Wilder

A wild-eyed man wearing robes woven from vines dances through a battlefield, leaving foes insensate in his wake.

A dwarven woman closes her eyes in concentration. When she opens them again, dragons' wings and scales have covered her body, and a ball of waiting fire hovers above her hand.

A thin man with no pupils gazes into the face of a captured enemy. After a few moments, both start speaking in unison, revealing the secrets held in the captured man's mind.

Wilders are mortals born with magic in their very blood and bone. With willpower and focus, they learn to bend the energies of magic without the burdensome trappings of spellcasting.

Sorceries Channeled

The Wilder table shows how many sorceries you can have channeled at a time. You can channel a new sorcery as an action. If you channel a sorcery that would cause you to exceed your maximum, a sorcery of your choice is unchanneled. Once channeled, sorceries last until you end them as a bonus action on your turn or you complete a long rest, whichever comes first.

Sorcerous Ability

Charisma is your ability for Wilder sorceries, so you use your Charisma modifier whenever a sorcery refers to your sorcerous ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a sorcery you channel and when making an attack roll with one.

• Sorcery Save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier
• Sorcery attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier

Arcane Surge

At 1st level, you also gain the ability to unleash the power of a sorcery you are channeling in a burst of energy known as a Arcane Surge. Arcane Surges call for you to roll a certain number of dice, as noted in table: The Wilder. Refer to the descriptions of each sorcery for details on what its surge does.

You can use this ability twice. At certain levels in this class, you gain additional uses of this ability. You can use it an additional time at 5th, 10th, and 15th level. You regain all uses of this ability when you complete a long rest.

Bloodline

At 2nd level, you begin to show signs of the unique heritage that allowed magic to awaken in you in the first place. Select a bloodline from those described at the end of this class description. Your choice grants you features when you choose it and again at level 6, 10, and 17.

Bloodline Points

Also at 2nd level, you unlock a pool of reserve energy known as bloodline points. You can expend bloodline points to activate certain features. You start with two such effects determined by your bloodline. Some bloodlines give additional effects as you advance in levels, as noted in the bloodline description. You regain all spent bloodline points when you finish a short or a long rest.

Overchannel

At 3rd level, you learn to put more of yourself into a surge when you manifest it. When you use your Arcane Surge for a sorcery you are currently channeling, you can choose to overchannel it. If you do so, treat your sorcerous power as though it was 1 higher when calculating the effects of that surge. That sorcery then becomes unchanneled and you cannot channel it again until you have completed a short or a long rest. The amount of sorcerous power you add with Overchannel increases by 1 at 9th level (2 additional power), 14th level (3 additional power), and 18th level (4 additional power).

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.

Magic Resistance

Starting at 7th level, the magic that flows through you also protects you from magical effects. When a sorcery, spell, or other magical effect causes you to make a saving throw, you may spend a bloodline point as a reaction to gain advantage on that saving throw. If you do so and the effect has a reduced effect for a successful save, it instead has no effect if you succeed on your save.

Echoing Surge

Starting at 11th level, your Arcane Surges resonate with enough power to repeat. When you use an Arcane Surge, you can choose to repeat it as an action before the end of your next turn. If you do so, your effective sorcerous power is halved for the repeated use and you can concentrate on the original surge and the echoed surge as if they are a single effect. Once you have used this feature, you cannot use it again until you have completed a long rest.

Deep Magic

Starting at 13th level, whenever you overchannel, you can immediately channel another sorcery to replace the overchanneled sorcery as part of the same action. You must be capable of currently channeling the new sorcery.

Boundless Channel

When you reach 20th level, you learn to overchannel without losing your connection to the magic. When you use your overchannel feature, you may spend a bloodline point instead of losing your ability to channel the affected sorcery.

Wilder Sorceries

• Acidus Create or manipulate acid
• Acies Discover information about the past or present
• Animus Manipulate minds and hearts
• Corpus Manipulate physical bodies
• Daemonis Conjure or banish demons
• Faunus Conjure or manipulate animals
• Flora Create or manipulate plantlife
• Frigis Create or manipulate ice
• Fulgar Conjure or manipulate lightning
• Ignis Conjure or manipulate fire
• Impes Manipulate motion
• Magicus Manipulate magical energies
• Mortus Manipulate the dead
• Potentia Manipulate force energies
• Praestigis Create illusory or temporary sensations
• Spatium Manipulate space
• Tempus Manipulate time
• Terra Create or manipulate earth
• Tonitrus Conjure or manipulate sound
• Venenum Create or manipulate poison

Bloodlines

This section describes the different bloodlines that can grant a Wilder their powers.

Draconic Bloodline

Dragons have potent magic that passes on to their descendants, even if their descendants show no physical signs of draconic blood.

Breath Weapon

As an action you may spend a bloodline point to expel a deadly breath, harming creatures in a 15 foot cone. Affected creatures must make a Dexterity saving throw or take 2d8 damage of the type associated with your heritage. On a successful save, they take half damage. Starting at level 11, this damage increases to 3d8 per use.

Dragon Scales

As a bonus action, you may spend a bloodline point to manifest a thin sheen of dragon-like scales. Your armor class improves to 13 + your dexterity modifier unless it would already be higher, and you gain temporary hit points equal to half your wilder level. These benefits fade after one minute.

Menacing Presence

Also at 2nd level, you gain a lesser version of your ancestor's dread presence. You have proficiency in the Intimidate skill and may add twice your proficiency bonus to checks made using that skill.

Elemental Affinity

At 6th level, when you use a sorcery ability that deals damage of the type associated with your draconic ancestry, you can add your Charisma modifier to one damage roll of that ability. Additionally, you can spend 1 bloodline point as a bonus action to gain resistance to the damage type associated with your ancestry for one minute.

Dragonflight

At 10th level, you gain the ability to sprout a pair of dragon wings from your back. As a bonus action, spend a bloodline point. For the next minute, you have a fly speed equal to your land speed. Armor not designed to accommodate your wings prevents the use of this ability, and clothing not made to accommodate your wings might be destroyed when you manifest them.

Draconic Awakening

At 17th level, your dragon blood comes out when you use your greatest power. Whenever you Overchannel, you also transform into a dragon-like shape temporarily. While you are transformed, you gain the following benefits.

• Your worn or carried equipment merges into your new form.
• Your size becomes large, and your strength score increases by an amount equal to your Charisma bonus (minimum 1), up to a maximum of 20.
• You gain the benefits of your Dragon Scales, Elemental Affinity, and Dragonflight bloodline powers until your transformation ends.
• You can use your Breath Weapon without spending a bloodline point.
• You gain a bite attack and a tail slap attack. Your bite is a strength based melee weapon which deals 2d6 piercing damage. Your tail slap is a strength based melee weapon which deals 1d8 bludgeoning damage and has a 10 ft reach. You can make a single tail slap attack as a bonus action when you take the Attack action on your turn.
• When you hit with a melee weapon attack, you deal additional damage of your ancestry's damage type equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).

At the end of your turn while transformed, you must spend a bloodline point or revert to your original form.

Fey Bloodline

Feyborn wilders tend to be capricious and alien due to their heritage, but also boast striking appearances somewhere between beauty and horror.

Walking Dreamland

At 17th level, your fey abilities all improve.

• When you use your Alluring Gaze ability, a creature which fails its save also reveals one secret to you that it would only tell to its most trusted friends. The creature does not remember why it told you this secret when the effect ends, but remembers that you know it.
• When you use your Mistwalker ability, you remain invisible for up to a minute or until you make an attack roll or use an activated ability for a sorcery or cast a spell.
• Your Fey Step ability no longer costs an extra bloodline point. Its range improves to 60 feet.
• At the start of each turn while using your Entrancing Song, you may choose an affected creature to take psychic damage equal to your Charisma bonus (minimum 1). This damage does not break Entrancing Song for that creature. If damage from Entrancing Song reduces a creature to 0 hit points, it automatically stabilizes.

Efreeti Bloodline

You are descended from the efreeti, wish-granting beings of elemental fire. Efreeti are bound by strict rules, and that tendency passes along to their descendents who tend to be rigid and literal.