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'''Class Information.'''

:'''Hit Dice.''' 1d6 per wizard level

:'''1st Level Hitpoints.''' 6 + your Constitution modifier

:'''Higher Level Hitpoints.''' 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per wizard level after 1st

:'''Armor Proficiencies.''' Light Armor

:'''Weapon Proficiencies.''' Daggers, Darts, Slings, Quarterstaffs, Light Crossbows

:'''Tool Proficiencies.''' None

:'''Saving Throw Proficiencies.''' Intelligence and Wisdom

:'''Skill Proficiencies.''' Choose two from Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, and Religion

:'''Equipment.''' A Quarterstaff or a Dagger, an Arcane Focus, an Equipment Pack, and a Spellbook.

'''Spellcasting.''' You gain the ability to cast spells at level 1

:'''Spellcasting Ability.''' Intelligence

:'''Spell Save DC.''' 8 + Your Proficiency Bonus + Your Intelligence Modifier

:'''Spell Attack Bonus.''' Proficiency Bonus + Your Intelligence Modifier

:'''Spellcasting Focus.''' An Arcane Focus

:'''Ritual Casting.''' You can cast any spell in your Spellbook as a ritual if it has the ritual tag.

:'''Spell Learning Method.''' Whenever you finish a long rest, you prepare a number of spells equal to your wizard level + your Intelligence modifier from the list of spells you have written in your Spellbook.''' You can cast these spells using your spell slots until the end of your next long rest.

'''Spellbook.''' At 1st level you have a Spellbook you use for preparing spells and casting rituals. You can use your Spellbook as an Arcane Focus. You begin with six, 1st level spells in the Spellbook. Whenever you gain a level in this class, you magically scribe two additional spells of a level you can cast into your Spellbook.

'''Arcane Tradition.''' When you reach 2nd level, you choose an arcane tradition, shaping your practice of magic through one of many schools and traditions of magic. Your choice grants you features at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

'''Ability Score Improvements.''' When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. Alternatively, you can take a [[Feats|feat]] instead of taking this increase to ability scores.

'''Spell Mastery.''' At 18th level, you have achieved such mastery over certain spells that you can cast them at will. 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.

'''Signature Spell.''' When you reach 20th level, you gain mastery over two powerful spells and can cast them with little effort. 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.

'''Abjuration Savant.''' Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an abjuration spell into your spellbook is halved. Additionally, you have advantage on Intelligence (Arcana) checks to copy non-Wizard Abjuration Spells into your spellbook

'''Arcane Ward.''' Starting at 2nd level, you can weave magic around yourself for protection. When you cast an abjuration spell of 1st level or higher, 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 + your Intelligence modifier. Whenever you take damage, the ward takes the damage instead. If this damage reduces the ward to 0 hit points, you take any remaining damage.

'''Projected Ward.''' Starting at 6th level, when a creature that you can see within 30 feet of you takes damage, you can use your 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.

'''Improved Abjuration.''' Beginning at 10th level, when you cast an abjuration spell that requires you to make an ability check as a part of casting that spell (as in counterspell and dispel magic), you add your proficiency bonus to that ability check.

'''Spell Resistance.''' Starting at 14th level, you have advantage on saving throws against spells. Furthermore, you have resistance against the damage of spells.

'''Training in War and Song.''' At 2nd level, you gain proficiency with light armor, and you gain proficiency with one type of one-handed melee weapon of your choice. You also gain proficiency in the Performance skill if you don’t already have it.

'''Bladesong.''' At 2nd level, you can invoke an elven magic called the Bladesong, provided that you aren’t wearing medium or heavy armor or using a shield. It graces you with supernatural speed, agility, and focus.

'''Extra Attack.''' At 6th level you can perform an additional attack as part of the Attack action.

If you have multiple copies of this feature and achieve a certain level threshold, the number of attacks you can perform increases. At 5th level if you have one copy of the feature, you can perform one extra attack, at 11th level if you have two copies of the feature you can perform two extra attacks, and at 20th level if you have three copies of the feature you can perform three extra attacks.

'''Song of Defense.''' At 10th level, you can direct your magic to absorb damage while your Bladesong is active. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to expend one spell slot and reduce that damage to you by an amount equal to five times the spell slot’s level.

'''Song of Victory.''' At 14th level, you can add your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1) to the damage of your melee weapon attacks while your Bladesong is active.

'''Chronal Shift.''' At 2nd 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.

'''Temporal Awareness.''' At 2nd 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 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.

'''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 use its action to release the spell within, whereupon the bead disappears. The spell uses your spell attack bonus and spell save DC, and the spell treats the creature who released it as the caster for all other purposes.

'''Convergent Future.''' At 14th 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).

'''Conjuration Savant.''' Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy a conjuration spell into your spellbook is halved. Additionally, you have advantage on Intelligence (Arcana) checks to copy non-Wizard Conjuration Spells into your spellbook

'''Minor Conjuration.''' Starting at 2nd level when you select this school, you can use your 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 non-magical object that you have seen. The object is visibly magical, radiating dim light out to 5 feet.

'''Benign Transposition.''' Starting at 6th level, you can use your action to teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see. Alternatively, you can choose a space within range that is occupied by a Small or Medium creature. If that creature is willing, you both teleport, swapping places.

'''Focused Conjuration.''' Beginning at 10th level, while you are concentrating on a conjuration spell, your concentration can’t be broken as a result of taking damage.

'''Durable Summons.''' Starting at 14th level, any creature that you summon or create with a conjuration spell has 30 temporary hit points.

'''Divination Savant.''' Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy a divination spell into your spellbook is halved. Additionally, you have advantage on Intelligence (Arcana) checks to copy non-Wizard Divination Spells into your spellbook

'''Portent.''' Starting at 2nd level when you choose this school, glimpses of the future begin to press in on your awareness. When you finish a long rest, roll two d20s and record the numbers rolled. You can replace any attack roll, saving throw, or ability check 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.

'''Expert Divination.''' Beginning 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 of 2nd level or higher using a spell slot, you regain one expended spell slot. The slot you regain must be of a level lower than the spell you cast and can’t be higher than 5th level.

'''The Third Eye.''' Starting at 10th level, you can use your action to increase your powers of perception. When you do so, choose one of the following benefits, which lasts until you are incapacitated or you take a short or long rest. You can’t use the feature again until you finish a rest.

'''Greater Portent.''' Starting at 14th level, the visions in your dreams intensify and paint a more accurate picture in your mind of what is to come. You roll three d20s for your Portent feature, rather than two.

'''Enchantment Savant.''' Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an enchantment spell into your spellbook is halved. Additionally, you have advantage on Intelligence (Arcana) checks to copy non-Wizard Enchantment Spells into your spellbook

'''Hypnotic Gaze.''' Starting at 2nd level when you choose this school, your soft words and enchanting gaze can magically enthrall another creature. As an 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 your 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.

'''Instinctive Charm.''' Beginning 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. On a successful save, you can’t use this feature on the attacker again until you finish a long rest.

'''Split Enchantment.''' Starting at 10th level, when you cast an enchantment spell of 1st level or higher that targets only one creature, you can have it target a second creature.

'''Alter Memories.''' At 14th level, you gain the ability to make a creature unaware of your magical influence on it. When you cast an enchantment spell to charm one or more creatures, you can alter one creature’s understanding so that it remains unaware of being charmed.

'''Evocation Savant.''' 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. Additionally, you have advantage on Intelligence (Arcana) checks to copy non-Wizard Evocation Spells into your spellbook

'''Sculpt Spells.''' 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.

'''Potent Cantrip.''' 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.

'''Empowered Evocation.''' Beginning at 10th level, you can add your Intelligence modifier to one damage roll of any wizard evocation spell you cast.

'''Overchannel.''' 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.

While almost all wizards study in formal schools under the tutelage of a wise master, some wizards reject traditional arcane schooling and strike out into the world to learn by doing. These rare few who hone their craft out in the wilds are referred to as Hedge Wizards. Though their methods are frowned upon by formal wizarding schools, any archmage worthy of his station will reluctantly recognize that Hedge Wizards are the true masters of the low magics. <br>

'''Cantrip Savant.''' Your unorthodox relationship with arcane magic allows you to you learn fundamental magics not traditionally associated with wizards. When you adopt this Arcane Tradition at 2nd level, you learn one cantrip of your choice from any spell list. The chosen cantrip counts as a wizard spell for you, but does not count against your total number of Cantrips Known. You learn additional cantrips in this way as you gain levels in this class; one each at 6th level, 10th level, and 14th level.

'''Self-Taught.''' Your deep understanding of the low magics allows you to add them to your spellbook at a discount. Starting at 2nd level, the time you must spend to copy any spell of a level equal to half your proficiency bonus or lower into your spellbook is halved, and the cost is reduced by 50 gold.

'''On the Fly.''' Your skill with basic magic is second to none, allowing you to spontaneously cast low-level spells that you haven't prepared. Beginning at 6th level, you can use your action to cast any spell of 2nd-level or lower from your spellbook, even if you don't have the spell prepared, expending the appropriate spell slot. The spell must have a casting time of one action.<br>

'''Hardy Magic.''' Learning your magic out in the wild instead of the controlled environment of a formal school has made you hardier than most wizards. Starting at 10th level, when you are forced to make a Constitution saving throw to maintain concentration on a spell, you can use a reaction to grant yourself a bonus to the roll equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).<br>

'''Arcane Conservation.''' Your understanding of arcane fundamentals allows you to recycle the energy of failed spells. Beginning at 14th level, when you cast a wizard spell of 4th-level or lower and the spell fails, you regain one expended spell slot. The spell slot regained must be a lower level than the spell slot used to cast the failed spell. This feature applies to all spells of 4th-level or lower, even if they are cast with a higher level spell slot. <br>

'''Illusion Savant.''' Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an illusion spell into your spellbook is halved. Additionally, you have advantage on Intelligence (Arcana) checks to copy non-Wizard Illusion Spells into your spellbook

'''Improved Minor Illusion.''' When you choose this school at 2nd level, you learn the Minor Illusion cantrip. If you already know this cantrip, you learn a different wizard cantrip of your choice. The cantrip doesn’t count against your number of cantrips known.

'''Malleable Illusions.''' Starting at 6th level, when you cast an illusion spell that has a duration of 1 minute or longer, you can use your action to change the nature of that illusion (using the spell’s normal parameters for the illusion), provided that you can see the illusion.

'''Illusory Self.''' Beginning at 10th level, you can create an illusory duplicate of yourself as an instant, almost instinctual reaction to danger. When a creature makes an attack roll against you, you can use your reaction to interpose the illusory duplicate between the attacker and yourself. The attack automatically misses you, then the illusion dissipates.

'''Illusory Reality.''' By 14th level, you have learned the secret of weaving shadow magic into your illusions to give them a semi-reality. When you cast an illusion spell of 1st level or higher, you can choose one inanimate, non-magical 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. For example, you can create an illusion of a bridge over a chasm and then make it real long enough for your allies to cross.

The School of Necromancy explores the cosmic forces of life, death, and undeath. As you focus your studies in this tradition, you learn to manipulate the energy that animates all living things. As you progress, you learn to sap the life force from a creature as your magic destroys its body, transforming that vital energy into magical power you can manipulate.

'''Necromancy Savant.''' Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy a necromancy spell into your spellbook is halved. Additionally, you have advantage on Intelligence (Arcana) checks to copy non-Wizard Necromancy Spells into your spellbook

'''Grim Harvest.''' At 2nd level, you gain the ability to reap life energy from creatures you kill with your spells. Once per turn when you kill one or more creatures with a spell of 1st level or higher, you regain hit points equal to twice the spell’s level, or three times its level if the spell belongs to the School of Necromancy. You don’t gain this benefit for killing constructs or undead.

'''Undead Thralls.''' At 6th level, you add the Animate Dead spell 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. Whenever you create an undead using a necromancy spell, it has additional benefits:

The creature’s hit point maximum is increased by an amount equal to your wizard level.

The creature adds your proficiency bonus to its weapon damage rolls.

'''Inured to Undeath.''' Beginning at 10th level, you have resistance to necrotic damage, and your hit point maximum can’t be reduced. You have spent so much time dealing with undead and the forces that animate them that you have become inured to some of their worst effects.

'''Command Undead.''' Starting at 14th level, you can use magic to bring undead under your control, even those created by other wizards. As an 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.

'''Ritual Savant.''' Starting at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy a ritual spell into your spellbook is halved.

'''Arcane Anthology.''' You have learned to perform arcane rituals not normally known to wizards. At 2nd level, you add two 1st-level ritual spells of your choice from any spell list to your spellbook.<br>

'''Improvised Rituals.''' You can improvise the ritual process for spells with which are normally not rituals. Beginning at 6th level, when you finish a long rest, you can choose a number of spell equal to your Intelligence Modifier and treat them as rituals until your next long rest. When you cast a non-ritual spell as a ritual, you cannot cast the spell at a higher level.

'''Formulaic Breakthrough.'''

Your deep knowledge of ritual magic allows you to ritualize even non-ritual spells. Starting at 10th level, you can cast any 1st-level spell in your spellbook as a ritual so long as it deals no damage and does not require a saving throw.

'''Master Ritualist.''' You have reached an unparalleled understanding of ritualistic magic and its applications. Beginning at 14th level, you can concentrate on the effects of up to two ritual spells at once.<br>

'''Wizardly Quill.''' At 2nd 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 time you must spend to copy a spell into your spellbook equals 2 minutes per spell level if you use the quill for the transcription.

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.

'''Awakened Spellbook.''' At 2nd level, using specially prepared inks and ancient incantations passed down by your wizardly order, you have awakened an arcane sentience within your spellbook. While you are holding the book, it grants you the following benefits:

'''Manifest Mind.''' At 6th level, you can conjure forth the mind of your Awakened Spellbook. As a bonus action while the book is on your person, you can cause the mind to manifest as a Tiny spectral object, hovering in an unoccupied space of your choice within 60 feet of you. The spectral mind is intangible and doesn’t occupy its space, and it sheds dim light in a 10-foot radius. It looks like a ghostly tome, a cascade of text, or a scholar from the past (your choice).

While manifested, the spectral mind can hear and see, and it has darkvision with a range of 60 feet. The mind can telepathically share with you what it sees and hears (no action required).

Whenever you cast a wizard spell on your turn, you can cast it as if you were in the spectral mind’s space, instead of your own, using its senses. You can do so a number of times per day equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

As a bonus action, you can cause the spectral mind to hover up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you or it can see. It can pass through creatures but not objects.

'''Master Scrivener.''' At 10th level, whenever you finish a long rest, you can create one magic scroll by touching your Wizardly Quill to a blank piece of paper or parchment and causing one spell from your Awakened Spellbook to be copied onto the scroll.

The spellbook must be within 5 feet of you when you make the scroll. The chosen spell must be of 1st or 2nd level and must have a casting time of 1 action. Once in the scroll, the spell’s power is enhanced, counting as one level higher than normal. You can cast the spell from the scroll by reading it as an action. The scroll is unintelligible to anyone else, and the spell vanishes from the scroll when you cast it or when you finish your next long rest.

'''One with the Word.''' At 14th level, your connection to your Awakened Spellbook has become so profound that your soul has become entwined with it. While the book is on your person, you have advantage on all Intelligence (Arcana) checks, as the spellbook helps you remember magical lore.

Moreover, if you take damage while your spellbook’s mind is manifested, you can prevent all of that damage to you by using your reaction to dismiss the spectral mind, using its magic to save yourself. Then roll 3d6. The spellbook temporarily loses spells of your choice that have a combined spell level equal to that roll or higher. For example, if the roll’s total is 9, spells vanish from the book that have a combined level of at least 9, which could mean one 9th-level spell, three 3rd-level spells, or some other combination. If there aren’t enough spells in the book to cover this cost, you drop to 0 hit points.

'''Arcane Theologian.''' When you adopt this Arcane Tradition at 2nd level, you gain access to divine magics unavailable to most wizards. You can copy any cleric spell that you find in other spellbooks or spell scrolls into your spellbook without needing to make an Arcana check first.<br>

'''Channel Divinity.''' Also at 2nd level, you learn to channel divine energy directly from the upper planes, and use it to fuel magical effects. You start with one such Channel Divinity effect: Turn Undead and Aberrations. You can use your Channel Divinity a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, regaining expended uses at the end of a long rest. If one of your Channel Divinity effects requires a creature to make a saving throw, it uses your wizard spell save DC.<br>

'''Divine Arcane.''' When you reach 6th level, you gain a greater mastery over the arcane and the divine. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that deals Radiant Damage, you can expend a Hit Die and regain hit points equal to one roll of your Hit Dice + your Constitution, Wisdom, or Intelligence Modifier (minimum of +1). When you cast a spell of first level or higher that heals a creature, you and that creature gain a +1 bonus to their AC and have advantage on Constitution Saving Throws until the end of your next turn.

'''Divine Protection.''' Your knowledge of the upper planes grants you a measure of protection against evil. Beginning at 10th level, When an aberration or undead attacks you, it must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature must choose a different target, or the attack automatically misses. On a successful save, the creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours.<br>

'''Blessed Intervention.''' Beginning at 14th level, you can use your knowledge of the divine to implore the Three for direct aid.<br>

'''Transmutation Savant.''' Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy a transmutation spell into your spellbook is halved. Additionally, you have advantage on Intelligence (Arcana) checks to copy non-Wizard Transmutation Spells into your spellbook

'''Minor Alchemy.''' Starting at 2nd level when you select this school, you can temporarily alter the physical properties of one non-magical object, changing it from one substance into another. You perform a special alchemical procedure on one object composed entirely of wood, stone (but not a gemstone), iron, copper, or silver, transforming it into a different one of those materials. For each 10 minutes you spend performing the procedure, you can transform up to 1 cubic foot of material. After 1 hour, or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell), the material reverts to its original substance.

'''Transmuter’s Stone.''' Starting at 6th level, you can spend 8 hours creating a transmuter’s stone that stores transmutation magic. You can benefit from the stone yourself or give it to another creature. A creature gains a benefit of your choice as long as the stone is in the creature’s possession. When you create the stone, choose the benefit from the following options:

'''Shapechanger.''' At 10th level, you add the Polymorph spell to your spellbook, if it is not there already. You can cast polymorph without expending a spell slot. When you do so, you can target only yourself and transform into a beast whose challenge rating is 1 or lower.

You can cast polymorph in this way a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining expended uses at the end of a long rest. If you have no uses left, you can still cast it normally using an available spell slot.

'''Master Transmuter.''' Starting at 14th level, you can use your action to consume the reserve of transmutation magic stored within your transmuter’s stone in a single burst. When you do so, choose one of the following effects. Your transmuter’s stone is destroyed and can’t be remade until you finish a long rest.

'''Core Wand.''' When you choose this tradition at 2nd level, you create a special wand called a core wand, which you can use as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells. You determine the wand’s appearance, and only you are capable of using it. You can use a bonus action to summon the wand to your hand, regardless of physical or planar distances. If this wand is destroyed, you can create a new one over the course of 8 hours of work.

Your core wand gains power each time you use it to cast a spell. This power is represented by core charges. The wand can have up to 7 core charges at a time, and whenever you finish a long rest, the number of core charges in the wand resets to 1. Whenever you expend a spell slot to cast a spell of 1st level or higher while holding your wand, it gains up to a number of core charges equal to half the spell’s level (minimum of 1). You can expend these core charges in the following ways:

Whenever you make an attack roll or saving throw, you can expend any number of core charges to gain a bonus to the roll equal to the number of core charges spent. You can wait until after you roll the d20, but must decide before the dM says whether the roll succeeds or fails.

Whenever you are hit by an attack, you can expend any number of core charges from your wand as a reaction to gain a bonus to AC against that attack equal to the number of core charges spent.

'''Wand Savant.''' Starting at 2nd level, you can interpret staves and wands the way other wizards read scrolls and spellbooks. If a staff or wand in your possession can cast a spell that’s on the wizard spell list, you can copy the spell into your spellbook as if you were copying a spell from a scroll. In addition, when you cast a wizard spell with a range of touch while holding your core wand, you can choose a target that you can see and isn’t behind cover up to 10 feet away from you instead. At 14th level, this range increases to 30 feet.

'''Arcane Battery.''' Beginning at 6th level, when you use your Arcane Recovery feature, your core wand regains 3 expended core charges.

'''Imbue Minor Wand.''' Starting at 10th level, whenever you finish a long rest, you can imbue a number of wizard spells from your spellbook up to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one) into a non-magical stick, dowel, or similar Tiny object, transforming the object into a magic wand. Each spell must be a cantrip or a 1st or 2nd-level spell and have a casting time of 1 action or bonus action. In addition, the spells can’t require concentration or require any material components that indicate a cost or are consumed as part of casting the spell, and if the spell is a cantrip, it mustn’t be able to damage a target.

'''Manifest Charges.''' When you reach 14th level, you can convert the core charges within your wand into raw, arcane energy. By manipulating this energy, you can use the wand’s core charges in the following new ways:

As a bonus action, you can expend 1 or more of the wand’s core charges to create a number of motes of magical force equal to the core charges spent. Each mote streaks toward a different target that you can see within 60 feet of you, dealing force damage to each target equal to 1d4 + your Intelligence modifier.

When you or another creature that you can see within 30 feet of you takes damage, you can use your reaction to expend 1 or more of the wand’s core charges to create a magical barrier, reducing the damage taken by an amount equal to three times the number of core charges spent.

A variety of arcane colleges specialize in training wizards for war. The tradition of War Magic blends principles of evocation and abjuration, rather than specializing in either of those schools. It teaches techniques that empower a caster’s spells, while also providing methods for wizards to bolster their own defenses.

Followers of this tradition are known as war mages. They see their magic as both a weapon and armor, a resource superior to any piece of steel. War mages act fast in battle, using their spells to seize tactical control of a situation. Their spells strike hard, while their defensive skills foil their opponents’ attempts to counterattack. War mages are also adept at turning other spellcasters’ magical energy against them.

In great battles, a war mage often works with evokers, abjurers, and other types of wizards. Evokers, in particular, sometimes tease war mages for splitting their attention between offense and defense. A war mage’s typical response: “What good is being able to throw a mighty fireball if I die before I can cast it?”

'''Arcane Deflection.''' At 2nd 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.

'''Tactical Wit.''' Starting at 2nd level, your keen ability to assess tactical situations allows you to act quickly in battle. You can give yourself a bonus to your initiative rolls equal to your Intelligence modifier.

'''Power Surge.''' Starting at 6th 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 of one). 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.

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

'''Deflecting Shroud.''' At 14th 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 wizard level.