Arcane Tradition

Muscle Wizardry Features

Chiseled Physique

As preparation for studying this Arcane Tradition, you have undergone special fitness training. At 2nd level, you gain several benefits:

• Your hit point maximum increases by 2, and increases by 1 again whenever you gain a level in this class.
• While you aren't wearing armor, your AC equals 13 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (whichever is higher).
• Your unarmed strikes can deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier on a hit. If you aren't wielding any weapons or a shield when you make the attack roll, the d6 becomes a d8.

Arcane Fisticuffs

At 2nd level, you learn a special trick that makes short-range spells a little more potent: violence. When you damage a target with a melee spell attack, you can add your Strength modifier to the damage roll of the attack.

In addition, when you cast a spell that involves making a melee attack with a weapon as part of its casting (like booming blade), you can ignore the material component and make an unarmed strike as part of the spell instead.

Fantastical Fisticuffs

Starting at 6th level, your unarmed strikes count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

I Cast Fist

At 6th level, you discover that spellcasting sometimes favors a more direct approach.

When you cast a spell, you can choose to deliver it through a limb. This spell must only be able to target one creature, and it must deal damage. When you deliver a spell through a limb, its properties change in the following ways:

• The spell’s range becomes Touch if it isn’t already.
• The first attack roll you make with the spell becomes a melee spell attack. If the spell forces a saving throw instead, you make a melee spell attack and treat a hit as a failed saving throw against the spell (a monster can use its Legendary Resistance to turn a hit into a miss).. Subsequent saving throws against the spell’s effect remain unchanged.

Branding Grasp

Evocation cantrip

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 round

Your hand glows white-hot, searing a creature within range. Make a melee spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 fire damage, and is marked with an arcane brand that lasts until the start of your next turn. While the target is branded, it has disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide.

This spell's damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).

Icicle Snag

Evocation cantrip

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (a fistful of water)
• Duration: 1 round

A jagged icicle forms around your hand, which you use to spear a creature within range. Make a melee spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d6 cold damage, and jagged frost forms around their feet. If the target willingly walks 5 feet or more before then, the target slips and falls prone.

This spell's damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).

Witch Slap

1st-level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (a knuckle bone coated in brass)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You infuse your hand with a crackling, roiling energy that magnetizes to living creatures. Make a melee spell attack against a creature within range. On a hit, the target takes 2d8 thunder damage, and on each of your turns for the duration, you can use your action to repeat the spell attack against the target with advantage. The spell ends early if the attack misses, or if you use your action to do anything else.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage of the first attack increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 1st.