Witch

Generates descriptions of witch. Taken from [Elfmaids & Octopi | http://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2014/01/d100-witches.html]

In the wasteland
You see a [dwhat], you can hear [dhear] on the wind.

In the settlement
You are approached by a

2,wrecked car, riddled with bulletholes 2,crashed car, it's metal chassis twisted open to expose the interior to the elements 3,firepit, surrounded by green canvas tents staked to the ground 2,large telescope, pointing skyward and resting on a tarp that's been staked to the ground 1,motorcycle, tipped over into a small ditch 1,motorcycle, parked neatly next to a cracked and dead tree 3,cabin made of sheet metal, riddled with bulletholes 3,cabin made of sheet metal, the door is ripped from it's hinges and lies on the ground 3,cabin made of sheet metal, it appears undisturbed 1,a short white truck, it looks like a small house on wheels 1,a short white truck, the rear is bent and broken and looks like it was once covered but has now been ripped open from abuse 2,small round stone sticking out of the ground, dead flowers and pieces of bone surround it 2,small square stone sticking out of the ground, there are words written on the surface 2,small wooden plank sticking out of the ground, there are words written on the surface
 * dwhat

Some very nice ideas for magic items here i will use.. http://darkcornersofrpging.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/1d10-unholy-sacrificial-knives-for.html http://rachelghoulgamestuff.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/more-magic-item-origins.html

Local witches are a must go to stop in any village they are allowed by the law. They perform healing, divinations, sage consultations, sell love potions, abortions, prostitution, secret women's rites and other practices.

What are witches good for? Healing Divination Curse removal Potions Information

name table a bit lazy but handy - can use either order but a roll of each works

d50 Descriptive Witch Name Generator 1 Mad 2 Crazy 3 Crooked 4 Bent 5 Black 6 Grey 7 Blue 8 Red 9 Green 10 Old 12 Screaming 13 Cursed 14 Dread 15 Nightmare 16 Crone 17 Hunched 18 Touched 19 Haunted 20 Grim 21 Bloody 22 Scary 23 Old 24 Wicked 25 Awful 26 One eyed or milk eye 27 Foul 28 Ugly 29 Wizened 30 Wise 31 Magic 32 Cunning 33 Toothless 34 Shadowed 35 Crafty 36 Forbidden or banished or caste-out 37 Tortured 38 Burning 39 Charming 40 Crooked 41 Saggy 42 Hollow 43 Grinning 44 Cackling 45 Iron 46 Silver 47 Little 48 Big 49 Sharp 50 Bent

d50 Witch Name Generator 1 Molly 2 Mandy 3 Jenny 4 Judy 5 Meg 6 Mimi 7 Cora 8 Agnes 9 Alice 10 Sally 11 Mildred 12 Mother 13 Polly 14 Bridget 15 Pat 16 Mary 17 Hag 18 Granny 19 Maid 20 Woman 21 Holly 22 Dora 23 Nettle 24 Bane 25 Bitch 26 Mildred 27 Beth 28 Betsy 29 Crissy 30 Thorn 31 Thistle 32 Daisy 33 Bonny 34 Lulu 35 Blossom 36 Cassy 37 Claw 38 Kelly 39 Milly 40 Sandra 41 Sousie 42 Nanny 43 Auntie 44 Cousin 45 Sister 46 Wife 47 Harlot 48 Dorris 49 Sapphire 50 Ruby

d12 Local Witch Welcome Table Might not suit every witch type but useful in some cases

1 Witches are part of public code, needed for state ceremonies and consultant to leaders 2 Witches common at public and civic ceremonies and events 3 Witches are not a big deal just another job like farmer or dairyman 4 Witches live in secret among village, people dont believe the stories 5 Witch popular and liked but dwells in cottage on ringe of community 6 Witches rule in secret and wary commoners fear their powers in silence 7 Witch tolerated and lives on fringes of community, public embarrassed but still rely in secret, 8 Witch shunned and lives somewhere dank and unwelcoming 9 Witch lives in secret outside of town, only a few know and use her 10 Witch lives partly in otherworldly faerie dreamland only some believe in 11 Witch hunters visit and spread anti witch doctrine, mobs persecute any one acting witch like 12 Witchhunters common and on the prowl for anything suspicious, public whippable into frenzy

Witch lives in a ... 1 cave 2 run down shack 2 cottage 3 crude nest or humpy or lean to 4 house under a bridge 5 in a well 6 campsite 7 caravan or cart 8 abandoned house 9 burial ground 10 ruins possibly castle or temple 11 house inside or under a tree or in a nest 12 roll on weird sub table

d12 weird sub table 1 yummy edible cottage acts as sedative 2 cottage is mobile with legs or teleports or has wings 3 inside belly of great mostly buried passive beast 4 underwater cottage 5 up a ladder into clouds has a cottage 6 doorway in cliff or tree shrinks down to tiny size complex 7 in a giant boot, butter churn, kettle or other domestic object 8 built inside skeletal partly buried remains of great beast 9 underground burrow with old mines or caves connected 10 inside a run down shack or cupboard but opens into a pocket dimension or dream land 11 witch really lives in faerie realm and her cottage travels back and forth at will 12 witch really lives on another plane through a door or gateway to a room

d12 Witch house defenses 1 gate and fence heavily warded and magically guarded 2 spirits on site protect and warn witch 3 carved idols, golems and fetishes come to life to defend her 4 other planar beings watch her and will send aid 5 booby traps with poison and curses 6 animals of local area defend witch and property and warn her 7 a monster protects the witch but mostly it hides 8 witch has a mount like a broom or a nightmare or 9 witch has stockpiles of potions and charms ready 10 witches home and tools are alive 11 witch has children, followers, adventurers or coven chums visiting constantly 12 witch coven detect her peril and come to aid

d12 Witch reactions + CHA bonus + per alighment step same - per alignment step apposite

under -1 Witch seeks horrible doom or death for party 0 to 1 Witch openly hostile on sight 2 to 3 Witch suspicious, will use, evil eye and other magic 4 to 5 Witch will deal with part but wary 6 to 7 Witch will deal with party and trade 8 to 9 Witch will deal kindly with party 10 to 11 Witch impressed and will aid heroes on quest 12 to 13 Witch will offer to aid career of hero 14+ Witch loves hero

1d12 Witch Alignment Summary of witches of d100 table but 11 and 12 not represented by table enlightened, none, balance and middle are forms of neutral in my setting you could ignore this bit

1 NONE uncommitted and uniterested in such matters, not reflective or judgmental 2 LE diabolic systematic domineering and power hungry 3 CE demonic bloody destroyers of everything 4 EVIL deliberately cause suffering and harm, selfish and greedy 5 LAW servants of discipline and obedient duty 6 CHAOS servants of disorder and random impulse 7 BALANCE neutrals who maintain the balance of cosmic forces of law and chaos is needed 8 MIDDLE neutrals avoid cosmic conflicts of good and evil and just happy to live in natural world 9 CG Arcadian wild guardians fight for life and freedom 10 LG Angelic healers and helpers who serve order and goodness 11 GOOD - live to help life thrive and help others 12 ENLIGHTENED - balanced and middle together form a philosophy of non action pacifism

1,Witch likes to potter about and is a bit nosy about other affairs, offers unwanted aid 1,Old woman begrudgingly provides various services to locals, curses any who cross her 1,Witch woman provide prostitution, healing and divination for men hated by local women 1,Witch has a monster child of a god other world power, protects hers son and shunned by locals 1,Witch is broken and crazy from hard life but could with kindness be entreated to help 1,Witch looking for ingredients possibly might require traveling companions 1,Traveling gypsy witch on the move looking for next meal, lover or thing to steal 1,Witch has a potions and charms shoppe where mostly minor colorful potions are made and sold 1,Witch has herbal garden and hut built in old tree stump, sells herbal remedies and medicine 1,Witch pottering in her garden does not want to be disturbed but does want roof fixed 1,Witch serves lords of hell aids schemers, corrupts heroes with misinformed quests and bad relics 1,Witch has devil companions who aid her experiments and slay her coven enemies 1,Witch strong influence over civic leaders having had many for lovers, lives in secret among them 1,Witch has orc spawning pit and various versions of ork making rituals, plans to be a witch queen 1,Witch acts as a torturer for wicked lords and gangs, who provide her with victims to enslave 1,Witch marries ruler corrupting the court with devils and her coven mates 1,Witch converting sacrifices to degenerate worm things planar outsiders value as larval evil souls 1,Witch run slavery operation training victims for market, has coven guards and some monsters 1,Witch distributing gifts of gold from hell to rulers promising more if they sell their souls 1,Witch cooks up addictive drugs and her coven are a gang dealing to local urban or trade place 1,Witch serves demons and had many for lovers, often a few around her lair aiding her 1,Savage witch with werewolf lovers attacks villages for slaves, women and food 1,Witch deals in potions and poison, willing to sell charms and drugs to any for cash 1,Witch plants frozen chunks of troll in fields, barns and drains, then charms the strongest 1,Witch worships elder giants long forgotten and killed by gods, she calls giants to return 1,Ghoul queen a cannibal and grave robber with a coven and ghoul assassins, has great wealth 1,Dead defiler uses undead to terrorise a village, lives in old crypt with prisoners and slaves 1,Bestial witch queen with horde of beast men lovers roam about seeking victims to rob and molest 1,Goblin witch covorts with goblins, sharing forbidden secrets and acts, seeks to aid their expansion 1,Witch has a clan of servile ogres, some are her initiates, uses to lay waste to villages and travellers 1,Night hag daughter working on ascension to nightmare realm, in meantime does best to be a hag 1,Cthonic cultist fish hybrid seducer uses power to control small comunities and has a coven 1,Priestess of blind idiot god, runs a coven of important comunity members at a pagan elder circle 1,Dream hag riding a nightmare menaces good people for spite in dreams first then waking world 1,Witch breeds with monsters and uses powers to create monsters to render area uninhabitable 1,Swamp hag lives in marsh and is amphibious with many pets, has many strange lairs about swamp 1,Cult leader helps bring otherworldly evil into world seeks relics and gates and monoliths 1,Beauty thief steals life from youths with artifact and torments young lovers in area 1,Cult witch uncovers elder ruins, raises islands and encourages explorers to visit these dread places 1,Witch heads a coven of bacchanalian excess into pub fights, orgies, riots and drinking and drugs 1,Witch serves demons of law who demand truth, honour and order, she now trains knights 1,Witch is a witch hunter, persecuting sisters who use power over the community 1,Witch protects locals from chaos and has trained hooded vigilantes to identify and kill chaos 1,Witch is local healer who encourages hygiene, clean water and sewerage treatment 1,Witch is a school teacher and has influence over locals after several generations, extra civilised 1,Witch turns wicked into zombies that serve their victims, some she restores to life after a time 1,Witch guards hidden depository of pre human wisdom and its outsider librarian 1,Witch is local judge and punishes of wicked trusted more by locals than official laws 1,Gold masked witch in ancient robes of lost order, has bizzare artifacts and texts 1,Machine spirit witch communes with systems of civilization such including urban urban space 1,Male witch assassinates enemies of local coven stopping development and changing area 1,Mad beggar woman often in urban settings, curses and blesses those who help or persecute her 1,Witch is working to stop sentient minds attempting to mould and missuse true chaos 1,Chaos cult witch with sister champion and bodyguard with heavy armour and weapons 1,Cult witch with several chaos heroes and beasts and initiates following them to their dooms 1,Chaos juster witch pretends to be a fool but really pulling strings of adventurers destiny 1,Leader of Coven to duke of chaos, shambling mutidimentional god of a higher dimensional plane 1,Worship toad like chaos demons spread disorder, cosmic instability and devolution 1,Drug crazed serpentine leader sacrifice cult enemies or to serve local interests and hidden agendas 1,Insane grey sister advocates madness and breaking tabu, acts as adviser or enemy or lover 1,Witch of the cosmic balance with a coven of staff fighting sisters, serve to maintain equilibrium 1,Witch plays strange instruments in tower ruin containing gates to other places and times 1,Witch is famous public figure essential to local magical affairs and, cult includes civic leaders 1,Guardian of sacred place, prevents defilement or settlers with curses and summoned beasts 1,Midwife witch knows everyone's mum in district and well liked even if not noticed by rich 1,Consultant to local elders preaching balance and freedom from strife, struggle and the gods 1,Plague witch carries horrible plagues to reduce populations and strife, repeats every 3 generations 1,Astronomer witch with mountain stellar observatory (possibly a stone circle) ponders cosmic fate 1,Astrologer and card reading gypsy witch lives in caravan she moves about the region, many lovers 1,Drunken poet lives in grove, tell fortune and removes curses for grog, mellow irresponsible loner 1,Coven dedicated to great goddess and her aspects and servants, wage war with esoteric enemy cult 1,Guardian woman of a magic relic or gateway with coven, keep world safe from possible harm 1,Adviser to local ruler is tolerated and lives outside town, call local lord if harmed or threatened 1,Sisters of local coven who work with local druids performing some official rituals 1,Old witch lives near graveyard making magical talismans and golems from bones 1,Witch sisters live in foul grottoe and are hideous but advise heroes and provide them with potions 1,Witch lives among commoners in mostly secret and many local evil doers are curse struck 1,Prophetic witch lives in cave visited by all manner of persons for divination, exempt from tax 1,Grey witch Indiferent to human afairs but aids local comunity who respect her gloomy pressence 1,Rides in couldron with menagerie of familiars cackling and chasing people for fun 1,Conjured magical hybrid pets defend this wild healer woman, often drunk and grumpy but good 1,Love mad witch wants to try exotic men from foriegn places as many as possible 1,Crazed wild maid basicly good but unpredictable and prone to outrageous behavure 1,Hairy wildman leads coven of beastmen and were creatures and defends wilds from evil 1,Wild unpredictable forest witch moods vary with the seasons and omens, intolerant of evil 1,Rides a exotic hybrid beast and wages war on evil and authorittarians especialy devils 1,Sky chariot pulled by cats transports this witch who is intimate with faerie world and love goddess 1,Idylic holy huntress witch with sacred hunt beasts punishes intruders into wilds and developers 1,Wild feral witch lives with beast in the forest, filthy and naked, snarls like a beast, defends wilds 1,Animal friend lives in treehouse surrounded by pets who protect and inform them 1,Hunts evil witches and unlwful spell casters with holy powers, very proper and sctrict moralist 1,Heads a secret society advancing womens defence, in league with local matriachs 1,Snake worshiper serves enchanted great serpent of life and knowledge, public healer 1,Old woman talks to angels and calls spirits may get instructions from divination to kill evil 1,Old man with staff and huge beard guides young adventurers to path of goodness 1,A short old woman with her daughters heals heroes and important persons and offers magic shelter 1,A healer lady with a shop of herbs and vegetables and preserves, accepted as local medic 1,Operates sacred fire altar of supposed long dead religion, uses purity of flame to destroy wicked 1,Alchemical hermaphrodite magician enlightened being wages war on demons, devils and dragons 1,Old maid in white with some faerie blood, likes to bless bqabies and good obedient children