Wizard Class Details
Clad in the silver robes that denote her station, an elf closes her eyes to shut out the distractions of the battlefield and begins her quiet chant. Fingers weaving in front of her, she completes her spell and launches a tiny bead of fire toward the enemy ranks, where it erupts into a conflagration that engulfs the soldiers.
Checking and rechecking his work, a human scribes an intricate magic circle in chalk on the bare stone floor, then sprinkles powdered iron along every line and graceful curve. When the circle is complete, he drones a long incantation. A hole opens in space inside the circle, bringing a whiff of brimstone from the otherworldly plane beyond.
Crouching on the floor in a dungeon intersection, a gnome tosses a handful of small bones inscribed with mystic symbols, muttering a few words of power over them. Closing his eyes to see the visions more clearly, he nods slowly, then opens his eyes and points down the passage to his left.
Wizards are supreme magic-users, defined and united as a class by the spells they cast. Drawing on the subtle weave of magic that permeates the cosmos, wizards cast spells of explosive fire, arcing lightning, subtle deception, and brute-force mind control. Their magic conjures monsters from other planes of existence, glimpses the future, or turns slain foes into zombies. Their mightiest spells change one substance into another, call meteors down from the sky, or open portals to other worlds.
Scholars of the Arcane
Wild and enigmatic, varied in form and function, the power of magic draws students who seek to master its mysteries. Some aspire to become like the gods, shaping reality itself. Though the casting of a typical spell requires merely the utterance of a few strange words, fleeting gestures, and sometimes a pinch or clump of exotic materials, these surface components barely hint at the expertise attained after years of apprenticeship and countless hours of study.
Wizards live and die by their spells. Everything else is secondary. They learn new spells as they experiment and grow in experience. They can also learn them from other wizards, from ancient tomes or inscriptions, and from ancient creatures (such as the fey) that are steeped in magic.
The Lure of Knowledge
Wizards’ lives are seldom mundane. The closest a wizard is likely to come to an ordinary life is working as a sage or lecturer in a library or university, teaching others the secrets of the multiverse. Other wizards sell their services as diviners, serve in military forces, or pursue lives of crime or domination.
But the lure of knowledge and power calls even the most unadventurous wizards out of the safety of their libraries and laboratories and into crumbling ruins and lost cities. Most wizards believe that their counterparts in ancient civilizations knew secrets of magic that have been lost to the ages, and discovering those secrets could unlock the path to a power greater than any magic available in the present age.
Creating a Wizard
Creating a wizard character demands a backstory dominated by at least one extraordinary event. How did your character first come into contact with magic? How did you discover you had an aptitude for it? Do you have a natural talent, or did you simply study hard and practice incessantly? Did you encounter a magical creature or an ancient tome that taught you the basics of magic?
What drew you forth from your life of study? Did your first taste of magical knowledge leave you hungry for more? Have you received word of a secret repository of knowledge not yet plundered by any other wizard? Perhaps you’re simply eager to put your newfound magical skills to the test in the face of danger.
QUICK BUILD
You can make a wizard quickly by following these suggestions. First, Intelligence should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution or Dexterity. If you plan to join the School of Enchantment, make Charisma your next-best score. Second, choose the sage background. Third, choose the mage hand, light, and ray of frost cantrips, along with the following 1st-level spells for your spellbook: burning hands, charm person, feather fall, mage armor, magic missile, and sleep.
The Wizard Table
Level |
Proficiency |
Features |
Cantrips |
—Spell Slots per Spell Level— |
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1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
5th |
6th |
7th |
8th |
9th |
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1st |
+2 |
3 |
2 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
|
2nd |
+2 |
3 |
3 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
|
3rd |
+2 |
— |
3 |
4 |
2 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
4th |
+2 |
4 |
4 |
3 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
|
5th |
+3 |
— |
4 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
6th |
+3 |
4 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
|
7th |
+3 |
— |
4 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
8th |
+3 |
4 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
|
9th |
+4 |
— |
4 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
10th |
+4 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
|
11th |
+4 |
— |
5 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
— |
— |
— |
12th |
+4 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
— |
— |
— |
|
13th |
+5 |
— |
5 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
— |
— |
14th |
+5 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
— |
— |
|
15th |
+5 |
— |
5 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
— |
16th |
+5 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
— |
|
17th |
+6 |
— |
5 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
18th |
+6 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
19th |
+6 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
20th |
+6 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
Class Features
As a wizard, you gain the following class features.
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d6 per wizard level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per wizard level after 1st
Proficiencies
Armor: None
Weapons: Daggers, darts, slings, quarterstaffs, light crossbows
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
Skills: Choose two from Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, and Religion
Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
- (a) a quarterstaff or (b) a dagger
- (a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus
- (a) a scholar’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
- A spellbook
Spellcasting
As a student of arcane magic, you have a spellbook containing spells that show the first glimmerings of your true power. See Spells Rules for the general rules of spellcasting and the Spells Listing for the wizard spell list.
Cantrips
At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from the wizard spell list. You learn additional wizard cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Wizard table.
Spellbook
At 1st level, you have a spellbook containing six 1st-level wizard spells of your choice. Your spellbook is the repository of the wizard spells you know, except your cantrips, which are fixed in your mind.
Preparing and Casting Spells
The Wizard table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your wizard spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.
You prepare the list of wizard spells that are available for you to cast. To do so, choose a number of wizard spells from your spellbook equal to your Intelligence modifier + your wizard level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
For example, if you’re a 3rd-level wizard, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an Intelligence of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination, chosen from your spellbook. If you prepare the 1st-level spell magic missile, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells.
You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of wizard spells requires time spent studying your spellbook and memorizing the incantations and gestures you must make to cast the spell: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.
Spellcasting Ability
Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your wizard spells, since you learn your spells through dedicated study and memorization. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a wizard spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier
Ritual Casting
You can cast a wizard spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell in your spellbook. You don’t need to have the spell prepared.
Spellcasting Focus
You can use an arcane focus (see the Adventuring Gear section) as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells.
Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher
Each time you gain a wizard level, you can add two wizard spells of your choice to your spellbook for free. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots, as shown on the Wizard table. On your adventures, you might find other spells that you can add to your spellbook (see the “Your Spellbook” sidebar).
Arcane Recovery
You have learned to regain some of your magical energy by studying your spellbook. Once per day when you finish a short rest, you can choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your wizard level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher.
For example, if you’re a 4th-level wizard, you can recover up to two levels worth of spell slots. You can recover either a 2nd-level spell slot or two 1st-level spell slots.
Arcane Tradition
When you reach 2nd level, you choose an arcane tradition, shaping your practice of magic through one of eight schools: Abjuration, Conjuration, Divination, Enchantment, Evocation, Illusion, Necromancy, or Transmutation. The School of Evocation is detailed at the end of the class description, and more choices are available in other sources.
Your choice grants you features at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.
Spell Mastery
At 18th level, you have achieved such mastery over certain spells that you can cast them at will. Choose a 1st-level wizard spell and a 2nd-level wizard spell that are in your spellbook. You can cast those spells at their lowest level without expending a spell slot when you have them prepared. If you want to cast either spell at a higher level, you must expend a spell slot as normal.
By spending 8 hours in study, you can exchange one or both of the spells you chose for different spells of the same levels.
Signature Spells
When you reach 20th level, you gain mastery over two powerful spells and can cast them with little effort. Choose two 3rd-level wizard spells in your spellbook as your signature spells. You always have these spells prepared, they don’t count against the number of spells you have prepared, and you can cast each of them once at 3rd level without expending a spell slot. When you do so, you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
If you want to cast either spell at a higher level, you must expend a spell slot as normal.
Arcane Traditions
The study of wizardry is ancient, stretching back to the earliest mortal discoveries of magic. It is firmly established in the worlds of D&D, with various traditions dedicated to its complex study.
The most common arcane traditions in the multiverse revolve around the schools of magic. Wizards through the ages have cataloged thousands of spells, grouping them into eight categories called schools, as described in chapter 10. In some places, these traditions are literally schools; a wizard might study at the School of Illusion while another studies across town at the School of Enchantment. In other institutions, the schools are more like academic departments, with rival faculties competing for students and funding. Even wizards who train apprentices in the solitude of their own towers use the division of magic into schools as a learning device, since the spells of each school require mastery of different techniques.
School of Evocation
You focus your study on magic that creates powerful elemental effects such as bitter cold, searing flame, rolling thunder, crackling lightning, and burning acid. Some evokers find employment in military forces, serving as artillery to blast enemy armies from afar. Others use their spectacular power to protect the weak, while some seek their own gain as bandits, adventurers, or aspiring tyrants.
Evocation Savant
Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an evocation spell into your spellbook is halved.
Sculpt Spells
Beginning at 2nd level, you can create pockets of relative safety within the effects of your evocation spells. When you cast an evocation spell that affects other creatures that you can see, you can choose a number of them equal to 1 + the spell’s level. The chosen creatures automatically succeed on their saving throws against the spell, and they take no damage if they would normally take half damage on a successful save.
Potent Cantrip
Starting at 6th level, your damaging cantrips affect even creatures that avoid the brunt of the effect. When a creature succeeds on a saving throw against your cantrip, the creature takes half the cantrip’s damage (if any) but suffers no additional effect from the cantrip.
Empowered Evocation
Beginning at 10th level, you can add your Intelligence modifier to one damage roll of any wizard evocation spell you cast.
Overchannel
Starting at 14th level, you can increase the power of your simpler spells. When you cast a wizard spell of 1st through 5th level that deals damage, you can deal maximum damage with that spell.
The first time you do so, you suffer no adverse effect. If you use this feature again before you finish a long rest, you take 2d12 necrotic damage for each level of the spell, immediately after you cast it. Each time you use this feature again before finishing a long rest, the necrotic damage per spell level increases by 1d12. This damage ignores resistance and immunity.
I love graviturgy magic because it’s just so funny to play with.
my evoker wizard is closer to a god than a mortal
The feature says that you must be able to prepare spells of that level and since it is a wizard feature it means that it only applies to your wizard spells. It would also be useless to have them since you can't prepare them.
Idk about dnd but in real life grease is not flammable, its combustible, which is different. Something flammable is acetone or propane which already slowly vapourise from regular outside temperature (up to 37.5 celsius or 100 fahrenheit) meanwhile combustible material like cooking oil or grease need fire or substantial heat (above 37.5 celsius or 100 fahrenheit). Even a grease fire starts from oil or animal fat at a minimum 200 celsius/375 fahrenheit! thats insanely hot and if left alone in an environment of less than 60c/140f it will burn out and stop meanwhile propane/acetone burns so fast it can even cause an explosion. I know combustible and flammable are colloquially used as the same meaning but just wanted to add the context of that in physics since it was mentioned and a link to a graph of the specifics click here.
Idk about dnd but in real life grease is not flammable, its combustible, which is different. Something flammable is acetone or propane which already slowly vapourise from regular outside temperature (up to 37.5 celsius or 100 fahrenheit) meanwhile combustible material like cooking oil or grease need fire or substantial heat (above 37.5 celsius or 100 fahrenheit). Even a grease fire starts from oil or animal fat at a minimum 200 celsius/375 fahrenheit! thats insanely hot and if left alone in an environment of less than 60c/140f it will burn out and stop meanwhile propane/acetone burns so fast it can even cause an explosion. I know combustible and flammable are colloquially used as the same meaning but just wanted to add the context of that in physics since it was mentioned and a link to a graph of the specifics click here.
I want to ask if implementation was intended. According to rules "Copying a Spell into the Book " allows "When you find a wizard spell of 1st level or higher, you can add it to your spellbook if it is of a spell level you can prepare [...]" But the actual mechanic when multiclassing blocks you from learning spell levels granted by other classes even though you can cast wizard spells of this level. Ie artificer lvl 9 and wizard lvl 1. I can cast all spells granted by my wizard class ( and only by it) at level 3. Why am I not able to copy wizard spells of level 3 into my spellbook?
In Real Life [Grease fire occurs when grease reaches its ignition point. Due to it being combustible, it will catch on fire at around 100-600 degrees F(different oils have different ignition points), and it will not be on fire until then]. In Game [In the end, it is all up to the DM. Think about it, it is his/her campaign, so they should decide these things. If the DM thinks fun things could come from acting like grease is flammable, that is great, and you should not complain about it. If the DM thinks that they should follow how normal grease works, that is also great, and you still should not complain. It does not really matter if you follow the laws of physics anyways, it is just a game, and the whole point of games are to just have fun(and to learn things, and to get the game designers more money, and to build friendships... you get the point). Did you learn to play D&D to start arguing about the laws of physics and flammable/combustible objects, or to play the game and have fun?]
So after becoming an Order of the Scribes wizard at level 2, with burning hands and magic missile in my spell book, I could either cast a 15 ft cone of force damage or auto-hit fire damage? Do secondary effects like flammable objects igniting from burning hands still work if the damage type is changed?
what is that piccher
BOOYAHG!!!
You have to to allow critical role content on the first page when you make a character, like what you allow homebrew
Currently playin a lizardman (nat ac 13) psi warrior fighter and dipped into wizard for blade singer. So if I’m doing the math right at level 15f/2w you could reach an ac easily over 30 with a int and dex of 20 while bladesinging (+5 ea) and under the bulwark force ability (+2) and reacting with shield (+5) without armor and no magic items?!?
From reality….There is a difference between flammable and combustible. Grease needs a flash point where the vapor becomes ignitable due to combustion, around 750-ish Fahrenheit. It is not flammable, it is combustible (meaning way higher temp needed). A torch, a flaming arrow, etc would not be hot enough to cause grease to combust and turn into a fire. To argue this in game mechanics would be to go towards magical fire which is why the DM has final word….would fire bolt or produce flame be hot enough? Or are we talking higher spell level like fireball.
arguing because you have heard the phrase “grease fire” or just because YOU think it should be ok is not what this game is about. Talk about it, is it gamebreaking to allow? At low level with fire bolt or produce flame, maybe. Higher level with fireball or some other higher level spell, probably not. As a DM if it’s creative and fun and most of all hilarious, then what does it hurt.
getting upset and insulting over it…..well, the most game breaking problem in D&D are some of the people who play it. It’s a cooperative story telling experience. Enjoy, work together and have fun.
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School of Evocation is a captivating and magical concept often found in fantasy literature and role-playing games. It makes me think of powerful wizards and sorcerers honing their skills https://researchpaperwriter.org/ to manipulate elemental forces and create dazzling displays of arcane might. Exploring the nuances and specialties within this school of magic can lead to some truly epic adventures and storytelling.
The spell name isn't always a literal description of what effect it causes, that would be up to the DM to decide if it is, but RAW they are not always accurate. The grease spell is called grease in that it produces an effect similar to spilling grease on the floor that makes standing on it difficult. The spell could just as well be named "Lubricate", or "Slippery Surface", if that makes sense. A lot of tables make grease flammable mainly due to ignorance of the game system and its sometimes confusing use of language, so its simpler to just agree that grease works like real life greases and forgo the RAW.
Me neither. I have Critical Role content on, have Wildemount in my library, and still can’t access chronomancy or graviturgy.
I can't access my chronourgy wizard subclass when creating a character
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