School of Cheese (Wizard Subclass)

You are a material mage, a type of wizard that focuses on unlocking the potential of a single substance. It might be organic or inorganic, mundane or priceless. Other practitioners of the arcane arts find your obsession curious or even absurd, but you know that your chosen material contains real power.

Nothing excites a follower of the School of Cheese more than the prospect of trying a new type of cheese. Sometimes called “cheddar-heads” or “feta freaks,” these mages marvel at the incredible variety of cheese and hope to eat each and every one. They aim not only to savor the cheesy goodness, but to unlock the hidden power that each one holds.

Everything's About Cheese

There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of types of cheese worldwide. You do your best to learn each one. During your studies, you have developed a mnemonic for associating types of cheese with other bits of lore. For example, “blue cheese” helps you remember “blue dragon” and you insist that “asiago” and “Asmodeus” really aren’t that far off.

Starting at 2nd level, whenever you make an Intelligence (Arcana), (History), (Nature), or (Religion) check, roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the result.

Cheesy Magic

At 2nd level, you have gained the ability to magically manipulate cheese. Choose two of the 1st level spells below. You add them to your spellbook. At levels 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th, you learn an additional spell from this list. You can sacrifice a spell slot of their level or higher to cast them even if you haven’t prepared them. Whenever you gain a wizard level, you can choose one of the spells you know from this feature and replace it with another spell from this feature, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Additionally, you learn one of the following cantrips: Chilling Childwickbury (Chilling Touch), Friendly Fromage (Friends), or Fondue Splash (Acid Splash, but deals fire instead of acid damage).

1st: Babybels (Goodberries), Floating Cheese Wheel (Tenser’s Floating Disk), Smear o’ Brie (Grease), Époisses Breath (see below), Shielding Shepsop (Shield)

2nd: Fondue Blast (Melf’s Acid Arrow, but does fire instead of acid damage) Halloumi Web (Web)

3rd: Create Cheese Platter (Create Food and Water), Mini Manchego Meteors (Melf’s Minute Meteors, but they deal bludgeoning instead of fire damage)

4th: Compelling Comté (Compulsion) Eldritch Edelpilzkäse (Banishment)

5th: Lethal Limburger (Cloudkill), Wall of Gruyère (Wall of Stone)

6th: Flesh to Cheese (Flesh to Stone), Outstanding Cheese Platter (Heroes’ Feast)

7th: Crown of Glowing Gloucester (Crown of Stars, but deals bludgeoning instead of radiant damage), Exquisite Cheese Emporium (Mordekainen’s Magnificent Mansion)

8th: Cheese Maze (Maze), Fondue Tsunami (Tsunami)

9th: Fantastic Feta (Wish), Mighty Manchego Meteors (Meteor Swarm, but the fire damage is replaced by bludgeoning damage)

Where'd the Cheese Go?

At 6th level, you’re increasingly skilled at unlocking the potential of cheese. As an action, you become invisible until the end of your next turn. You become visible if you attack or cast a spell. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Protective Parmesan

Starting at 10th level, your command of cheese magic grows stronger, allowing you to harness it for your or your allies’ protection.

As a bonus action, you can grant a protective coating of parmesan cheese to up to two creatures that you can see within 60 feet of you. Any bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage the targets take is reduced by 2 + your wizard level divided by 5. This effect lasts for 1 minute, until you use it again, or until you are incapacitated.

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Blessed are the Cheesemakers

By 14th level, you can perform truly miraculous feats with cheese. Among other remarkable things, you have learned how to create a cheese so foul-smelling that it can raise the dead and repel undead.

You can either Turn Undead as if you were a cleric of your wizard level or cast Revivify or Raise Dead without expending a spell slot or needing material components. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

You also add Bless to your spellbook.

Epoisses Breath

Conjuration

Level: 1
Casting Time: 1 Bonus Action
Range: 5 feet
Components: V, S, M (a bit of Époisses cheese)
Duration: Instantaneous

You can temporary disable enemies with the power of Époisses, a cheese well-known for its stench. As a bonus action, choose one creature within 5 ft. of you. That creature flinches and cannot take reactions until the beginning of your next turn. Creatures that lack a sense of smell (GM's discretion) are unaffected by this spell.

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