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.
You start with the following, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
Level | Cantrips Known | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th |
1st | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
2nd | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
3rd | 3 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
4th | 4 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
5th | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
6th | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
7th | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
8th | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
9th | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
10th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
11th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
12th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
13th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
14th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
15th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
16th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
17th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
18th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
19th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
20th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
You can use a bonus action to start the Bladesong, which lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are incapacitated, if you don medium or heavy armor or a shield, or if you use two hands to make an attack with a weapon. You can also dismiss the Bladesong at any time (no action required).
While your Bladesong is active, you gain the following benefits:While the weight of a creature is halved by this effect, the creature's speed increases by 10 feet, it can jump twice as far as normal, and it has disadvantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
While the weight of a creature is doubled by this effect, the creature's speed is reduced by 10 feet, and it has advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
Upon reaching 10th level in this class, you can target an object or a creature that is Huge or smaller.Among wizards, the Order of Scribes is the most bookish. It takes many forms in different worlds, but its primary mission is the same everywhere: recording magical discoveries so that wizardry can flourish. And while all wizards value spellbooks, a wizard in the Order of Scribes magically awakens their book, turning it into a trusted companion. All wizards study books, but a wizardly scribe talks to theirs!
While manifested, the spectral mind can hear and see, and it has darkvision with a range of 60 feet. The mind can telepathically share with you what it sees and hears (no action required).
Whenever you cast a wizard spell on your turn, you can cast it as if you were in the spectral mind's space, instead of your own, using its senses. You can do so a number of times per day equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
As a bonus action, you can cause the spectral mind to hover up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you or it can see. It can pass through creatures but not objects.
The spectral mind stops manifesting if it is ever more than 300 feet away from you, if someone casts Dispel Magic on it, if the Awakened Spellbook is destroyed, if you die, or if you dismiss the spectral mind as a bonus action.
Once you conjure the mind, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of any level to conjure it again.The chosen spell must be of 1st or 2nd level and must have a casting time of 1 action. Once in the scroll, the spell's power is enhanced, counting as one level higher than normal. You can cast the spell from the scroll by reading it as an action. The scroll is unintelligible to anyone else, and the spell vanishes from the scroll when you cast it or when you finish your next long rest.
You are also adept at crafting spell scrolls, which are described in the treasure chapter of the Dungeon Master's Guide. The gold and time you must spend to make such a scroll are halved if you use your Wizardly Quill.Moreover, if you take damage while your spellbook's mind is manifested, you can prevent all of that damage to you by using your reaction to dismiss the spectral mind, using its magic to save yourself. Then roll 3d6. The spellbook temporarily loses spells of your choice that have a combined spell level equal to that roll or higher. For example, if the roll's total is 9, spells vanish from the book that have a combined level of at least 9, which could mean one 9th-level spell, three 3rd-level spells, or some other combination. If there aren't enough spells in the book to cover this cost, you drop to 0 hit points.
Until you finish 1d6 long rests, you are incapable of casting the lost spells, even if you find them on a scroll or in another spellbook. After you finish the required number of rests, the spells reappear in the spell book.
Once you use this reaction, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.Darkvision. You gain darkvision out to a range of 60 feet.
Ethereal Sight. You can see into the Ethereal Plane within 60 feet of you.
Greater Comprehension: You can read any language.
See Invisibility: You can see invisible creatures and objects within 10 feet of you that are within line of sight.On subsequent turns, you can use your action to maintain this effect, extending its duration until the end of your next turn. However, the effect ends if you move more than 5 feet away from the creature, if the creature can neither see nor hear you, or if the creature takes damage.
Once the effect ends, or if the creature succeeds on its initial saving throw against this effect, you can't use this feature on that creature again until you finish a long rest.On a successful save, you can't use this feature on the attacker again until you finish a long rest.
You must choose to use this feature before knowing whether the attack hits or misses. Creatures that can't be charmed are immune to this effect.Additionally, once before the spell expires, you can use your action to try to make the chosen creature forget some of the time it spent charmed. The creature must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw against your wizard spell save DC or lose a number of hours of its memories equal to 1 + your Charisma modifier (minimum 1). You can make the creature forget less time, and the amount of time can't exceed the duration of your enchantment 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.
The object can't deal damage or otherwise directly harm anyone.
Most people see necromancers as menacing, or even villainous, due to the close association with death. Not all necromancers are evil, but the forces they manipulate are considered taboo by many societies.
Sources: Player's HandbookIntelligent undead are harder to control in this way. If the target has an Intelligence of 8 or higher, it has advantage on the saving throw. If it fails the saving throw and has an Intelligence of 12 or higher, it can repeat the saving throw at the end of every hour until it succeeds and breaks free.
Some transmuters are tinkerers and pranksters, turning people into toads and transforming copper into silver for fun and occasional profit. Others pursue their magical studies with deadly seriousness, seeking the power of the gods to make and destroy worlds.
Sources: Player's HandbookMajor Transformation: You can transmute one nonmagical object – no larger than a 5-foot cube – into another nonmagical object of similar size and mass and of equal or lesser value. You must spend 10 minutes handling the object to transform it.
Panacea: You remove all curses, diseases, and poisons affecting a creature that you touch with the transmuter's stone. The creature also regains all its hit points.
Restore Life: You cast the Raise Dead spell on a creature you touch with the transmuter's stone, without expending a spell slot or needing to have the spell in your spellbook.
Restore Youth: You touch the transmuter's stone to a willing creature, and that creature's apparent age is reduced by 3d10 years, to a minimum of 13 years. This effect doesn't extend the creature's lifespan.Followers of this tradition are known as war mages. They see their magic as both a weapon and armor, a resource superior to any piece of steel. War mages act fast in battle, using their spells to seize tactical control of a situation. Their spells strike hard, while their defensive skills foil their opponents’ attempts to counterattack. War mages are also adept at turning other spellcasters' magical energy against them.
In great battles, a war mage often works with evokers, abjurers, and other types of wizards. Evokers, in particular, sometimes tease war mages for splitting their attention between offense and defense. A war mage's typical response: "What good is being able to throw a mighty Fireball if I die before I can cast it?"
Sources: Xanathar's Guide to EverythingWhen you use this feature, you can’t cast spells other than cantrips until the end of your next turn.
You can store a maximum number of power surges equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one). Whenever you finish a long rest, your number of power surges resets to one. Whenever you successfully end a spell with Dispel Magic or Counterspell, you gain one power surge, as you steal magic from the spell you foiled. If you end a short rest with no power surges, you gain one power surge.
Once per turn when you deal damage to a creature or object with a wizard spell, you can spend one power surge to deal extra force damage to that target. The extra damage equals half your wizard level.Level | XP | Proficiency Bonus | Abilities | Cantrips Known | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | |
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1st | 0 | +2 | Spellcasting, Arcane Recovery | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
2nd | 300 | +2 | Arcane Tradition | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
3rd | 900 | +2 | — | 3 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
4th | 2,700 | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
5th | 6,500 | +3 | — | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
6th | 14,000 | +3 | Arcane Tradition Feature | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
7th | 23,000 | +3 | — | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | |
8th | 34,000 | +3 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | |
9th | 48,000 | +4 | — | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | |
10th | 64,000 | +4 | Arcane Tradition Feature | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | |
11th | 85,000 | +4 | — | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | |
12th | 100,000 | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | |
13th | 120,000 | +5 | — | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
14th | 140,000 | +5 | - | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | |
15th | 165,000 | +5 | — | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | |
16th | 195,000 | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | |
17th | 225,000 | +6 | — | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
18th | 265,000 | +6 | Spell Mastery | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
19th | 305,000 | +6 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
20th | 355,000 | +6 | Signature Spells | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |