Hedgewitch

The hedgewitch is a caster steeped in traditions handed down from teacher to student in a long, unbroken line. Equal parts shaman, witch doctor, and budding academic, the hedgewitch is a master of utility, seeking knowledge and power wherever they may be found. Spiritualism, demonology, and even charlatanism may inform her magic, and hedgewitches can be found the world over living as village healers, professional alchemists, contract casters, or members of mystery religions. For many budding magicians, the secrets of hedgewitchery are a seductive lure, offering so much more than the monotony of mage towers and purely academic study.

Role: Hedgewitches use the power of their traditions to aid their fellows on and off the battlefield. Hedgewitches are equally capable of filling a variety of roles, and there is rarely a situation where an hedgewitch doesn’t have a relevant trick or two up her sleeve.

Alignment: Any

Hit Die: d8

Starting Wealth: 3d6 x 10 gp (average 105 gp). In addition, each character begins play with an outfit worth 10 gp or less.

Class Skills

The hedgewitch’s class skills are Appraise (Int), Bluff (Cha), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Fly (Int), Handle Animal (Cha), Heal (Wis), Knowledge (arcana; Int), Linguistics (Int), Perform (Cha), Profession (Wis), Sense Motive (Wis), Spellcraft (Int), Stealth (Dex), and Use Magic Device (Cha).

Skill Ranks Per Level: 6 + Int modifier

Table: The Hedgewitch

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Caster Level	Magic Talents
1	0	+0	+0	+2	Casting, spell pool, tradition benefit, tradition power, traditions	0 (1)	0 (+2)
2	+1	+0	+0	+3	Secret, tradition secrets	+1	1
3	+2	+1	+1	+3	+2	2
4	+3	+1	+1	+4	Secret	+3	3
5	+3	+1	+1	+4	+3	3
6	+4	+2	+2	+5	Secret	+4	4
7	+5	+2	+2	+5	+5	5
8	+6/+1	+2	+2	+6	Secret	+6	6
9	+6/+1	+3	+3	+6	+6	6
10	+7/+2	+3	+3	+7	Grand secrets, secret	+7	7
11	+8/+3	+3	+3	+7	+8	8
12	+9/+4	+4	+4	+8	Secret	+9	9
13	+9/+4	+4	+4	+8	+9	9
14	+10/+5	+4	+4	+9	Secret	+10	10
15	+11/+6/+1	+5	+5	+9	+11	11
16	+12/+7/+2	+5	+5	+10	Secret	+12	12
17	+12/+7/+2	+5	+5	+10	+12	12
18	+13/+8/+3	+6	+6	+11	Secret	+13	13
19	+14/+9/+4	+6	+6	+11	+14	14
20	+15/+10/+5	+6	+6	+12	Secret, tradition mastery	+15	15

Class Features

Weapon and Armor Proficiency

A hedgewitch is proficient with all simple weapons and light armor.

Casting

A hedgewitch may combine spheres and talents to create magical effects. A hedgewitch is considered a Mid-Caster and may use either Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma as her casting ability modifier and must make this choice at 1st level. Once made, this choice cannot be changed. (Note: All casters gain 2 bonus talents and may select a casting tradition the first time they gain the casting class feature.)

Spell Pool: A hedgewitch gains a small reservoir of energy she can call on to create truly wondrous effects, called a spell pool. This pool contains a number of spell points equal to her class level + her casting ability modifier (minimum: 1). This pool replenishes once per day after roughly 8 hours of rest.

Magic Talents

A hedgewitch gains a magic talent every time she gains a caster level, according to Table: Hedgewitch.

Traditions

Hedgewitches draw power from their traditions, blending magic and hidden knowledge to powerful effect. A hedgewitch chooses two traditions at 1st level, gaining their class skills, tradition benefits, tradition powers, and their tradition masteries at 20th level. In addition, each tradition grants access to a number of secrets the hedgewitch may choose whenever she gains a secret.

Academia

Class Skills: Knowledge (geography), Knowledge (nature), Knowledge (planes)

You understand the theory behind magic, letting you accomplish feats akin to those of the greatest of wizards.

Tradition Benefit: Treat your class level as your caster level when meeting the prerequisites of, and crafting items with, any Item Creation feat as well as when using and researching rituals. This stacks normally with caster levels gained from other sources.

Tradition Power: You gain 1 extra spell point for every 2 hedgewitch levels possessed.

In addition, you may bind one masterwork item to yourself as a fetish. You may enchant this item as if you possessed the prerequisite Item Creation feat, provided you meet that Item Creation feat’s other prerequisites, such as minimum caster level. You may change your fetish at any time by spending 8 hours binding a new one, but doing so causes your previous fetish to lose all of its magic, becoming an ordinary masterwork item again.

Tradition Secrets: A hedgewitch with the academia tradition adds the following secrets to those she may select:

Tradition Mastery: You gain a +2 inherent bonus to one mental ability score of your choice.

Black Magic

Class Skills: Knowledge (planes), Intimidate, Disguise.

You have delved into magic theories and practices some believe are better left untouched.

Tradition Benefit: Choose an oracle curse. You gain this curse and its associated benefits, using your hedgewitch level as your effective oracle level. If you already possess an oracle’s curse (or gain one later), this instead allows your hedgewitch levels to stack with the levels of the class that grants access to the oracle’s curse. Note that some oracle curses (such as haunted) grants a benefit that is not easily translated to the Spheres of Power system, and would most likely not be an advisable choice.

Tradition Power: As a standard action, you may curse a target within 30 ft. You may bestow a number of curses in a day equal to 3 + 1/2 your hedgewitch level. Targets may make a Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 hedgewitch level + casting ability modifier) to negate the curse. Treat your hedgewitch level as your caster level for the purpose of removing one of your curses. You may always dismiss your own curses as a free action.

At 1st level, you may give a target a -2 penalty to attack rolls, skill checks, and saving throws for a number of rounds equal to your casting ability modifier. This improves to -4 at 9th level. This does not stack with itself.

At 5th level, you may cause the target to roll twice whenever it makes an attack roll, skill check, ability check, or saving throw and take the lower result for a number of rounds equal to your casting ability modifier.

At 9th level, you may give a target 6 points of ability drain to one ability score of your choice. This does not stack with itself.

At 13th level, you can permanently blind or deafen the target.

At 17th level, you may make a target permanently confused.

Tradition Secrets: A hedgewitch with the black magic tradition adds the following secrets to those she may select:

Tradition Grand Secrets: A hedgewitch with the black magic tradition adds the following secrets to those she may select:

Tradition Mastery: Gain a witch’s Grand hex, treating your hedgewitch level as your witch level and your casting ability modifier as your Intelligence modifier when determining the effects.

Charlatanism

Class Skills: Sleight of Hand, Disable Device, Disguise.

You’ve learned to use showmanship to enhance your magic and magic to enhance your showmanship, until few can tell where one ends and the other begins.

Tradition Benefit: You gain versatile performance, as the bard ability. Choose one type of Perform skill. You can use your bonus in that skill in place of your bonus in its associated skills.

When substituting in this way, you may use your total Perform skill bonus, including class skill bonus, in place of its associated skill’s bonus, whether or not you have ranks in that skill or if it is a class skill.

The types of Perform and their associated skills are: Act (Bluff, Disguise), Comedy (Bluff, Intimidate), Dance (Acrobatics, Fly), Keyboard Instruments (Diplomacy, Intimidate), Oratory (Diplomacy, Sense Motive), Percussion (Handle Animal, Intimidate), Sing (Bluff, Sense Motive), String (Bluff, Diplomacy), and Wind (Diplomacy, Handle Animal).

Tradition Power: You gain a guile pool, containing a number of guile points equal to 3 + 1/2 your hedgewitch levels. This pool replenishes after roughly 8 hours of rest; these hours do not need to be consecutive. If you gain a guile pool from another source, these levels combine when determining the number of guile points possessed, although you may add either 3 or that class’s listed ability score modifier to the guile pool, not both. You may use guile points from this pool to power the abilities of every class you possess that grants a guile pool.

You may spend a guile point as part of any skill check to grant yourself a +2 bonus to that skill check. At 10th level, this bonus increases to +4.

When successfully making an attack against a creature within 30 ft. that is flat-footed or denied its Dexterity bonus to AC, you may spend a guile point as a swift action to deal sneak attack damage to that creature, as a rogue of equal level (1d6 at 1st level, 2d6 at 3rd level, etc.) This stacks with any rogue levels you possess, or any sneak attack dice gained from other sources. This sneak attack may be affected by rogue talents, as usual.

Tradition Secrets: A hedgewitch with the charlatan tradition adds the following secrets to those she may select:

Tradition Grand Secrets: A hedgewitch with the charlatan tradition may select one of the following whenever they gain a grand secret:

Tradition Mastery: When spending a guile point as part of a skill check, add +6 to that check instead of +4. When spending a guile point to deal sneak attack, roll d8s instead of d6s.

Combat

Class Skills: Swim, Climb, Intimidate.

You have studied martial traditions and how to implement magic on a battlefield.

Tradition Benefit: You gain proficiency with medium armor, shields (but not tower shields), and 1 martial weapon of your choice. You may count half your hedgewitch levels as fighter levels when meeting combat feat prerequisites.

Tradition Power: You gain an arcane pool as the magus class feature, with a number of arcane points equal to 3+ 1/2 your hedgewitch level. If you gain an arcane pool from another source, combine those levels with your hedgewitch levels when determining the number of arcane points it contains. At 1st level, you may expend 1 point from your arcane pool as a swift action to grant any weapon you are holding a +1 enhancement bonus for 1 minute. For every four levels beyond 1st, the weapon gains another +1 enhancement bonus, to a maximum of +5 at 17th level. These bonuses can be added to the weapon, stacking with existing weapon enhancement to a maximum of +5. Multiple uses of this ability do not stack with themselves.

At 5th level, these bonuses can be used to add any of the following weapon properties: dancing, flaming, flaming burst, frost, icy burst, keen, shock, shocking burst, speed, or vorpal.

Adding these properties consumes an amount of bonus equal to the property’s base price modifier. These properties are added to any the weapon already has, but duplicates do not stack. If the weapon is not magical, at least a +1 enhancement bonus must be added before any other properties can be added. These bonuses and properties are decided when the arcane pool point is spent and cannot be changed until the next time you use this ability. These bonuses do not function if the weapon is wielded by anyone other than you.

You may not have more than one weapon enhanced in this manner at a time. If you use this ability again, the first use immediately ends.

Tradition Secrets: A hedgewitch with the combat tradition may select one of the following secrets whenever she gains a secret:

Tradition Grand Secrets: A hedgewitch with the combat tradition may select one of the following secrets whenever they gain a grand secret:

Tradition Mastery: You gain a +2 inherent bonus to one physical ability score of your choice.

Covenant

Class Skills: Knowledge (religion), Knowledge (planes), Knowledge (history).

Whether as a member of a mystery religion, a follower of totemic spirits, or a researcher into ancient gods, your power comes through study and devotion to powers unseen.

Tradition Benefit: Select an alignment from the following list: chaos, evil, good, or law. This must be an alignment you possess (if you are neutral, you may choose any of the above alignments for this purpose). You gain an aura of your chosen alignment as a cleric of equal level. In addition, you may detect your opposite alignment (good and evil oppose one another, just as law and chaos oppose one another) as if using the detect alignment Divination ability. To use this ability, you must spend a move action and focus on a single item or creature within 60 feet. You do not detect alignment in any other object or creature when using this ability in this way.

Tradition Power: If you are of good alignment (or neutral and choose to channel positive energy) you may touch a creature as a standard action (or yourself as a swift action) and heal that target 1d6 hit points per 2 hedgewitch levels (minimum: 1d6). You may use this ability a total number of times per day equal to 3 + 1/2 your hedgewitch level. You may use this ability to harm undead, which is a standard action that provokes an attack of opportunity. Undead do not receive a saving throw against this damage. This counts as positive energy.

If you are evil (or neutral and choose to channel negative energy), this ability instead harms living creatures and heals undead. This counts as negative energy.

This ability counts as possessing the lay on hands or touch of corruption class features (depending on whether you channel positive or negative energy) for the purpose of qualifying for and using feats that modify these abilities.

You may also expend two uses of this ability to channel energy, as the cleric class feature. As a standard action, you release a wave of energy through your holy (or unholy) symbol, affecting all creatures of one type (living or undead, your choice) within 30 ft., healing or harming them just as if you had touched them, except creatures that take damage from channeled energy may make a Will saving throw (DC 10 + 1/2 your hedgewitch level + your casting ability modifier) to halve the damage. You may choose whether or not you wish to include yourself in this effect.

This requires a holy (or unholy) symbol to use, and counts as possessing the channel energy class feature when qualifying for and using feats.

Tradition Secrets: A hedgewitch with the covenant tradition may select one of the following secrets whenever she gains a secret:

Tradition Grand Secrets: A hedgewitch with the covenant tradition may select one of the following whenever they gain a grand secret:

Tradition Mastery: Use d8s instead of d6s when using your tradition power to heal, harm, or channel energy.

Green Magic

Class Skills: Knowledge (nature), Ride, Survival.

Your magic comes from communion with nature.

Tradition Benefit: You gain the wild empathy and woodland stride druid class features.

Tradition Power: You gain an animal companion, treating your hedgewitch levels as druid levels for this purpose. Your animal companion has an Intelligence of at least 6.

Tradition Secrets: A hedgewitch with the green magic tradition may select one of the following secrets whenever she gains a secret:

Tradition Grand Secrets: A hedgewitch with the green magic tradition may select one of the following whenever she gains a grand secret:

Tradition Mastery: Your animal companion gains spell resistance equal to your hedgewitch level + 11. As a full-round action, you may summon your companion to your side from anywhere, even across planes. Treat your hedgewitch level as your caster level for the purpose of this ability.

Herbology

Class Skills: Survival, Knowledge (nature), Knowledge (geography).

You study the magical nature of plant life, using herbs to harm and heal.

Tradition Benefit: You gain the Brew Potion feat as a bonus feat at 1st level and treat your hedgewitch level as your caster level when creating potions; this stacks with caster levels gained from other sources. You also never suffer a chance to poison yourself when applying poison to a weapon. This counts as possessing the poison use class feature.

Tradition Power: Your magical understanding of herbs is great enough that you may combine common herbs together and, mixing them with a little of your own magic, create a concoction. You may create concoctions a total number of times in a day equal to 3 + 1/2 your hedgewitch level. The materials required to craft a concoction are common herbs and as such are considered to have a negligible cost. Creating a concoction takes 1 minute and must be used within 1 hour or lose its potency.

Concoctions must be drunk (with the exception of herbalist’s poison) and can only affect living creatures. If a target is unwilling they are allowed a Fortitude save against a DC of 10 + 1/2 your hedgewitch level + your casting ability modifier to negate the effect.

You gain the following concoctions:

Empowering Concoction: The target gains a +2 alchemical bonus to one ability score of your choice (chosen when this concoction is created) and a -2 penalty to its inverse ability score (Strength’s inverse is Intelligence, Dexterity’s inverse is Wisdom, Charisma’s inverse is Constitution, etc.) This benefit lasts for 1 minute.

At 5th level, the target no longer suffers a penalty to their inverse ability score. At 9th level, this benefit lasts for 10 minutes. At 13th level, this benefit lasts for 1 hour. At 17th level, the benefit increases to +4.

Fortifying Concoction: The target gains a +2 alchemical bonus to one saving throw (Fortitude, Will, or Reflex) for 1 minute.

At 5th level, the target gains a +3 bonus to one saving throw. At 9th level, the benefit to their saving throw lasts 10 minutes. At 13th level, this benefit lasts 1 hour. At 17th level, the bonus applies to all saving throws.

Healing Concoction: The target is healed 1d6 hit points per 2 hedgewitch levels you possess (minimum: 1d6).

Herbalist’s poison: You may create an injury poison (Fort DC 10 + 1/2 your hedgewitch level + your casting ability modifier, frequency 1/rd. for 6 rds., 1 save, effect 1d2 damage to an ability score that is chosen when creating the poison).

At 5th level, the ability damage increases to 1d4, and you may make the poison ingested instead of injury.

At 9th level, you may make your herbalist poison inhaled or contact. In addition, you may change the effect to making the target confused for 1 round per level.

At 13th level, your poison deals 1d6 ability damage.

At 17th level, you may change the effect of your poison to making the target sleep for 1 hour. This sleep is especially heavy and is similar to the powerful sleep charm from the Mind sphere.

Tradition Secrets: A hedgewitch with the herbology tradition adds the following secrets to those she may select:

Tradition Grand Secrets: A hedgewitch with the herbology tradition may select one of the following whenever she gains a grand secret:

Tradition Mastery: At 20th level, your healing concoction always heals maximum hit points and your herbalist’s poison deals maximum damage.

Spiritualism

Class Skills: Knowledge (religion), Knowledge (history), Knowledge (local).

Your allies are not from the mortal world, and whisper secrets in your ear.

Tradition Benefit: You may make Knowledge checks untrained. Whenever you make a Knowledge check, roll twice and take the higher result.

Tradition Power: You may channel spirit allies into yourself, temporarily gaining their knowledge and experience. As a standard action, you may grant yourself the benefit of any one magic talent or combat feat you don’t possess. This effect lasts for 1 minute. You must meet all of the feat’s prerequisites, or if gaining a magic talent other than a base sphere, you must possess that talent’s base sphere. You may use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + 1/2 your hedgewitch level (minimum 1).

Multiple uses of this ability do not stack. If you use this ability again before the previous duration has expired, it replaces the previous use. If a feat has a daily use limitation (such as Stunning Fist), any uses of that combat feat while using this ability count toward that feat’s daily limit.

At 5th level, you may use this ability to gain the benefits of two combat feats or magic talents at the same time. You may select one feat or magic talent as a move action or two feats or magic talents as a standard action. You may use one of these feats or magic talents to meet a prerequisite of the second feat or magic talent; doing so means that you cannot replace a feat currently fulfilling another’s prerequisite without also replacing those feats that require it. Each individual feat or magic talent selected counts toward your daily uses of this ability.

At 9th level, you may gain the benefits of two feats or magic talents as a move action or one feat or magic talent as a swift action.

At 13th level, you may use this ability to gain the benefits of three combat feats or magic talents at the same time. You may select one feat or magic talent as a free action, two feats or magic talents as a swift action, or three feats or magic talents as a move action. You may use one of the feats or magic talents to meet a prerequisite of the second and third feats or magic talents and use the second feat or magic talent to meet a prerequisite of the third feat or magic talent. Each individual feat or magic talent selected counts toward a daily uses of this ability.

At 17th level, you may gain the benefit of one combat feat or magic talent as an immediate action or three combat feats or magic talents as a swift action. Each individual feat or magic talent selected counts toward your daily uses of this ability.

Tradition Secrets: A hedgewitch with the spiritualism tradition adds the following secrets to those she may select:

Tradition Mastery: You may channel spirit allies to gain the benefit of any number of combat feats or magic talents as a swift action. Each feat or magic talent selected counts toward your daily uses of this ability.

Secret: At 2nd level and every 2 levels thereafter, a hedgewitch learns a secret, gaining further insights into the unseen world. The hedgewitch chooses this secret from the list below, or from the tradition secret list associated with her tradition:

Grand Secrets: Beginning at 10th level, a hedgewitch may select one of the following grand secrets in place of a secret, or any grand secret from the list associated with her tradition: