Red witches work magic through the living pulse: blood, breath, warmth, and the stubborn will to survive. Their spells can mend wounds, mark a foe, or turn pain into force. In a fight, a red witch is a full spellcaster who trades a little raw versatility for short-rest spell recovery and ways to make magic feel intimate and consequential.
The pulse is a spell; the wound, its price.
Full caster; flexible spellcaster, emergency healer, and marked-target support.
At a glance
Hit die d6
Intelligence
ConstitutionYou gain spellcasting, Blooded Remedy, and the ability to recover some spell slots during a short rest. You learn three cantrips from the sorcerer spell list and two 1st-level spells from the wizard spell list; Cure Wounds is added to that list for you. Use the standard 2024 full-caster spell-slot progression.
When you cast a spell using a spell slot, you can take necrotic damage equal to twice the slot’s level to add your spellcasting ability modifier to one damage roll or one healing roll of that spell. This damage cannot be reduced or prevented.
Choose a Red Witch Tradition. Your tradition grants features at levels 3, 6, 10, and 14.
Ability Score Improvement
Once per turn when a creature fails a saving throw against one of your spells, you can mark it with a visible crimson sigil until the end of your next turn. The next time you or an ally hits it, the attacker deals extra necrotic damage equal to your proficiency bonus.
Your tradition grants you a feature.
You can cast Cure Wounds without expending a spell slot a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest, using a spell slot level no higher than 2nd. You can still cast it normally with spell slots.
Ability Score Improvement
When you use Red Offering, you can also gain Temporary Hit Points equal to your proficiency bonus.
Your tradition grants you a feature.
When you roll Initiative and have no uses of Blooded Remedy remaining, you regain one use.
Ability Score Improvement
When you use Blooded Remedy, choose one creature you can see within 30 feet. It gains Temporary Hit Points equal to your proficiency bonus.
Your tradition grants you a feature.
When a creature bearing your Witchmark takes damage from you or an ally, you can use your Reaction to reduce that damage by an amount equal to your spellcasting ability modifier, then deal that much necrotic damage to the marked creature. Once used, this feature recharges on a short or long rest.
Ability Score Improvement
When you use Red Offering, its extra damage or healing equals twice your spellcasting ability modifier instead of your modifier. You can use Red Offering without taking damage once per long rest.
When you roll Initiative, you regain one expended spell slot of 3rd level or lower. Once you regain a slot this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.
You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat for which you qualify. You also gain an Epic Boon feat or another feat for which you qualify.
Once per long rest, when you would drop to 0 Hit Points but aren’t killed outright, you can drop to 1 Hit Point instead and immediately cast a spell of 5th level or lower that you have prepared, without expending a spell slot. The spell must have a casting time of an action or bonus action.
IntelligenceConstitutionIntelligence
WisdomHit pointsHit Die: d6 per Red Witch level. Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier. Hit Points at Higher Levels: (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per Red Witch level after 1st.
DefensesHit Points: d6 Hit Die. Armor: Light armor.
ArmorLight armor.
WeaponsSimple weapons.
ToolsHerbalism kit. Choose two skills from Arcana, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Persuasion, and Religion.
Skill choicesArcana, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Persuasion, Religion
ResourceSpell slots, recovered at a short rest by Blooded Remedy; limited uses of Red Offering’s risk-for-power exchange.
MulticlassingPrerequisite: Intelligence 13. When you multiclass into Red Witch, you gain light armor proficiency. Spell slots follow the multiclass spellcaster rules; Blooded Remedy and Red Offering use Red Witch levels only.
Keep the living whole, whatever the cost.
Every wound has a name, and every name can be called.
Read the living future by the light of a single flame.
Red witches work magic through the living pulse: blood, breath, warmth, and the stubborn will to survive.
Their spells can mend wounds, mark a foe, or turn pain into force. In a fight, a red witch is a full spellcaster who trades a little raw versatility for short-rest spell recovery and ways to make magic feel intimate and consequential.
You play as a full caster with broad wizard-list preparation and sorcerer-list cantrips.
Use short-rest recovery to keep your spell resources active across an adventuring day, and choose carefully when Red Offering’s self-inflicted damage is worth the boost. Witchmark rewards coordination: set up an enemy for an ally’s hit, then shift between control, healing, and damage.
Red witches usually learn through apprenticeship, family tradition, or a desperate first act of magic.
Initiation may involve tending a stranger through the night, making a vow over a shared pulse, and learning to distinguish a healing cost from a needless sacrifice.
People often welcome a red witch when illness or injury strikes, then grow uneasy when they see the witch’s blood-price magic.
Some communities treat them as folk healers; others suspect curses, forbidden rites, or dangerous bargains.
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