Questions tagged [wizard]
For questions about the wizard, a traditional character class in RPGs that learns and casts arcane magic through study.
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How can a Wizard end a non magical petrified condition in Dragonlance setting?
Some monsters have the ability to petrify creatures, for example the Gorgon or the Dragonbone Golem:
The golem emits a 60-foot cone of petrifying gas from its mouth. [...] On a successful save, the ...
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What magic item would suit a 5th-level Bladesinger who favors a swift, defensive fighting style over melee cantrips?
I'm DMing a 4th-level Half-Elf Bladesinger in 5e (2014 rules). The player envisions their character as a dancing, agile swordfighter — more swashbuckler than battle mage — and currently leans into ...
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My friend is lost in darkness, how can I help him see?
I am playing a Way of the Shadow monk, and my main strategy in combat is to use darkness:
Darkness. You can expend 1 Focus Point to cast the Darkness spell without spell components. You can see ...
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If you've previously copied a spell into a spellbook but lose it, do you get a discount when you copy the same spell from another wizard's spellbook?
This is a hypothetical scenario:
Suppose a wizard (A) has already copied a spell into their spellbook, from another wizard's (B) spellbook. Wizard A then loses their spellbook. They then find wizard C'...
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When choosing 2 new spells for a high INT Wizard achieving 2nd level, can they select 2x 2nd level spells?
I'm a little confused due to everything I'm reading online that explains the process missing this one clarification.
Every level, a wizard can add two new spells to their spell book so long as they're ...
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Can I use the Wish Spell to change my Class ( Wizard 18, Warlock 2 to Wizard 19, Warlock 1)?
I'm currently thinking about how to build an Abjuration Wizard with the new 2024 rules, and the only way to have a reliable (resourceless) source of temporary hp seems to be using the Fiendish Vigor ...
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Wizard Dip Spell Recording
Similar questions have been asked, but this has not been answered (please point me to it if I’m mistaken):
A leveled Sorcerer (for the sake of argument, Sorc 5) takes a 1-2 level dip in Wizard. From ...
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How does Potent Cantrip interact with spells that involve weapon attacks?
Potent Cantrip, a feature granted to the Evoker Wizard Subclass, states:
Your damaging cantrips affect even creatures that avoid the brunt of
the effect. When you cast a cantrip at a creature and you ...
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Can chronal shift be applied to yourself? [closed]
One of my player is a wizard with chronurgy magic.
Chronal shift states that:
"At 2nd level, you can magically exert limited control over the flow of time around a creature. As a reaction, after ...
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How does Magic Item creation cost differ between Sorcerer and Wizard?
I know that Potions, Scrolls and Wands vary in price, depending on class making them. This is explained by the fact they are usually made at lowest possible CL and have a fixed CL of spell being ...
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Could you kill someone using Enchantment School Wizard's Hypnotic Gaze forever?
If your character really hated someone very much and had enough resources to stay alive longer than the hypnotized target (Let's say, through the Constructed Resilience feature or something similar), ...
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Can you cast dimension door as a contingency?
Me and my DM had a discussion about whether or not dimension door was an eligible spell for contingency because it doesn’t specify “self” in range.
He argued that the destination was actually the ...
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Is this lesser version of Life Transference balanced?
My ("plain vanilla" dnd 5e) wizard is now near level 8, and I was thinking to equip him with a straightforward reduced version of "Life Transference".
The purpose of this is merely ...
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How would I deal with an enemy that intends to camp underground until I die from the environment as a level 12 fairy wizard?
This ties in to my previous question, where the answer was that I can't target them with a spell because the ground acts as full cover.
The context for this question is that my enemy (another player) ...
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Does the Evocation Wizard's Empowered Evocation feature work with spells cast from magic items?
The School of Evocation wizard's Empowered Evocation feature description says:
Beginning at 10th level, you can add your Intelligence modifier to one damage roll of any wizard evocation spell you ...
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What is the most amount of jury tampering I can commit using spells?
Unfortunately my scheme to win an election using necromancy failed, not mind you because I created too few undead minions. The regions had an electoral system by which I had to win the majority of ...
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Questions related to the wizard's "Arcane Implement Mastery" and the "Staff of Defense"
In D&D 4e Player's Handbook 1, at page 157, there's a section about "Arcane Implement Mastery" for the wizard. It says the following:
You specialize in the use of one kind of implement ...
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Is this revision of the level 2 Transmutation Wizard feature balanced? [Version 2]
This is a follow up to Is this revision of the level 2 Transmutation Wizard feature balanced?
I will soon be playing a wizard who I intend to become a transmutation wizard. However, I find the ...
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Is there wide agreement on what an optimised Wizard should use Craft Contingent Spell for?
Craft Contingent Spell is ridiculously powerful, so much so that I feel no need to even cite that claim. It is generally assumed that any optimised Wizard will have a long list of contingencies ...
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Can my Order of Scribes wizard gnome with the Mark of Scribing cast Silence to survive her 120 ft fall?
If I can cast silence on the ground below me before falling, with the thunder damage immunity replaced with bludgeoning, and we land from the fall inside the sphere of silence, do my party and I take ...
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How many more non-wizard spells can an Order of Scribes wizard get that are either a new source of damage type or new use of damage types?
A few setting specific backgrounds (such as the Izzet Engineer from Ravnica) and lineages (such as the Mark of Handling Human from Eberron) have spells that are "added to the spell list of your ...
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Can Abrupt Jaunt take me out of a grapple?
I have a question after a combat with animated furniture:
I have the ability Abrupt Jaunt
Wizard specialist ability from PHB2:
Abrupt Jaunt (conjuration): You teleport up to 10 feet.
Activating this ...
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Is this Order of Scribes wizard combo with the Elemental Bane and Faithful Hound spells a legal exploit?
So I'm playing an OOS wizard in a 3/4 shot game. I really like the replace damage type feature for the interesting flavour it can provide to battles, but when looking at the spell list, I stumbled ...
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Does Chain Lightning deal damage to its original target first?
When Chain Lightning deals damage, does it deal damage to all targets at once, or does it's original target takes damage first? I ask this question because after damage was taken concentration checks ...
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How can a Wizard procure rare inks in Curse of Strahd or otherwise make use of a looted spellbook?
For information specific to the Curse of Strahd campaign, please use spoiler tags because I am a player and not the GM.
Two notes first:
We are playing the Curse of Strahd, but I don't know what ...
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