Wizard

The wizard is the primary spellcasting class in Dungeons & Dragons, capable of accessing the most powerful spells, and the greatest diversity of magic.

Original D&D: "Magic-User"

The magic-user is a class that uses spells and magic items to contribute to a party. Top-level magic users are noted as being the most powerful characters in the game, but they are fragile until high levels, requiring careful play to get to a high level.

Prime Requisite

Magic-users use Intelligence as their prime requisite. 2 points of Wisdom count as 1 point of Intelligence for magic-users.

Class Basics

Level	Title	Hit Dice	To Hit AC 2	Spells per Day
1	Medium	1	17	1
2	Seer	1+1	17	2
3	Conjurer	2	17	3/1
4	Theurgist	2+1	17	4/2
5	Thaumaturgist	3	17	4/2/1
6	Magician	3+1	15	4/2/2
7	Enchanter	4	15	4/3/2/1
8	Warlock	5	15	4/3/3/2
9	Sorcerer	6+1	15	4/3/3/2/1
10	Necromancer	7	15	4/4/3/3/2
11+	Wizard	8+1	12	4/4/3/3/3

Magic Item Use

Magic-users can use all magic items, except the weapons and armor of fighters. Magic-users may use daggers only.

Item Creation

At 11th level ("Wizard"), magic-users can create potions, scrolls, and other magic items (cost and time to craft vary with the value of the item). For example:

Item	GP Cost	Time Cost
Scroll of Spells	100 GP per spell level for each spell	1 week per spell level for each spell
Potion of Healing	250 GP	1 week
Potion of Giant Strength	1,000 GP	4 weeks
20 Enchanted Arrows	1,000 GP	4 weeks
+1 Armor	2,000 GP	2 months
Wand of Cold	10,000 GP	6 months
X-Ray Vision Ring	50,000 GP	1 year

Spell Research

A wizard can develop new spells of a level equal to or lower than the level of spell they can cast. Doing so takes the following investment, with the percentages indicating a percent chance of success when spending that amount of GP:

Level	20%	40%	60%	80%	100%	Time
1	2,000 GP	4,000 GP	6,000 GP	8,000 GP	10,000 GP	1 Week
2	4,000 GP	8,000 GP	12,000 GP	16,000 GP	20,000 GP	2 Weeks
3	8,000 GP	16,000 GP	24,000 GP	32,000 GP	40,000 GP	3 Weeks
4	16,000 GP	32,000 GP	48,000 GP	64,000 GP	80,000 GP	4 Weeks
5	32,000 GP	64,000 GP	96,000 GP	128,000 GP	160,000 GP	5 Weeks
6	64,000 GP	128,000 GP	192,000 GP	256,000 GP	320,000 GP	6 Weeks

Spell List

1st-Level	2nd-Level	3rd-Level	4th-Level	5th-Level	6th-Level	7th-Level1	8th-Level1	9th-Level1
Detect Magic	Detect Invisible	Fly	Polymorph Self	Teleport	Stone to Flesh	Delayed Blast Fireball1	Mass Charm1	Meteor Swarm1
Hold Portal	Levitate	Hold Person	Polymorph Others	Hold Monster	Reincarnation	Reverse Gravity1	Clone1	Shape Change1
Read Magic	Phantasmal Forces	Dispel Magic	Remove Curse	Conjure Elemental	Summon Invisible Stalker	Limited Wish1	Power Word: Blind1	Time Stop1
Read Languages	Locate Object	Clairvoyance	Wall of Fire	Telekinesis	Lower Water	Power Word: Stun1	Symbol1	Power Word: Kill1
Protection from Evil	Invisibility	Clairaudience	Wall of Ice	Transmute Rock to Mud	Part Water	Phase Door1	Permanent Spell1	Gate1
Light	Wizard Lock	Fireball	Confusion	Wall of Stone	Projected Image	Charm Plants1	Mind Blank1	Wish1
Charm Person	Detect Evil	Lightning Bolt	Charm Monster	Wall of Iron	Antimagic Shell	Mass Invisibility1	Polymorph Any Object1	Astral Spell1
Sleep	ESP	Protection from Evil, 10' Radius	Plant Growth	Animate Dead	Death	Simulacrum1	Monster Summoning VI1	Prismatic Wall1
Shield1	Continual Light	Invisibility, 10' Radius	Dimension Door	Magic Jar	Geas	Monster Summoning V1		Maze1
Magic Missile1	Knock	Infravision	Wizard Eye	Contact Higher Plane	Disintegrate	Extension III1		Monster Summoning VII1
Ventriloquism1	Darkness, 5' Radius1	Slow	Massmorph	Passwall	Move Earth
	Strength1	Haste	Hallucinatory Terrain	Cloudkill	Control Weather
	Web1	Protection from Normal Missiles	Ice Storm1	Feeblemind	Legend Lore1
	Mirror Image1	Water Breathing	Fear1	Animal Growth	Repulsion1
	Magic Mouth1	Explosive Runes1	Monster Summoning II1	Monster Summoning III1	Monster Summoning IV1
	Pyrotechnics1	Rope Trick1	Extension I1	Extension II1
		Suggestion1
		Monster Summoning I1

¹: Introduced in Supplement 1: Greyhawk

AD&D: "Magic-User"

In AD&D, the Magic User continued to be the class most associated with spellcasting, knowing the greatest quantity and diversity of spells in the game. It was introduced with a full 9 levels of spells, including most of hte spells from OD&D, and a few additional spells. This was the intial appearance of many of the "named" spells from characters such as Drawmij, Rary, Mordenkainen, Nystul, and Bigby.

Ability Scores

A magic-user has prerequisite Intelligence of 9 and Dexterity of 6. If they have an Intelligence of 16 or better, they gain a +10% XP bonus.

Class Basics

Level	Title	Hit Dice (d4)	To Hit AC 0	Spells per Day
1	Prestidigitator	1	20	1
2	Evoker	2	20	2
3	Conjurer	3	20	2/1
4	Theurgist	4	20	3/2
5	Thaumaturgist	5	20	4/2/1
6	Magician	6	19	4/2/2
7	Enchanter	7	19	4/3/2/1
8	Warlock	8	19	4/3/3/2
9	Sorcerer	9	19	4/3/3/2/1
10	Necromancer	10	19	4/4/3/2/2
11+	Wizard	11	16	4/4/3/3/3

Spell Book

A magic-user possesses a book of spells that records their known spells. They must consult this book to memorize spells.

Magic Item Use

May use scrolls, wands, staves, and many miscellaneous items.

Magic Item Creation

Brewing Potions

At 7th level, a magic-user can brew potions with the help of an alchemist. Brewing a potion requires an adequate laboratory (which itself costs between 200 and 1,000 gp, and a monthly upkeep cost of 10% of that total). The cost of brewing a potion equals XP value of the potion (one without an XP value costs 200 gp), and the time it takes to brew the potion is one day per 100 gp in cost. Various potions require certain special ingredients that often cannot be bought, that the brewer must acquire themselvs.

At 11th level, magic-users may brew potions without the aid of an alchemist. Recruiting one will reduce the cost and time by 50%, however.

Scribing Scrolls

At 7th level, a magic-user can scribe scrolls. Scrolls require exotic materials, including expensive papers, unique quills, and elaborately prepared ink, along with a ritual involving candles and magical circles for the actual inscription. The scribing itself takes one day per spell level that is being inscribed on the scroll.

Scrolls can be prepared in error, with a base 20% chance of some mistake in scribing, +1% per spell level, -1% per caster level. Expensive materials can reduce that chance further, while cheap ones may increase it.

You can scribe up to 7 spells on one scroll, though a mistake on one spell brings the whole arrangement to a screeching halt. 

Fabricating Other Items

At 12th level, a magic-user gains the ability to create almost any magic item, by use of the enchant an item spell (a 6th level spell). A magic-user cannot create books, artifacts, or relics. They also lack the knowledge to craft race-specific items, such as a cloak of elvenkind, and cannot make items usable only by clerics, druids, or illusionists. Items with permanent effects also require a permenancy spell (so wands and charged items do not require that). Creating an item will require rest for at least one day per 100 XP that the item is worth.

Stronghold

A magic-user of 12th level or higher may construct a stronghold and rule an area as a noble by clearing a 10 to 20 mile radius around the site of all monsters, generating 5 silver pieces per month in tax revenue.

Spell List

Reversable spells are marked with a *.

1st-Level	2nd-Level	3rd-Level	4th-Level	5th-Level	6th-Level	7th-Level	8th-Level	9th-Level
Affect Normal Fires	Audible Glamer	Blink	Charm Monster	Airy Water	Anti-Magic Shell	Bigby's Grasping Hand	Antipathy/Sympathy	Astral Spell
Burning Hands	Continual Light	Clairaudience	Confusion	Animal Growth	Bigby's Forceful Hand	Cacodaemon	Bigby's Clenched Fist	Bigby's Crushing Hand
Charm Person	Darkness, 15' Radius	Clairvoyance	Dig	Animate Dead	Control Weather	Charm Plants	Clone	Gate
Comprehend Languages*	Detect Evil*	Dispel Magic	Dimension Door	Bigby's Interposing Hand	Death	Delayed Blast Fireball	Glassteel	Imprisonment
Dancing Lights	Detect Invisibility	Explosive Runes	Enchanted Weapon	Cloudkill	Disintegrate	Drawmij's Instant Summons	Incendiary Cloud	Meteor Swarm
Detect Magic	ESP	Feign Death	Extension I	Conjure Elemental	Enchant an Item	Duo-Dimension	Mass Charm	Monster Summoninv VII
Enlarge*	Fool's Gold	Fireball	Fear	Cone of Cold	Extension III	Limited Wish	Maze	Power Word: Kill
Erase	Forget	Flame Arrow	Fire Charm	Contact Other Plane	Geas	Mass Invisibility	Mind Blank	Prismatic Sphere
Feather Fall	Invisibility	Fly	Fire Shield	Distance Distortion	Glassee	Monster Summoning V	Monster Summoning VI	Shape Change
Find Familiar	Knock	Gust of Wind	Fire Trap	Extension III	Globe of Invulnerability	Mordenkainen's Sword	Otto's Irresistible Dance	Temporal Stasis
Friends	Leomund's Trap	Haste	Fumble	Feeblemind	Guards and Wards	Phase Door	Permanency	Time Stop
Hold Portal	Levitate	Hold Person	Hallucinatory Terrain	Hold Monster	Invisible Stalker	Power Word: Stun	Polymorph Any Object	Wish
Identify	Locate Object*	Infravision	Ice Storm	Leomund's Secret Chest	Legend Lore	Reverse Gravity	Power Word: Blind
Jump	Magic Mouth	Invisibility, 10' Radius	Massmorph	Magic Jar	Lower Water	Simulacrum	Serten's Spell Immunity
Light	Mirror Image	Leomund's Tiny Hut	Minor Globe of Invulnerability	Monster Summoning III	Monster Summoning IV	Statue	Symbol
Magic Missile	Pyrotechnics	Lightning Bolt	Monster Summoning II	Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound	Move Earth	Vanish	Trap the Soul
Mending	Ray of Enfeeblement	Monster Summoning I	Plant Growth	Passwall	Otiluke's Freezing Sphere
Message	Rope Trick	Phantasmal Force	Polymorph Others	Stone Shape	Part Water
Nystul's Magic Aura	Scare	Protection from Evil, 10' Radius*	Polymorph Self	Telekinesis	Project Image
Protection from Evil*	Shatter	Protection from Normal Missiles	Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer	Teleport	Reincarnation
Push	Stinking Cloud	Slow	Remove Curse*	Transmute Rock to Mud	Repulsion
Read Magic*	Strength	Suggestion	Wall of Fire	Wall of Force	Spiritwrack
Shield	Web	Tongues*	Wall of Ice	Wall of Iron	Stone to Flesh
Shocking Grasp	Wizard Lock	Water Breathing*	Wizard Eye	Wall of Stone	Tenser's Transformation
Sleep
Spider Climb
Tenser's Floating Disc
Unseen Servant
Ventriloquism
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