Powerful Wizard (3.5e Class)

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Balance Note: Most Fighter-level classes are pretty wimpy when it comes to personally affecting the course of a plot. This class is not. In Fighter-level campaigns where it isn't possible to find a variety of scrolls, wands, and high-level NPC Wizards to employ, the DM will definitely need to consider the suitability of the Powerful Wizard class in their campaign.

Powerful Wizard

Powerful Wizards are somewhat of a misnomer, as they are among the weakest of wizardkind. Their main advantage is the ability to repeatedly cast flimsy magics, and occasionally do something that impresses the Fighters.

Making a Powerful Wizard

Powerful Wizards are flimsy in comparison to the fine upstanding sword-and-boarders of the land, but they occasionally pop out a fireball or two to keep small armies in check.

Abilities: Like all Wizards, Powerful Wizards need Intelligence, and usually want some Constitution and/or Dexterity.

Races: Any race that can wiggle its fingers and speak mumbo jumbo may well have large groups of Powerful Wizards.

Alignment: Any.

Starting Gold: 2d4×10 gp (50 gp).

Starting Age: As wizard.

Table: The Powerful Wizard

Hit Die: d4

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Saving Throws			Special
		Fort	Ref	Will
1st	+0	+0	+0	+2	2 At-Will Spells, 1 Encounter Spell, Summon Familiar
2nd	+1	+0	+0	+3	1 Daily Spell
3rd	+1	+1	+1	+3	1 At-Will Spell
4th	+2	+1	+1	+4	1 Encounter Spell
5th	+2	+1	+1	+4	1 Daily Spell
6th	+3	+2	+2	+5	1 At-Will Spell
7th	+3	+2	+2	+5	1 Encounter Spell
8th	+4	+2	+2	+6	1 Daily Spell
9th	+4	+3	+3	+6	1 At-Will Spell
10th	+5	+3	+3	+7	1 Encounter Spell
11th	+5	+3	+3	+7	1 Daily Spell
12th	+6/+1	+4	+4	+8	1 At-Will Spell
13th	+6/+1	+4	+4	+8	1 Encounter Spell
14th	+7/+2	+4	+4	+9	1 Daily Spell
15th	+7/+2	+5	+5	+9	1 At-Will Spell
16th	+8/+3	+5	+5	+10	1 Encounter Spell
17th	+8/+3	+5	+5	+10	1 Daily Spell
18th	+9/+4	+6	+6	+11	1 At-Will Spell
19th	+9/+4	+6	+6	+11	1 Encounter Spell
20th	+10/+5	+6	+6	+12	1 Daily Spell
Class Skills (2 + Int modifier per level, ×4 at 1st level) Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Decipher Script (Int), Knowledge (Int), Profession (Wis), Spellcraft (Int).

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the Powerful Wizard.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Powerful Wizards are proficient with the club, dagger, heavy crossbow, light crossbow, and quarterstaff, but not with any type of armor or shield. Armor of any type interferes with a Powerful Wizard’s movements, which can cause her spells with somatic components to fail.

Familiar: The Powerful Wizard has a familiar, just like the Wizard.

Arcane: Spells the Powerful Wizard casts are arcane, and therefore suffer from arcane spell failure. Since this is an arcane spellcasting class, the Powerful Wizard can qualify for arcane spellcasting prestige classes.

Save DCs: The save DCs of the Powerful Wizard's spells are equal to 10 + half Hit Dice + Intelligence modifier.

At-Will, Encounter, and Daily Spells: At-Will spells can be cast as frequently as the Powerful Wizard wants. Whenever a Powerful Wizard casts an Encounter spell, she can't cast it again for 5 minutes. Whenever a Powerful Wizard casts a Daily spell, she can't cast it again until she spends 6 consecutive hours resting or doing nothing more stressful than making Craft checks.

Learning Spells: At the specified levels, the Powerful Wizard learns spell(s) from the specified lists. The Powerful Wizard can choose to learn a spell from a lower-level list of the same type (at-will, encounter, daily) instead of from the new list.

Level 1 At-Wills: At 1st level, the Powerful Wizard gains two At-Will spells chosen from the following list: detect poison, detect magic, read magic, dancing lights, light, ghost sound, mage hand, mending, message, open/close, arcane mark, prestidigitation.

Level 1 Encounter: At 1st level, the Powerful Wizard gains one Encounter spell chosen from the following list: shield, true strike, magic missile, burning hands, shocking grasp, expeditious retreat, magic weapon.

Level 2 Daily: At 2nd level, the Powerful Wizard gains one Daily spell chosen from the following list: enlarge person, reduce person, cause fear, disguise self, hypnotism, protection from evil, protection from good, protection from law, protection from chaos.

Level 3 At-Will: At 3rd level, the Powerful Wizard gains one At-Will spell chosen from the following list: alarm, endure elements, mage armor, unseen servant, comprehend languages, detect secret doors, detect undead, identify, floating disk, magic aura, ventriloquism, erase, feather fall, jump.

Level 4 Encounter: At 4th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one Encounter spell chosen from the following list: resist energy, acid arrow, see invisibility, flaming sphere, scorching ray, shatter, blur, false life, bear's endurance, bull's strength, cat's grace, eagle's splendor, fox's cunning, owl's wisdom.

Level 5 Daily: At 5th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one Daily spell chosen from the following list: color spray, daze monster, touch of idiocy, darkness, invisibility, scare, rope trick.

Level 6 At-Will: At 6th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one At-Will spell chosen from the following list: arcane lock, obscure object, detect thoughts, locate object, continual flame, magic mouth, misdirection, phantom trap, darkvision, knock, levitate, Whispering Wind.

Level 7 Encounter: At 7th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one Encounter spell chosen from the following list: dispel magic, magic circle against chaos, magic circle against law, magic circle against good, magic circle against evil, nondetection, fireball, lightning bolt, vampiric touch, flame arrow, keen edge, greater magic weapon.

Level 8 Daily: At 8th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one Daily spell chosen from the following list: silent image, grease, fog cloud, explosive runes, phantom steed, sleet storm, clairaudience/clairvoyance, hold person, displacement, invisibility sphere, halt undead, blink, slow, haste, mage's faithful hound.

Level 9 At-Will: At 9th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one At-Will spell chosen from the following list: arcane sight, lesser telepathic bond, tongues, rage, daylight, illusory script, gentle repose, secret page, water breathing.

Level 10 Encounter: At 10th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one Encounter spell chosen from the following list: dimension door, crushing despair, fire shield, ice storm, shout, wall of fire, shadow conjuration, bestow curse, contagion, enervation, mass enlarge person, mass reduce person, blight.

Level 11 Daily: At 11th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one Daily spell chosen from the following list: summon monster iv, arcane eye, scrying, wall of ice, greater invisibility, phantasmal killer, fly.

Level 12 At-Will: At 12th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one At-Will spell chosen from the following list: dimensional anchor, remove curse, detect scrying, locate creature, stone shape.

Level 13 Encounter: At 13th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one Encounter spell chosen from the following list: cone of cold, quickened fireball, silent still empowered lightning bolt, interposing hand, waves of fatigue, animal growth, passwall.

Level 14 Daily: At 14th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one Daily spell chosen from the following list: major image, dismissal, cloudkill, summon monster v, teleport, wall of stone, contact other plane, prying eyes, hold monster, nightmare, symbol of pain, overland flight, telekinesis, permanency.

Level 15 At-Will: At 15th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one At-Will spell chosen from the following list: break enchantment, secret chest, telepathic bond, sending, dream, false vision, seeming, fabricate.

Level 16 Encounter: At 16th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one Encounter spell chosen from the following list: antimagic field, greater dispel magic, globe of invulnerability, repulsion, chain lightning, forceful hand, freezing sphere, eyebite, circle of death, SRD:Undeath to Death, mass bear's endurance, mass bull's strength, mass cat's grace, mass eagle's splendor, mass fox's cunning, mass owl's wisdom.

Level 17 Daily: At 17th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one Daily spell chosen from the following list: acid fog, wall of iron, probe thoughts, lesser geas, mass suggestion, contingency, mislead, persistent image, shadow walk, create undead, control water, disintegrate, transformation.

Level 18 At-Will: At 18th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one At-Will spell chosen from the following list: analyze dweomer, legend lore, true seeing, hardening, move earth, stone to flesh.

Level 19 Encounter: At 19th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one Encounter spell chosen from the following list: phase door, delayed blast fireball, grasping hand, mage's sword, mass invisibility, waves of exhaustion, reverse gravity, statue.

Level 20 Daily: At 20th level, the Powerful Wizard gains one Daily spell chosen from the following list: glitterdust, banishment, spell turning, mage's magnificent mansion, plane shift, summon monster vii, greater teleport, teleport object, greater scrying, vision, prismatic spray, ethereal jaunt, limited wish.

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