Character Creation Challenge: Witch Challenge (Witchcraft Wednesday Edition)

The last few years I have taken on TardisCaptain's New Year, New Character challenge. But I also like to give it my own twist. This year I am going to be doing all AD&D 1st edition characters AND all witches! Wait you say, didn't I already do witches one year? Yes, I did, back in 2021. But that was for a variety of systems. This year I am focusing on the various ways to do an AD&D witch. I am going to use my notes, conversions of my other books, the various Dragon Magazine witches and other published witches. 

While I say "AD&D 1st ed" I might detour a bit into Basic and AD&D 2nd ed, but all the writeups will be for 1st edition. I am playing in a 1st edition AD&D game now so I want plenty of NPCs. Also for a lot last year I was doing something I was calling "Occult D&D." I am going to keep exploring that here as well as a bunch of notes I have had laying around that I have never fully implemented into any of my books. Or in some cases variations of rules I have used elsewhere but wanted to go back and revist. 

I also want to use this as a way to finally get some work done on my "Land of a 1000 Witches" idea that originated with the late Jason Zavoda and his "Blackmoor Land of a Thousand Witches." While his is obviously Blackmoor and Greyhawk focused, my current AD&D game is set in the Forgotten Realms. I'll figure that out later. 

My goal is to present a witch or two for each level of the day. So Jan 1 will have 1st level witches all the way to Jan 31st with a 31st level witch. They will be mostly original characters, some will be repeats that I want to revist and others will "special guest stars."

I have a ton of notes. Lots of ideas and about 40-50 character sheets ready to go.

Bring on 2026!