[DF] Idea for the Witch as a monster type

[Dwarf99]

I'd probably take Restricted Diet: Boiled Children and a limitation on Unaging and Appearance set to the same negative percentage as the Restricted Diet point break.

[Dwarf99]

Although I realize that probably won't help much if you're not doing it by points.

[The Colonel]

As a monster, you are probably looking at both the Crone archetype, and the Hag - which are often conflated as both being similar in appearance to ugly old women ... of course, the hag is an anthrophagous monster (viz. Jenny Greenteeth, Black Annis), possibly with fae connections, that just happens to look human rather than a transformed human. Unless, of course, you decide that that's precisely where hags come from: evil female magicians that have sacrificed a lot of their humanity to become an immortal monster.

And then we get Baba Yaga knock-offs. And Baba Yaga is another scale of entity altogether - possibly the relic of a pagan deity, as much as a witch or hag.

[Anders]

Lots Afflictions of various kinds.

[Astromancer]

Find a copy of Fables. Read Frau Totenkinder's storyline. That should give anyone lots of ideas for deadly but complex witches.

[The Colonel]

Originally Posted by Astromancer

Find a copy of Fables. Read Frau Totenkinder's storyline. That should give anyone lots of ideas for deadly but complex witches.

Specifically you want the prequel collection 1001 Nights of Snowfall.

[b-dog]

The idea was to have a magic user that has escaped death but is different than the lich. The lich is undead while the witch is still unnaturally alive. She needs life to sustain herself. The witch is just a different path to immortality that a magic user can follow.