Wizard

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This article is about the class; for other uses, see Wizard (disambiguation).

Description: Wizards are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard's strength is her spells; everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition, over time a wizard learns to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. A wizard can call a familiar, a magical creature, small or large, that serves her.

Alignment restrictions: none

Hit die: d4

Proficiencies: armor (robes), weapons (wizard)

Skill points: 2 + int modifier ( (2 + int modifier) * 4 at 1st level)

Skills: concentration, craft armor, craft trap, craft weapon, heal, lore, spellcraft

Selectable class feats: ambidexterity, deflect arrows, two-weapon fighting, weapon proficiency (exotic), weapon proficiency (martial), weapon proficiency (simple)

Wizard bonus feats: arcane defense, brew potion, combat casting, craft wand, empower spell, extend spell, greater spell focus, greater spell penetration, maximize spell, quicken spell, silent spell, spell focus, spell penetration, still spell

Primary saving throw(s): will

Base attack bonus: +1/2 levels

Spellcasting: Arcane (intelligence-based, requires preparation, armor-related chance of spell failure is a factor); wizards begin the game knowing all cantrips and four 1st-level spells. Must have an intelligence score of 10 + the spell's level to cast a spell.

Contents 1 Special abilities & feats 2 Spells 3 Level progression 4 Epic wizard 5 Prestige class tips 6 Notes

[edit] Special abilities & feats

• Level 1 scribe scroll, summon familiar
• Wizard bonus feats: every five levels, the wizard may select a bonus feat, chosen from the metamagic and spell feat lists. This bonus feat is in addition to the feats every character gains for advancing in character level. If the character is an epic character then the available feats include those in the epic wizard bonus list. This bonus feat (1 per 5-levels) option is replaced by the epic bonus feat progression (1 per 3-levels) once the character reaches epic wizard levels.

[edit] Spells

A wizard may choose to specialize in a spell school, gaining one additional prepared spell per spell level but losing the ability to cast spells from the opposed spell school, even spells from scrolls. A wizard does not have to specialize, thus keeping access to all spells.

Cantrips	1st level spells	2nd level spells	3rd level spells	4th level spells
Acid splash Daze Electric jolt Flare Light Ray of frost Resistance	Burning hands Charm person Color spray Endure elements Expeditious retreat Grease Horizikaul's boom Ice dagger Identify Ironguts Mage armor Magic missile Magic weapon Negative energy ray Protection from alignment Ray of enfeeblement Scare Shelgarn's persistent blade Shield Sleep Summon creature I True strike	Balagarn's iron horn Blindness/deafness Bull's strength Cat's grace Cloud of bewilderment Combust Continual flame Darkness Death armor Eagle's splendor Endurance Flame weapon Fox's cunning Gedlee's electric loop Ghostly visage Ghoul touch Invisibility Knock Lesser dispel Melf's acid arrow Owl's wisdom Resist elements See invisibility Stone bones Summon creature II Tasha's hideous laughter Ultravision Web	Clairaudience/clairvoyance Clarity Dispel magic Displacement Find traps Fireball Flame arrow Greater magic weapon Gust of wind Haste Hold person Invisibility sphere Lightning bolt Keen edge Magic circle against alignment Mestil's acid breath Negative energy burst Protection from elements Scintillating sphere Slow Stinking cloud Summon creature III Vampiric touch	Bestow curse Charm monster Confusion Contagion Elemental shield Enervation Evard's black tentacles Fear Ice storm Improved invisibility Isaac's lesser missile storm Lesser spell breach Minor globe of invulnerability Phantasmal killer Polymorph self Remove blindness/deafness Remove curse Shadow conjuration Stoneskin Summon creature IV Wall of fire
5th level spells	6th level spells	7th level spells	8th level spells	9th level spells
Animate dead Ball lightning Bigby's interposing hand Cloudkill Cone of cold Dismissal Dominate person Energy buffer Feeblemind Firebrand Greater shadow conjuration Hold monster Lesser mind blank Lesser planar binding Lesser spell mantle Mestil's acid sheath Mind fog Summon creature V	Acid fog Bigby's forceful hand Chain lightning Circle of death Ethereal visage Flesh to stone Globe of invulnerability Greater dispelling Greater spell breach Greater stoneskin Isaac's greater missile storm Legend lore Mass haste Planar binding Shades Stone to flesh Summon creature VI Tenser's transformation True seeing Undeath to death	Banishment Bigby's grasping hand Control undead Delayed blast fireball Finger of death Great thunderclap Mordenkainen's sword Power word, stun Prismatic spray Protection from spells Shadow shield Spell mantle Summon creature VII	Bigby's clenched fist Blackstaff Create undead Greater planar binding Greater sanctuary Horrid wilting Incendiary cloud Mass blindness/deafness Mass charm Mind blank Premonition Summon creature VIII Sunburst	Bigby's crushing hand Black blade of disaster Dominate monster Energy drain Gate Greater spell mantle Meteor swarm Mordenkainen's disjunction Power word, kill Shapechange Summon creature IX Time stop Wail of the banshee Weird

[edit] Level progression

Lvl	BAB	Saves			Feats	HP range		Spells per day
		Fort	Ref	Will				0	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th
1st	+0	+0	+0	+2	summon familiar, scribe scroll, weapon proficiency (wizard)	2-4		3	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2nd	+1	+0	+0	+3		4-8		4	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
3rd	+1	+1	+1	+3		6-12		4	2	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4th	+2	+1	+1	+4		8-16		4	3	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5th	+2	+1	+1	+4	wizard bonus feat	10-20		4	3	2	1	—	—	—	—	—	—
6th	+3	+2	+2	+5		12-24		4	3	3	2	—	—	—	—	—	—
7th	+3	+2	+2	+5		14-28		4	4	3	2	1	—	—	—	—	—
8th	+4	+2	+2	+6		16-32		4	4	3	3	2	—	—	—	—	—
9th	+4	+3	+3	+6		18-36		4	4	4	3	2	1	—	—	—	—
10th	+5	+3	+3	+7	wizard bonus feat	20-40		4	4	4	3	3	2	—	—	—	—
11th	+5	+3	+3	+7		22-44		4	4	4	4	3	2	1	—	—	—
12th	+6/+1	+4	+4	+8		24-48		4	4	4	4	3	3	2	—	—	—
13th	+6/+1	+4	+4	+8		26-52		4	4	4	4	4	3	2	1	—	—
14th	+7/+2	+4	+4	+9		28-56		4	4	4	4	4	3	3	2	—	—
15th	+7/+2	+5	+5	+9	wizard bonus feat	30-60		4	4	4	4	4	4	3	2	1	—
16th	+8/+3	+5	+5	+10		32-64		4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	2	—
17th	+8/+3	+5	+5	+10		34-68		4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	2	1
18th	+9/+4	+6	+6	+11		36-72		4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	2
19th	+9/+4	+6	+6	+11		38-76		4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3
20th	+10/+5	+6	+6	+12	wizard bonus feat	40-80		4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4

[edit] Epic wizard

Knowledge is power and the quest for knowledge never ends. There is an everlasting supply of arcane lore for the epic wizard to discover.

Hit die: d4

Skill points: 2 + int modifier

Bonus feats: The epic wizard gains a bonus feat every three levels after 20th. In other words, at levels 23, 26, 29, 32, 35, and 38.

Epic wizard bonus feats: automatic quicken spell, automatic silent spell, automatic still spell, epic spell focus, epic spell penetration, epic spell: dragon knight, epic spell: greater ruin, epic spell: hellball, epic spell: epic mage armor, epic spell: mummy dust, epic spell: epic warding, great intelligence, improved combat casting

Epic selectable class feats: blinding speed

[edit] Prestige class tips

• The pale master is a strong prestige class that builds upon the wizard's magical abilities.

[edit] Notes

• Wizards learn new spells at each level-up and from wizard scrolls they find during play.
• Which spells are memorized on rest are selected using the spell-book (shortcut key B).
• Wizard familiars gain additional feats and abilities once the wizard level of the player character reaches 5, 10 15 and 20.