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Witch Spells III By Keith Davies Sample file Sample file Open Gaming License Declarations Product Identity The following items are hereby identified as Product Identity, as defined in the Open GameLi- cense 1.0a, Section 1(e), and are not Open Content: All trademarks, registered trademarks, proper names (charac- ters, deities, etc.), dialogue, plots, storylines, locations, characters, artworks (including diagrams), and trade dress. (Elements that have previously been designated as Open Game Content are not included in this declaration.) Open Content Except for material designated as Product Identity (see above), the game mechanics of this Ech- elon Game Design game product are Open Game Content, as defined in the Open Game License version 1.0a Sec- tion 1(d). No portion of this work other than the material designated as Open Game Content may be reproduced in any form without written permission. Pathfinder Compatibility License Declarations Compatibility with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game requires the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game from Paizo Inc. See http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG for more information on the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Paizo Inc.does not guarantee compatibility, and does not endorse this product. Pathfinder is a registered trademark of Paizo Inc., and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Compatibility Logo are trademarks of Paizo Inc., and are used under the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Compatibility License. See http://paizo.com/pathfind- erRPG/compatibility for more information on the compatibility license. Art Credits Cover Art Gary Dupuis Contents Contents i About the Echelon Reference Series 1 Witch Spell List 3 3rd-Level Witch Spells 10 Index 71 Open Game License 75 Sample file i Sample file About the Echelon Reference Series Since August 2009, the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Rough and Fast (RAF) has grown immensely. I have several feet on my shelves The RAF version gathers the content and organizes it. full of books from Paizo Publishing. The third-party It does not include the diagrams or useful redundancy, publisher section of my RPG shelves is much smaller… and might not even include all my editing and markup mostly because I get most of my third-party content in changes. It has the game elements as originally de- PDF form. fined (archetype definitions only, “modifies that class To get the full view of a particular topic, one might in these ways”. have to look in over a dozen hardcover books, a smaller number of softcover books, and work through poten- Sales Information When the RAF is the only version tially dozens or hundreds of PDFs. To put it mildly, this in the store, the title is available at a 50% discount on can be daunting, and is certainly inconvenient. the final price. When the WIP and Final versions are re- To make it easier, I collect all the material for a sin- leased, they are added to the title as updates, you do gle topic into a single document. The information is not need to pay for the upgrade. gathered, organized by type, and consistently format- ted. Where there are relationships between game ele- Work in Progress (WIP) ments (especially prerequisites, as for feats) I create di- agrams illustrating those relationships. The WIP version typically includes many diagrams and at least some of the useful redundancy. A class book Sampleprobably file doesn’t include the archetype classes, but Multiple Versions might include fully-defined subdomains. Almost all Echelon Reference Series titles come in two Sales Information When the WIP is in the store, the versions, ‘PRD-Only’ and ‘3pp+PRD’. title is available at a 25% discount on the final price. The WIP version comes with the RAF version as a sec- PRD-Only These releases contain information only ond PDF.When the Final version is released, it is added from the PRD, with no third-party content. to the title as an update, you do not need to pay for the 3pp+PRD These releases contain information from upgrade. the PRD, and select third-party content. Final Multiple Releases This version includes the diagrams and the useful re- These books don’t just gather and organize the infor- dundancy. mation. Between the ‘added redundancy’ (which in- Sales Information At this point the document is ‘fin- volves writing) and the diagrams (which need to be cre- ished’ (at least until I add more content). The ‘not-yet- ated), there is a lot of work done before the final version done’ discount is no longer present, but the title in- is ready. I have adopted a ‘staged release’ model. cludes the Final, WIP, and RAF releases as additional I release each title in three versions, described be- PDFs. low. Once you buy any of them you will get the others as updates when I release them. Also, I use the same source files for all versions. Im- proving the source files for a later release means the earlier releases can get the same improvements. 1 About the Echelon Reference Series Bundles Duplicate Names I also bundle the titles. There is an “all ERS” bundle It’s not uncommon that people describing similar that includes all titles, but I also do smaller bundles ideas come up with similar names. The name of a feat where two titles have a lot of overlap. For instance, the that allows a cavalier to issue more challenges in a day cleric and inquisitor both use the same domains, and would quite naturally be ‘Extra Challenges’ or ‘Extra the domains chapters are quite large. I will likely have Challenge’.In fact, two publishers each published a feat an ‘Agents of Faith’ bundle that includes these two ti- named ‘Extra Challenge’… but one version gives one tles, and probably my ‘Hybrid Domains’ book (when extra challenge per day, and the other gives two. that’s done). In most cases I keep both versions. Sometimes like- Sales Information Bundles are typically priced at named objects are wildly different. Sometimes they are ‘25% off’. For RAF and WIP titles, that isan additional very close but with some substantive change (the Extra 25% off: titles in RAF are at a 75% discount and titles Challenge feats mentioned above). In a few fairly rare in WIP are at a 50% discount, instead of 50% and 25% cases the objects are seemingly identical, but I have not respectively. been very aggressive in identifying these cases and re- moving one, instead treating them as ‘parallel evolu- tion’. Redundancy When I find a name collision like this, I usually ap- pend a short string to the end of the name of each ob- Each book aims to stand alone as a definitive and ject. This string might be the publisher’s name or ini- exhaustive reference for the material being covered. tials, or the source book’sname or initials. For instance, This has some effect on the content of the documents across the series. ‘Rite’ for objects published by Rite Publishing ² ‘PDG’ for Purple Duck Games Redundancy Between Books ² ‘RGG’ for Rogue Genius Games Because each book is created to be a complete refer- ² ence on a topic, if two books each refer to the same ma- ‘ToHC’ for Tome of Horrors Complete terial that material is present in both books. The sor- ² cerer and wizard classes share a spell list, so the spell ‘BoLS’ for Book of Lost Spells ² list is included in both books. Similarly, druids and rangers both get animal companions, so both books I usually don’t identify the source of each game ele- have a chapter containing all the animal companions.Samplement file (though I do plan to release a ‘Grand Concor- Where two topics are tightly intertwined or basi- dance’ spreadsheet showing where everything can be cally overlap, such as the rogue and ninja classes, I usu- found). I used strings such as those shown above be- ally just put them in the same book. cause it’s easier to be consistent when adding them. There are exceptions to the process. Redundancy Within a Book The PRD always has precedence. If a third-party ² The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game uses quite a bit of publisher and the PRD each contain a spell or ‘design by exception’. That is, many game elements are a feat with the same name, the third-party pub- defined as “like that, except”. Spells often do this, but lisher’s name is changed and the PRD version is so do archetypes (modifying classes) and class features not changed. (subdomains modifying domains is probably the most If provenance seems clear I choose one of them common). ² to be the ‘master version’ and remove the other. In many cases I ‘add useful redundancy’ by apply- Both Tome of Horrors Complete and Advanced ing the changes to the base element and present the re- Bestiary copy creature type and subtype defini- sult. Instead of a spell being “like that other spell except tions from the PRD. as shown above” (the changed stat block) I might get the spell information from ‘the other spell’ and com- If an element has been superseded I keep the ² plete the stat block, and possibly copy the spell de- newer one. The Pathfinder® Roleplaying Game: scription. For archetypes, I apply each archetype to the Advanced Class Guide™ updates the Extra Chan- base class and present the result as an ‘archetype class’ nel feat from the Pathfinder® Roleplaying Game so the reader can see what the class looks like with the Core Rulebook™ to take into account the war- archetype applied. priest class. 2 Witch Spell List Witch Spell Casting is 10 + the spell level + the witch’s Intelligence modifier. A witch can cast only a certain number of spells of A witch casts arcane spells drawn from the witch spell each spell level per day.