How to Design a D&D Character Based on Your Favorite Book Character

This one is witches in space! Mariam Xi was turned into a “voidwitch” by the organization MEPHISTO. She’s since escaped their clutches during a bloody coup, but they’ll do anything to get her back, including sending bounty hunters on her trail. It’s becoming increasingly hard for her to keep running, and she’s been betrayed by more than one person… she just needs to figure out who.

After the death of her adoptive mother, Hannah ends up living alone at the edge of a swamp in Louisiana. She’s settling into the new rhythm of her life–including falling in love with a boat captain–when her birth mother comes back into her life, a witch who is rumored to be able to commune with the dead. Soon Hannah must confront her past, the deadly spirits that share the swamp with her, and the gift that lives in her blood.

Dark and unbearably tense at times, this was one of my favorite books that came out in 2020. Immanuelle Moore lives in Bethel, a place where the Prophet’s word is law. Her mother had her with an outsider of a different race, and that has made Immanuelle and her entire family outcasts. When she is lured into the Darkwood that surrounds Bethel, a place where the Prophet supposedly killed four witches, she begins to learn the truth of Bethel, herself, and her own powers.

Samantha Mather is a descendant of Cotton Mather; when she comes to Salem from New York City, she finds herself targeted by a group of girls who are the descendants of those accused of witchcraft by her own ancestor. With that enough of a complication, she also finds out that ghosts are real when one shows up to demand she stop touching his stuff. The source of all these troubles is even more worrying–she’s caught in a curse that links everyone with ties to the Salem Witch Trials, and she has to break it if she wants to stop history from repeating itself.

Tea comes from an entire family of witches, but her abilities set her apart: she can resurrect the dead, a fact she learns when she accidentally brings her brother back to life. Her necromantic talents mean she is a bone witch, and she will find few friends from here on out… until she and her brother are taken in by an older bone witch. Tea tries to learn to wield her powers and how to work elemental magic, but dark forces are gathering and danger will soon be at her door.