A Witch for WHAT

Warrior Heroes Adventures in Talomir (WHAT) is perhaps my favorite RPG, due to its ease of play for solo adventures. Of course, in any game, there are some tradeoffs between ease of play and detail. WHAT from Two Hour Wargames, is very much like Old School RPGs in that there is only one class for magic users – the Caster class.

BUT what if you want to use classes from the more detailed (some would say more bloated) RPGs such as Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder? These games have multiple classes of magic users: wizards, sorcerers, druids, and witches just to name a few. Can you add these classes to your WHAT games without drastically slowing down game play?

You don’t want to make the witch too powerful (otherwise the min/max gamer boys will want to play a witch character), you just want to make her a little different from other casters without adding a lot of superfluous rules. The main thing which differentiates the witch from other casters is her reliance on her familiar. So, we can use the familiar to manipulate the Magic Power Dice pool without making any rules affecting the flow of the game. Here’s the Witch’s Familiar Attribute:

Witch’s Familiar – At the beginning of an encounter, having a familiar adds 1 die to the Magic Power dice pool. The first time a witch receives an Out of the Fight result, she loses her familiar instead. Losing a familiar results in the loss of 1/2D6 dice from the Magic Power dice pool.

Let me know if you have expanded the number of classes in WHAT, and if it gave you a satisfactory game.

In the meantime, I painted a witch for October, since I didn’t have any orcs to paint this month. She’s a metal Reaper Miniature, but I think she is also available in their Bones plastic line. Everything except the skin & hair was painted using Cuttlefish Colors. The skin and hair were painted with paints from Reaper and Vallejo. (I don’t own the Cuttlefish skin tones and am too lazy to mix paint when I have other paints available.)

Figures for most games only take a few hours to paint. Character models such as this one can take much longer to paint. I know I could have worked on the details longer, but after nearly a week, I called her done.

And as always, your comments, suggestions, and lavish gifts are always appreciated. However, I no longer entertain requests for marriage or long-term relationships. And please, please, don’t vote Republican.