Wizard

Wizard

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 small, magical, creature that serves her.

Alignment Restrictions: None

Hit Die: d4

Proficiencies: Armor (Robes), Weapons (Simple)

Skill Points: (Int mod * 4 at 1st level) 2 + Int mod

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)

Wizard Bonus Feats: Arcane Defense, Brew Potion, Combat Casting, Craft Wand, Empower Spell, Extend Spell, Greater Spell Focus, Greater Spell Penetration, Maximise Spell, Quicken Spell, Silent Spell, Spell Focus, Spell Penetration, Still Spell

Primary Saving Throw(s): Will

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.

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.

Spells

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

Cantrips	1st Level	2nd Level	3rd Level	4th Level
Acid Splash Daze Electric Jolt Flare Light Ray of Frost Resistance	Benign Transposition Burning Bolt Burning Hands Charm Person Chill Touch Color Spray Endure Elements Expeditious Retreat Grease Hail of Stone Horizikaul's Boom Ice Dagger Identify Ironguts Lesser Acid Orb Lesser Cold Orb Lesser Electric Orb Lesser Fire Orb Lesser Sonic Orb Mage Armor Magic Missile Magic Weapon Negative Energy Ray Nybor's Gentle Reminder Protection from Alignment Ray of Enfeeblement Scare Shelgarn's Persistent Blade Shield Sleep Snilloc's Snowball Summon Creature I True Strike	Agannazzar's Scorcher Balagarn's Iron Horn Baleful Transposition Blindness/Deafness Blur Bull's Strength Cat's Grace Cloud of Bewilderment Combust Continual Flame Create Magic Tattoo Curse of Impending Blades Darkness Death Armor Eagle's Splendor Endurance Fireburst Flame Weapon Fox's Cunning Gedlee's Electric Loop Ghostly Visage Ghoul Touch Glitterdust Invisibility Knock Lesser Dispel Melf's Acid Arrow Owl's Wisdom Resist Elements See Invisibility Shadow Spray Snilloc's Snowball Swarm Stone Bones Summon Creature II Tasha's Hideous Laughter Ultravision Web	Clairaudience/Clairvoyance Clarity Dispel Magic Displacement Find Traps Fireball Flame Arrow Flashburst Forceblast Greater Magic Weapon Gust of Wind Haste Hold Person Heroism Ice Burst Improved Mage Armor Invisibility Sphere Keen Edge Legion's Curse of Impending Blades Lightning Bolt Magic Circle Against Alignment Mestil's Acid Breath Negative Energy Burst Protection from Elements Scintillating Sphere Serpent's Sigh Slow Spiderskin Stinking Cloud Summon Creature III Vampiric Touch	Acid Orb Bestow Curse Blast of Flame Charm Monster Cold Orb Confusion Contagion Dimension Door Elemental Shield Electric Orb Enervation Evard's Black Tentacles Fear Fire Orb Ice Storm Ilyykur's Mantle Improved Invisibility Isaac's Lesser Missile Storm Lesser Spell Breach Lower Spell Resistance Mass Ultravision Minor Globe of Invulnerability Phantasmal Killer Polymorph Self Remove Blindness/Deafness Remove Curse Shadow Conjuration Sinsabur's Baleful Bolt Sonic Orb Stoneskin Summon Creature IV Viscid Globe Wall of Fire
5th Level	6th Level	7th Level	8th Level	9th Level
Animate Dead Ball Lightning Beltyn's Burning Blood Bigby's Interposing Hand Cloudkill Cone of Cold Dismissal Dominate Person Energy Buffer Feeblemind Firebrand Greater Fireburst Greater Shadow Conjuration Hold Monster Lesser Mind Blank Lesser Planar Binding Lesser Spell Mantle Mestil's Acid Sheath Mind Fog Snilloc's Major Missile Summon Creature V	Acid Fog Acid Storm Bigby's Forceful Hand Chain Lightning Circle of Death Disintegrate Ethereal Visage Flesh to Stone Globe of Invulnerability Greater Dispelling Greater Heroism 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 Energy Immunity Finger of Death Great Thunderclap Mass Hold Person Mordenkainen's Sword Nybor's Stern Reproof Power Word, Stun Prismatic Spray Protection from Spells Shadow Shield Spell Mantle Summon Creature VII	Bigby's Clenched Fist Blackstaff Create Undead Flensing Greater Planar Binding Greater Sanctuary Horrid Wilting Incendiary Cloud Mantle of Egregious Might Mass Blindness/Deafness Mass Charm Mind Blank Premonition Summon Creature VIII Sunburst Wall of Greater Dispel Magic	Bigby's Crushing Hand Black Blade of Disaster Dominate Monster Energy Drain Gate Greater Spell Mantle Mass Hold Monster Meteor Swarm Mordenkainen's Disjunction Power Word, Kill Shapechange Sphere of Ultimate Destruction Summon Creature IX Time Stop Wail of the Banshee Weird

Spells per Day

Class Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1	3	1	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
2	4	2	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
3	4	2	1	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
4	4	3	2	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
5	4	3	2	1	*	*	*	*	*	*
6	4	3	3	2	*	*	*	*	*	*
7	4	4	3	2	1	*	*	*	*	*
8	4	4	3	3	2	*	*	*	*	*
9	4	4	4	3	2	1	*	*	*	*
10	4	4	4	3	3	2	*	*	*	*
11	4	4	4	4	3	2	1	*	*	*
12	4	4	4	4	3	3	2	*	*	*
13	4	4	4	4	4	3	2	1	*	*
14	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	2	*	*
15	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	2	1	*
16	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	2	*
17	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	2	1
18	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	2
19	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3
20	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4

Epic Wizard

Epic Wizard

Skill Points: 2 + Int mod

Bonus Feats: 23, 26, 29, 32, 35, 38

Epic Wizard Bonus Feats

Automatic Quicken Spell, Automatic Silent Spell, Automatic Still Spell, Epic Spell Focus, Epic Spell Penetration, Great Intelligence, Improved Combat Casting

Epic Wizard Spells

Dragon Knight, Greater Ruin, Hellball, Epic Mage Armor, Mummy Dust, Epic Warding

Epic Selectable Class Feats

Blinding Speed

Notes

• Wizards learn new spells at each level-up or from wizard scrolls they find during play.
• Which spells are memorized on rest are selected using the spell-book (shortcut key B).
• Avlis has special Spellbook Management chat functions to make spellbook changes easier.
• Wizard familiars gain additional feats and abilities once the wizard level of the Player Character reaches 15.
• In Avlis there is an Advanced Mage Specializations Overview which allows the implementation of spell-casting "prestige classes". The effect is intended to give spellcasters additional options and specializations tied to a closer or more advanced study of magic. Unlocking by a DM is required for this PrC.
• Vortex Ranks may be granted to PCs who play a notable role in the world of mortal magic, to reflect a stronger connection to the Vortex of Mortal Magic. In terms of game mechanics, Vortex Ranks give benefits in Arcane spellcasting similar to Favored Cleric status for Divine spellcasting. Note: The term Vortex Ranks does not exist as an IC notion.

See Also

Avlis Private Discussion: Mages, a private class discussion forum.