Introduction

This document exists as one of several that is a way to completely overhault the way Dungeons & Dragons 2024 handles its progresssion and power level. The name comes from older editions of Dungeons & Dragons such as 3rd Edition and similar spinoff games, and aims to empower classes and make D&D 2024 a better feeling game to play for Players.

Scholars of the Arcane

Wild and enigmatic, varied in form and function, the power of magic draws students who seek to master its mysteries. Some aspire to become like the gods, shaping reality itself. Though the casting of a typical spell requires merely the utterance of a few strange words, fleeting gestures, and sometimes a pinch or clump of exotic materials, these surface components barely hint at the expertise attained after years of apprenticeship and countless hours of study.

Unchained Wizards live and die by their spells. Everything else is secondary. They learn new spells as they experiment and grow in experience. They can also learn them from other Unchained Wizards, from ancient tomes or inscriptions, and from ancient creatures (such as the fey) that are steeped in magic.

The Lure of Knowledge

Unchained Wizards' lives are seldom mundane. The closest an Unchained Wizard is likely to come to an ordinary life is working as a sage or lecturer in a library or university, teaching others the secrets of the multiverse. Other Unchained Wizards sell their services as diviners, serve in military forces, or pursue lives of crime or domination.

But the lure of knowledge and power calls even the most unadventurous Unchained Wizards out of the safety of their libraries and laboratories and into crumbling ruins and lost cities. Most Unchained 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.

The Powerful Few

Only a select few people in the world are wielders of magic. Of all those, Unchained Wizards stand at the pinnacle of the craft. Even the least of them can manipulate forces that flout the laws of nature, and the most accomplished among them can cast spells with world-shaking effects.

The price that Unchained Wizards pay for their mastery is that most valuable of commodities: time. It takes years of study, instruction, and experimentation to learn how to harness magical energy and carry spells around in one's own mind. For adventuring Unchained Wizards and other spellcasters who aspire to the highest echelons of the profession, the studying never ends, nor does the quest for knowledge and power.

Quick Build

You can make an Unchained 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 three 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 1st level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an Abjuration Unchained Wizard spell into your Spellbook is halved.

Abjuration Savant

At 1st level, and again when you reach an Unchained Wizard level specified in the Abjurer Spells table, you add the listed spells to your Spellbook.

Arcane Ward

At 1st 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 Unchained 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 5th 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 15th level, you have Advantage on saving throws against spells, and you have Resistance to the damage of spells.

Bladesinging Savant

At 1st level, and again when you reach an Unchained Wizard level specified in the Bladesinger Spells table, you add the listed spells to your Spellbook.

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 Heavy, Special, or Two-handed Properties. You also gain the following benefits:

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

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

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 1st level,while you aren't wearing armor or wielding a Shield or a Weapon with the Heavy, Special, or Two-handed Properties, your base Armor Class equals 10 plus your Dexterity and Intelligence modifiers.

At Unchained Wizard level 10, you gain +1 AC while benefitting from this feature.

Bladesong

At 1st level, As a Bonus Action, you invoke an ancient magic called the Bladesong, provided you aren't wearing armor or wielding a Shield or a Weapon with the Heavy, Special, or Two-handed 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 +1 Bonus to AC. Additionally, you have Advantage on Dexterity (Acrobatics) Skill Checks.

Bladework. When you attack a creature with a Melee Weapon that lacks the Heavy, Special, or Two-handed 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 result.

Extra Attack

At 5th 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 Heavy, Special, or Two-handed 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.

Hemocraft Savant

At 1st level, and again when you reach an Unchained Wizard level specified in the Blood Magic Spells table, you add the listed spells to your Spellbook.

Blood Channelling

At 1st level, you are able to use your own depleted life essence to channel your magical abilities. You can use your own body as an arcane focus for any Unchained Wizard spell except if the Spell has Material components that are consumed by the spell or that have a cost specified in the spell.

Magical Circulation

At 1st level, increase your hit point maximum by 1. At every Unchained Wizard level you gain beyond 3rd, increase your hit point maximum by 1.

Sanguine Burst

At 1st level, you learn how to weave your life force into a spell you cast, boosting its intensity at the cost of your vitality. Whenever you roll damage for an Unchained Wizard spell you've cast of 1st level or higher, you can choose to take necrotic damage equal to the spell's level to reroll a number of the damage dice up to your Intelligence modifier (minimum one) once. This damage can't be reduced in any way, and you must use the new results. Damage taken from a use of this feature cannot be reduced in any way.

Bond of Mutual Suffering

At 5th level, when a creature you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to bind your vitality to the attacker and force them to share your pain. The attacker takes damage equal to the damage you took.

This feature cannot be used against constructs or undead. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum once), and regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Glyph of Hemorrhaging

At 10th level, when you damage a creature with a spell, you can choose to curse that creature for 1 minute. While cursed in this way, whenever the creature is hit by an attack, it takes an extra 1d6 necrotic damage. At the end of each of the creature's turns, it can make a Constitution saving throw against your Unchained Wizard spell save DC, ending the curse on a success.

This feature cannot be used against creatures that are undead or constructs. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Thicker Than Water

At 15th level, the blood that flows through your veins is empowered with arcane vigor that mends wounds and helps preserve your life. Whenever a spell or magical effect causes you to regain hit points, you regain an additional number of hit points equal to your Intelligence Modifier (Minimum 1).

In addition, while you are concentrating on a spell, you have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks.

Chronurgy Savant

At 1st level, and again when you reach an Unchained Wizard level specified in the Chronurgy Spells table, you add the listed spells to your Spellbook.

Chronal Shift

At 1st level, you can magically exert limited control over the flow of time around a creature. As a reaction, after you or a creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, you can force the creature to reroll. You make this decision after you see whether the roll succeeds or fails. The target must use the result of the second roll.

This feature can be used a number of times equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum once), and you regain all uses at the end of a Long Rest.

Temporal Awareness

At 1st level, you can add your Intelligence modifier to your initiative rolls.

Momentary Stasis

At 6th level, as an action, you can magically force a Large or smaller creature you can see within 60 feet of you to make a Constitution saving throw against your Unchained Wizard spell save DC. Unless the saving throw is a success, the creature is encased in a field of magical energy until the end of your next turn or until the creature takes any damage. While encased in this way, the creature is incapacitated and has a speed of 0.

This feature can be used a number of times equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum once), and you regain all uses at the end of a Long Rest.

Temporal Lock

At 5th level, you no longer age and cannot be aged by magic. Additionally, you add the Slow Spell to your spellbook for free.

Arcane Abeyance

At 10th level, when you cast a spell using a spell slot of 4th level or lower, you can condense the spell's magic into a mote. The spell is frozen in time at the moment of casting and held within a gray bead for 1 hour. This bead is a Tiny object with AC 15 and 1 hit point, and it is immune to poison and psychic damage. When the duration ends, or if the bead is destroyed, it vanishes in a flash of light, and the spell is lost.

A creature holding the bead can take the Magic Action to release the spell within, whereupon the bead disappears. The spell uses your Unchained Wizard Spell Attack bonus and Unchained Wizard Spell Save DC, and the spell treats the creature who released it as the caster for all other purposes.

Once you create a bead with this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Convergent Future

At 15th level, you can peer through possible futures and magically pull one of them into events around you, ensuring a particular outcome. When you or a creature you can see within 60 feet of you makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, you can use your reaction to ignore the die roll and decide whether the number rolled is the minimum needed to succeed or one less than that number (your choice).

You can use this feature once, and regain all uses when you finish a Long Rest unless you expend an 8th or 9th-level Spell Slot to use it again.

Additionally, upon reaching Unchained Unchained Wizard Level 17, you add the Time Stop Spell to your Spellbook.

Conjuration Savant

At 1st level, and again when you reach an Unchained Wizard level specified in the Conjurer Spells table, you add the listed spells to your Spellbook.

Conjuration Scribe

At 1st level, the gold and time you must spend to copy a Conjuration Unchained Wizard spell into your Spellbook is halved.

Minor Conjuration

At 1st 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 5th level, 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.

Additionally, you can choose one willing creature when you cast Misty Step with this feature. If you do, the two of you swap places.

Durable Summons

At 5th Level, when you cast a Conjuration Unchained Wizard Spell to summon or create another creature using a spell slot, that creature gains temporary hit points equal to twice your Unchained Wizard Level when it first appears.

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.

Additionally, when you cast Misty Step as an Unchained Wizard Spell using your Benign Transposition Feature, its range increases to 60 feet.

Focused Conjuration

At 10th Level, taking damage cannot break your Concentration on Conjuration Unchained Wizard Spells.

Greater Transposition

At 15th level, 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 10-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 Savant

At 1st level, and again when you reach an Unchained Wizard level specified in the Diviner Spells table, you add the listed spells to your Spellbook.

Divination Scribe

At 1st level, the gold and time you must spend to copy a Divination Unchained Wizard spell into your Spellbook is halved.

Portent

At 1st 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 5th 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. You can regain a Spell Slot in this way a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum once) and regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

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 15th 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.

Seer of All Futures

At 15th level, the materials for casting Divination are not consumed if you cast it as a Ritual and it is cast as an Unchained Wizard Spell.

Additionally, you can cast Divination as a Ritual and an Unchained Wizard Spell a number of times equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum once) before there is a cumulative chance of receiving no answer.

Enchantment Savant

At 1st level, and again when you reach an Unchained Wizard level specified in the Enchanter Spells table, you add the listed spells to your Spellbook.

Enchantment Scribe

At 1st level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an Enchantment Unchained Wizard spell into your Spellbook is halved.

Hypnotic Gaze

At 1st 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 Unchained 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 1st Level, whenever you make a Charisma Check, you gain a bonus to the check equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum of +1).

Additionally, you gain proficiency in one of these skills of your choice: Deception, Intimidation, or Persuasion. If you already have Proficiency in all three of these skills, choose one other Skill to gain Proficiency in instead.

Defensive Charm

At 5th level, when a creature within 30 feet of you that you can see hits you with an attack roll, you can take a Reaction to reduce the damage you take by 1d6 plus your Intelligence modifier plus half of your Unchained Wizard Level (round down), and you can force the attacker to make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, the attacker takes Psychic damage equal to half your Unchained Wizard level and has disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes. On a successful save, the creature takes half damage and does not hae disadvantage. If you reduce the damage to 0 with the reaction, you add 3d6 to the damage you deal with this feature.

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

Split Enchantment

At 10th level, when you cast an Enchantment spell, such as Charm Person, that can be cast with a higher-level spell slot to target an additional creature, increase the spell's effective level by 1.

Alter Memories

At 15th level, 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.

Bolstering Belief

At 15th level, you add Power Word Fortify to your Spellbook if it is not already there, and you always have Power Word Fortify prepared. With this feature, you can cast the spell without expending a spell slot, and each target of the spell has Advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the Charmed and Frightened conditions while it has Temporary Hit Points granted by this spell.

Once you cast Power Word Fortify with this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest. You can also restore your use of it by expending a level 7+ spell slot (no action required).

Evocation Savant

At 1st level, and again when you reach an Unchained Wizard level specified in the Evoker Spells table, you add the listed spells to your Spellbook.

Additionally, when you scribe a new Spell into your Spellbook due to gaining an Unchained Wizard Level, you can treat all Evocation Spells on the Unchained Sorcerer Spell List as Unchained Wizard Spells as long as they are of a spell level you have slots for. You cannot scribe Evocation Sorcerer Spells of level 6+ into your Spellbook.

Evocation Scribe

At 1st level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an Evocation Unchained Wizard spell into your Spellbook is halved.

Potent Cantrip

At 1st 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.

Additionally, your Cantrips add your Intelligence Modifier to the damage they deal once.

Sculpt Spells

At 5th 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 your Intelligence Modifier (minimum one creature). 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 an Unchained Wizard spell from the Evocation school, you can add your Intelligence modifier to one damage roll of that spell.

Master Evoker

At 15th level, you can choose one level 6 and one level 7 Evocation Spell from the Unchained Sorcerer Spell list and add them to your Spellbook.

At 17th level, you add one level 8 Evocation Spell from the Unchained Sorcerer Spell List to your Spellbook.

Overchannel

At 15th level, You can increase the power of your spells. When you cast an Unchained 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.

Graviturgy Savant

At 1st level, and again when you reach an Unchained Wizard level specified in the Graviturge Spells table, you add the listed spells to your Spellbook.

Adjust Density

At 1st level, as a bonus action, you can magically alter the weight of a number of objects or creatures you can see within 30 feet of you equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum one creature). The object or creature must be Large or smaller. The target's weight is halved or doubled for up to 1 minute or until your concentration ends (as if you were concentrating on a spell).

While the weight of a creature is halved by this effect, the creature's speed increases by 10 feet, it can jump twice as far as normal, and it has disadvantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws. While the weight of a creature is doubled by this effect, the creature's speed is reduced by 10 feet, and it has advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.

Upon reaching 5th level in this class, you can target an object or a creature that is Huge or smaller. Upon reaching 10th level in this class, you can target an object or creature that is gargantuan or smaller. Upon reaching 15th level in this class, this feature lasts for 1 minute and no longer requires concentration, but you can only target a single creature with this feature at a time, and if you target a second creature the effects end on the first.

Center of Mass

At 1st level, you have advantage on saving throws against spells or other effects that would forcibly move you.

At 10th level, you cannot be moved against your will.

Crushing Weight

At 5th level, when a creature fails a saving throw against a spell you cast, you choose to deal additional force damage equal to that creature half of your Unchained Wizard level. If a spell would affect multiple creatures and more than one creature would fail its saving throw, you choose one of those creature to apply the extra damage to.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum once), and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Gravity Well

At 5th level, you've learned how to manipulate gravity around a living being: whenever you cast a spell on a creature, you can move the target 5 feet to an unoccupied space of your choice if the target is willing to move, the spell hits it with an attack, or it fails a saving throw against the spell.

Violent Attraction

At 10th level, when another creature that you can see within 30 feet of you hits with a weapon attack, you can use your reaction to increase the attack's velocity, causing the attack's target to take an extra 2d6 damage of the weapon's type.

Alternatively, if a creature within 30 feet of you takes damage from a fall, you can use your reaction to increase the fall's damage by 4d6.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum once), and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

At 15th level, the distance of this feature increases to 60 feet.

Event Horizon

At 15th Level, as an action, you can magically emit a powerful field of gravitational energy that tugs at other creatures for up to 1 minute or until your concentration ends (as if you were concentrating on a spell). For the duration, whenever a creature hostile to you starts its turn within 30 feet of you, it must make a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, it takes 6d6 force damage, and its speed is reduced to 0 until the start of its next turn. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage, and its speed is reduced by half until the start of its next turn.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest or until you expend a level 3+ spell slot to restore a use of this feature (no action required).

Illusion Savant

At 1st level, and again when you reach an Unchained Wizard level specified in the Illusionist Spells table, you add the listed spells to your Spellbook.

Illusion Scribe

At 1st level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an Illusion Unchained Wizard spell into your Spellbook is halved.

Improved Illusions

At 1st 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 learn the Minor Illusion cantrip. If you already know it, you learn a different Unchained 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 Deception

At 5th level, you can cast Major Image without casting 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.

Additionally, when you cast Major Image in this way, creatures have disadvantage on Intelligence (Investigation) checks to discern the illusion for what it is.

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 15th 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.

Phantasmal Mastery

At 15th level, your Phantasmal Deception feature always applies to the Minor Illusion Cantrip and Level 1 spell Silent Image when you cast them as Unchained Wizard Spells.

Additionally, Illusion spells no longer require Verbal or Somatic components when you cast them as Unchained Wizard Spells.

Lore Savant

At 1st level, and again when you reach an Unchained Wizard level specified in the Lore Mastery Spells table, you add the listed spells to your Spellbook.

Lore Master

At 1st level, you become a compendium of knowledge on a vast array of topics. Your gain proficiency with two of the following skills: Arcana, History, Nature, or Religion. If you already have proficiency with all of these skills, choose two other skills to become proficient with.

In addition, choose two Skills with which you are Proficient from the list above. You gain Expertise with those Skills.

Alchemical Casting

At 1st level, when you cast an Unchained Wizard spell with a spell slot and the spell requires a saving throw, you can change the saving throw from one ability score to another of your choice.

You may use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum once), and regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Spell Secrets

At 5th level, and every Unchained Wizard Level thereafter, when you add spells to your Spellbook due to gaining an Unchained Wizard level, you can replace one of the spells you add from that level with a spell from the Bard, Cleric, or Druid Spell Lists. Any spells you add to your Spellbook with this feature count as Unchained Wizard spells for you.

Prodigious Memory

At 10th level, you have attained a greater mastery of spell preparation. As a bonus action, you can replace one spell you have prepared with another spell from your spellbook. You can't use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Master of Magic

At 15th level, your knowledge of magic allows you to duplicate almost any spell. You learn one spell of your choice from any class's spell list and any school of magic. If the spell isn't an Unchained Wizard spell, it counts as an Unchained Wizard spell when you cast it.

Necromancy Savant

At 1st level, and again when you reach an Unchained Wizard level specified in the Necromancer Spells table, you add the listed spells to your Spellbook.

Necromancy Scribe

At 1st level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an Necromancy Unchained Wizard spell into your Spellbook is halved.

Necronomic Spellbook

At 1st level, you gain the following benefits while holding your Spellbook.

Necrotic Resistance. You have Resistance to Necrotic Damage.

Grim Harvest. When you cast a Necromancy spell as an Unchained Wizard Spell using a spell slot, choose yourself or a creature you can see within 30 feet of yourself to gain a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to the level of the spell slot plus your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1 Temporary Hit Point).

Undead Thralls

At 5th level, you can cast Summon Undead as an Unchained Wizard Spell without expending a Spell Slot. You may do so once, and you must finish a Long Rest to cast Summon Undead with this Feature again.

When you cast Summon Undead with this Feature, you can regain Hit Points equal to half of the summoned creature's total Hit Points (round up), but doing so halves the creature's Hit Points (round down).

Grave Power

At 10th level, you have discovered more necromantic insights and inscribed them into your spellbook. While holding your spellbook, you gain the following benefits.

Grave Resilience. When you use Arcane Recovery, your Exhaustion level, if any, decreases by 1.

Overwhelming Necrosis. Damage from your Unchained Wizard spells and Unchained Wizard features ignores Resistance to Necrotic damage.

Undead Secrets

At 10th level, when you finish a Long Rest, you can expend a level 4+ spell slot to protect yourself from death. Until you finish a Long Rest, the next time you would drop to 0 Hit Points, your Hit Points instead change to a number equal to ten times the spell slot expended.

In addition, immediately after you take damage and are Bloodied after taking that damage but not killed outright, you can take a Reaction and teleport to an unoccupied space up to 60 feet from yourself, and each creature of your choice within 10 feet of the space you left takes 2d10 Necrotic damage.

Death's Master

At 15th level, while holding your spellbook, you gain the following benefits.

Bolster Undead. As a Bonus Action, choose any number of Undead you have created or summoned with a Necromancy Unchained Wizard spell that are within 60 feet of yourself. Those Undead each gain Temporary Hit Points equal to your Unchained Wizard level. Once an Undead gains Temporary Hit Points from this feature, it can't gain them in this way again for the next 24 hours.

Harvest Power. When you use Grim Harvest, the creature that gains Temporary Hit Points gains one of the following benefits of your choice, which lasts until the end of the target's next turn:

• The target has Advantage on attack rolls.
• The target has Advantage on the next saving throw it makes.

True Names

Onomancy, or naming magic, is a method of spellcasting that uses a creature's true name to enhance a spell's effects. A true name is the name by which a self-aware creature identifies itself. This name might be the name a person was given at birth, or one a person chose or earned later in life. Whatever a name's origin, the simplest way for you to know your true name is to think truthfully about yourself and then think, "My name is..." Your true name is how you finish that sentence.

You can try to hide your true name by using a pseudonym, but you must be wary not to inhabit that false name too deeply. If a false name comes to be the best expression of who you are, it becomes your true name. Changing one's true name is never a quick choice; it's something that happens over time as a name becomes the creature's truth.

As a quick guide, a creature has a true name if it understands at least one language or it has an alignment.

Onomancy Savant

At 1st level, and again when you reach an Unchained Wizard level specified in the Onomancer Spells table, you add the listed spells to your Spellbook.

Linguistic Expert

At 1st level, you learn one additional language of your choice and gain Proficiency and Expertise with calligrapher's supplies.

Extract Name

At 1st level, you can magically compel a creature to divulge its true name. As a bonus action, you target one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw against your Unchained Wizard spell save DC. On a successful save, you discern that this magic failed, and you can't use this feature on the target again for 48 hours. On a failed save, the target is charmed by you until the end of your next turn, and you mentally learn the charmed target's name or the fact that the target lacks a name.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum once), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

Fateful Naming

At 1st level, you can bend magic to assist or hinder creatures through the power of their true names, and even use those names as an anchor to affect others around them. You can cast Bane without expending a spell slot if you speak the true name of one target of the spell as part of casting it.

You can cast Bane in this way a number of times equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Resonant Options

Absorption. When you cast a spell that deals damage to the named target, you gain 2d6 temporary hit points. The number of temporary hit points you gain increases to 3d6 when you reach 10th level and 4d6 when you reach 15th level in the Unchained Wizard class. These temporary hit points do not stack with other sources of temporary hit points or themselves, and replace any existing temporary hit points.

Devastation. If the spell requires the named creature to make a saving throw, that creature has disadvantage on the first save it makes against the spell.

Dissolution. The first time the named creature takes damage from the spell, that creature takes an extra 1d6 psychic damage. The extra psychic damage increases to 2d6 when you reach 10th level and 3d6 when you reach 15th level in the Unchained Wizard class.

Nullification. If the named target is affected by any other spells, you know what those spells are, and you can attempt to end one of your choice by succeeding on an Arcana Skill check with a DC equal to 12 + the level of the chosen spell.

Puppetry. The first time the named creature takes damage from the spell, you can knock the creature prone or move it up to 10 feet horizontally. A creature may only be affected by this resonant once per round.

Sympathy. If the named creature is within range of the spell, you can target the creature with the spell even if you can't see the creature or it has total cover against the spell. If the spell has a saving throw, the target has advantage on that saving throw if it is in total cover.

Scribing Savant

At 1st level, and again when you reach an Unchained Wizard level specified in the Scribes Spells table, you add the listed spells to your Spellbook.

Unchained Wizardly Quill

At 1st level, as a bonus action, you can magically create a Tiny quill in your free hand. The magic quill has the following properties:

• The quill doesn't require ink. When you write with it, it produces ink in a color of your choice on the writing surface.
• The cost and time of transcribing all Unchained Wizard spells into your Spellbook is halved for you if the transcription is done with the quill.
• You can erase anything you write with the quill if you wave the feather over the text as a bonus action, provided the text is within 5 feet of you.
• When you scribe a spell scroll, you can create a second scroll of the same spell so long as it is an Unchained Wizard Spell. You can use this Feature once per Long Rest.

This quill disappears if you create another one or if you die.

Awakened Spellbook

At 1st level, using specially prepared inks and ancient incantations passed down by your Unchained Wizardly order, you have awakened an arcane sentience within your spellbook.

While you are using the book as a Spellcasting Focus, it grants you the following benefits:

• When you cast an Unchained Wizard spell that does not deal damage and targets an additional creature when cast at a higher level, you cast it at one level higher.
• When you cast an Unchained Wizard spell that deals damage of a type other than force, necrotic, psychic, or radiant damage, you gain resistance to that damage type until the start of your next turn.
• When you cast an Unchained Wizard spell as a ritual, you can use the spell's normal casting time, rather than adding 10 minutes to it. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum once), and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

If necessary, you can replace the book over the course of a short rest by using your Unchained Wizardly Quill to write arcane sigils in a blank book or a magic spellbook to which you're attuned. At the end of the rest, your spellbook's consciousness is summoned into the new book, which the consciousness transforms into your spellbook, along with all its spells. If the previous book still existed somewhere, all the spells vanish from its pages.

Transmutation Savant

At 1st level, and again when you reach an Unchained Wizard level specified in the Transmuter Spells table, you add the listed spells to your Spellbook.

Transmutation Scribe

At 1st level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an Transmutation Unchained Wizard spell into your Spellbook is halved.

Transmuted Magic

At 1st Level, you learn how to enhance alterations made to certain aspects of your spells.

Bear's Bulk. If an Unchained Wizard Spell you cast grants temporary hit points to the target, they gain additional temporary hit points equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum +1).

Hare's Legs. If an Unchained Wizard Spell you cast increases jumping height and distance, the creature affected by the spell takes no falling damage while under the effects of the spell.

Horse's Speed. If an Unchained Wizard Spell you cast increases movement speed, the amount of movement speed the target creature gains is increased by 10 feet.

Snake's Deception. If an Unchained Wizard Spell you cast would inflict the Charmed condition on the target, and the target would have advantage on the save against the Charmed condition from any source, it no longer has that Advantage.

Mutable Form

At 5th level, 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 5th 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 Unchained 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.

War Magic Savant

At 1st level, and again when you reach an Unchained Wizard level specified in the Warmage Spells table, you add the listed spells to your Spellbook.

Arcane Deflection

At 1st level, you have learned to weave your magic to fortify yourself against harm. When you are hit by an attack or you fail a saving throw, you can use your reaction to gain a +2 bonus to your AC against that attack or a +4 bonus to that saving throw. When you use this feature, you can't cast spells other than cantrips until the end of your next turn.

Additionally, the Shield (MCoC) Spell cast as an Unchained Wizard Spell by you can be cast with the following changes.

• Its Casting Time now reads "1 Reaction, which you take when you or another creature within range is hit by an attack roll or targeted by the Magic Missile spell".
• Its Range is now 15 feet.

You can cast Shield in this way a number of times equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum once) and regain all uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Tactical Wit

At 3rd level, your keen ability to assess tactical situations allows you to act quickly in battle. You gain a bonus to your initiative rolls equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Power Surge

At 5th level, you can store magical energy within yourself to later empower your damaging spells. In its stored form, this energy is called a power surge.

You can store a maximum number of power surges equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum 1). Whenever you finish a long rest, your number of power surges resets to one. Whenever you successfully end a spell with dispel magic or counterspell, you gain one power surge, as you steal magic from the spell you foiled. If you end a short rest with no power surges, you gain one power surge.

Once per Round when you deal damage to a creature or object with an Unchained Wizard spell, you can spend one power surge to deal extra force damage to that target. The extra damage equals 3d6 plus your Intelligence Modifier.

Durable Magic

At 10th level, the magic you channel helps ward off harm. While you maintain concentration on a spell, you have a +1 bonus to AC and a +2 bonus to all saving throws.

Deflecting Shroud

At 15th level, your Arcane Deflection becomes infused with deadly magic. When you use your Arcane Deflection feature, you can cause magical energy to arc from you. Up to three creatures of your choice that you can see within 60 feet of you each take force damage equal to half your Unchained Wizard level.

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1.0

• Created the document.

1.1

• Updated Source List
• Updated instances of XUA25P to XUA25PU
• Added Ego Whip (XUA25PU) to the Spell List.

1.2

• Updated Bladesinger to better reflect the final version printed in FRHoF.
• Added some spells from FRHoF.