The Wizard

Class Details

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d6 per wizard level.
• Hit Points (1st-level): 6 + your Constitution modifier.
• Hit Points (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

Choose one of the following equipment options—preset or custom. You gain these items in addition to any other gear you might have (such as from your background):

A. Preset Equipment

• A spellbook.
• (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.

B. Custom Equipment

You gain a spellbook and 2d4 x 10 gold pieces (or 50 gp). You may spend some or all of this gold to purchase your own equipment.

Class Features

As a wizard, you gain access to the following features.

1Spellscript

You can read and write Spellscript, an academic language of glyphs, symbols, and notations used by wizards to record arcane knowledge and spells.

See the Spellscript section () for more details about this feature.

 

 

 

1Spellcasting

You gain the ability to cast magic spells through careful study of spellbooks, glyphs, and arcane sigils.

Spellbook

At 1st-level, you have a spellbook into which you can record your known spells and arcane research.

See the Spellbook section () for more details about your spellbook.

 

 

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 Class Features (Wizard) table.

Memorable: Cantrips are simple enough for you to memorize—they don't need to be recorded or prepared.

Replacing Known Cantrips: When you gain a wizard level, you can choose one of the wizard cantrips you know and replace it with a different cantrip from the wizard spell list.

Spells Known of 1st-level and Higher

At 1st-level, you know six 1st-level spells of your choice from the wizard spell list. Write these into your spellbook.

Recorded Knowledge: Spells of 1st-level and higher are too complicated to be memorized by mortal minds—write these spells into your spellbook to keep them recorded.

Learning New Spells: 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 in the Class Features (Wizard) table.

In addition, you may find other wizard spells—such as on scrolls and in spellbooks—on your adventures. If you can decipher their spellscript, you may be able to write them into your own spellbook.

Preparing Spells

You must prepare the list of wizard spells that you can cast, choosing from your list of recorded wizard spells.

Preparing Your Spell List: Choose a number of wizard spells from your spellbook equal to your Intelligence modifier + your wizard level (minimum of one spell).

Prepared spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots, and you must be able to access the spells in your spellbook as you're preparing them.

Changing Your 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: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Preparing Spells

Number of Spells: your Intelligence modifier + your wizard level (minimum of one spell)

 

 

 

 

Casting Spells

The Class Features (Wizard) table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your prepared wizard spells of 1st-level and higher.

To cast one of your prepared spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. Casting a spell doesn't remove it from your list of prepared spells, and you regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

 

 

 

 

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your wizard spells. Use your Intelligence modifier to set the saving throw DC or attack modifier for any wizard spell you cast.

Spellcasting Ability

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 (a) the spell has the ritual tag and (b) you have access to the spell in your spellbook. You don't need to have a spell prepared first to cast it as a ritual.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use your spellbook or an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells.

Arcane Versatility

When you finish a long rest, you can choose one of the wizard cantrips you know and replace it with a different cantrip from the wizard spell list.

1Arcane Tradition

Choose an Arcane Tradition. You gain features from your Arcane Tradition at 1st, 3rd, 6th, and 10th-level.

Favored & Clashing Magic

Magic spells are categorized into eight traditional schools of arcane power. As you begin to train in your Arcane Tradition, some of these schools become easier—or more difficult—for you to learn and master.

At 1st-level, you gain one Favored and one Clashing school of magic from your Arcane Tradition, with an associated feature for each.

2Arcane Recovery

When you finish a short rest, you can recover some expended spell slots by studying your spellbook. The spell slots must have a combined level equal to or less than half your wizard level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th-level or higher.

You can use this feature once, and you regain expended uses when you finish a long rest.

3Spell Research

As a student of the arcane, you are able to learn new wizard spells in your downtime through careful study, research, and experimentation.

See the Spell Research section () for more details about this feature.

 

 

 

 

 

4Ability Score Improvement

You can increase one ability score of your choice by +2, or two ability scores of your choice by +1. You can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Greater Ability Score Improvement: At 8th-level, you gain another ability score improvement.

6Spellscript Savant

You have learned a new technique to improve the quality of your spellscript and spell writing. Choose one of the options listed below.

Greater Spellscript Savant: At 8th-level, choose an additional feature. You can't choose the same feature more than once unless specified otherwise.

Compression

You have learned how to use notations more efficiently in your writing. When you write spellscript, you can spend one additional hour per spell level to compress your text.

Compressed spellscript takes up half as much physical space as it normally would (rounded up) and—when calculating your spellbook's magical capacity—counts as half its normal spell level (rounded up).

Encryption

You can encrypt your spellscript, making it impossible for other wizards to decipher without your personal cypher.

When writing new spellscript, you can spend 1 additional hour per spell level to encrypt your text.

Decryption: You can't prepare a spell by reading from encrypted spellscript—you must read from a decrypted copy. It takes 1 additional hour per spell level to decipher your own encrypted text.

Physical Cypher: The cypher for your encryption is a set of arcane codes and substitutions too complicated to memorize—it must be written down somewhere, and you must be able to access it when encrypting or decrypting your spellscript.

Potent Glyphs

You have learned how to use cost-effective notations when writing spellscript. Spells count as one level lower than normal when calculating how much gold you must spend to write them.

You can choose this option multiple times.

Shorthand

You have learned how to read and write in arcane shorthand. You can write spellscript, decipher spellscript, and prepare spells in half the usual time (rounded up).

10Signature Spell

Choose one 1st-level wizard spell from your spellbook to be your Signature Spell. While your signature spell is prepared, you may cast it as 1st-level spell without expending a spell slot.

You can do this a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier, and you regain expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Wizard Spells

Spell List

• Class Feature
• Wizard

Cantrips

d100
01-04	Acid Splash
05-08	Blade Ward
09-12	Chill Touch
13-16	Control Flames
17-20	Create Bonfire
21-24	Dancing Lights
25-28	Fire Bolt
29-32	Friends
33-36	Frostbite
37-40	Gust
41-44	Infestation
45-48	Light
49-52	Mage Hand
53-56	Mending
57-60	Message
61-64	Minor Illusion
65-68	Mold Earth
69-72	Poison Spray
73-76	Prestidigitation
77-80	Ray of Frost
81-84	Shocking Grasp
85-88	Thunderclap
89-92	Toll the Dead
93-96	True Strike

1st-level

d100
01-02	Absorb Elements
03-04	Alarm
05-06	Burning Hands
07-08	Catapult
09-10	Cause Fear
11-12	Charm Person
13-14	Chromatic Orb
15-16	Color Spray
17-18	Comprehend Languages
19-20	Detect Magic
21-22	Disguise Self
23-24	Earth Tremor
25-26	Expeditious Retreat
27-28	False Life
29-30	Feather Fall
31-32	Find Familiar
33-34	Fog Cloud
35-36	Grease
37-38	Ice Knife
39-40	Identify
41-42	Illusory Script
43-44	Jump
45-46	Longstrider
47-48	Mage Armor
49-50	Magic Missile
51-52	Protection from Evil and Good
53-54	Ray of Sickness
55-56	Shield
57-58	Silent Image

d100
59-60	Sleep
61-62	Snare
63-64	Tasha's Hideous Laughter
65-66	Tenser's Floating Disk
67-68	Thunderwave
69-70	Unseen Servant
71-72	Witch Bolt

2nd-level

d100
01-02	Aganazzar's Scorcher
03-04	Alter Self
05-06	Arcane Lock
07-08	Augury
09-10	Blindness/Deafness
11-12	Blur
13-14	Cloud of Daggers
15-16	Continual Flame
17-18	Crown of Madness
19-20	Darkness
21-22	Darkvision
23-24	Detect Thoughts
25-26	Dragon's Breath
27-28	Dust Devil
29-30	Earthbind
31-32	Enhance Ability
33-34	Enlarge/Reduce
35-36	Flaming Sphere
37-38	Gentle Repose
39-40	Gust of Wind
41-42	Hold Person
43-44	Invisibility
45-46	Knock
47-48	Levitate
49-50	Locate Object
51-52	Magic Mouth
53-54	Magic Weapon
55-56	Maximilian's Earthen Grasp
57-58	Melf's Acid Arrow
59-60	Mind Spike
61-62	Mirror Image
63-64	Misty Step
65-66	Nystul's Magic Aura
67-68	Phantasmal Force
69-70	Pyrotechnics
71-72	Ray of Enfeeblement
73-74	Rope Trick
75-76	Scorching Ray
77-78	See Invisibility
79-80	Shadow Blade
81-82	Shatter
83-84	Skywrite
85-86	Snilloc's Snowball Swarm
87-88	Spider Climb
89-90	Suggestion
91-92	Warding Wind
93-94	Web

3rd-level

d100
01-02	Animate Dead
03-04	Bestow Curse
05-06	Blink
07-08	Catnap
09-10	Clairvoyance
11-12	Counterspell
13-14	Dispel Magic
15-16	Enemies Abound
17-18	Erupting Earth
19-20	Fear
21-22	Feign Death
23-24	Fireball
25-26	Flame Arrows
27-28	Fly
29-30	Gaseous Form
31-32	Glyph of Warding
33-34	Haste
35-36	Hypnotic Pattern
37-38	Leomund's Tiny Hut
39-40	Life Transference
41-42	Lightning Bolt
43-44	Magic Circle
45-46	Major Image
47-48	Melf's Minute Meteors
49-50	Nondetection
51-52	Phantom Steed
53-54	Protection from Energy
55-56	Remove Curse
57-58	Sending
59-60	Sleet Storm
61-62	Slow
63-64	Speak with Dead
65-66	Stinking Cloud
67-68	Summon Lesser Demons
69-70	Thunder Step
71-72	Tidal Wave
73-74	Tiny Servant
75-76	Tongues
77-78	Vampiric Touch
79-80	Wall of Sand
81-82	Wall of Water
83-84	Water Breathing

4th-level

d100
01-03	Arcane Eye
04-06	Banishment
07-09	Blight
10-12	Charm Monster
13-15	Confusion
16-18	Conjure Minor Elementals
19-21	Control Water
22-24	Dimension Door
25-27	Divination
28-30	Elemental Bane
31-33	Evard's Black Tentacles

Spell List

• Class Feature
• Wizard

d100
34-36	Fabricate
37-39	Fire Shield
40-42	Greater Invisibility
43-45	Hallucinatory Terrain
46-48	Ice Storm
49-51	Leomund's Secret Chest
52-54	Locate Creature
55-57	Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound
58-60	Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum
61-63	Otiluke's Resilient Sphere
64-66	Phantasmal Killer
67-69	Polymorph
70-72	Sickening Radiance
73-75	Stone Shape
76-78	Stoneskin
79-81	Storm Sphere
82-84	Summon Greater Demon
85-87	Vitriolic Sphere
88-90	Wall of Fire
91-93	Watery Sphere

5th-level

d100
01-02	Animate Objects
03-04	Bigby's Hand
05-06	Cloudkill
07-08	Cone of Cold
09-10	Conjure Elemental
11-12	Contact Other Plane
13-14	Creation
15-16	Danse Macabre
17-18	Dawn
19-20	Dominate Person
21-22	Dream
23-24	Enervation
25-26	Far Step
27-28	Geas
29-30	Hold Monster
31-32	Immolation
33-34	Infernal Calling
35-36	Legend Lore
37-38	Mislead
39-40	Modify Memory

d100
40-41	Negative Energy Flood
42-43	Passwall
44-45	Planar Binding
46-47	Rary's Telepathic Bond
48-49	Scrying
50-51	Seeming
52-53	Skill Empowerment
54-55	Steel Wind Strike
56-57	Synaptic Static
58-59	Telekinesis
60-61	Teleportation Circle
62-63	Transmute Rock
64-65	Wall of Force
66-67	Wall of Light
68-69	Wall of Stone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spellscript

Spellscript is an academic language of runes, glyphs, and sigils used to transcribe spells and arcane knowledge. Wizard spells and scrolls are almost always written in spellscript—it is the common tongue of the arcane.

Perhaps you were trained by a mentor, or you taught yourself through careful study of spellbooks, or a strange force burned magical words into your mind—whatever your background, spellscript is your key to arcane power.

Your Writing Dialect

Though the basic principles of spellscript are well understood, every wizard instinctively develops their own coded dialect which reflects their individual tastes and writing style—spellscript is as much art as it is science.

Choose your dialect from the Spellscript Dialect table below, or define your own style:

Spellscript Dialect

d10	Handwriting	Vocabulary	Framework
1	Block	Casual	Abstract
2	Bold	Chatty	Aberrant
3	Cramped	Concise	Celestial
4	Fine	Direct	Common
5	Messy	Elaborate	Diagramatic
6	Slanted	Formal	Draconic
7	Spidery	Obtuse	Dwarvish
8	Tidy	Opinionated	Elvish
9	Wide	Rambling	Infernal
10	Wild	Vague	Mathematical

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spellpaper

Spellscript can only be written onto a magical surface—otherwise it begins to blur, fade, and then vanish after 1 minute. For this reason, wizards like to record their spells on specially-crafted spellpaper and bind sheets together into large, magical spellbooks.

Magical Capacity: One sheet of spellpaper can hold up to one spell level of magic power. A 1st-level spell, for example, can be written on one sheet of spellpaper—a 5th-level spell, however, requires five sheets.

Crafting Spellpaper: If you are trained in arcana and calligraphy tools, you can transmute a normal sheet of paper into spellpaper. It takes 1 hour to infuse a sheet of paper with 0.5 gp of arcane dust. Any content on the paper remains intact during this process.

Spellpaper

• Class Feature
• Wizard

A sheet of magical spellpaper. This paper is used to record magical spells and arcane knowledge.

• Detectable Spellpaper has a magical aura and can be detected by arcane senses (such as the Detect Magic spell).

 

 

 

 

Writing Spellscript

Once you have some spellpaper, it's time to start writing. As a wizard, you are typically using spellscript to write something new or make a copy of an existing spell.

Writing Something New

There are times where you are struck by inspiration and want to write something new—researching a new spell, sharing arcane knowledge with another wizard, recording your own magical discovery, etc.

You must spend 1 hour and 10 gp per spell level (to a minimum of 1 hour and 0 gp) to successfully write your own original spellscript.

 

 

 

Making a Copy

Sometimes you want to make a written copy of a spell or a piece of spellscript writing—copying a spell from a magic scroll, deciphering an enemy's spellbook, recording some magic runes from an ancient ruin, duplicating your own spellbook, etc.

The time needed to do this depends the author of the original material and their dialect of spellscript.

• I wrote the original: you must spend 1 hour and 10 gp per spell level (to a minimum of 1 hour and 0 gp) to successfully write the copied spellscript.
• Someone else wrote the original: you must spend 2 hours and 50 gp per spell level (to a minimum of 1 hour and 0 gp) to successfully write the copied spellscript.

 

 

 

 

 

Spellbooks

No self-respecting wizard is a wizard for long without a spellbook of their very own—a priceless tome in which to record spells and arcane knowledge.

 

 

 

 

 

Your Spellbook

Your spellbook is a unique tome 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.

Choose a description from the table below, or define your own appearance:

Spellbook Appearance

d10	Cover	Pages	Style
1	Bone	Cheap	Aberrant
2	Clay	Fine	Celestial
3	Cloth	Inky	Common
4	Fur	Lined	Draconic
5	Leather	Mottled	Dwarven
6	Metal	Odorous	Elven
7	Paper	Scrappy	Ethereal
8	Plant	Slippery	Fey
9	Skin	Textured	Infernal
10	Wood	Thick	Orcish

Magical Capacity

Magical writing is inherently powerful, and stacking multiple spells together in close proximity—such as in a spellbook—can have unpredictable consequences.

A single spellbook can safely hold up to 50 spell levels worth of spells and arcane knowledge.

Capacity Burnout: If your spellbook capacity is exceeded, your spellbook will purge itself and erase content at random until balance is restored.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spellbook

• Class Feature
• Wizard

A leather-bound tome with 50 blank vellum pages and 50 spellpaper pages. The pages are mottled and the cover glimmers with an ethereal light. This book can be used to record magical spells and arcane knowledge.

• Detectable This book has a magical aura and can be detected by arcane senses (such as the Detect Magic spell).
• Capacity This book can hold a total of 50 spell levels worth of spells and arcane knowledge.
• Volatile If this book is carelessly destroyed, roll 1d100—if the result is lower than or equal to the total number of recorded spell levels, it explodes with arcane force.

Volatile Power

Spellbooks contain powerful magical writing that can be very unstable when handled improperly. If a spellbook is destroyed without proper caution—such as by being incinerated—it may erupt with magical force.

Roll a d100—if the result is equal to or less than the total number of spell levels recorded in the book, it explodes. Each creature within 30 ft must make a Constitution saving throw:

If the creature fails: it suffers 1d12 force damage, plus an additional 1d12 force damage for every 10 spell levels contained in the spellbook.

If the creature succeeds: it takes half as much damage.

 

 

 

Making a New Spellbook

As a wizard, you may be required to make a new spellbook for yourself—to replace a lost book, to expand your magical capacity, or to use as a backup copy of an existing spellbook.

Crafting a Spellbook: If you are trained in arcana and calligraphy tools, you can create a new spellbook by infusing a normal book with 25 gp worth of arcane dust. This requires 1 day of dedicated effort and attention, and the process turns 50 pages of the book into spellpaper.

Alternatively—if you have 50 sheets of spellpaper—you can bind them together in an appropriate fashion to create your spellbook.

 

 

 

 

Spell Research

As a student of the arcane, you are able to learn new wizard spells through careful study, research, and magical—oftentimes dangerous—experimentation.

Spend your downtime running experiments and expand your spellbook with new arcane knowledge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Performing Research

A wizard knows that to learn, you must study—and that means experiments. To perform some arcane research, there are four basic steps:

1. Define your Research Topic: Choose a spell from the wizard spell list that you want to learn. The spell must be of a level that you have spell slots for.

   The difficulty of your research is DC 5 + five times the spell level of your target spell.

2. Setup your Laboratory: Assemble your research equipment and laboratory. At a bare minimum, you need access to your spellbook, inks, magical components, and some privacy.

   For every additional 100 gp you spend setting up your research—hiring assistants, buying components, renting equipment, etc—you gain a +1 bonus to your Research Check (limited to half your wizard level, rounded up) for the current workweek.

3. Make a Research Check: Once you have everything set up, you can start to run your experiments.

   After one workweek has passed, make an Intelligence (Arcana) check and see the results using the Spell Research Outcomes table.

4. Make a Complication Check: Finally, roll 1d10—if you roll less than or equal to the spell level of your research, there was a complication. Make a roll on the Spell Research Complications table.

Once your research is resolved, you may choose to run another experiment—if there is downtime to spare.

Research Credits

During your experiments and adventures, you may find research notes made by other wizards. These research credits can help you during your studies.

When you make a research check, you can spend one research credit to add +2d4 to the result. For every additional research credit you spend, you gain a +1 bonus to the total result.

Greater Researcher: Starting at 8th-level, the research you gain from your first research credit increases from +2d4 to +2d6.

Spell Research

Research DC: 5 + (spell level x 5)

Check: 1d20 + your Intelligence (Arcana) modifier

Spell Research Outcomes

Result	Outcome
−10 or lower	Critical Failure: Your research causes an immediate, automatic complication. Roll on the Spell Research Complications table, resolve it, and then make a Complication Check as normal.
−5 to −9	No Progress: No effect.
−1 to −4	So Close: Gain a research credit.
+0 to +9	Success: Your research was successful. Spend 50 gp per spell level to record your new spell in your spellbook.
+10 or more	Critical Success: Your research was very successful. Spend 20 gp per spell level to record your new spell in your spellbook.

Spell Research Complications

d10	Complication
1-2	Destruction: There was a small fire and you accidentally singed your spellbook—lose one random spell from your spellbook (or the spellbook itself if you have no spells to lose).
3-5	Noticed: Your experiments have drawn unwanted attention from someone or something who will make your life more difficult, such as: A demon. A higher power. A noble of the land. A thief. A mage hunter. A wild monster. A rival wizard. A zealous cleric. A furious druid. An angry mob.
5-8	Backfire: An experiment backfired—you now suffer from a magical affliction. For example: You have turned yourself into a frog. Your skin turns a random color. All of your hair falls out. Your teeth turn sharp and black. Your head swells to twice its normal size. You periodically vomit up living slugs. Anything you touch turns red for 1 hour. Your body grows a thick layer of animal fur. Your hands are turned into crab-like pincers. Words you speak are reversed.
8-10	Accident: Your research has caused an accident—you owe 1d10 x 10 gp per spell level to cover the damages.