Wizard · Arcane Tradition — Evocation · Campaign · CY 596
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| Level | Ct | Spell Slots per Spell Level | Class Features (PHB) | Class Features (Tom’s Rules) | Notes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | |||||
| 1st | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Spellcasting Arcane Recovery |
Spellcasting, Arcane Recovery | |
| 2nd | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | Arcane Tradition | Chose specialist school of magic | |
| 3rd | 3 | 4 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | — |
Bonus School Spells Potent Cantrip Tradition Benefits |
Bonus school spell/lvl · Cantrip die+1 Miss 1+Spell Level targets · Sculpt Spells · ½ cost/time evocation in spellbook |
| 4th | 4 | 4 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | Ability Score Improvement | ||
| 5th | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | — | ||
| 6th | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Arcane Tradition Feature (Potent Cantrip) |
School Savant Tome Mastery |
Evocation: cantrip does ½ dam on save Replace evok 1/rnd 1/LR · Cast from book using lvl+1 slot |
| 7th | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | — | ||
| 8th | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | Ability Score Improvement | Potent Spellcasting | Add Int bonus to cantrip damage |
| 9th | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | – | — |
Embrace the Weave Extra Arcane Recovery |
Add Spell Lvl + Int Mod to damage 1/SR · 2× Arcane Recovery |
| 10th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | – |
Arcane Tradition Feature (Empowered Evocation) |
The Knack | Add Int to 1 die of evocation spell damage Athletics prof to open things (Int) |
| 11th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | — | ||
| 12th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | Ability Score Improvement |
Extra 2nd Level Slot Defy Spells |
Extra 2nd slot · Add ½ Prof to one save 1/LR |
| 13th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | — | ||
| 14th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Arcane Tradition Feature (Overchannel) |
Extra 3rd Level Slot Arcane Rebuke |
Extra 3rd slot · 4d10+Int + Save or pushed/prone Max dam once; penalty worsens on repeat |
| 15th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | — | ||
| 16th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | Ability Score Improvement | Extra 4th Level Slot | Extra 4th slot |
| 17th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | ||
| 18th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Spell Mastery | Arcane Rebuke 2/SR | Cast 1 each of 1st & 2nd spells for free |
| 19th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Ability Score Improvement | ||
| 20th | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Signature Spells | Cast 2 × 3rd spells for free | |
Once per day when you finish a short rest, you can choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level equal to or less than half your wizard level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher.
Each time you gain a wizard level, you can add two wizard spells of your choice to your spellbook for free. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. On your adventures, you might find other spells that you can add to your spellbook.
As a student of arcane magic, you have a spellbook containing spells that show the first glimmerings of your true power.
Cantrips. At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from the wizard spell list. You learn additional wizard cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Wizard table.
Spellbook. At 1st level, you have a spellbook containing six 1st-level wizard spells of your choice. Your spellbook is the repository of the wizard spells you know, except your cantrips, which are fixed in your mind.
Preparing and Casting Spells. You prepare the list of wizard spells available for you to cast by choosing a number of wizard spells from your spellbook equal to your Intelligence modifier + your wizard level (minimum 1). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest (at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list).
Ritual Casting. You can cast a wizard spell as a ritual if it has the ritual tag and you have the spell in your spellbook. You don’t need to have the spell prepared.
Spellcasting Focus. You can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells.
A wizard may change one spell in memory during a short rest.
When you reach 2nd level, you choose an arcane tradition shaping your practice of magic through one of eight schools: Abjuration, Conjuration, Divination, Enchantment, Evocation, Illusion, Necromancy, or Transmutation. Your choice grants you features at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.
Beginning at 2nd level, you can create pockets of relative safety within the effects of your evocation spells. When you cast an evocation spell that affects other creatures that you can see, you can choose a number of them equal to 1 + 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.
Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an evocation spell into your spellbook is halved.
You may take an action to change one spell in memory of your chosen school to any other spell of that school. Once you have done this you may not do so again until you take a short rest.
A wizard may have one extra spell known of their specialist school for each spell level they are able to cast.
Change this ability: any evocation cantrip you cast does damage as one die step higher than normal.
When you use Embrace the Weave, you gain a benefit based on the type of spell cast. For an Evocation wizard — the damage done to one creature affected by your next evocation spell is increased by the level of the spell plus your Intelligence bonus (this increase is unaffected by resistance or a successful save).
You can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1 each. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
Starting at 6th level, your damaging cantrips affect even creatures that avoid the brunt of the effect. When a creature succeeds on a saving throw against your cantrip, the creature takes half the cantrip’s damage (if any) but suffers no additional effect from the cantrip.
Choose to cast a spell that you have in your spellbook but not in memory by using a spell slot one level higher than the required caster level. At 12th level you no longer need to use a higher level spell slot. You may use this ability once per short rest.
Add your Intelligence modifier to the damage you deal with any wizard cantrip.
At 8th level one of your 2nd level or lower spells from your arcane tradition that you have in memory does not count against the number of spells you may have in memory. At 12th level one additional such spell of 4th level or lower does not count. At 16th level one other of 6th level or lower does not count. At 20th level one such spell of each level you can cast does not count.
Once per short rest you can siphon off some of the magic used in casting a spell and gain a small benefit based on the type of spell you cast. At 14th level you may use this ability twice per short rest.
Evocation: the damage done to one creature affected by your next evocation spell is increased by the level of the spell plus your Intelligence bonus (unaffected by resistance or a successful save).
You may benefit from Arcane Recovery on two occasions between long rests.
Beginning at 10th level, you can add your Intelligence modifier to one damage roll of any wizard evocation spell you cast.
When dealing with something stuck or locked you can use your Intelligence to make a single attempt to open it by hitting it in just the right spot where otherwise a Strength roll would be needed. If the roll would be a Strength (Athletics) roll you are treated as proficient. If the roll fails you may not try again on that object.
Wizards gain extra spell slots beyond the standard table:
Your understanding of magic makes you more able to resist magic. At the end of a long rest you can choose one saving throw type where you are not proficient and add half your proficiency bonus to saves of this type against spells or magical effects. You may change the saving throw type at the end of any kind of rest.
You may take a reaction to rebuke someone who damages you in melee combat. They take 4d10 plus your Intelligence modifier in force damage and are pushed 10′ away from you and knocked prone. They may make a Strength save against your spell DC at disadvantage to take half damage and avoid being pushed or knocked prone. You cannot use this ability again until you take a short rest. From 18th level you may use this ability twice per short rest.
Starting at 14th level, you can increase the power of your simpler spells. When you cast a wizard spell of 1st through 5th level that deals damage, you can deal maximum damage with that spell.
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, immediately after you cast it. Each time you use this feature again before finishing a long rest, the necrotic damage per spell level increases by 1d12. This damage ignores resistance and immunity.
Choose a 1st-level wizard spell and a 2nd-level wizard spell that are in your spellbook. You can cast those spells at their lowest level without expending a spell slot when you have them prepared. If you want to cast either spell at a higher level, you must expend a spell slot as normal. By spending 8 hours in study, you can exchange one or both of the spells for different spells of the same levels.
Choose two 3rd-level wizard spells in your spellbook as your signature spells. You always have these spells prepared, they don’t count against the number of spells you have prepared, and you can cast each of them once at 3rd level without expending a spell slot. When you do so, you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest. If you want to cast either spell at a higher level, you must expend a spell slot as normal.
Your elf character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of elven refinement.
As a high elf, you have a keen mind and a mastery of at least the basics of magic. In many D&D worlds there are two kinds of high elves: the haughty and reclusive (gray elves, valley elves, Silvanesti, sun elves); and the more common and friendly (high elves of Greyhawk, Qualinesti, moon elves).
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
| Level | Prof. | Features | Cantrips | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | +2 | Spellcasting, Arcane Recovery | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2nd | +2 | Arcane Tradition | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 3rd | +2 | — | 3 | 4 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 4 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 5th | +3 | — | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 6th | +3 | Arcane Tradition 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 | Arcane Tradition feature | 5 | 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 | Arcane Tradition 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 |
As a student of arcane magic, you have a spellbook containing spells that show the first glimmerings of your true power.
Cantrips. At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from the wizard spell list. You learn additional wizard cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Wizard table.
Spellbook. At 1st level, you have a spellbook containing six 1st-level wizard spells of your choice. Your spellbook is the repository of the wizard spells you know, except your cantrips, which are fixed in your mind.
Preparing and Casting Spells. You prepare the list of wizard spells available for you to cast by choosing a number of wizard spells from your spellbook equal to your Intelligence modifier + your wizard level (minimum 1). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest (at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list).
Ritual Casting. You can cast a wizard spell as a ritual if it has the ritual tag and you have the spell in your spellbook. You don’t need to have the spell prepared.
Spellcasting Focus. You can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells.
Each time you gain a wizard level, you can add two wizard spells of your choice to your spellbook for free. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. On your adventures, you might find other spells that you can add to your spellbook.
Once per day when you finish a short rest, you can choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level equal to or less than half your wizard level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher.
When you reach 2nd level, you choose an arcane tradition shaping your practice of magic through one of eight schools: Abjuration, Conjuration, Divination, Enchantment, Evocation, Illusion, Necromancy, or Transmutation. Your choice grants you features at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.
You can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1 each. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
Choose a 1st-level wizard spell and a 2nd-level wizard spell that are in your spellbook. You can cast those spells at their lowest level without expending a spell slot when you have them prepared. If you want to cast either spell at a higher level, you must expend a spell slot as normal. By spending 8 hours in study, you can exchange one or both of the spells for different spells of the same levels.
Choose two 3rd-level wizard spells in your spellbook as your signature spells. You always have these spells prepared, they don’t count against the number of spells you have prepared, and you can cast each of them once at 3rd level without expending a spell slot. When you do so, you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest. If you want to cast either spell at a higher level, you must expend a spell slot as normal.
You focus your study on magic that creates powerful elemental effects such as bitter cold, searing flame, rolling thunder, crackling lightning, and burning acid. Some evokers find employment in military forces, serving as artillery to blast enemy armies from afar. Others use their spectacular power to protect the weak, while some seek their own gain as bandits, adventurers, or aspiring tyrants.
Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an evocation spell into your spellbook is halved.
Beginning at 2nd level, you can create pockets of relative safety within the effects of your evocation spells. When you cast an evocation spell that affects other creatures that you can see, you can choose a number of them equal to 1 + 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.
Starting at 6th level, your damaging cantrips affect even creatures that avoid the brunt of the effect. When a creature succeeds on a saving throw against your cantrip, the creature takes half the cantrip’s damage (if any) but suffers no additional effect from the cantrip.
Beginning at 10th level, you can add your Intelligence modifier to one damage roll of any wizard evocation spell you cast.
Starting at 14th level, you can increase the power of your simpler spells. When you cast a wizard spell of 1st through 5th level that deals damage, you can deal maximum damage with that spell.
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, immediately after you cast it. Each time you use this feature again before finishing a long rest, the necrotic damage per spell level increases by 1d12. This damage ignores resistance and immunity.
A wizard may change one spell in memory during a short rest.
A wizard may have one extra spell known of their specialist school for each spell level they are able to cast.
Change the school savant ability for all schools to be: “You may take an action to change one spell in memory of your chosen school to any other spell of that school. Once you have done this you may not do so again until you take a short rest.”
At 8th level one of your 2nd level or lower spells from your arcane tradition that you have in memory does not count against the number of spells you may have in memory. At 12th level one additional such spell of 4th level or lower does not count. At 16th level one other of 6th level or lower does not count. At 20th level one such spell of each level you can cast does not count.
Choose to cast a spell that you have in your spellbook but not in memory by using a spell slot one level higher than the required caster level. At 12th level you no longer need to use a higher level spell slot. You may use this ability once per short rest.
Add your Intelligence modifier to the damage you deal with any wizard cantrip.
Once per short rest you can siphon off some of the magic used in casting a spell and gain a small benefit based on the type of spell you cast. At 14th level you may use this ability twice per short rest.
You may benefit from Arcane Recovery on two occasions between long rests.
When dealing with something stuck or locked you can use your Intelligence to make a single attempt to open it by hitting it in just the right spot where otherwise a Strength roll would be needed. If the roll would be a Strength (Athletics) roll you are treated as proficient. If the roll fails you may not try again on that object.
Wizards gain extra spell slots beyond the standard table:
Your understanding of magic makes you more able to resist magic. At the end of a long rest you can choose one saving throw type where you are not proficient and add half your proficiency bonus to saves of this type against spells or magical effects. You may change the saving throw type at the end of any kind of rest.
You may take a reaction to rebuke someone who damages you in melee combat. They take 4d10 plus your Intelligence modifier in force damage and are pushed 10′ away from you and knocked prone. They may make a Strength save against your spell DC at disadvantage to take half damage and avoid being pushed or knocked prone. You cannot use this ability again until you take a short rest. From 18th level you may use this ability twice per short rest.
Change this ability: any evocation cantrip you cast does damage as one die step higher than normal.
When you use Embrace the Weave, you gain a benefit based on the type of spell cast. For an Evocation wizard: