical force (falling rock, flooding water, forest fire), you can use your reaction to cross your wrists and summon a magical barrier against the source. Doing so adds half of your Proficiency Bonus (rounded up) to your AC or Saving Throw, potentially causing you to avoid the harm.

Igni

You release a burst of flames from your hand. Each creature in a 15-foot cone must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 1d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A flammable object in the area ignites if it isn't being worn or carried. This damage increases by 1d6 at 5th, 11th, and 17th level.

Quen

You place a protective shield on yourself. For the next minute, the first time you take damage from a weapon attack, that damage is reduced by 1d6. This reduction increases by 1d6 at 5th, 11th, and 17th level.

Yrden

Holding your hand towards a point on the ground within reach, and create a 15 foot radius circle of runes centered on that point that lasts for 1 minute. Creatures except you and your allies treat the circle as difficult terrain. Creatures can ́t benefit from the Incorporeal Movement or change their form (shapechange) while in its area, and creatures on the Ethereal Plane are treated as if they are not. You can only have 1 Yrden active at a time.

Potions

Potions are a dangerous affair overall. But witcher potions even more so. Even a seasoned witcher thinks twice before consuming a vile and toxic concoction. Though the rewards of imbibing one pay back in spades.

Upon drinking a potion, your maximum HP is decreased by your level, until you complete a short or long rest. Toxic potions decrease your max HP by twice your level.

Blade Oils

(Blade Oil is neither Bomb nor Potion)

Choose a type of creature: aberrations, beasts, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, or undead. Alternatively, you can select one race of humanoids (such as gnolls or orcs). You can use the oil in this flask to coat one melee weapon or 20 pieces of ammunition.

A creature of the chosen creature type takes 1d4 additional weapon damage when hit by the weapon. Once applied, the oil retains potency for 1 hour before drying.

Bombs

Heavy Gear Training

When you choose this school at 1st level, you gain proficiency in heavy armor. Also, you have advantage on saving throws to resist being grappled, knocked prone or moved against your will.

Thick Skin

By 3rd level, you have developed natural defenses on your body to defend you from the elements; you are resistant to adverse effects due to extreme weather and temperatures.

Additionally, your Max HP increases by 3, and whenever you gain a level thereafter, your hit point maximum increases by an additional 1 hit point.

Toxic Anatomy

When a witcher potion would reduce your Max HP by your level, it instead reduced it by half your level (rounded down). The same applies to Toxic versions, which now only reduce your Max HP by your level.

Whenever your Max HP is reduced due to a witcher potion, you deal an additional 1d4 damage with your weapon attacks, and take 1d4 reduced damage from Piercing, Slashing and Bludgeoning damage.

For every additional witcher potion, that is reducing your HP maximum, increase the die size of this feature by 1 step (2 potions - 1d6, 3 potions - 1d8, 4 potions - 1d10).

At level 11, during a short rest, you can brew 1 Witcher Potion.

Mettle

At 10th level, you can withstand harsh effects, such as a green dragon's poison breath or a blight spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Constitution saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Furthermore, you become proficient in Constitution saving throws.

Furious Retaliation

Starting at 10th level, when you take damage from a creature that is within 5 feet of you, you can spend 2 Adrenaline Points to make a melee weapon attack against that creature. This attack generates no Adrenaline Points.

If you are below half your maximum hit points after taking that damage, you have advantage on the attack roll.

Ursine Endurance

You can add up to half your proficiency (rounded up) to Saving Throws you are not proficient in. Additionally, when you fail a saving throw at which you are proficient, you can choose to succeed instead. Once this feature is used, it cannot be used again until you complete a long rest.

Form Over Force

When you choose this school at 1st level, you critically strike on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20. Also, a melee weapon without the heavy or two-handed property gains the finesse property when you wield it.

Hunters Rush

Starting at 3rd level, you can dash or disengage as a bonus action if you spend 1 Adrenaline Point. Additionally, when you critically strike you gain Adrenaline up to your cap.

Heartless

You gain proficiency in the Deception and Intimidation skills. Additionally, when you make an ability check with either of those skills you can treat a d20 roll of 9 or lower as a 10.

Also, you can roll one additional weapon damage die when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with a weapon attack that has the finesse property.

Hemorrhaging Critical

Upon reaching 10th level, whenever you score a critical hit on an attack with a melee weapon, the target additionally suffers half of the damage rolled on the damage dice for the attack at the end of its next turn.

Killer Instinct

Starting at 14th level, whenever you score a critical hit or reduce a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack on your turn, you can immediately move up to half your speed and make a melee attack. This can only be triggered once per turn. Also, your weapon attacks now score a critical hit on a roll of a 18 - 20.

Deadly Flurry

At level 18, you can use your focus to unleash a flurry of blows. When you take the attack action, you can expend 3 focus to make two additional weapon attacks as part of that action. These attacks cannot generate Adrenaline. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest or critically strike with a weapon attack.

Marksman’s Eye

You gain climbing and swimming speed, equal to your normal speed. You can ignore the somatic requirement of signs while holding a weapon in each hand. Additionally, you gain proficiency in water vehicles.

Mariner’s Precision

Beginning at 3rd level, when you make an attack with a one handed light melee weapon on your turn, you can use a bonus action to attack with a light ranged weapon you are holding in your other hand. You don't add your ability modifier to the damage of the bonus attack, unless that modifier is negative or you have the two weapon fighting fighting style.

When you fire a weapon with the ammunition property this way, you can reload the weapon using the hand holding your light melee weapon as part of the attack.

Marksman’s Stance

Once you reach 6th level, you learn to steady your footwork and never miss a beat. You're unaffected by difficult terrain and spells and other magical effects cannot reduce your speed while you aren't incapacitated. You have advantage on saving throws against effects that would knock you prone.

Quick Strike

At 10th level, when a creature enters within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to immediately move up to half your speed without provoking opportunity attacks. Before or after using this reaction, you can attack the creature with a weapon of your choice.

Ear to the Ground, Eyes to the Sky

When a creature approaches within 30ft of you, you can immediately take a ranged attack of opportunity against them. If this creature would then approach within 5ft of you, you can use Quick Strike, even if your reaction is already expended.

Absolute Precision

At 18th level you have mastered your swashbuckling abilities. When you miss with a melee or ranged weapon attack, your next weapon attack on the same turn of the other type is made with advantage.

Well Educated

When you choose this school at 1st level, you have spent time studying lore and mingling with higher society. You gain proficiency in two skills of your choice from among Arcana, History, Nature or Religion.

Additionally, you can use your Intelligence for Charisma checks.

Tireless Evoker

Your Adrenaline Points are set to 2 when you roll initiative, and you generate 1 Adrenaline Point every turn outside of Combat to a maximum of 2.

Furthermore, your Adrenaline Point cap increases by 1 at 3rd, 6th, 10th, 14th and 18th level.

Sign Intensity

When you cast a sign, you can expend 1 extra Adrenalin Point to add an extra effect as listed below.

• Igni: When empowered, you can release a continuous stream of fire when casting Igni, as if you are concentrating on a spell, in a 15ft long, 5ft wide line. If you do, you can maintain Igni on each of your subsequent turns without expending Adrenaline, but you must use one of your Attacks to cast it and you can ́t use the same hand for anything else. You can maintain this effect for up to 1 minute.
• Quen: A creature that triggers your Quen shield with a melee attack is pushed back 5 feet. If the attack's damage is reduced to zero, the attacker is also knocked prone.
• Yrden: When empowered, Ranged attack rolls against creatures inside the ring, or ranged attacks at creatures across it are made at disadvantage.
• Aard: When empowered, all creatures in a 10 foot radius sphere around you are affected instead.
• Axii: When empowered, whenever a creature affected by your Axii targets you with an attack or a harmful spell or effect, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or choose a different target.
• Heliotrop: When empowered, the bonus Heliotrop provides now equals your proficiency bonus.

Chivalry

Starting at 6th level, whenever you make a Charisma check and don ́t knowingly tell a lie to the creatures involved, you can roll a d6 and add the number rolled to the check's total. Additionally, whenever you are subject to a feature that would make you act against your core values (such as the Command spell), you can immediately make a saving throw against it with advantage.

Elemental Flow

Beginning at 14th level, your mastery of signs allows you to use the energy they release to charge your weapon with arcane power. After you cast a sign, you may charge a weapon that you are holding provided it is not already charged with this feature. The next time you hit an enemy with a weapon attack using the charged weapon, that attack deals an additional 1d6 fire, lightning, or cold (your choice) damage and generates an additional 1 Adrenaline Point. If unused, the charge fades after one minute.

Battlemage

At 18th level, you can roll an additional sign die when casting Aard, Igni or Quen. Also, once per turn when you take the Attack action on your turn, you can forego one attack and instead cast a Sign.

Protector Training

Starting at 1st level, you gain proficiency with shields and learn the Protection Fighting Style. Additionally, you can ignore the somatic requirement of signs while using shields.

Defend the Weak

When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can mark the creature until the end of your next turn. This effect ends early if you are incapacitated, you die or if someone else marks the creature.

While the marked creature is within 5 feet of you, it has disadvantage on any attack roll that doesn’t target you.

Warriors that Fight together…

Following the same rules, you can cast Heliotrope and Quen signs on an ally within 30ft of you, with them as the source. Additionally, you can use the Help action as a bonus action. When you use the Help action to aid an ally in attacking a creature, the target of that attack can be within 30 feet of you, rather than within 5 feet of you, if the target can see or hear you.

…Live to see Another Day

You learn new ways to protect and assist your allies. When you cast Axii on a creature outside of combat, both you and your allies benefit from this sign. Alternatively, when a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 15 feet of you, you can use your reaction to cast Axii for 2 Adrenaline Points. Doing so imposes disadvantage on the attack roll. When your ally is subjected to a spell or effect with an area of effect, you can target that ally with Aard as a reaction for 2 Adrenaline Points. They can choose to willingly fail the saving throw, causing them to be pushed 10ft away from you and not being knocked prone, possibly causing them to be pushed outside the area of effect. When you cast Igni, allies within it’s area of effect automatically succeed on the saving throw, taking no damage as the result and suffering no adverse effects.

Helping Hands

Whenever your ally benefits from your Signs, Help action or Protection Fighting Style, you immediately gain 1 Adrenaline Point. Additionally, at the end of a long rest you can designate one ally as your Valuable Asset. When your Valuable Asset hits a creature marked by Defend the Weak feature, they deal an additional 1d6 damage. Additionally, using Aard or Axii to protect your Valuable Asset as stated in the Live to see Another Day feature costs only 1 Adrenaline Point.

Vorg

You master an ancient and long forgotten witcher sign, Vorg. As a bonus action, you can expend 3 Adrenaline to create a 15 ft. straight line on the ground. Creatures that you deem hostile to you or your Valuable Asset must make a Strength Saving throw if they attempt to cross the line. On failure, they are knocked back 5ft. Additionally, ranged attacks from creatures that you deem hostile to you or your Valuable Asset, have disadvantage if they cross through the Vorg line.

Viperous Repertoire

When you choose this school at 1st level, you gain proficiency in the poisoner's kit and the Stealth skill. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses Stealth. Also, you can perform somatic components with a hand holding a melee weapon. Additionally, when you use Blade Oil, you can coat two melee weapons instead of 1.

Exploit Weakness

Also at 3rd level, your attacks are even deadlier when you strike unaware or debilitated creatures. Each time you hit an incapacitated, blinded, paralyzed, poisoned, restrained, stunned, surprised, prone or unconscious creature with a weapon attack, it takes an additional 1d4 damage from the weapon.

Creeping Death

Your Blade Oil is significantly more deadly. Your Blade Oil additionally to its normal effects, counts as a poison, coating the blade for 1 hour. When you strike a creature with a weapon coated by Blade Oil, they must make a Constitution Saving throw, becoming poisoned on failure. While poisoned in such a way, your Exploit weakness deals an additional 1d4 damage.

Additionally, when a creature makes a saving throw against a poison you use, you can choose to apply your Alchemy Save DC instead of the inherent poison DC.

Killing Strike

Starting at 10th level, your strikes are specialized at finishing off weakened enemies. Whenever you hit a creature whose current health is less than half its max health with a weapon attack, your attack deals an additional 1d4 damage of your weapon's type. Additionally, once per turn when you kill a creature, you gain 2 focus and can make an additional weapon attack as a part of your Attack action.

Twin Fangs

Starting at 14th level, your two-weapon fighting bonus action attack can be made as part of the attack action, without consuming a bonus action.

Evil Eyes

At the start of your turn, you can spend 3 Adrenaline Points to enter the state of higher awareness.

• Until the start of your next turn, whenever you make a weapon attack against a creature, you treat their AC as 10 + their Dexterity modifier or 15, whichever is higher.
• You gain truesight with a range of 30ft.
• Creatures have disadvantage on saving throws against your signs.
• While moving, Attacks of Opportunity against you are made with disadvantage.

However this heightened state is straining on even a witcher’s body. As such you can only do it once per short rest without repercussions.

However, you can use this feature again, taking 3d12 force damage in the process, for every time you have used Evil Eyes after the first.

Professional Contractor

Starting at 1st level, if you spend at least an hour investigating clues, interrogating witnesses or researching lore concerning a creature type you gain the following benefits for 1 week: You have advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) check you make to find creatures of that type. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature of that type with a weapon attack it takes an additional 1d6 damage from the weapon.

You can only have these benefits against one creature type at a time.

Battle Trance

Your razor sharp focus guides your attacks in combat. Starting at 3rd level, your weapon attacks deal additional damage equal to your current Adrenaline Points.

Spins and Pirouettes

Starting at 6th level, you can nimbly leap across the battlefield to engage opponents. Before or after making a melee weapon attack, you can move 5 feet without spending any of your movement. If this movement provokes an opportunity attack, it is made with disadvantage.

Wolven Storm

At 10th level, whenever you would use your reaction to make an Attack of Opportunity, you can instead choose to keep your reaction and spend 1 Adrenaline Point instead. If you make use of this feature, the Attack of Opportunity doesn’t generate Adrenaline Points. A single effect can only trigger a single reaction, and you can use this feature only once per round.

Aggressive Maneuvers

At 14th level, you can use your adrenaline to execute especially aggressive attacks. You learn the following maneuvers, which you can use as an action by expending 3 Adrenaline Points. Whirl - You whirl around, attacking all creatures around you. Make a separate melee weapon attack against each creature of your choice within 5 feet. Rend - You take a wide, heavy swing at a creature. Make a melee weapon attack; if it hits, the attack automatically critically strikes and the target creature must make a DC 20 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature's AC is reduced by 2 for one minute. This reduction does not stack.

Once per round, whenever you hit an enemy with a weapon attack, you generate 1 additional Adrenaline Point.

Adrenaline Rush

At 18th level, you can utilize your adrenaline to burst into a rush of action. At the end of your turn, if you have 5 focus available, you can choose to immediately take another turn; during that turn you cannot generate focus. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.