Character Options

Arcane Tradition: School of Scribing

(Current version 0.3)

Scribe wizards believed that the practice of arcane arts are best shared to society and the masses by trying to make it as simple as possible. They also look into the beauty of magic even outside wizardry. They have mastered harnessing the magic from scrolls and perfected the practices of ritual casting. They tend to study details of the arcane deeper than any school and explore the synergy between spells casted from different sources.

Scroll Master

Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, you can cast spells from scrolls with relative ease. When you cast a spell within the wizard spell list from a scroll, you must make an ability check using your spellcasting ability (Intelligence) to determine whether you cast it successfully. The DC equals 8 + the spell’s level. On a failed check, the spell disappears from the scroll with no other effect.

You also gain the ability to harness magic from spell scrolls outside your wizard spell list. When casting a spell from a scroll outside the wizard spell list, you must make an ability check using your spellcasting ability (Intelligence) to determine whether you cast it successfully. The DC equals 10 + the spell’s level. On a failed check, the spell disappears from the scroll with no other effect.

Scribe's Pride

Starting at 2nd level, you can use a writing tool as your arcane focus. Your superb capacity to communicate words through penmanship also allows you to substitute verbal components of spells as somatic when using a writing tool as your arcane focus.

Heavy Preparation

Starting at 6th level, you can add your proficiency bonus to the number of spells you can prepare.

Uncanny Preparation

Your knowledge in scribing allows you understand other wizards’ scribing. Starting at 6th level, you can prepare a spell from spellbooks in your possession other than your own. A spell prepared this way count as two prepared spells.

Ritual Scholar

Beginning at 6th level, you can copy non-wizard spells with a ritual tag from spell scrolls to your spellbook, but you can only cast them as rituals.

Focused Cantrip

Scribe wizards have learned how to optimize the spells they innately knew. Starting at 10th level, when preparing your spells, you can choose to meditate on one wizard cantrip of your choice. You can then cast that cantrip as a bonus action as long as you do not move on the same turn. You can cast this cantrip this way until you choose to meditate on a different cantrip.

Efficient Scribing

Starting at 10th level, you can scribe spell scrolls from your spellbook faster than normal. You spend a much shorter spell scroll sribing time and a fifth of the gold required to craft the scroll. (See Xanathar’s Guide to Everything p. 133)

Efficient Spell Scroll Scribing Costs

Spell Level Time Cost Cantrip 4 hours 3 gp 1st 8 hours 5 gp 2nd 1 day 50 gp 3rd 3 days 100 gp 4th 6 days 500 gp 5th 10 days 1000 gp 6th 30 days 3000 gp 7th 60 days 5000 gp 8th 100 days 10000 gp 9th 300 days 50000 gp

Making duplicates for scrolls also use the same scribing costs.

Arcane Augmentation

Starting at 14th level, when casting a spell using either a spell scroll or a spell slot you can use your bonus action to expend another spell slot or another spell scroll to improve the potency of your magic. You can add half of the level of spell slot spell scroll (rounded up) you will expend to the spell attack roll or the spell save DC of the spell you casted.