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Portrayal of witches and witchcraft in older D&D and OSR?

Started by RNGm, April 25, 2025, 10:55:15 AM

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Chris24601

In D&D terms I'd be more inclined to make Witches (and Warlocks) not be linked to arcane casting at all, but rather the names are a pejorative for Clerics of an evil deity (sorta like Blackguard sometimes is for the Anti-Paladin).

Mishihari

There was a Dragon magazine, I think it might have been #80, that was a feature on witches and witchcraft.  Sadly my collection is mostly boxed up so I can't verify that right now.  I recall that I thought it was a pretty good representation of literature witches translated to D&D terms.

BoxCrayonTales

The conceptual space for witches is already split among wizards, sorcerers, druids, and warlocks.