Magic-Users

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Spellcasters who manipulate powerful arcane forces, magic-users can cripple hordes of foes or the very foundations of the world with little more than words and gestures.

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Magic-User Heroes

Prerequisite: 12 Intelligence
Starting Hit Points: 4 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Die: d4
Languages: You know the Arcane language.
Proficiencies: You are Trained in Initiative and Arcane Magic and its Arcane Defense, Detect Magic, and Dispel Magic features.
Skills: You possess the Arcana skill and can select two other Skills.

Magic-User Features

Arcane Preparation

Once per day following a long rest, you can spend hero's surges to prepare Arcane rituals you know, at a cost of one hero's surge per ritual. Prepared rituals can be cast as a Full-Round Action.

Boon Option: Cast a prepared ritual as an Attack action.

Potent Magicks

You deal ½ damage on limited successes and non-critical failures with arcane spells

Spellcasting

You excel at the art of spellcraft. Select either Black Mage or Tome Mage spellcasting.

Black Mage: You know all cantrips and 1st level spells from an Arcane School of your choice and possess a number of spell points equal to your level. After a full rest, you regain these spell points. You can spend spell points to cast spells you know, at a cost of one spell point per spell level. Each time you gain an odd level, you learn the spells of the next highest spell level in the schools you have access to.
Boon Options:

• Gain access to an additional Arcane School and learn its spells up to a level equal to your number of odd levels.
• Increase your total spell points by one.

Tome Mage: You know a number of Cantrips equal to twice your Intelligence modifier. If your Intelligence modifier ever increases, you can learn additional cantrips. In addition, you possess a spellbook containing six 1st level Arcane Spells. Whenever you gain a level, you scribe two additional Arcane spells of levels you can memorize into your spellbook.
You can scribe spells from scrolls or other spellbooks into your spellbook, up to a maximum number of spells of each level equal to your Intelligence score.
After a long rest, you can Memorize a number of spells from your spellbook as indicated in the Magic-User table.

The Magic-User

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Level	Benefit	Hero’s Surges	Spells Per Day	Title
1	Magic-User Features, Arcane Preparation, Potent Magicks, Spellcasting	4	1	Prestidigitator
2	Cantrip Aftershock, Focused Intellect	5	2
3	Arcane Study, Bound in Magic	5	2/1	Apprentice
4	Boon	6	2/2	9th Order
5	Valor	6	2/2/1	8th Order
6	Arcane Study Feature	7	2/2/2	7th Order
7	Boon	7	2/2/2/1	6th Order
8	Arcane Study Feature	8	2/2/2/2	5th Order
9	Boon	8	2/2/2/2/1	4th Order
10	Heroism	9	2/2/2/2/2	3rd Order

LEVEL 2 Magic User

Cantrip Aftershock

You can delay the Hampering Effect or Devastating Effect effect of a cantrip you cast to any moment before the end of your next turn

Focused Intellect

You add your Intelligence modifier to damage and hit points affected with Arcane magic

LEVEL 3 Magic User

Arcane Study

Your studies in the arcane focus on paths of magic that allow you to shape the world to your desire. Choose an arcane study.

Caller

Callers

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You forsake ancient tomes and lost magicks to forge alliances with creatures of terrible power, then summon them forth to wreak your will.

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Prerequisite: 12 Charisma, Black Mage Spellcasting

Call Aeon

Through magical communion, diplomacy, or some other means, you procure the protective oath of a powerful being known as an Aeon. At the start of your turn as an Arcane Conjuration (Summoning) effect that requires Concentration, you can spend a hero's surge to call your Aeon. Your Aeon arrives adjacent to you and you can command it, then your turn ends.

Once per round, you can command your Aeon as an attack action. If you do not direct your Aeon's actions, it attempts to move adjacent to you and defend you.
You can dismiss your Aeon as an action. It is automatically dismissed if it is slain or if you lose concentration on it for two consecutive rounds, or after one minute passes. A dismissed Aeon vanishes back to from whence it came.
Your Aeon can spend one of your hero's surges for healing once per round, even in the same round you do. After a long rest, your Aeon regains all of its hit points, unless it has been slain.
If your Aeon is reduced to zero or fewer hit points, it is slain. A slain Aeon is immediately dismissed and can no longer be called until its hit points are positive again. If your Aeon has been slain, when you would regain hero's surges through a long rest, you can forgo regaining hero's surges to heal it ¼ of its maximum hit points per hero's surge sacrificed. After reaching level 6, you can procure the oath of an additional Aeon by defeating it in battle or through an agreed-upon quest. You can do this once again after you reach level 10.

Caller's Calling

Select either Greater Black Magic or White Magic.

Greater Black Magic: You gain access to two additional Arcane Schools and learn its cantrips and spells up to the number of odd levels you possess.
White Magic (Requires 12 Wisdom): Choose a Divine Domain. You become Trained in Divine Magic and know Spells from this domain up to a level equal to your number of odd levels. You can use your spell points to cast these spells and Arcane Preparation to prepare its rituals. Each time you gain an odd level, you learn the spells of the next highest spell level in the domains you have access to. In addition, you add your Wisdom modifier to damage and hit points affected with Divine Magic.
Boon Options:

• Gain access to an additional Divine Domain and learn its spells up to a level equal to your number of odd levels
• Add your Wisdom modifier to healing done with magic

LEVEL 6 Caller

Aeonic Fury

As an action, your Aeon can spend one of your hero's surge to unleash its Fury.

Boon Options:

• Your Aeons gain the ability to spend your spell points to cast spells you know.
• You can call your Aeon through a spell of the same type as your Aeon’s Fury. If you call your Aeon through a spell, it arrives within the spell’s area and can take an action. Then both of your turns end.

LEVEL 8 Caller

Blue Magic

Rituals you prepare with your Arcane Preparation feature alter the powers of your Aeon, as described in the Blue Magic table

Greater Aeonic Bond

You can cause any spell affecting you to also affect your Aeon

Blue Magic

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Domain or School	Effect
Abjuration	While your Aeon is present, you both reduce all damage by 2
Conjuration	You can call your Aeon when you are hit by an attack. If you do not call your Aeon this way, once per calling when you are hit by an attack, you can teleport your Aeon to an unoccupied space adjacent to you. In either case, your Aeon is hit by the triggering attack instead of you.
Divination	Your Aeon gains the effect of a Divination spell you know. As an attack action, you can reactivate this spell or change it.
Enchantment	Your Aeon's physical attacks gain a magical damage bonus equal to your number of odd levels
Evocation	Your Aeon's physical attacks deal its Fury's damage type, plus an additional 1d4 damage of this type on a major success
Illusion	Your Aeon has Concealment against non-adjacent enemies and you gain the effects of Invisibility when you call it
Necromancy	Your Aeon can be called in an undead form, gaining the immunities and vulnerabilities of that type.
Transmutation	You can call your Aeon as part of casting Feather Fall. If you do not, you can instead direct its actions as a move action.
Air/Earth/Fire/Water	Your Aeon gains Immunity to this domain’s element. If it is already immune, it gains Absorption instead.
Binding	You can summon and dismiss your Aeon as a Move on your turn
Darkness	While your Aeon is present, you and it can perceive via scent, vibration, and heat within 30'
Death	Your Aeon's physical attacks deal an additional 1 necrotic damage and heal it for a value equal to the necrotic damage dealt
Freedom	While your Aeon is present, you and it cannot be affected by forced movement or movement impediments
Justice	When an ally takes damage, your Aeon gains a +5 bonus to damage to its next attack before the end of your next turn
Knowledge	Your Aeon can speak, read, write, and otherwise communicate in any language and answer one question per calling as per augury
Life	Your Aeon's Fury can instead heal for the damage it would normally deal
Light	Your Aeon's Fury blinds targets that do not resist it. Affected creatures can attempt to end this effect as an attack action.
Nature	Your Aeon's Fury creates an Entangle effect within its area which lasts until you dismiss your Aeon or choose to end it
Protection	When your Aeon defends a creature, it grants total Cover to it
Trickery	Your Aeon can be called in a humanoid form of your choosing. This effect ends when it uses its Fury or when you will it.
War	You can call your Aeon in an unoccupied space you can see within 1000’. In addition, when your Aeon reduces a creature to 0 or fewer hit points with a physical attack, it can repeat that attack against another creature

Specialist

Specialist Magic-Users

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Driven by your pursuit of absolute mastery, you delve into a school of magic in search of powers others cannot begin to fathom.

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Manipulate Magic

You learn Arcane Magic's Manipulate Magic feature.

Metamagic Feat

You learn the Alter Spell, Empower Spell, or Extend Spell Metamagic Feat. When casting a spell from your school of specialization, you can modify it with a Metamagic Feat.

Alter Spell: Spend a hero's surge and change the spell’s damage type, the impairment it causes, allow it to work on creatures that would normally be immune, or something similar.
For example, an evoker’s Burning Hands could blast frigid ice, a conjurer’s Grease might make the floor sticky, an enchanter’s Sleep could place undead into a state resembling slumber, an illusionist might use Invisibility to make himself completely silent, or a necromancer could use Vampiric Touch to harm herself and heal an ally.
Empower Spell: Reroll an effect die until you get a higher result.
Extend Spell: Spend a hero's surge to make the duration of the spell permanent, provided its default duration is 10 minutes or more. This extension does not alter concentration requirements.
Boon Options:

• Make one extended spell permanent without the reservation of resources.
• Learn an additional Metamagic Feat.

Neglected Schools

Choose two Arcane Schools. You can no longer learn spells from them.

School of Specialization

Select an Arcane School that is not a school you neglected. You become Adept with Arcane Magic attempts with it and defenses against it. In addition, you gain the specialization benefit listed in the Specialist Schools table.

LEVEL 6 Specialist Magic-User

Dominate Spell

When you cast a spell, you can cause it to have no effect and instead take control of a spell or spell-like effect from your school of specialization you are aware of as if you used Manipulate Magic on it with critical success.

Boon Option: You can spend a hero's surge to expend a spell for this feature when a spell or spell-like effect you are aware of is unleashed.

Spell Mastery

Select a spell you know from your school of specialization. You gain the ability to cast it Spontaneously.

Boon Option: Select an additional spell from your school of specialization to cast Spontaneously.

LEVEL 8 Specialist Magic-User

Endless Magic

As an action when you have no memorized spells or spell points left, you can spend a hero's surge and suffer ¼ of your maximum hit points in True Damage to cast one of your Spontaneous Spells at its minimum level.

Specialist Schools

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School	Title	Specialization Benefit
Abjuration	Abjurer	You gain a +1 rank bonus to arcane defense attempts, you can have your Abjuration spells grant their targets temporary hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier, and you can allow your Abjuration cantrip targets to move 5'.
Conjuration	Conjurer	You can use Extend Spell on summon monster
Divination	Diviner	You become Adept with Dodge, reliable on Initiative, and gain the benefit of your true strike cantrip on critical successes with Initiative. In addition, when your Initiative result is a major or critical success, you can spend any of your turn's movement at the start of the turn of any creature you can see.
Enchantment	Enchanter	You can use Extend Spell on Enchantment spells and can use forget to erase a target’s entire memory of one of your enchantments. In addition, you gain a Social skill of your choice.
Evocation	Evoker	You can grant Advantage to creatures attempting to resist your Evocations spells and allow them to ignore your Potent Magicks feature, or allow them to move them 5' if they do not resist
Illusion	Illusionist	You gain a +1 rank bonus to arcane defense attempts against melee and ranged attacks and do not suffer half damage when such attacks miss. In addition, you can use Extend Spell once per long rest on an Illusion spell without the use of a hero's surge. This extension ends when you take a long rest.
Necromancy	Necromancer	You can command creatures with animate dead for 24 hours, rather than while concentrating.
Transmutation	Transmuter	You can cast prestidigitation once per turn as part of your turn and can make a single instance of scribe scroll, brew potion, and enchant item permanent without a component cost

Wizard

Wizards

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Your study of the art and science of magic opens your mind to the broadest and deepest arcane powers.

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Ancient Secrets

You become Adept in Arcane Magic.

Manipulate Magic

You learn Arcane Magic's Manipulate Magic feature.

Metamagic Feat

You learn the Enlarge Spell, Heighten Spell, Maximize Spell, or Quicken Spell Metamagic Feat. When casting a spell, you can expend a ritual you have prepared with Arcane Preparation to modify the spell with a metamagic feat.

Enlarge Spell: The spell’s range and area are doubled. If you spend a hero’s surge, additionally multiply the range by 10, change a range of touch to 60’, or change a range of personal to touch.
Heighten Spell: The spell’s level is increased by one, or your effective caster level by two. If you spend a hero’s surge, instead increase the spell’s level by two or your effective caster level by four.
Maximize Spell: Take the maximum value for one of the spell’s effect dice. If you spend a hero's surge, take the maximum value for all of its effect dice.
Quicken Spell: Cast the spell as an attack action. If you spend a hero’s surge, instead cast it as part of your turn.
Boon Option: Learn an additional metamagic option.

LEVEL 6 Wizard

Counterspell

When you cast a spell, you can cause it to have no effect and instead cancel the effect of another spell or spell-like effect of its level or lower, or reduce a higher-level effect's damage or hit points affected by the amount of damage the spell you expend would have done or hit points it would have affected.

Boon Option: You can spend a hero's surge to expend a spell for this feature when a spell or spell-like effect you are aware of is unleashed.

Spell Mastery

Select a spell you know. You gain the ability to cast it Spontaneously.

Boon Option: Select another spell you know to cast Spontaneously.

LEVEL 8 Wizard

Final Spell

Select one Arcane spell of a higher spell level than you can cast. As a Full-Round Action when you have no hero's surges or memorized spells remaining, you can take True Damage equal to your maximum hit points to cast this spell. Alternatively, you can cast this spell as a reaction to being reduced to 0 or fewer hit points, suffering the same True Damage.

This spell can be affected by any of your Metamagic features without need for expending their requirements. In addition, this spell's effects are permanent, to the extent that even the damage it causes cannot be healed, so long as you remain dead.
Each time you gain access to a higher spell level, you can replace this spell with one of a higher level than you can cast.

Undeniable Arcana

Your cantrips deal ½ damage on a limited success

Bound in Magic

You double your Reknown with other magic-users