Ancestral Witch: 5e Player Character Race / Ancestry

Witching ain’t like wizarding. Any bookworm can become a wizard with enough dull, pedantic persistence. But a witch ain’t something you become. Witchcraft ain’t something you do. Witchery is something you are.

—Hexen Jax, Grand Witch of the Lavender Hills

In some worlds, witches are not quite human. The gift (or curse) of witchcraft runs in families, stemming from an ancient supernatural ancestry. These witches inherit their powers through an innate magical sense of the connectedness of all things.

This is a player character ancestry for 5e. The Ancestral Witch is a high-Wisdom character option. They have a special trait that allows them to draw on their preternatural sense of connections to swap any other ability modifier with their Wisdom modifier for a limited time.

Made for Witch Jam.

Cover image by Harry Whitney McVickar (1860–1905), from a weird book that mashes up the opera Iolanthe and a love letter to the Chicago & Alton Railroad.