Wizard

Wizards are defined by their exhaustive study of magic's inner workings. They cast spells of explosive fire, arcing lightning, subtle deception, and spectacular transformations. Their magic conjures monsters from other planes of existence, glimpses the future, or forms protective barriers. Their mightiest spells change one substance into another, call meteors from the sky, or open portals to other worlds.

Most Wizards share a scholarly approach to magic. They examine the theoretical underpinnings of magic, particularly the categorization of spells into schools of magic. Renowned Wizards such as Bigby, Tasha, Mordenkainen, and Yolande have built on their studies to invent iconic spells now used across the multiverse.

The closest a Wizard is likely to come to an ordinary life is working as a sage or lecturer. Other Wizards sell their services as advisers, serve in military forces, or pursue lives of crime or domination.

But the lure of knowledge calls even the most unadventurous Wizards from the safety of their libraries and laboratories and into crumbling ruins and lost cities. Most Wizards believe that their counterparts in ancient civilizations knew secrets of magic that have been lost to the ages, and discovering those secrets could unlock the path to a power greater than any magic available in the present age.

Quick Build

You can make a wizard quickly by following these suggestions. First, Intelligence should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution or Dexterity. Second, choose the sage background. Third, choose the Fire Bolt, Mage Hand, Prestidigitation, and Shocking Grasp cantrips, along with the following 1st-level spells for your spellbook: burning hands, charm person, feather fall, mage armor, magic missile, and sleep.

Proficiencies

Armor: none
Weapons: simple weapons
Tools: None.
Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
Skills: Any two of your choice.

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) 2 Daggers, an Arcane Focus, a Robe, a Spellbook, a Scholar's Pack, and 5 GP
• (b) 55 GP

Abjuration Scribe

At 3rd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an Abjuration Wizard spell into your Spellbook is halved.

Abjuration Savant

At 3rd level, choose two Wizard spells from the Abjuration school, each of which must be no higher than level 2, and add them to your spellbook for free.

In addition, whenever you gain access to a new level of spell slots in this class, you can add one Wizard spell from the Abjuration school to your spellbook for free. The chosen spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Arcane Ward

At 3rd level, you can weave magic around yourself for protection. When you cast an Abjuration spell with a spell slot, you can simultaneously use a strand of the spell's magic to create a magical ward on yourself that lasts until you finish a Long Rest. The ward has a Hit Point maximum equal to twice your Wizard level plus your Intelligence modifier. Whenever you take damage, the ward takes the damage instead, and if you have any Resistances or Vulnerabilities, apply them before reducing the ward's Hit Points. If the damage reduces the ward to 0 Hit Points, you take any remaining damage. While the ward has 0 Hit Points, it can't absorb damage, but its magic remains.

Whenever you cast an Abjuration spell with a spell slot, the ward regains a number of Hit Points equal to twice the level of the spell slot. Alternatively, as a Bonus Action, you can expend a spell slot, and the ward regains a number of Hit Points equal to twice the level of the spell slot expended.

Once you create the ward, you can't create it again until you finish a Long Rest.

Projected Ward

At 6th level, When a creature that you can see within 30 feet of yourself takes damage, you can take a Reaction to cause your Arcane Ward to absorb that damage. If this damage reduces the ward to 0 Hit Points, the warded creature takes any remaining damage. If that creature has any Resistances or Vulnerabilities, apply them before reducing the ward's Hit Points.

Spell Breaker

At 10th level, You always have the Counterspell and Dispel Magic spells prepared. In addition, you can cast Dispel Magic as a Bonus Action, and you can add your Proficiency Bonus to its ability check.

When you cast either spell with a spell slot, that slot isn't expended if the spell fails to stop a spell.

Spell Resistance

At 18th level, you have Advantage on saving throws against spells, and you have Resistance to the damage of spells.

Training in War and Song

At 3rd level, you gain Proficiency with Smith's Tools as well as all Melee Martial Weapons that don't have the Two-Handed or Heavy Properties. You also gain the following benefits:

Combat Focus. While wielding a Melee Martial Weapon that doesn't have the Two-Handed or Heavy Properties, you may use that Weapon as a Spellcasting Focus for your Wizard Spells.

Cunning Cost-Cutting. The cost of any Melee Martial Weapon that doesn't have the Two-Handed or Heavy Properties is reduced by half for you (Minimum 1 CP cost), and the cost of materials for crafting such weapons is also halved for you. This includes materials for crafting Magic Weapons.

Intellient Craftsman. When you make an Ability Check to use Smith's Tools to craft a Melee Martial Weapon that doesn't have the Two-Handed or Heavy Properties, you can use Intelligence instead of Strength.

Skill Training. You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice.

Tactical Blows. Whenever you attack with a weapon with which you have proficiency, you can use your Intelligence modifier for the attack and damage rolls instead of using Strength or Dexterity.

Unarmored Defense

At 3rd level,while you aren't wearing armor or wielding a Shield or a Weapon with the Two-Handed or Heavy Properties, your base Armor Class equals 10 plus your Dexterity and Intelligence modifiers.

At Wizard level 10, you gain +1 AC while using this feature.

Bladesong

At 3rd level, As a Bonus Action, you invoke an elven magic called the Bladesong, provided you aren't wearing armor or wielding a Shield or a Weapon with the Two-Handed or Heavy Properties.

The Bladesong lasts for 1 minute and ends early if you have the Incapacitated condition, if you don armor or a Shield, or if you use two hands to make an attack with a weapon. You can dismiss the Bladesong at any time (no action required). While the Bladesong is active, you gain the following benefits. You can invoke the Bladesong a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Agility. Your Speed increases by 10 feet and you gain a +2 Bonus to AC.

Bladework. When you attack a creature with a Melee Weapon that lacks the Two-handed or Heavy properties, it has Disadvantage on Opportunity Attacks against you until the start of your next Turn.

Focus. When you make a Constitution saving throw to maintain Concentration, you can add your Intelligence modifier to the total.

Extra Attack

At 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. If you know a Cantrip, you can replace one of these attacks with a use of that Cantrip.

Improved Bladesong

At 10th level, your Bladesong improves.

Agility. Your Speed increases by an additional 10 feet while your Bladesong is active.

Bladework. Creatures that you deal damage to with a Melee Weapon that lacks the Two-Handed or Heavy Properties cannot make Opportunity Attacks against you until the start of your next Turn.

Focus. If fail a Constitution Saving Throw to maintain Concentration, you can re-roll that check once and must use the new result. You can only use this Feature once per instance of Bladesong.

Song of Defense

At 10th level, when you take damage while your Bladesong is active, you can take a Reaction to expend one spell slot and reduce the damage taken by an amount equal to five times the spell slot's level.

Song of Victory

At 14th level, while your Bladesong is active, after you cast a spell that has a casting time of an action, you can make one attack with a weapon as a Bonus Action.

Conjuration Scribe

At 3rd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy a Conjuration Wizard spell into your Spellbook is halved.

Conjuration Savant

At 3rd level, choose two Wizard spells from the Conjuration school, each of which must be no higher than level 2, and add them to your spellbook for free.

In addition, whenever you gain access to a new level of spell slots in this class, you can add one Wizard spell from the Conjuration school to your spellbook for free. The chosen spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Minor Conjuration

At 3rd level, you can take the Magic Action to conjure up an inanimate object in your hand or on the ground in an unoccupied space that you can see within 10 feet of you. This object can be no larger than 3 feet on a side and weigh no more than 10 pounds, and its form must be that of a nonmagical object. The object is visibly magical, radiating dim light out to 5 feet.

The object disappears when you use this feature again or if it takes any damage. You cannot use this object to deal damage; if you try to do so, the object disappears before it can.

Benign Transposition

At 6th level, you add the level 2 Wizard spell Misty Step to your spellbook if it isn't already there.

You can cast Misty Step without expending a Spell slot. You can do so a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum once) and regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Defensive Transposition

At 10th level, when you take damage, you can cast Misty Step as a Reaction instead of a Bonus Action, but must expend a Spell Slot to do so when cast in this way.

Greater Transposition

At 14th level, you add the level 5 Wizard spell Teleportation Circle to your spellbook if it isn't already there.

If you use Teleportation Circle to travel to a destination whose sigil sequence you know rather than drawing a new one, you treat the Casting Time of the spell as l Action, and any creatures of your choice in a 5-foot Emanation around you are considered targets for the spell, being transported with you to the destination you chose.

When you cast Teleporation Circle to travel to a destination whose sigil sequence you know, you ignore its Material Components, meaning that you only require the material components when creating a new Teleportation Circle.

Divination Scribe

At 3rd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy a Divination Wizard spell into your Spellbook is halved.

Divination Savant

At 3rd level, choose two Wizard spells from the Divination school, each of which must be no higher than level 2, and add them to your spellbook for free.

In addition, whenever you gain access to a new level of spell slots in this class, you can add one Wizard spell from the Divination school to your spellbook for free. The chosen spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Portent

At 3rd level, Glimpses of the future begin to press on your awareness. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, roll two d20s and record the numbers rolled. You can replace any D20 Test made by you or a creature that you can see with one of these foretelling rolls. You must choose to do so before the roll, and you can replace a roll in this way only once per turn.

Each foretelling roll can be used only once. When you finish a Long Rest, you lose any unused foretelling rolls

Expert Divination

At 6th level, Casting Divination spells comes so easily to you that it expends only a fraction of your spellcasting efforts. When you cast a Divination spell using a level 2+ spell slot, you regain one expended spell slot. The slot you regain must be of a level lower than the slot you expended and can't be higher than level 5.

The Third Eye

At 10th level, You can increase your powers of perception. As a Bonus Action, choose one of the following benefits, which lasts until you start a Short or Long Rest. You can't use this feature again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Darkvision. You gain Darkvision with a range of 120 feet.

Greater Comprehension. You can read any language.

See Invisibility. You can cast See Invisibility without expending a spell slot.

Greater Portent

At 14th level, the visions in your dreams intensify and paint a more accurate picture in your mind of what is to come. Roll three d20s for your Portent feature rather than two.

Enchantment Scribe

At 3rd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an Enchantment Wizard spell into your Spellbook is halved.

Enchantment Savant

At 3rd level, choose two Wizard spells from the Enchantment school, each of which must be no higher than level 2, and add them to your spellbook for free.

In addition, whenever you gain access to a new level of spell slots in this class, you can add one Wizard spell from the Enchantment school to your spellbook for free. The chosen spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Hypnotic Gaze

At 3rd level, as a Magic Action, choose one creature that you can see within 5 feet of you. If the target can see or hear you, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your wizard spell save DC or be Charmed by you until the end of your next turn. The charmed creature's speed drops to 0, and the creature is Incapacitated and visibly dazed.

On subsequent turns, you can use a Magic Action to maintain this effect, extending its duration until the end of your next turn. However, the effect ends if you move more than 5 feet away from the creature, if the creature can neither see nor hear you, or if the creature takes damage.

Once the effect ends, or if the creature succeeds on its initial saving throw against this effect, you can't use this feature on that creature again until you finish a long rest.

Social Intelligence

At 3rd level, your knowledge of how to navigate social situations gives you a bonus to your Charisma (Deception, Intimidation, and Persuasion) checks. The bonus equals your Intelligence modifier (minimum bonus of +1).

Defensive Charm

At 6th level, when a creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll against you, you can use your reaction to divert the attack, provided that another creature is within the attack's range. The attacker must make a Wisdom saving throw against your wizard spell save DC. On a failed save, the attacker must target the creature that is closest to it, not including you or itself. If multiple creatures are closest, the attacker chooses which one to target. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Proficiency bonus, do not expend uses if you are not successful, and regain all uses at the end of a Long Rest.

You must choose to use this feature when the Attack is declared and before it hits or misses. Creatures that can't be charmed are immune to this effect.

Split Enchantment

At 10th level, when you cast a level 1 or higher Wizard spell from the Enchantment school that targets only one creature, you can have it target a second creature within 30 feet of the first.

Alter Memories

At 14th level, you add the level 5 Wizard spell Modify Memory to your spellbook if it isn't already there.

You can cast Modify Memory without expending a Spell Slot. Once you do so, you may not do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

When you cast Modify Memory without expending a Spell Slot, the target has Disadvantage on its Wisdom Saving Throw.

Evocation Scribe

At 3rd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an Evocation Wizard spell into your Spellbook is halved.

Evocation Savant

At 3rd level, choose two Wizard spells from the Evocation school, each of which must be no higher than level 2, and add them to your spellbook for free.

In addition, whenever you gain access to a new level of spell slots in this class, you can add one Wizard spell from the Evocation school to your spellbook for free. The chosen spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Potent Cantrip

At 3rd level, your damaging cantrips affect even creatures that avoid the brunt of the effect. When you cast a cantrip at a creature and you miss with the attack roll or the target succeeds on a saving throw against the cantrip, the target takes half the cantrip's damage (if any) but suffers no additional effect from the cantrip.

Sculpt Spells

At 6th level, you can create pockets of relative safety within the effects of your evocations. When you cast an Evocation spell that affects other creatures that you can see, you can choose a number of them equal to 1 plus the spell's level. The chosen creatures automatically succeed on their saving throws against the spell, and they take no damage if they would normally take half damage on a successful save.

Empowered Evocation

At 10th level, Whenever you cast a Wizard spell from the Evocation school, you can add your Intelligence modifier to one damage roll of that spell.

Overchannel

At 14th level, You can increase the power of your spells. When you cast a Wizard spell with a spell slot of levels 1–5 that deals damage, you can deal maximum damage with that spell on the turn you cast it.

The first time you do so, you suffer no adverse effect. If you use this feature again before you finish a Long Rest, you take 2d12 Necrotic damage for each level of the spell slot immediately after you cast it. This damage ignores Resistance and Immunity.

Each time you use this feature again before finishing a Long Rest, the Necrotic damage per spell level increases by 1d12.

Illusion Scribe

At 3rd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an Illusion Wizard spell into your Spellbook is halved.

Illusion Savant

At 3rd level, choose two Wizard spells from the Illusion school, each of which must be no higher than level 2, and add them to your spellbook for free.

In addition, whenever you gain access to a new level of spell slots in this class, you can add one Wizard spell from the Illusion school to your spellbook for free. The chosen spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Improved Illusions

At 3rd level, You can cast Illusion spells without providing Verbal components, and if an Illusion spell you cast has a range of 10+ feet, the range increases by 60 feet.

You also know the Minor Illusion cantrip. If you already know it, you learn a different Wizard cantrip of your choice. The cantrip doesn't count against your number of cantrips known. You can create both a sound and an image with a single casting of Minor Illusion, and you can cast it as a Bonus Action.

Phantasmal Creatures

At 6th level, You always have the Summon Beast and Summon Fey spells prepared. Whenever you cast either spell, you can change its school to Illusion, which causes the summoned creature to appear spectral. You can cast the Illusion version of each spell without expending a spell slot, but casting it without a slot halves the creature's Hit Points. Once you cast either spell without a spell slot, you must finish a Long Rest before you can cast the spell in that way again.

Illusory Self

At 10th level, When a creature hits you with an attack roll, you can take a Reaction to interpose an illusory duplicate of yourself between the attacker and yourself. The attack automatically misses you, then the illusion dissipates.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. You can also restore your use of it by expending a level 2+ spell slot (no action required).

Illusory Reality

At 14th level, You have learned to weave shadow magic into your illusions to give them a semi-reality. When you cast an Illusion spell with a spell slot, you can choose one inanimate, nonmagical object that is part of the illusion and make that object real. You can do this on your turn as a Bonus Action while the spell is ongoing. The object remains real for 1 minute, during which it can't deal damage or give any conditions. For example, you can create an illusion of a bridge over a chasm and then make it real and cross it.

Necromancy Scribe

At 3rd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an Necromancy Wizard spell into your Spellbook is halved.

Necromancy Savant

At 3rd level, choose two Wizard spells from the Necromancy school, each of which must be no higher than level 2, and add them to your spellbook for free.

In addition, whenever you gain access to a new level of spell slots in this class, you can add one Wizard spell from the Necromancy school to your spellbook for free. The chosen spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Grim Harvest

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to reap life energy from creatures you fell with your spells. Once per turn, when you reduce one or more creatures to 0 Hit Points with a spell of 1st level or higher, you gain temporary hit points equal to the spell's level, or twice its level if the spell belongs to the School of Necromancy. If at least one of the creatures reduced to 0 Hit Points with this feature was an Undead type creature, you add your Intelligence Modifier to the total amount of temporary hit points you gain once (minimum 1 temporary hit point).

Undead Thralls

At 6th level, you add the level 3 Wizard spell Animate Dead to your spellbook if it is not there already. When you cast animate dead, you can target one additional corpse or pile of bones, creating another zombie or skeleton, as appropriate.

Resilient Thralls

Whenever you create an undead using a necromancy spell, it has additional benefits:

• The creature gains Temporary Hit Points equal to half of your Wizard level (rounded up).
• The creature adds your Intelligence Modifier (minimum 1) to its weapon damage rolls.

Necromantic Fortitude

At 10th level, you gain Resistance to Necrotic Damage.

Additionally, when you would be reduced to 0 HP, you can roll a Constitution Saving Throw of 10 + half of the dmamage dealt. On a success, you are reduced to 1 HP instead. You must finish a Long Rest to do so again.

Command Undead

At 14th level, you can use magic to bring undead under your control, even those created by other wizards. As a Magic Action, you can choose one undead that you can see within 60 feet of you. That creature must make a Charisma saving throw against your wizard spell save DC. If it succeeds, you can't use this feature on it again. If it fails, it becomes friendly to you and obeys your commands until you use this feature again.

Intelligent undead are harder to control in this way. If the target has an Intelligence of 8 or higher, it has advantage on the saving throw. If it fails the saving throw and has an Intelligence of 12 or higher, it can repeat the saving throw at the end of every hour until it succeeds and breaks free.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one time) and regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Transmutation Scribe

At 3rd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an Transmutation Wizard spell into your Spellbook is halved.

Transmutation Savant

At 3rd level, choose two Wizard spells from the Transmutation school, each of which must be no higher than level 2, and add them to your spellbook for free.

In addition, whenever you gain access to a new level of spell slots in this class, you can add one Wizard spell from the Transmutation school to your spellbook for free. The chosen spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Mutable Form

At 3rd level, you add the level 2 Wizard spell Alter Self to your spellbook if it is not there already. You can cast Alter Self without expending a Spell Slot if you use the Change Appearance option and when you do so, it lasts until you choose to end it or its effects are dispelled. If you use the Aquatic Adaptation or Natural Weapons options, you must spend a Spell Slot as normal.

Additionally, when you use the Natural Weapons option of Alter Self by spending a Spell Slot, your Natural Weapons deal 1d8 damage instead of 1d6.

Transmuter's Stone

At 6th level, you can create a special trinket called a transmuter's stone at the end of a Long Rest. A creature in possession of the stone on their person gains a benefit of your choice from the following options:

• Darkvision out to a range of 60 feet, as described in Appendix C of the 2024 Player's Handbook.
• 10 feet of additional speed.
• A bonus to Constitution Saving Throws equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum 1).
• Resistance to one Damage Type other than Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing, Force, Psychic, Radiant, or Necrotic (your choice when you choose this option).

Each time you cast level 1 or higher Wizard spell from the Transmuation school, you can change the effect of your stone if the stone is on your person.

If you create a new transmuter's stone, the previous one ceases to function.

Shapechanger

At 10th level, you add the level 4 Wizard spell Polymorph to your spellbook if it is not there already. You can cast Polymorph without expending a Spell Slot if you target yourself. When you cast Polymorph without a Spell Slot, you cannot do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

You can still cast Polymorph normally by expending a Spell Slot.

Additionally, when you cast Polymorph, you can transform the target into either a Beast or Monstrosity, though the other rules of Polymorph still apply. If you choose Monstrosity, the maximum Challenge Rating of the Monstrosity must be half of the target's Challenge Rating (or Level if it doesn't have a Challenge Rating), rounded up.

Master Transmuter

At 14th level, you gain the following benefits:

• You stop aging naturally, and magic cannot age you.
• If you are under the effects of Alter Self, they cannot be dispelled except by you.
• You have Advantage on Saving Throws against any Spell from the Transmutation School or any magical Effect that would transform you into a different creature.
• You can use a Bonus Action while holding your Transmuter's Stone to change its effect.
• You can use a Bonus Action while holding your Transmuter's Stone to convert one of your Spell Slots into Temporary Hit Points. The number of Temporary Hit Points you gain is equal to two times the Spell's Level. You must finish a Long Rest to give yourself Temporary Hit Points in this way again, and the Temporary Hit Points vanish if they are reduced to 0 or you have any remaining when you start a Short or Long Rest.

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1.0

• All Subclasses now gain a discount on time/gold for their School's spells.
• Ensured all Schools have a Subclass, reworked from my 2014 Revision in the cases the 2024 PHB doesn't have them.
• Gain Magic Box at 11th for a fun ribbon.
• Spells Prepared progression is the same as the other full casters.

1.1

• Added a revised version of the UA Bladesinger Wizard.
• Instead of cost reduction for copying spells, Bladesinger gets proficiencies and an Unarmored Defense with strict restrictions.
• Activating Bladesong no longer gives +INT AC, instead giving a flat +2 with again, strict restrictions.
• Training in War and Song has been expanded; it makes the INT to hit/damage passive like Artificer's Battle Smith, reduces the cost of Bladesong weapons by half, and lets you craft with INT instead of STR as well as a bonus skill proficiency of your choice.
• Bladesong improves at Level 10.
• Song of Vicotry now requires Bladesong to be active to use it.