You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
| Perk Name |
Tier |
Description |
| Arcane Discipline |
0 |
As a mage, you gain the following traits:
- You have a pool of mana you can use to cast spells equal to 3 times your Intelligence modifier plus 2 times your Willpower modifier.
- You gain proficiency in Arcana.
- You regenerate up to ¼ of your mana on a short rest.
- You know fluent Elvish.
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| Path of Arcana |
0 |
A true student of the arcane, you seek true understanding of magic at its purest. Gain the following traits:
- You gain proficiency with clubs, daggers, darts, light crossbows, and quarterstaffs.
- You gain expertise in Arcana and proficiency in one of Intuition, Investigation, Lore, Occult.
- You know fluent Elvish.
- Choose a school of magic to be your primary school: abjuration, conjuration, enchantment, illusion, mysticism, necromancy, thaumaturgy, or transmutation. When you cast spells of this school, you gain a +1 to your save DC and spell modifier.
- Choose a school of magic to be your opposing school (cannot be the same as your primary school): abjuration, conjuration, enchantment, illusion, mysticism, necromancy, thaumaturgy, or transmutation. When you cast spells of this school, you suffer a −1 to your save DC and spell modifier.
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| Perk Name |
Tier |
Description |
| Elementalist |
1 |
Choose 2 elemental damage types (acid, cold, fire, force, lightning), and gain the following traits:
- The mana cost of spells that deal damage of your chosen elements reduces by 20%.
- You gain +3 resistance to your chosen elements.
You can choose this perk multiple times; you cannot choose the same element twice. |
| Focus |
1 |
You can enter a state of arcane resonance. Gain the following traits:
- As a bonus action, you can reduce the mana costs of spells from one school of magic (except your opposing school) by 20% for 1 minute. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until completing a long rest.
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| Metamagic |
1 |
You have learned to twist the elements of magic to change its effects. Gain two types of metamagic:
- Careful spell: When you cast a spell that forces other creatures to make a saving throw, you can protect some of those creatures from the spell’s full force. To do so, you spend an additional 20% mana cost of the spell and choose a number of creatures up to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1). A chosen creature automatically succeeds on its saving throw against the spell.
- Distant spell: When you cast a spell that has a range of 5 feet or greater, you can spend an additional 20% mana cost of the spell to double the range of the spell, or to increase the range of a spell with a range of Touch to 30 feet.
- Empowered spell: When you roll damage for a spell, you can spend an additional 20% mana cost of the spell to reroll a number of the damage dice up to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one). You must use the new rolls.
- Extended spell: When you cast a spell that has a duration of 1 minute or longer, you can spend an additional 20% mana cost of the spell to double its duration, to a maximum duration of 24 hours.
- Heightened spell: When you cast a spell that forces a creature to make a check to resist its effects, you can spend an additional 20% mana cost of the spell to per target to give a target a −6 on its first check made against the spell.
- Quickened spell: When you cast a spell with a casting time of 1 action, you can spend an additional 40% mana cost of the spell to decrease its casting time to 1 bonus action.
- Seeking spell: when you cast a spell that requires an attack roll, you can spend an additional 20% mana cost of the spell to gain +6 to hit.
- Subtle spell: When you cast a spell, you can spend an additional 20% mana cost of the spell to cast it without any verbal or somatic components.
- Transmuted spell: When you cast a spell that deals elemental or spirital damage, you can spend an additional 20% mana cost of the spell to change its damage type to another elemental or spirital damage type of your choice.
- Twinned spell: When you cast a spell that targets only one creature and doesn't have a range of self, you can spend an additional 40% mana cost of the spell to target a second creature in range with the same spell (2 mana if the spell is a cantrip). To be eligible, a spell must be incapable of targeting more than one creature at the spell's current level.
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| Specialty |
1 |
You’ve much time and effort to a single spell. Gain the following traits:
- Choose a level 1 or 2 spell from your list of known spells which does not belong to your opposing school. You can now cast this spell for 40% of its original mana cost.
You can take this perk multiple times. |
| Summoner |
1 |
You prefer to let others do things for you, and (perhaps for lack of friends) you’ve gotten quite good at summoning things to do them. Gain the following traits:
- Any creature that you summon gains temporary hit points equal to your warlock level.
- The speed of creatures summoned by you increases by 1/6 of their base move speed.
- Creatures that require a bonus action to command can now be commanded with a free action.
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| Perk Name |
Tier |
Description |
| Focus II |
2 |
Prerequisite: Focus
As a bonus action, you can activate one of the following effects:
- You reduce the mana costs of spells from one school of magic (except your opposing school) by 60% for 1 minute.
- You reduce the mana costs of spells from all schools of magic, except your opposing school, by 20% for one minute.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest. |
| Flux |
2 |
You can bend and twist the weave in unexpected ways. You gain the ability to gain and use flux points. These points can be used to activate the following effects:
- As a reaction, you may spend 2 flux points to reroll a single ability check, saving throw, or attack roll.
- As a reaction, you may spend X flux points to reroll X damage dice.
- As a reaction, you may spend 5 flux points to ignore the damage done by a single attack or spell.
- You may use X flux points as X mana points for the purposes of casting spells.
You gain flux points when you use mana to cast a spell equal to the spell's level. You may have a number of flux points equal to your level in the Arcane Discipline. Any unused flux points disappear at dawn. |
| Illusory Reality |
2 |
- You’ve learned the secret of weaving planar magic and sheer belief into your illusions to give them a semblance of reality. When you cast a spell that creates an illusory, inanimate object, you can make that object real. You can do this on your turn as a bonus action while the spell is ongoing. The object remains real for 1 minute. For example, you can create an illusion of a bridge over a chasm and then make it real long enough for your allies to cross. The object cannot deal damage or otherwise directly harm someone.
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| Master Elementalist |
2 |
Prerequisite: Elementalist
Your two chosen elements improve further. (If you took Elementalist more than once, pick any two of your chosen elements). Gain the following traits:
- Spells that deal damage of your chosen elements ignore any resistances the target may have.
- When you cast a spell that deals damage of your chosen elements, you may treat any 1 on a damage die as a 2.
- You gain +1 resistance to all other elemental damage types.
You can choose this perk multiple times; you cannot choose the same element twice, and resistance gained to non-chosen elements does not increase past +1. |
| Specialty II |
2 |
- You can now cast the spell you chose for the Focus perk at will with no mana cost.
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| What Hath Ye Wrought |
2 |
Prerequisite: known spell: fireball
You know what this is. Gain the following benefit:
- The base damage dealt by the “fireball” spell increases to 8d6. That’s it, that’s all the perk does.
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