playing a witch.

[schadow]

Hello to you all
My name is Ger Engelen, and resently we switched from playing runequest one to the second publishing. Now my problem is this:
One of the new members of our playing team, has chosen a witch as her profession. I have looked around in a few books about runequest but i cant find a definition of that profession, so i cant tell her how to behave in a game or what kind of magic she can use, and what her dayly work should be as a witch.
Can anyone help me with this, or is there someone who can tell me in what book i can find a dicription of playing a witch.

 

[R Arceneaux]

What does the core rule book have for a magic user similar to a Witch?

Do the core rules even allow the Witch Profession at all?

Perhaps an evil mage person whose deity is an evil deity?

 

[Greg Smith]

There is a Witch profession in Clockwork and Chivalry - it is detailed in Thou Shalt not Suffer and repeated in Divers and Sundry.

 

[doomedpc]

There is a Witch profession in Clockwork and Chivalry - it is detailed in Thou Shalt not Suffer and repeated in Divers and Sundry.

Yep! And if you don't want to play an "evil" Witch (although things are seldom as simple as that in C&C) then there is also a "Cunning Man/Wise Woman" profession to be found in the same books.

Long Live the Mainspring!
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[PhilHibbs]

The Witch profession in MRQ2 core rules can have any of the three higher magic systems and is, I think, someone who has illicit access to such magic. Sorcerors only get access to a grimoire if they are a member of a large religious order, whereas a witch with sorcery has either stolen a grimoire, been trained by a renegade, or is a member of a small coven who have somehow gotten hold of a grimoire and worked out how to use it. Like the Fox character in Crouching Tiger.

Basically, it's a magical profession with slightly less emphasis on the "organized religion" side of things.