Wizard

Wizards are arcane spellcasters that learn to harness the magic of the Weave through intensive research and study. This mastery manifests in the form of memorized incantations and gestures which allows them to unleash elemental forces or control the battlefield around them with ease. Every wizard possesses a spellbook filled with notes and esoteric sigils in which they document their arcane knowledge.

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: Choose one from alchemist supplies, calligraphy supplies, or cartography tools
Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
Skills: Choose two from Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, and Religion

Equipment

You start with 160 gp, in addition to the equipment granted by your background. The following are good starting items for wizards:

A quarterstaff or a dagger
A component pouch or an arcane focus
A scholar's pack or an explorer's pack
A spellbook
Alchemist supplies, calligraphy supplies, or cartography tools

Table: The Wizard
Level	Features	Studies Known	Cantrips Known	Mana Pool	Max Spell Level
1st	Spellcasting, Arcane Recovery	—	3	4	1st
2nd	Arcane Tradition	—	3	6	1st
3rd	Scholarly Excellence	—	3	14	2nd
4th	Ability Score Improvement, Elective Studies	1	4	17	2nd
5th	Signature Spells (1st-level)	2	4	27	3rd
6th	Arcane Tradition feature	2	4	32	3rd
7th	Spell Study	2	4	38	4th
8th	Ability Score Improvement	2	4	44	4th
9th	Wizard's Flair	3	4	57	5th
10th	Arcane Tradition feature	3	5	64	5th
11th	—	3	5	73	6th
12th	Ability Score Improvement	3	5	73	6th
13th	Signature Spells (2nd-level)	4	5	83	7th
14th	Arcane Tradition feature	4	5	83	7th
15th	Arcane Defenses	4	5	94	8th
16th	Ability Score Improvement	4	5	94	8th
17th	Signature Spells (3rd-level)	5	5	107	9th
18th	—	5	5	114	9th
19th	Ability Score Improvement, Swift Signature	5	5	123	9th
20th	Archmage	5	5	133	9th

Table: The Epic Level Wizard
Level	Features	Studies Known	Cantrips Known	Mana Pool	Max Spell Level
21st	Epic Ability Score Improvement, Arcane Tradition feature	6	6	142	9th
22nd	Font of Arcana	6	6	142	9th
23rd	Signature Spells (4th-level)	6	6	152	9th
24th	Deep Memory	6	6	152	9th
25th	Epic Ability Score Improvement, Arcane Tradition feature	7	6	163	9th
26th	Spell Mastery	7	7	163	9th
27th	Signature Spells (5th-level)	7	7	176	9th
28th	Arcane Tradition feature	7	7	190	10th
29th	Epic Ability Score Improvement, Improved Arcane Defenses	8	7	205	11th
30th	Dominus Magicae	8	8	222	12th

Spellcasting

^{1st-level Wizard feature}
As a student of arcane magic, you have a spellbook containing spells that show the first glimmerings of your true power.

Your Spellbook

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 that 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.

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. In addition to these, you also know the prestidigitation cantrip.

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. However, you cannot replace prestidigitation using this feature.

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 much mana you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend mana from your mana pool. You regain all expended mana when you finish a long rest. The mana costs for spells can be found on the mana cost table.

You prepare the list of wizard spells that are available for you to cast. When you 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 can cast.

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 wizard 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 or your spellbook 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.

Arcane Recovery

^{1st-level Wizard feature}
You have learned to regain some of your magical energy by studying your spellbook. Once per day when you finish a short rest, you may recover mana equal to your proficiency bonus + half your Wizard levels, rounded up.

Arcane Tradition

^{2nd-level Wizard feature}
You choose an arcane tradition from the list of available traditions, shaping your practice of magic. Your choice grants you features at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, 14th, 21st, 25th, and 28th level.

Abjurer	Player's Handbook. Altered.
Bladesinger	Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. Epic level features added.
Chronurgist	As in Explorer's Guide to Wildemount except Convergent Future causes strife instead of exhaustion
Conjurer	Player's Handbook. Altered.
Diviner	Player's Handbook. Altered.
Dynamicist	Reworked and setting agnostic Prismari UA
Enchanter	Player's Handbook. Altered
Evoker	Player's Handbook. Altered.
Graviturgist	Explorer's Guide to Wildemount. Altered.
Hemomancer	Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn. Altered.
Illusionist	Player's Handbook. Altered
Magister	Homebrew.
Necromancer	Player's Handbook. Altered
Oneiromancer	ROYal Brews. Altered.
Onomancer	Unearthed Arcana. Altered.
Psionicist	Unearthed Arcana. Altered.
Runecrafter	As in Unearthed Arcana.
Scribe	As in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything
Transmuter	Player's Handbook. Altered
Synergeticist	Reworked and setting agnostic Quandrix UA
Technomancer	Altered and wording cleanup
Theurgist	As in Unearthed Arcana except Divine Inspiration and Arcane Initiate have been combined
War Mage	As in Xanathar's Guide to Everything except cantrip-only restriction removed from Arcane Deflection

Scholarly Excellence

^{3rd-level Wizard feature}
You have a particular set of skills that sets you a cut above a novice mage. Choose one of the following:

Academic

Choose one from Arcana, History, Nature, and Religion. You gain proficiency in the chosen skill. If you are already proficient in it, you gain expertise instead. In addition, by relying on facts and logic, you can use Intelligence when making Intimidation or Persuasion checks. The GM is the final arbiter on whether or not this ability would work on a particular creature.

Ritual Efficiency

When you cast a spell as a ritual, it only takes you a number of minutes equal to the level of the spell to cast it.

Rote Memorization

Choose one cantrip which has a casting time of 1 action and doesn’t deal damage. You can cast that cantrip as a bonus action without any seen or material components a number of times equal to your proficiency modifier. You regain all expended uses of this feature when you finish a long rest, and can switch the cantrip associated with this feature each time you gain a wizard level.

Ability Score Improvement

^{4th-level Wizard feature}
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. In addition, you may select a single Feat you meet the prerequisites for.

You may also replace one of your skill proficiencies with a skill proficiency offered by this class at 1st level. The proficiency you replace does not need to be from this class.

Lastly, you may do one of the following, representing a change of focus in your magical studies:

Replace the option you chose for your Scholarly Excellence feature with one of that feature’s other options.
Replace the option you chose for your Spell Study feature with one of that feature’s other options.
Replace the option you chose for your Arcane Defenses feature with one of that feature’s other options.

Elective Studies

^{4th-level Wizard feature}
Your study of magic has uncovered unique ways to explore the world. You gain one elective study of your choice. Elective studies are detailed on the Elective Studies page. The Studies Known column of the Wizard table shows when you learn more elective studies. Unless otherwise noted, you can gain each study only once.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the Elective Studies you know and replace it with another Elective Studies that you could learn at that level.

Signature Spells

^{5th-level Wizard feature}
You have developed your spellcasting skill and honed it into spells that you consider to be your Signature Spells.

Choose one 1st-level wizard spell that is in your spellbook. You always have this spell prepared, it doesn’t count toward your maximum prepared spells, and you can cast this spell at its lowest level without expending a spell slot. If you want to cast it at a higher level, you must expend a spell slot as normal. Once you have cast a Signature Spell in this way, you must finish a short or long rest before you can do so again.

At higher levels, you gain additional Signature Spells, each of which you can cast once between rests. At 11th level, you can choose one 2nd-level Signature Spell. At 17th level, you can choose one 3rd-level Signature Spell. At 23rd level, you can choose one 4th-level Signature Spell. At 27th level, you can choose one 5th-level Signature Spell.

Each time you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of your Signature Spells with another of the same level.

Spell Study

^{7th-level Wizard feature}
You learn to hone your magic and spells to new power levels thanks to your dedicated studies. Choose one Spell Study that reflects what you have dedicated your arcane studies to.

Detective Spell Study

You are adept at sensing magic and its effects. If there are active magical effects near you, such on an object or in the area, you automatically sense its presence. You don’t know what spell effects there are or where they are, but you can automatically sense the effect of magic in a 20-foot radius around you.

In addition, you have honed your detection spells. Add detect magic and detect thoughts to your spellbook if they weren’t already there. When you cast these spells, their effective ranges are increased to 60 feet.

Fauna and Flora

Your research into plants, wildlife, and the natural workings of magic grants you superior insights into the magic of living creatures and flora. You gain proficiency in the Nature skill. If you are already proficient in it, you gain expertise instead.

In addition, beast and plant creatures have disadvantage on saving throws against your spells.

Mystic Psychometry

When you touch a magic item, either willingly or when hit by it, you are immediately aware that it’s magical. If you hold such an item in your hand, you can cast identify on it as an action without spending a spell slot, even if you don’t have the spell prepared.

In addition, when you cast identify using a spell slot or as a ritual, you also learn if the item is cursed, and the GM will give you a hint as to the curse’s effects (which may be cryptic and vague, but must not be a lie).

Wizard's Flair

^{9th-level Wizard feature}
You have created a flair that you use when casting spells. Choose a flair from the options below. When you finish a long rest, you may replace your flair with another.

Whenever you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, you can choose to cast it with your flair. You can do so again when you finish a short or long rest.

Awe and Wonder. Choose one creature affected by the spell. It must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be Charmed by you until the end of its next turn. While charmed in this way, it is incapacitated, has a movement speed of 0, and does nothing but stare blankly at the dazzling effects of your magic. If it takes any damage or is forced to make another saving throw, the charm effect ends.

Brilliance. Choose one creature within 30 feet that can see you when you cast the spell. It must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be Blinded until the end of its next turn.

Terror. Choose one creature within 30 feet that can see you when you cast the spell. It must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become Frightened of you until the end of its next turn. While frightened in this way, it starts its turn by using its full movement to get away from you in the most direct manner possible, avoiding obvious hazards along the way.

Warding. After casting the spell, until the start of your next turn, a creature who attempts to attack you must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, it must choose a new target or waste its attack.

Arcane Defenses

^{15th-level Wizard feature}
Your training has granted you certain protections against magic. Choose one of the following:

Mental Discipline

Your mind is sheltered from intrusion. You have resistance to psychic damage, and you are immune to magic that allows other creatures to read your thoughts, determine whether you are lying, know your alignment, or know your creature type. Creatures can telepathically communicate with you only if you allow it. Additionally, when you fail an Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throw, you can choose to succeed instead. You can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Mystic Mantle

Magic layers upon you into a defensive ward that you can extend to even protect your allies. You have resistance against the damage of spells. If you already have this resistance, creatures within 10 feet of you gain it as well.

Superior Countermagic

When you cast an abjuration spell that requires you to make an ability check as a part of casting that spell, you add your proficiency bonus to the roll. In addition, when you cast counterspell or dispel magic, treat the spell slot level of the spell as one level higher than the actual slot you spent.

Swift Signature

^{19th-level Wizard feature}
You’re especially efficient with your Signature Spells. When you cast a spell that has a casting time of 1 action using your Signature Spell feature, you can cast it as a bonus action instead.

Archmage

^{20th-level Wizard feature}
You have achieved a rare level of achievement and prestige, gaining the following features.

Magesight. Your eyes become attuned to the supernatural. You cannot be blinded, you gain darkvision to a range of 120 feet. If you already have darkvision from another source, its range increases by 90 feet. You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, in your darkvision.
True Magician. When you cast Wizard spells at 1st- and 2nd-level, you can do so without spending mana.

Epic Level Wizard: Epic Ability Score Improvement

^{21st-level Wizard feature}
When you reach 21st level, and again at 25th and 29th level, you gain the benefits of an Ability Score Improvement, but your ability score increase can bring an ability score above 20, to a maximum of 24.

Epic Level Wizard: Font of Arcana

^{22nd-level Wizard feature}
You can regain even more of your magical energy by studying your spellbook. You may use your Arcane Recovery class feature whenever you finish a short rest.

Epic Level Wizard: Deep Memory

^{24th-level Wizard feature}
Using a Bonus Action, you can exchange one spell you have prepared for one you don’t have prepared. The new spell you prepare must be available to you in your spellbook.

You can use this feature twice. You regain all expended charges when you finish a long rest.

Epic Level Wizard: Spell Mastery

^{26th-level Wizard feature}
You have achieved mastery over your signature spells. Your signature spells cost half the normal mana (rounded down) when you cast them with mana.

Epic Level Wizard: Improved Arcane Defenses

^{29th-level Wizard feature}
Your training has granted you greater protections against magic. Choose a second option from the Arcane Defenses class feature. You gain the benefits from it.

Epic Level Wizard: Dominus Magicae

^{30th-level Wizard feature}
You’ve mastered the arcane and gain the following features.

Arcane Superiority. You gain a +1 bonus to your save DC and spell attacks. This can stack with similar abilities, to a maximum of +3.
Archmage’s Will. You make Intelligence saving throws with Advantage.
Might of the Ages. When you target a creature with a spell that forces it to make a saving throw, you gain a +10 bonus to your spell save DC. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.
Spellbook of Ages. Your unmatched knowledge of the arcane allows you to conjure forth a Spellbook of the Ages, a massive weightless tome that doubles as a spellcasting focus, which can be opened only by you. Should the book be destroyed or lost, you can conjure it back into existence as a Bonus Action. You can also store the book safely in a demiplane or pull it back to you as a Bonus Action. The book disappears in a ﬂash of elemental light if you die.
The book magically holds all your known spells when you acquire it. Copying new spells into the book requires you to spend only 1 minute and 1 gp worth of fine inks for each level of the spell. In addition, preparing new spells with your Spellbook of the Ages takes only 1 minute regardless of how many spells you prepare or what their levels are.