Wizard

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, brute-force mind control, and much more.

Wizard Class

Class Features

As a wizard, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d6 per wizard level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 12 + 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

Spellcasting

As a student of arcane magic, you have a spellbook containing spells that show the first glimmerings of your true power.
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.
The spells that you add to your spellbook as you gain levels reflect the arcane research you conduct on your own, as well as intellectual breakthroughs you have had about the nature of the multiverse. You might find other spells during your adventures. You could discover a spell recorded on a scroll in an evil wizard's chest, for example, or in a dusty tome in an ancient library.
Copying a Spell into the Book. 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 and if you can spare the time to decipher and copy it.
Copying a spell into your spellbook involves reproducing the basic form of the spell, then deciphering the unique system of notation used by the wizard who wrote it. You must practice the spell until you understand the sounds or gestures required, then transcribe it into your spellbook using your own notation.
For each level of the spell, the process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp. The cost represents material components you expend as you experiment with the spell to master it, as well as the fine inks you need to record it. Once you have spent this time and money, you can prepare the spell just like your other spells.
Replacing the Book. You can copy a spell from your own spellbook into another book-for example, if you want to make a backup copy of your spellbook. This is just like copying a new spell into your spellbook, but faster and easier, since you understand your own notation and already know how to cast the spell. You need spend only 1 hour and 10 gp for each level of the copied spell.
If you lose your spellbook, you can use the same procedure to transcribe the spells that you have prepared into a new spellbook. Filling out the remainder of your spellbook requires you to find new spells to do so, as normal. For this reason, many wizards keep backup spellbooks in a safe place.
The Book's Appearance. Your spellbook is a unique compilation of spells, with its own decorative flourishes and margin notes. It might be a plain, functional leather volume that you received as a gift from your master, a finely bound gilt-edged tome you found in an ancient library or even a loose collection of notes scrounged together after you lost your previous spellbook in a mishap.
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 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. 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.

Signature Spells

You have practiced and perfected the various techniques of your spells that they become second nature to you. You can choose one 1st level spell that you know to becomem one of your signature spells. You can cast your signature spells without using a spell slot. You gain an additional signature spell every two levels after 1st. The maximum level of the spell you can choose as a Signature Spell increases to 2nd level when you reach 7th level in this class, it increases to 3rd level when you reach 13th level in this class, and to 4th at 17th level. When youc ast a signature spell you cast it at it's lowest level and still must expend any material components that the spell requires.

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 the following schools. Your choice grants you features at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

Cantrip Formulas

At 3rd level, you have scribed a set of arcane formulas in your spellbook that you can use to formulate a cantrip in your mind. Whenever you finish a long rest and consult those formulas in your spellbook, you can replace one wizard cantrip you know with another cantrip from the wizard spell list.

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.

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.

Arcane Weaver

When you reach 20th level, you gain mastery of the fundamentals of magic and spells. You gain can cast any spell you know of 3rd level or lower without expending a spell slot as if cast at the lowest spell slot possible. Additionally you ignore the concentration requirements on spells of 3rd level or lower, and can cast any spell of 3rd level or lower with a casting time of 1 action as a bonus action instead.
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 Abjuration

The School of Abjuration emphasizes magic that blocks, banishes, or protects. Detractors of this school say that its tradition is about denial, negation rather than positive assertion. You understand, however, that ending harmful effects, protecting the weak, and banishing evil influences is anything but a philosophical void. It is a proud and respected vocation.
Called abjurers, members of this school are sought when baleful spirits require exorcism, when important locations must be guarded against magical spying, and when portals to other planes of existence must be closed.

School of Bladesinging

Bladesingers master a tradition of wizardry that incorporates swordplay and dance. Originally created by elves, this tradition has been adopted by non-elf practitioners, who honor and expand on the elven ways.
In combat, a bladesinger uses a series of intricate, elegant maneuvers that fend off harm and allow the bladesinger to channel magic into devastating attacks and a cunning defense. Many who have observed a bladesinger at work remember the display as one of the more beautiful experiences in their life, a glorious dance accompanied by a singing blade.

School of the Brahmin

For most wizards, their arcane pursuits are a meansto their own power. Brahmin forsake this selfishideology and instead view their mastery of esotericarts as a pursuit of enlightenment that will beavailable to all once they have perfected their craftand honed their knowledge. The tradition was oncespread across the whole of Shou Lung, but when thePath of Enlightenment was declared to be the onlyofficial religion of the nation, these wizards fled to themountainous lands that would become the nation ofTabot. As one of these legendary teachers, you take greatpleasure in demonstrating your accumulated knowledgeto others. You surround yourself with pupils, whetheryour students realize it or not, and you attempt to work with them to align their perspective with your own knowing that the universe will free you from its shackles.

School of Chronurgy

Focusing on the manipulation of time, those who follow the Chronurgy tradition learn to alter the pace of reality to their liking. Using the ramping of anticipatory dunamis energy, these mages can bend the flow of time as adroitly as a skilled musician plays an instrument, lending themselves and their allies an advantage in the blink of an eye.

School of Divination

The counsel of a diviner is sought by royalty and commoners alike, for all seek a clearer understanding of the past, present, and future. As a diviner, you strive to part the veils of space, time, and consciousness so that you can see clearly. You work to master spells of discernment, remote viewing, supernatural knowledge, and foresight.

School of Enchantment

As a member of the School of Enchantment, you have honed your ability to magically entrance and beguile other people and monsters. Some enchanters are peacemakers who bewitch the violent to lay down their arms and charm the cruel into showing mercy. Others are tyrants who magically bind the unwilling into their service. Most enchanters fall somewhere in between.

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.

School of Fundementals

The School of Fundamentals is comprised of wizards who believe that the greatest mages are those who have mastered the foundations. While other schools delve into study of a particular type of spell, you have focused your efforts on the building blocks of spellcasting: cantrips. Detractors of this school mock the fundamentalists as those who waste their time with the minutiae of spells that the most inexperienced of apprentices could cast. You know, however, that the ability to cast a spell shares li!le in common with the mastery required to cast it with precision and potency
As a fundamentalist wizard, you give cantrips the respect that is their due, studying their every detail and fine tuning every aspect of their components as though they are 9th-level spells. You add them to your spellbook and prepare them like other wizards would only with their leveled spells, knowing that the perfection of these seemingly rudimentary techniques will lead to greater heights than the other schools could ever imagine

School of Golemancy

Wizards of the school of golemancy strive to create artificial life and intelligence through purely arcane means. Though such golemancers see necromancy spells that bring the dead back to life or create undead as useful tools, they are unsatisfied with just restoring consciousness or creating a facsimile of life.They spend years studying consciousness, and weave enchantments that allow them to create a personality and persona.
As a golemancer, you have built a custom golem, carefully choosing its materials and components, installing specialized augments, and finally applying the persona you so precisely crafted. A golem is often a reflection of its creator, telling you much about their intentions and sensibilities; clay is used to denote protection of people, flesh used in a creator’s a!empt to create humanoid life, iron used for guardians of its creator’s person and belongings, and stone used for stewards of particular locations. No matter what materials and features your golem possesses, you have created a companion that will safeguard and fight alongside you for the remainder of your days.

School of Graviturgy

Understanding and mastering the forces that draw bodies of matter together or drive them apart, the students of the Graviturgy arcane tradition learn to further bend and manipulate the violent energy of gravity to their benefit, and the terrible detriment of their enemies.

School of the Grey Guild

Wizards of the Grey Guild arcane tradition eschew a focus on one specific school of magic in favor of an arcane specialty in duplicity and espionage. In some worlds, all wizards of this tradition belong to one organization with its own overarching goals and schemes while in others, the Grey Guild is a methodology used by individual wizards and arcane organizations in competition with one another. Regardless of which is the case in your world, wizards of the Grey Guild have a bad reputation amongst wizards of other traditions given their proclivity for hoarding magical secrets from other spellcasters.

School of Illusion

You focus your studies on magic that dazzles the senses, befuddles the mind, and tricks even the wisest folk. Your magic is subtle, but the illusions crafted by your keen mind make the impossible seem real. Some illusionists – including many gnome wizards – are benign tricksters who use their spells to entertain. Others are more sinister masters of deception, using their illusions to frighten and fool others for their personal gain.

School of Invocations

Wizards belonging to the Order of Invocation are runescribes, masters of the secret runes of power. These ancientsigils that embody the fundamental magic of creation. Thegiants were the first of the mortals to master rune magic,though many other races eventually stole away or traded for that power.
A rune scribe does not merely learn the art of runic invocation, their spellcasting embodies the nature of these sigils. They can manifest their spells as glyphs, symbols of latentmagical power, which are favored as traps in dungeons and other strongholds.

School of Mnemoncay

Wizards of the School of Mnemomancy wield the magic of memory, capable of being both bastions of knowledge and infiltrators of minds. As a mnemomancer,you augment your own ability to recall knowledge and experiences, while sealing the memories of your foes.As your mastery grows, you gain the ability to vividly experience others’ memories and borrow their

School of Necromancy

The School of Necromancy explores the cosmic forces of life, death, and undeath. As you focus your studies in this tradition, you learn to manipulate the energy that animates all living things. As you progress, you learn to sap the life force from a creature as your magic destroys its body, transforming that vital energy into magical power you can manipulate.
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.

School of the Plague Doctor

Blending spellcasting with science, you distill your magic into concoctions that harm or heal. Plague Doctors often wear grotesque masks protecting them from toxic ingredients. Many regard the mask with fear as a sign of pestilence, making Plague Doctors a source of both hope and trepidation

School of Sangromancy

You study an uncommon subschool of magic known as sangromancy or blood magic. Despite its dark reputation, there’s nothing inherently evil about the practice of sangromancy, though its demands on its practitioners are gruesome. As a sangromancer, your chosen magic demands more than knowledge—it demands sacrifce as well. Other wizards may view you with skepticism or even outright hostility, but none can the potency of your art.

School of Sigil Smithing

Sigilsmiths master a tradition of wizardry focused on the forging and enchanting of magic weapons and armor. Though there is debate as to whether this tradition was first practiced by giants or dwarves, it has been adopted by cultures throughout the multiverse, who have each incorporated their own magical specialties into the art.
In battle, a sigilsmith inscribes weapons and armor with temporary sigils that imbue magical abilities.Thus, wizards of this tradition are beloved by adventuring parties if they can be convinced to journey away from their workshops and arcane forges.

School of Theurgy

You have a deep faith in the transcendent nature of the multiverse. Although you may honor a particular god or goddess, you recognize them as manifestations of a divinity that suffuses all reality.You feel most in touch with this divinity when working magic, which you view as a sacred act between the fabric of existence and all living beings. Theurgists are often at odds with their more orthodox colleagues from other traditions who prefer studying the laws of reality to meditating on its inscrutable nature

School of Transmutation

You are a student of spells that modify energy and matter. To you, the world is not a fixed thing, but eminently mutable, and you delight in being an agent of change. You wield the raw stuff of creation and learn to alter both physical forms and mental qualities. Your magic gives you the tools to become a smith on reality's forge.
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.

School of War Magic

A variety of arcane colleges specialize in training wizards for war. The tradition of War Magic blends principles of evocation and abjuration, rather than specializing in either of those schools. It teaches techniques that empower a caster’s spells, while also providing methods for wizards to bolster their own defenses.
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?"