Basic Lesson: Twist of Fate

Frequency: Once per hour

Trigger: You or an ally within 30 feet fails a check (attack roll, saving throw, or skill check).

Effect: You twist fate slightly in the target’s favor. Roll a Spellcasting Check against a Level-Based DC. Resolve the effect based on the degree of success.

• Critical Success: Roll 2d6 and add the higher result to the failed check.
• Success: Roll 1d6 and add the result to the failed check.
• Failure: Roll 1d4 and add the result.
• If the check fails by more than 5, you gain 1 level of taint.
• Critical Failure: Fate twists against you. The target takes a –1 penalty on their next d20 roll, and you gain 1 level of taint.

Hex: Foresight Glimpse

You grant a creature a brief glimpse of the future. The target gains a +1 status bonus to its next saving throw, attack roll, or skill check made within 1 minute. Once the target uses this bonus, the effect ends. This hex can only affect a creature once per hour.

Spell: Augury

You receive an omen from the Fates about the results of a particular course of action. The answer typically reveals whether the action will result in good or bad outcomes, as determined by the GM (as the spell of the same name).

Greater Lesson: Weave Protection

Frequency: Once per day

Trigger: You or an ally within 30 feet is hit by an attack or critically fails a saving throw.

Effect: The Fates momentarily shield the target. Roll a Spellcasting Check against a Level-Based DC. Resolve the effect based on the degree of success.

• Critical Success: The triggering attack deals no damage, and the target gains a +2 status bonus to AC until the end of their next turn.
• Success: The triggering attack deals only 1 damage, as described.
• Failure: The triggering attack deals half damage instead of 1 damage. If the check fails by more than 5, you gain 1 level of taint.
• Critical Failure: The Fates falter. The triggering attack deals full damage, and you gain 1 level of taint.

Hex: Threads of Time

You briefly weave time in your favor. Choose one creature within 60 feet. That creature can immediately take a Step or Stride action as a free action. Alternatively, you can use this hex to delay a creature’s action by 1 round, preventing them from acting until the start of their next turn. This hex can only be used on a creature once per hour.

Spell: Haste

You speed up time for an ally, granting them an additional action each round to use for Stride or Strike (as the spell of the same name).

Major Lesson: Boon of the Fates

Frequency: Once per week

Effect: You call upon the Fates to intervene directly. Roll a Spellcasting Check against a Level-Based DC. Resolve the effect based on the degree of success.

• Critical Success: Roll 1d6 for the duration (in rounds) of each effect: Evade Death, Fate’s Blessing, and Resist Harm. Share this number with the PCs.
• Success: Secretly roll 1d4 for the duration (in rounds) of each effect.
• Failure: Secretly roll 1d2 for the duration (in rounds) of each effect. If the check fails by more than 5, you gain 1 level of taint.
• Critical Failure: The Boon backfires. Allies gain no benefits, enemies gain a +2 status bonus to attack and damage rolls against you for 1 round, and you gain 1 level of taint.

Evade Death: No affected creature can die during this time. If they would be reduced to 0 HP, they instead remain at 1 HP.

Fate’s Blessing: Each affected creature gains a +2 status bonus to attack rolls, skill checks, and saving throws.

Resist Harm: Each affected creature takes only 1 damage from any successful attack during this time.

Hex: Prophetic Glimpse

You grant an ally a brief vision of the future. They gain a +2 status bonus to their AC or saving throws against the next attack or harmful effect that targets them. If they succeed at their defense, they can immediately take an action to Strike or Stride as a reaction.

Spell: Time Stop

You momentarily halt time, allowing you to take several actions in rapid succession while others are frozen in place (as the spell of the same name).

Axiomatic Taint

When a witch gains taint, roll on the following table to determine the specific effect. Taint represents a disruption in the witch’s connection to fate caused by chaotic magic or unintended consequences of invoking the Fates.

Clearing Taint

Taint can be removed by completing a quest or performing a ritual assigned by the Fates. Additionally, spending a day in meditation and succeeding at a Will save of your Class DC removes 1 level of taint.

Severe Taint

If you accumulate 3 levels of taint without cleansing it, you lose access to your patron’s lessons until you atone through a major quest or dangerous ritual (determined by the GM).