Hedge Magic Wizard

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Class Features

Arcane Recovery

You have learned to regain some of your magical energy by studying 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 that is equal to or less than half your wizard level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher. For example, if you're a 4th-level wizard, you can recover up to two levels worth of spell slots. You can recover either a 2nd-level spell slot or two 1st-level spell slots.  

Arcane Tradition

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

Ability Score Improvement

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.  

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. 1£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 you chose for different spells of the same levels.  

Signature Spells

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. Vou 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.

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Starting Equipment

• (a) a quarterstaff or (b) a dagger   • (a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus   • (a) a scholar's pack or (b) an explorer's pack   • A spellbook

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Spellcasting

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 Cantrips Known column of the Wizard table.  

Spellbook

At 1st level. you have a spellbook containing six 1st-level wizard spells of your choice.  

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Wizard table shows how many spell slots you have to east your spells of 1st level and higher. To east one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest. You prepare the list of wizard spells that are available for you to cast. To do so, choose a number of wizard spells from your spellbook equal to your Intelligence modifier + your wizard level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.   For example, if you're a 3rd-level wizard, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an Intelligence of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination, chosen from your spellbook. If you prepare the 1st-level spell magic missile, you can east it using a 1st level or a 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn't remove it from your list of prepared spells. You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of wizard spells requires time spent studying your spellbook and memorizing the incantations and gestures you must make to east the spell: aI least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.  

Spellcasting Ability

lntelligence is your spellcasting ability for your wizard spells, since you learn your spells through dedicated study and memorization. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intlelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a wizard spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.   Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier   Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier.  

Ritual Casting

You can east a wizard spell as a ritual if that spell 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.  

Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher

Each time you gain a wizard level, you can add two wizard spells of your choice to your spellbook. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots, as shown on the Wizard table. On your adventures, you might find other spells that you can add to your spellbook.  

Your Spellbook

The spells that you add to your spellbook as you gain levels reflect the arcane research you conduct on your own, as well as intellectual breakthroughs you have had about the nature of the multiverse. You might find other spells during your adventures. You could discover a spell recorded on a scroll in an evil wizard's chest, for example, or in a dusty tome in an ancient library.   Copying a Spell into the Book: When you find a wizard spell of 1st level or higher, you can add it to your spellbook if it is of a level for which you have spell slots and if you can spare the time to decipher and copy it.   Copying a spell into your spellbook involves reproducing the basic form of the spell, then deciphering the unique system of notation used by the wizard who wrote it. You must practice the spell until you understand the sounds or gestures required, then transcribe it into your spellbook using your own notation. For each level of the spell, the process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp. The cost represents material components you expend as you experiment with the spell to master it, as well as the fine inks you need to record it. Once you have spent this time and money, you can prepare the spell just like your other spells.   Replacing the Book: You can copy a spell from your own spellbook into another book—for example, if you want to make a backup copy of your spellbook. This is just like copying a new spell into your spellbook, but faster and easier, since you understand your own notation and already know how to cast the spell. You need spend only 1 hour and 10 gp for each level o f the copied spell.   If you lose your spellbook, you can use the same procedure to transcribe the spells that you have prepared into a new spellbook. Filling out the remainder o f your spellbook requires you to find new spells to do so, as normal. For this reason, many wizards keep backup spellbooks in a safe place.   The Book’s Appearance: Your spellbook is a unique compilation of spells, with its own decorative flourishes and margin notes. It might be a plain, functional leather volume that you received as a gift from your master, a finely bound gilt-edged tome you found in an ancient library, or even a loose collection o f notes scrounged together after you lost your previous spellbook in a mishap.

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Subclass Options

Arcane Tradition: Hedge Magic

Practitioners of hedge magic curiously (and ironically) devote themselves to an especial understanding, study, and perfection of the lowest forms of magic in stark contrast to the lofty aspirations of most of their peers. Recognizing and emphasizing the importance of fundamentals, and the flexibility afforded to those well versed in cantrips of mere but inexhaustible power, hedge wizards seek to maximize the utility and strength of basic spells other scholars of the arts would normally dismiss or disregard, employing cantrips to great effect, either in mundane life or in the midst of adventure.

 

Scholar of Fundaments

Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, you have devoted yourself to the study and perfection of fundamental magics, giving you especial insight and esoteric knowledge.

You learn three cantrips of your choice from any class's spell list (each can come from different lists). You learn another set of two cantrips in this way at wizard levels 6, 10, and 14.

Cantrips learned in this way count as wizard cantrips for you.

 

Big on the Basics

At 2nd level, your heightened study of cantrip magic is shown by the ease with which it is maintained and dismissed.

You can simultaneously concentrate on a cantrip and one other spell.

Further, you can dismiss any numver of your cantrips or cantrip effects as a bonus action.

 

Practice Made Perfect

At 6th level, well-practised cantrips benefit from your considerable expertise, honed to the verge of perfection.

When you cast a cantrip, you can choose one of the following benefits to apply to it:

• If the cantrip has a range other than self, you can double its range. If its range is touch, it becomes 10 feet.
• If the cantrip has a duration of at least 1 minute, you can choose to either double its duration to a maximum duration of 24 hours, or increase its duration to 1 hour.
• The cantrip's target have disadvantage on saving throws made against it, and you have advantage on the next attack roll made with it until the start of your next turn.
• The cantrip doesn't need verbal, somatic, and material components.

 

Swift Cantrip

At 10th level, casting basic magic becomes second nature to you, no more trying than a terse word or wave of a hand.

When you cast a cantrip that has a casting time of 1 action, you can cast it with 1 bonus action instead. If you do, you aren't restricted from casting another spell during the current turn.

A spell cast in this way deals half damage and can't grant you resistance to damage.

 

Master of Fundaments

At 14th level, your perfected mastery over the fundamentals of wizardry extends even to 'proper' magic, allowing you to applyyour honed techniques to more basic spells.

You can cast any 1st level wizard spell in your spellbook without expending spell slots. If you do, that spell counts as a cantrip for the purpose of this subclass;s features. Each such spell can only be cast in this way once between rests.

Further, when casting a cantrip, you can now choose up to two of Practice Made Perfects's effects to apply to it instead of one.

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