Timothy Brannan talks about witches, warlocks, and more with Strange Brew
Valentine’s Sale (through Feb)
From now through the end of February, you can add some Pathfinder lycan or demon love to your campaign for $2.99! Bite Me! Wereblooded presents the scions of natural lycanthropes and humanoids, designed by Ennie-award winning author, Ben McFarland. While they lack their parent’s lycanthropic gifts, wereblooded share a animalistic heritage while appearing mostly—but not quite—like their unchanging humanoid parent. Truly windows to the soul, the eyes of a wereblooded reveal their bestial nature, though this subtle difference means many still manage to live hidden in larger communities or on the fringes of society. Denied this luxury, monstrous wereblooded bear the animal head of their lycanthropic parent’s animal form. A new race for your Pathfinder RPG campaign, wereblooded offer players and GMs a choice between a humanoid and a monstrous humanoid version. Within the pages of Bite Me! Wereblooded you’ll find: ● A look at Wereblooded society, relations with other …
The Seven Witchy Wonders – Examining the Witches of the d20 Era
By Tim Brannan Strange Brew: The Ultimate Witch & Warlock Pathfinder Kickstarter is now up and ready for funding. Today, I want to spend some time talking about the seven (yes, seven!) witch classes that have appeared for the d20 game in various shape and forms. I want to discuss their pros and cons, and why Strange Brew: The Ultimate Witch & Warlock will be all the better for it. Seven D20 Witches Witch #1: The DMG Witch – Wizards of the Coast Let’s not forget that the very first witch was a “sample” character in the 3.0 edition DMG. She was basically a sorcerer with a different spell list. She dropped some of the iconic damage spells of the wizard in favor of some minor cleric spells. I always considered this the baseline witch. Though since it was not in the SRD, I avoided reading about it. When working …
Tim Brannan Talks 4e & Pathfinder Witches
Tim Brannan is the author of Misfit Studios’s upcoming Strange Brew: The Ultimate Witch & Warlock, which Misfit’s Christina Stiles will be kickstarting on February 1, 2014. Tim is entirely too interested in witches, and he loves to post about them on his blog Join the conversation about the book over on the Paizo Messageboards. Let Tim know what you want in this book. Witches in Reigning FRPGs As long as there have been fantasy RPGS, there have been witch classes. While some have been official classes, I’m fairly sure most have been home-brew affairs. The archetype of the witch pervades fantasy literature and myth, and most of us have wanted to emulate that powerful magic-wielder in our own campaigns—whether we were supplied with rules or not. This essay compares two versions from two popular FRPGS. When we talk about FRPGs, we are, of course, talking about the granddaddy of …
Tim Brannan on Strange Brew: The Ultimate Witch & Warlock
Christina Stiles of Misfit Studios will soon be launching a kickstarter to support Strange Brew: The Ultimate Witch & Warlock for Pathfinder by witch enthusiast and fan-favorite author Tim Brannan, who blogs extensively on the topic. Tim talks about the influence of Tom Moldvay’s advice on what a witch class should entail: Tom Moldvay on The “D&D” Witch by Tim Brannan When it comes to Basic D&D, the Basic set edited by (even created by, I’d say) Tom Moldvay is my favorite. Holmes has it’s charm (and was my first exposure to D&D) and Mentzer has it’s legions of fans (so the new D&D4 starter sets lead me to believe), but it is Moldvay’s Basic (and the Cook/Marsh Expert) set that gets my geek-nostalgia into overdrive. Most of it is because this was my first proper D&D game ever. Also though, long before I knew of Arneson or really even …