##### The Mage
| Level | Proficiency
Bonus | Features | Cantrips
Known | |1st| |2nd| |3rd| |4th| |5th| | 6th| |7th| |8th| |9th
—Spell Slots per Spell Level—
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| 1st | +2 | Spellcasting, Arcane Recovery |3||2||—||—||—||—||—||—||—||—|
| 2nd | +2 | Magical Study |3||3||—||—||—||—||—||—||—||—|
| 3rd | +2 | Metamagic |3||4||2||—||—||—||—||—||—||—|
| 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement |4||4||3||—||—||—||—||—||—||—|
| 5th | +3 | — |4||4||3||2||—||—||—||—||—||—|
| 6th | +3 | Magical Study feature |4||4||3||3||—||—||—||—||—||—|
| 7th | +3 | — |4||4||3||3||1||—||—||—||—||—|
| 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement |4||4||3||3||2||—||—||—||—||—|
| 9th | +4 | — |4||4||3||3||3||1||—||—||—||—|
| 10th| +4 | Magical Study feature |4||4||3||3||3||2||—||—||—||—|
| 11th| +4 | — |5||4||3||3||3||2||1||—||—||—|
| 12th| +4 | Ability Score Improvement |5||4||3||3||3||2||1||—||—||—|
| 13th| +5 | — |5||4||3||3||3||2||1||1||—||—|
| 14th| +5 | Magical Study feature |5||4||3||3||3||2||1||1||—||—|
| 15th| +5 | — |5||4||3||3||3||2||1||1||1||—|
| 16th| +5 | Ability Score Improvement |5||4||3||3||3||2||1||1||1||—|
| 17th| +6 | — |5||4||3||3||3||2||1||1||1||1|
| 18th| +6 | Spell Mastery |5||4||3||3||3||3||1||1||1||1|
| 19th| +6 | Ability Score Improvement |5||4||3||3||3||3||2||1||1||1|
| 20th| +6 | Signature Spell |5||4||3||3||3||3||2||2||1||1|
### Creating a Mage
Creating a mage character demands a backstory dominated by at least one extraordinary event. How did your character first come into contact with magic? How did you discover you had an aptitude for it? Do you have a natural talent, or did you simply study hard and practice incessantly? Did you encounter a magical creature or an ancient tome that taught you the basics of magic?
What drew you forth from your life of study? Did your first taste of magical knowledge leave you hungry for more? Have you received word of a secret repository of knowledge not yet plundered by any other mages?
#### Optional Rule: Multiclassing
If your group uses the optional rule on multiclassing in the *Player's Handbook*, here's what you need to know if you choose mage as one of your classes.
***Ability Score Minimum.*** As a multiclass character, you must have at least an Intelligence score of 13 to take a level in this class, or to take a level in another class if you are already a mage.
***Proficiencies Gained.*** If mage isn't your initial class, here are the proficiencies you gain when you take your first level as a mage: arcane skill.
***Spell Slots.*** Add your levels in the mage class to the appropriate levels from other class to determine your available spell slots.
#### Quick Build
You can make a mage quickly by following these sugges-tions. First, lntelligence should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution or Dexterity.
## Class Features
As a mage, you gain the following class features.
#### Hit Points
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- **Hit Dice:** 1d6 per mage level
- **Hit Points at 1st Level:** 6 + your Constitution modifier
- **Hit Points at Higher Levels:** 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per mage level after 1st
#### Proficiencies
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- **Armor:** None
- **Weapons:** Simple weapons
- **Tools:** None
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- **Saving Throws:** Intelligence, Wisdom
- **Skills:** Choose two from Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, and Religion
#### Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
- *(a)* quarterstaff or *(b)* a dagger
- *(a)* a component pouch or *(b)* an arcane focus
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### Mage Spells
##### Cantrips (0 Level)
✦ Arcane Blast
Blade Ward
Control Flames ^XGE^
Create Bonfire ^XGE^
Dancing Lights
Fire Bolt
✦ Flurry
Frostbite ^XGE^
Mage Hand
Mending
Message
Minor Illusion
Prestidigitation
Produce Flame
Ray of Frost
##### 1st Level
Alarm
Armor of Agathys
Burning Hands
Comprehend Languages
Create or Destroy Water
Detect Magic
Disguise Self
Feather Fall
Find Familiar
✦ Frostfire Bolt
Hellish Rebuke
Ice Knife ^XGE^
Identify
Illusory Script
Jump
Longstrider
Mage Armor
Magic Missile
Shield
Silent Image
Snare ^XGE^
Tenser's Floating Disk
Unseen Servant
##### 2nd Level
Aganazzar's Scorcher ^XGE^
Alter Self
Arcane Lock
Blindness/Deafness
Blur
Cloud of Daggers
Continual Flame
Darkness
Darkvision
Detect Thoughts
Dragon's Breath ^XGE^
Enlarge/Reduce
Flame Blade
Flaming Sphere
✦ Freezing Touch
Heat Metal
Hold Person
Invisibility
Knock
Levitate
✦ Living Bomb
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Magic Mouth
Mirror Image
Misty Step
Phantasmal Force
Scorching Ray
See Invisibility
Shatter
Spider Climb
Suggestion
##### 3rd Level
✦ Arcane Explosion
Bestow Curse
Blink
✦ Blizzard
Counterspell
Create food and Water
Dispel Magic
Feign Death
Fireball
Fly
Glyph of Warding
Haste
Hypnotic Pattern
Magic Circle
Major Image
Nondetection
Protection from Energy
Remove Curse
Sending
Sleet Storm
Slow
✦ Spellsteal
Tiny Servant ^XGE^
Tongues
##### 4th Level
✦ Amplify or
Dampen Magic
✦ Arcane Barrage
Banishment
Charm Monster ^XGE^
Confusion
Conjure Minor Elementals
Dimension Door
Fire Shield
Greater Invisibility
Hallucinatory Terrain
✦ Ice Block
Ice Storm
Locate Creature
Mordenkainen's
Private Sanctum
Polymorph
Wall of Fire
##### 5th Level
Animate Objects
Bigby's Hand
Cone of Cold
Conjure Elemental
Creation
Dominate Person
Enervation ^XGE^
Immolation ^XGE^
Passwall
Planar Binding
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Scrying
Seeming
Skill Empowerment ^XGE^
Synaptic Static ^XGE^
Teleportation Circle
Wall of Force
##### 6th Level
Arcane Gate
Contingency
Disintegrate
Globe of Invulnerability
Guards and Wards
Heroes' Feast
Investiture of Flame ^XGE^
Investiture of Ice ^XGE^
Magic Jar
Mass Suggestion
Mental Prison ^XGE^
Otiluke's Freezing Sphere
Programmed Illusion
Scatter ^XGE^
True Seeing
Wall of Ice
##### 7th Level
Delayed Blast Fireball
Etherealness
Fire Storm
Forcecage
✦ Glacial Spike
Mordenkainen's
Magnificent Mansion
Project Image
✦ Pyroblast
Sequester
Teleport
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##### 8th Level
Antimagic Field
✦ Blast Wave
Clone
Demiplane
Feeblemind
✦ Ice Nova
Incendiary Cloud
Mighty Fortress ^XGE^
Mind Blank
##### 9th Level
Gate
Imprisonment
Invulnerability ^XGE^
✦ Jaina's Flying Ship
Mass Polymorph ^XGE^
Meteor Swarm
Time Stop
True Polymorph