Look what I got.
+Bryce Whitacre's Victorian RPG Baker Street is out to backers of the Kickstarter.
It looks great and I can't wait to try it out.
Hope to have a review up soon!
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Winding your way down on Baker Street
Mail Call today!
Look what I got.
+Bryce Whitacre's Victorian RPG Baker Street is out to backers of the Kickstarter.
It looks great and I can't wait to try it out.
Hope to have a review up soon!
Look what I got.
+Bryce Whitacre's Victorian RPG Baker Street is out to backers of the Kickstarter.
It looks great and I can't wait to try it out.
Hope to have a review up soon!
Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge: June Reviews
Lots of books this month!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
All things must end...I started my reread of the Harry Potter series with much enthusiasm and I was rewarded every step of the way. But I was dreading this one. Not because of the deaths or the loss, but because this was the end, no more Harry, no more Hogwarts, no more of the world that enchanted me and millions of others.
J.K. Rolwing is a genius. Pure and simple. While I thought some of her later books could have had a deft hand at editing I find in the end I would not want one line changed. The best thing about this book, and the last one, is you really, really get a feeling of how and why Ron and Hermione got together and why Harry and Ginny are together. The movies, as fantastic as they are, glossed over this subtle storytelling.
Every fan of fantasy needs to read these books.
Witch Count: Hundreds
Witches with the Enemy: A Novel of the Mist-Torn Witches by Barb Hendee
Book 3 of the Mist-Torn Witches series sees Céline and Amelie Fawe heading back into the land of their birth, Shetâna, to do a job for Prince Damek who once tried to have them killed.
Like the previous two books this one involves a mysterious murder, but the murders keep happening and it is soon obvious that no one is what they appear to be at all. This one grabs you from the beginning.
Hendee is great at character development and it was nice to see Céline get some much needed growth and the spotlight for a while. The previous book featured a lot of growth for Amelie. I also like that the witches may have made a terrible new enemy by the end of the book.
The potential for this series really is unlimited. I would like to see some new powers or new nuances to their powers for the sisters, but I also see no end of their troubles.
I think what I like the most about this series is that both the two main female characters and the two main male characters are allowed to be strong when they can. That is, one character or gender does not show strength at the expense of the others. They all have the potential to work as a greater team but finding their roles is the trick. In any case there is plenty of more room for future character growth and that is exactly what I want in my series reading.
While these books are set in a fantasy realm of magic, witches, ghosts and even vampires these are solidly murder mysteries. Can't wait for Book 4!
Witch Count: 3-5 (including hedge witches)
Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave
The classical Russian tale of Baba Yaga and the brave young girl Vasilisa. I actually read a couple of different versions of this tale over the month, but since they only differed by a detail here or there I am counting this as one.
Witch Count: 1
The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston
This one has all the elements I like. Welsh countryside, ancient witchcraft, new you witch coming into her power. It just didn't grab me like I thought it would. Now by the end of the book things had gotten better. I liked the character Morgana and I liked how her magic worked. The author is quite good really, I just found the pace a bit slow for my liking. I think if I had not just come down from my Harry Potter fueled high I might have enjoyed this one a lot more.
Witch Count: 3
Books read: 18
Current Level: Crone, Read 16 – 20 Witchy Books
Monday, June 29, 2015
New Tradition: Daughters of Baba Yaga
This tradition is based on my Family Tradition found in my Basic Era Witch book and on the Daughter of Baba Yaga Prestige class.
One such Daughter was Elena the Fair.
Section 15: Daughters of Baba Yaga, Copyright 2015, Timothy. S. Brannan.
OGC Declaration: The following content is considered Open Content for term of the OGL.
New Tradition: Daughters of Baba Yaga
There is an ancient tradition among young witches to seek out the Great Crone Baba Yaga to learn arcane secrets known to no one else. The vast majority of witches never find her mysterious hut. Those that do are often killed and eaten for their impropriety and presumption. But a few, a very few, find the ancient hag and she sees something of worth or value in the witch. These witches go on become quite powerful in their own right. They are known as the Daughters of Baba Yaga.
Daughters of Baba Yaga must join this tradition as young girls. Baba Yaga molds their learning and provides the access to her great lore of spells and arcane knowledge. In many ways Baba Yaga is their Patron.
Role: These witches often become some of the smartest, cleverest and dangerous witches in the land.
Joining this Tradition: Only young girls may join. Typically they are very clever (Intelligence of 14 or higher) and often have some form of family tragedy, such as mother who died while she was young.
Daughters of Baba Yaga will meet when they are together in their fosterage, but rarely afterwards. They do recognize each other on sight regardless when they were fostered. There is something about the aura of someone that was taught magic under the cruel Baba Yaga.
Daughters for the most part are neutral, with some gravitating towards chaotic
Leaving this Tradition: There is no leaving this Tradition. Once you have been tutored by the Crone you can not give that back.
Arcane Diversity: Starting at 2nd level, the Daughters of Baba Yaga can learn any one 1st level Wizard/Magic User spell that is not on witch spell list. This spell is treated as if it were one of her witch ritual spells. Every other level after this the witch may learn a 2nd level spell at 4th level, a 3rd at 6th level and so on till 8th level spells are learned (16th level witch).
These spells are cast as rituals and will require ritual implements but do not require other witches.
Occult Powers
Minor: 1st Level: Familiar. The daughter will gain a familiar that appears to be normal, if somewhat "worn" animal. Common familiar's have been a tiny mouse, a scrawny cat, a brow beaten dog, even a thin cow in one case. Particularily evil Daughters may be granted a demonling.
Lesser: 7th Level: Kitchen Witchery. The Daughter of Baba Yaga can brew simple potions based on any spell she can cast. The spells can be kept fresh in potion form for a number of days equal to her level. Spells that affect the self must be drunk or rubbed onto the skin. Spells that affect others must be splashed, rubbed or forced to drink.
Medial: 13th Level: Detect Bloodline. At 13th level, the witch is granted the ability to detect bloodlines of all types, and able to track the target’s history one generation per level. Essentially, this ability allows the witch to practically smell if someone is related or not, by supernaturally detecting tiny familial features within people. This can include royalty, inherited (but not contagious) lycanthropy and the creature’s true race. This ability might also provide a bonus against those trying to disguise themselves (say, a half-elf posing as a human, or someone disguising themselves as royalty).
The witch must be within 10 feet of a person to detect their bloodline. The Daughter of Baba Yaga can also detect undead with this ability.
The Witch also gains an insight into the target’s personality. For each round assessing the target’s bloodline, the Daughter of Baba Yaga can determine one of the following: One aspect of the character’s alignment (chaotic, lawful, or neutral), hit dice, age or personality.
For each round studying the character’s personality, the Daughter of Baba Yaga gains a +1 bonus to sense motive checks against the target.
The Daughter of Baba Yaga cannot examine the target’s personality whose level/hit dice are greater than her witch level.
Greater: 19th Level: Curse. The Daughter of Baba Yaga can place a powerful Curse on not just a single creature, but an entire bloodline. She can only do this once per day (for a single creature) or once per month on an entire family. The curse can be of any sort, but usually the curse will bestow a -4 to all to-hit rolls and -2 to any saving throws. Other curses may be allowed, such as the Bestow Curse spell. Witch curses are quite powerful and require the use of two (2) remove curse spells to be fully removed.
A Daughter of Baba Yaga may release a person from a curse placed by another Daughter without the use of spells. The witch will know how to remove the curse intuitively.
Note: Some good witches prefer to give a Boon instead of a curse.
Major: 25th Level: Shape Change. Once per day, the witch may change her shape to any type of natural animal indigenous to her area, as per the spell Shape Change. For 1 turn per level, the witch may move freely back and forth between her animal and human forms. Once the form is chosen though, that is the only form she can use for the day. So, a witch may choose to change between the forms of human and fox, but cannot go between fox, human and bird. Once the duration has expired, the witch reverts back to human form.
Superior: 31st Level: Longevity. The witch stops aging. Her appearance will continue to age but her body and mind will stay the same age she was when she reached this level. She is also no longer affected by magical aging. She can still be killed by normal means.
Special Restrictions: Only women may join this tradition. Once joining the new witch must take an Oath of Fosterage. The Oath of Fosterage must be taken when Baba Yaga first considers to take on the potential daughter. Baba Yaga will often demand some sort task or quest from the witch. The task will be one that is difficult and require cleverness to complete. For example asking her to fetch water from a well but only give her a sieve to collect the water.
Once the Oath is made the Daughter cannot attack or harm in any way any other Daughter or Baba Yaga despite their alignment. All Daughters, despite when they were fostered will know each other on sight.
Equipment: None required.
The ritual tool of the Daughter is a mortar and pestle, to honor their "Grandmother". It is used much like a wand or athame is. They are also most likely to use a besom (broom) in place of a staff.
Preferred/Barred Covens: None. Daughters are typically solitaries.
Relationship to the Goddess/Patron: For all purposes the Patron of these witch is Baba Yaga herself.
Source/Views of Magic: Magic comes from wrestling the secrets of the world from those that keep them. These secrets often come from primordial spirits of nature, demon lords, heralds of the heavens and nearly forgotten fae.
Wealth: Daughters are all typically rather poor. They start with half the amount of gold typical for a 1st level witch.
One such Daughter was Elena the Fair.
Section 15: Daughters of Baba Yaga, Copyright 2015, Timothy. S. Brannan.
OGC Declaration: The following content is considered Open Content for term of the OGL.
New Tradition: Daughters of Baba Yaga
Role: These witches often become some of the smartest, cleverest and dangerous witches in the land.
Joining this Tradition: Only young girls may join. Typically they are very clever (Intelligence of 14 or higher) and often have some form of family tragedy, such as mother who died while she was young.
Daughters of Baba Yaga will meet when they are together in their fosterage, but rarely afterwards. They do recognize each other on sight regardless when they were fostered. There is something about the aura of someone that was taught magic under the cruel Baba Yaga.
Daughters for the most part are neutral, with some gravitating towards chaotic
Leaving this Tradition: There is no leaving this Tradition. Once you have been tutored by the Crone you can not give that back.
Arcane Diversity: Starting at 2nd level, the Daughters of Baba Yaga can learn any one 1st level Wizard/Magic User spell that is not on witch spell list. This spell is treated as if it were one of her witch ritual spells. Every other level after this the witch may learn a 2nd level spell at 4th level, a 3rd at 6th level and so on till 8th level spells are learned (16th level witch).
These spells are cast as rituals and will require ritual implements but do not require other witches.
Occult Powers
Minor: 1st Level: Familiar. The daughter will gain a familiar that appears to be normal, if somewhat "worn" animal. Common familiar's have been a tiny mouse, a scrawny cat, a brow beaten dog, even a thin cow in one case. Particularily evil Daughters may be granted a demonling.
Lesser: 7th Level: Kitchen Witchery. The Daughter of Baba Yaga can brew simple potions based on any spell she can cast. The spells can be kept fresh in potion form for a number of days equal to her level. Spells that affect the self must be drunk or rubbed onto the skin. Spells that affect others must be splashed, rubbed or forced to drink.
Medial: 13th Level: Detect Bloodline. At 13th level, the witch is granted the ability to detect bloodlines of all types, and able to track the target’s history one generation per level. Essentially, this ability allows the witch to practically smell if someone is related or not, by supernaturally detecting tiny familial features within people. This can include royalty, inherited (but not contagious) lycanthropy and the creature’s true race. This ability might also provide a bonus against those trying to disguise themselves (say, a half-elf posing as a human, or someone disguising themselves as royalty).
The witch must be within 10 feet of a person to detect their bloodline. The Daughter of Baba Yaga can also detect undead with this ability.
The Witch also gains an insight into the target’s personality. For each round assessing the target’s bloodline, the Daughter of Baba Yaga can determine one of the following: One aspect of the character’s alignment (chaotic, lawful, or neutral), hit dice, age or personality.
For each round studying the character’s personality, the Daughter of Baba Yaga gains a +1 bonus to sense motive checks against the target.
The Daughter of Baba Yaga cannot examine the target’s personality whose level/hit dice are greater than her witch level.
Greater: 19th Level: Curse. The Daughter of Baba Yaga can place a powerful Curse on not just a single creature, but an entire bloodline. She can only do this once per day (for a single creature) or once per month on an entire family. The curse can be of any sort, but usually the curse will bestow a -4 to all to-hit rolls and -2 to any saving throws. Other curses may be allowed, such as the Bestow Curse spell. Witch curses are quite powerful and require the use of two (2) remove curse spells to be fully removed.
A Daughter of Baba Yaga may release a person from a curse placed by another Daughter without the use of spells. The witch will know how to remove the curse intuitively.
Note: Some good witches prefer to give a Boon instead of a curse.
Major: 25th Level: Shape Change. Once per day, the witch may change her shape to any type of natural animal indigenous to her area, as per the spell Shape Change. For 1 turn per level, the witch may move freely back and forth between her animal and human forms. Once the form is chosen though, that is the only form she can use for the day. So, a witch may choose to change between the forms of human and fox, but cannot go between fox, human and bird. Once the duration has expired, the witch reverts back to human form.
Superior: 31st Level: Longevity. The witch stops aging. Her appearance will continue to age but her body and mind will stay the same age she was when she reached this level. She is also no longer affected by magical aging. She can still be killed by normal means.
Special Restrictions: Only women may join this tradition. Once joining the new witch must take an Oath of Fosterage. The Oath of Fosterage must be taken when Baba Yaga first considers to take on the potential daughter. Baba Yaga will often demand some sort task or quest from the witch. The task will be one that is difficult and require cleverness to complete. For example asking her to fetch water from a well but only give her a sieve to collect the water.
Once the Oath is made the Daughter cannot attack or harm in any way any other Daughter or Baba Yaga despite their alignment. All Daughters, despite when they were fostered will know each other on sight.
Equipment: None required.
The ritual tool of the Daughter is a mortar and pestle, to honor their "Grandmother". It is used much like a wand or athame is. They are also most likely to use a besom (broom) in place of a staff.
Preferred/Barred Covens: None. Daughters are typically solitaries.
Relationship to the Goddess/Patron: For all purposes the Patron of these witch is Baba Yaga herself.
Source/Views of Magic: Magic comes from wrestling the secrets of the world from those that keep them. These secrets often come from primordial spirits of nature, demon lords, heralds of the heavens and nearly forgotten fae.
Wealth: Daughters are all typically rather poor. They start with half the amount of gold typical for a 1st level witch.
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Zatannurday: Lord Ingvard redesigns
I posted the Red Sonja and Wonder Woman ones already.
Generally speaking I like the changes and can see them working. Though I will admit I am not sure he knows much about the history of the all characters he is talking about (he does have a good grip on Ms./Captain Marvel I will give him that).
http://lordingvard.tumblr.com/
http://www.ingvard.com
Let's look at his Zatanna.
ETA: Here is the image
He gets a few things right and a few wrong. Now mind you. This is *his* version and by default that means it is right for him. But I also ask how much can you change a character and still have it be the same character?
Ok so the punk style hair do, I love it. Black hair with streaks of purple (or blue) would be a great look for a younger Zee. I can totally see her looking like this while she was working on her undergrad degree.
The coat is very reminiscent of Constantine's trench coat. So this could even be early in her relationship with him.
I like the striped pants she is wearing; a nice call back to the striped socks you will sometimes see witched wear.
The choker necklace is cool, if a bit predictable.
I really, really love the look of this character. It is cool, hip and I want to know more about her.
I can't help but wonder though...don't we already have a Raven and a Traci 13?
There is a reason for her look.
Zee dresses the way she does because that was how her dad dressed when he was on stage. She dresses like an old school magician because her dad was an old school magician. So the top hat, the fishnets are all apart of what her stage persona is. She might be the most powerful magician on Earth, but in her mind she will never be as good as her dad was.
Now, not to sound like "that guy" but I do wish he had done some research into these characters.
The part where he mentions "changing the color of the spandex" on Zee's art shows he really doesn't know much about these characters. Zee has one of the more recognizable looks of any superhero, male or female. The only hero she looks like is the one that in character she wants to look like; her dad.
Oh and the bit about modern magicians not dressing like this anymore? Two words. Misty Lee.
So I like the vision of his changes, but not for the reasons he gives.
In the end though I will agree with Zee herself. Her costume is fine as it is.
Friday, June 26, 2015
Friday Night Videos: The Sword
Tonight I want to focus on just one band, but one that I really identify with the entire OSR and nostalgia D&D movement.
The Sword hit my awareness in 2008 or so with their album "Gods of this Earth". Right around the same time this blog got going.
Like the retro-D&D/OSR/Nostalgia movement The Sword was a new thing that sounded like an old thing from the 70s. In this case a band that had a similar vibe to Slayer to sound like Black Sabbath. In any case it worked.
Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians was the first single from "Gods of the Earth". It sounds old school and the video is something right out of Ralph Bakshi. The biggest influence is obviously Bakshi's Wizards. Confession time. I am not a fan of Wizards. Never saw the appeal. I also don't care for rotoscoping.
If any song captures this retro-feel of The Sword the best it's How Heavy This Axe. The video even looks like something filmed the same day Black Sabbath filmed Paranoid or Iron Man. Plus this was also the theme song to +Zak Smith and gang's "I Hit it with My Axe". That gives it OSR street cred right there. Or it gave them cred. Not sure which.
What can I honestly say about Maiden Mother Crone?
Well for starters it is easily my favorite song from The Sword. Plus there are great allusions to Pagan myths and witchcraft. In true heavy metal cliche fashion it has a "mystical orb" at the end (3:30 mark). I am sure that was done completely tongue in cheek. But still it's pretty awesome.
I listened to this a lot when working on The Witch.
Tres Brujas or "Three Witches" came along later. It mixes in elements of Westerns, sci-fi, witchcraft (again) and Kung-fu (the TV show). So yeah...sounds a bit like the AD&D DMG.
Veil of Isis is a newer song. The video reminds me a bit of some of the videos of the later 80s, before Grunge took over. Still it's a pretty cool song.
You can find The Sword on the web at http://theswordofficial.com/
Kickstart your Weekend: Blue Rose for the AGE System
Green Ronin has Kickstarted the newest edition of their groundbreaking game, Blue Rose for their in house AGE Adventure Gaming Engine.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/504269797/blue-rose-the-age-roleplaying-game-of-romantic-fan
I have not played much with AGE to be honest. I have the first two Dragon Age sets and they look like fun. I like the system, but it is one of those things I have not found an audience for.
I will pick this one up. I really want to see what they add new to it.
I might even play the AGE system or back-convert it to True20.
In any case I am quite looking forward to this.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/504269797/blue-rose-the-age-roleplaying-game-of-romantic-fan
I have not played much with AGE to be honest. I have the first two Dragon Age sets and they look like fun. I like the system, but it is one of those things I have not found an audience for.
I will pick this one up. I really want to see what they add new to it.
I might even play the AGE system or back-convert it to True20.
In any case I am quite looking forward to this.
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Prestige Class: Daughter of Baba Yaga
There is an ancient tradition among witches to seek out the Great Crone Baba Yaga to learn arcane secrets known to no one else. The vast majority of witches never find her mysterious hut. Those that do are often killed and eaten for their impropriety and presumption. But a few, a very few, find the ancient hag and she sees something of worth or value in the witch. These witches go on become quite powerful in their own right. They are known as the Daughters of Baba Yaga.
Section 15: Daughter of Baba Yaga, Copyright 2015, Timothy. S. Brannan.
OGC Declaration: The following content is considered Open Content for term of the OGL.
Daughter of Baba Yaga
The Daughters of Baba Yaga (DoBY) are a varied lot but all share a desire to learn more arcane secrets and in particular secrets of witchcraft. Witches are the most common of her daughters, but sometimes an occasional wizard or sorcerer will also seek her out.
Hit Dice: d4
Requirements
To qualify as a Daughter of Baba Yaga, a character must fulfill all of the following criteria.
Knowledge (History): 9 Ranks
Knowledge (Arcana): 7 Ranks
Feats: Iron Will
Spell casting: Ability to cast arcane spells
Special: Female only; Oath of Fosterage*
The Oath of Fosterage must be taken when Baba Yaga first considers to take on the potential daughter. Baba Yaga will often demand some sort task or quest from the witch. The task will be one that is difficult and require cleverness to complete. For example asking her to fetch water from a well but only give her a sieve to collect the water.
Once the Oath is made the Daughter cannot attack or harm in any way any other Daughter or Baba Yaga despite their alignment. All Daughters, despite when they were fostered will know each other on sight.
Alignment: Any (usually any non-evil)
Class Skills
(2 + Int modifier per level): Bluff, Climb, Concentration, Craft (any), Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (history), Knowledge (nature), Profession (any), Spellcraft, Survival, and Swim.
Class Features
All of the following are class features of the Daughter of Baba Yaga prestige class.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: The Daughter of Baba Yaga gains no additional weapon or armor proficiencies
Spells per Day: The character’s caster level increases when a Daughter of Baba Yaga level is gained if she had also gained a level in a previous class that allows them to qualify for this class.
This affects her spells per day and spells known, as if they had gained a level, but she does not gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained. If a character had more than one qualifying class before becoming a Daughter of Baba Yaga, she must decide to which class she adds the new level for purposes of determining spells per day and caster level.
Daughters continue to use whatever Arcane spell lists they used before becoming a Daughter of Baba Yaga. Daughters also continue to use what ever spell casting ability she had been using before becoming a Daughter.
Poison Resistance (Su): Daughters are exposed to a number of noxious potions, poultices and herbals and even poisons. This exposure builds up over time till the witch gains a +5 to any posin based saving throws.
Arcane Diversity (Sp): Starting at 2nd level, the Daughter of Baba Yaga can learn any 1st level Arcane spell that is not on her typical list. So if she begins as a witch she can choose a 1st level spell from the Wizard/Sorcerer, Bard or Magus lists. At 4th level she can choose a 2nd level spell and so on. The spell will use same spell casting ability she uses for all her spells.
Hex (Sp): The Daughter may choose a Hex from the Witches list of hexes. If she previously met the requirements for higher level hexes she may choose from those lists as well.
Kitchen Witchery (Sp): The Daughter may substitute any spell of 1st to 3rd level with an Alchemical Extract of the same level. The Daughter may replace 1 spell of every level, 1st to 3rd, in this manner. The Daughter though is not an alchemist by training so once a spell is replaced in this way the choice is permanent.
At 9th level the Daughter can choose Alchemical Extracts of 4th to 6th level. She may replace one spell each of levels 4th to 6th.
Table Daughter of Baba Yaga Progression
Section 15: Daughter of Baba Yaga, Copyright 2015, Timothy. S. Brannan.
OGC Declaration: The following content is considered Open Content for term of the OGL.
Daughter of Baba Yaga
Hit Dice: d4
Requirements
To qualify as a Daughter of Baba Yaga, a character must fulfill all of the following criteria.
Knowledge (History): 9 Ranks
Knowledge (Arcana): 7 Ranks
Feats: Iron Will
Spell casting: Ability to cast arcane spells
Special: Female only; Oath of Fosterage*
The Oath of Fosterage must be taken when Baba Yaga first considers to take on the potential daughter. Baba Yaga will often demand some sort task or quest from the witch. The task will be one that is difficult and require cleverness to complete. For example asking her to fetch water from a well but only give her a sieve to collect the water.
Once the Oath is made the Daughter cannot attack or harm in any way any other Daughter or Baba Yaga despite their alignment. All Daughters, despite when they were fostered will know each other on sight.
Alignment: Any (usually any non-evil)
Class Skills
(2 + Int modifier per level): Bluff, Climb, Concentration, Craft (any), Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (history), Knowledge (nature), Profession (any), Spellcraft, Survival, and Swim.
Class Features
All of the following are class features of the Daughter of Baba Yaga prestige class.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: The Daughter of Baba Yaga gains no additional weapon or armor proficiencies
Spells per Day: The character’s caster level increases when a Daughter of Baba Yaga level is gained if she had also gained a level in a previous class that allows them to qualify for this class.
This affects her spells per day and spells known, as if they had gained a level, but she does not gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained. If a character had more than one qualifying class before becoming a Daughter of Baba Yaga, she must decide to which class she adds the new level for purposes of determining spells per day and caster level.
Daughters continue to use whatever Arcane spell lists they used before becoming a Daughter of Baba Yaga. Daughters also continue to use what ever spell casting ability she had been using before becoming a Daughter.
Poison Resistance (Su): Daughters are exposed to a number of noxious potions, poultices and herbals and even poisons. This exposure builds up over time till the witch gains a +5 to any posin based saving throws.
Arcane Diversity (Sp): Starting at 2nd level, the Daughter of Baba Yaga can learn any 1st level Arcane spell that is not on her typical list. So if she begins as a witch she can choose a 1st level spell from the Wizard/Sorcerer, Bard or Magus lists. At 4th level she can choose a 2nd level spell and so on. The spell will use same spell casting ability she uses for all her spells.
Hex (Sp): The Daughter may choose a Hex from the Witches list of hexes. If she previously met the requirements for higher level hexes she may choose from those lists as well.
Kitchen Witchery (Sp): The Daughter may substitute any spell of 1st to 3rd level with an Alchemical Extract of the same level. The Daughter may replace 1 spell of every level, 1st to 3rd, in this manner. The Daughter though is not an alchemist by training so once a spell is replaced in this way the choice is permanent.
At 9th level the Daughter can choose Alchemical Extracts of 4th to 6th level. She may replace one spell each of levels 4th to 6th.
Table Daughter of Baba Yaga Progression
| Class Level | Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special | Spells per Day |
| 1st | +1 | +2 | +2 | +0 | Oath, Poison Resistance | +1 level of existing class |
| 2nd | +1 | +3 | +3 | +1 | Arcane Diversity, 1st level | +1 level of existing class |
| 3rd | +2 | +3 | +3 | +1 | Hex | +1 level of existing class |
| 4th | +2 | +4 | +4 | +2 | Arcane Diversity, 2nd level | +1 level of existing class |
| 5th | +3 | +4 | +4 | +2 | Kitchen Witchery, 1 | +1 level of existing class |
| 6th | +3 | +5 | +5 | +3 | Arcane Diversity, 3rd level | +1 level of existing class |
| 7th | +4 | +5 | +5 | +3 | Hex | +1 level of existing class |
| 8th | +4 | +6 | +6 | +3 | Arcane Diversity, 4th level | +1 level of existing class |
| 9th | +5 | +6 | +6 | +4 | Kitchen Witchery, 2 | +1 level of existing class |
| 10th | +5 | +7 | +7 | +4 | Arcane Diversity, 5th level | +1 level of existing class |
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