Wizard
Base Class: Wizard

Coming from the School of the Polymath, you are a wizard who chose to not specialize in a single school of magic. Instead choosing to focus on learning a variety of spells from any school of magic as you deem necessary. Wizards from this school see wizards who chose to specialize in a single school of magic as narrow minded and short sighted. This way of thinking has occurred due to most wizards not always having the spells that are needed in the moment. Which has lead to polymaths making the mantra, "To specialize is to voluntarily restrict yourself," as a warning to remember to never rely too much on a single school of magic.

Polymaths are often seen as spell collectors and generalist wizards, but other wizards look down upon polymaths for not choosing a specialty and to refine a certain form of spells. Most polymaths eventually do choose to specialize on a single school or they focus more on collecting spells rather improving their own spellcasting abilities. Due to this, there are very few true Polymath masters, but those who are can replicate spells that even other wizards find archaic.

Arcane Fundamentals

Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, you have focused on the perfecting the fundamentals of the arcane granting you some added bonuses. You gain proficiency in the Arcana skill, and you gain two cantrips of your choice from the wizard spell list. These cantrips do not count against your number of cantrips known.

Spellwright Perfectionist

Starting at 2nd level, you are a stickler for details allowing you to save on materials by taking the time to do everything correctly the first time. When you copy a spell to your spellbook, the process takes half the gold cost but takes an additional 1 hour per spell level.

Improved Memory

Beginning at 6th level, after each long rest, you can now prepare a number of spells from your spellbook equal to your Intelligence modifier + your proficiency bonus + your wizard level.

Rapid Preparation

Starting at 10th level, once per day when you finish a short rest, you can replace a number of spells that you have prepared, equal to or less than your intelligence modifier, and prepare the same number of spells from your spellbook. In addition, it now takes you half the time to prepare spells from your spellbook.

Unrestrained Learning

At 14th level, you are no longer restrained by the same limitations as other wizards. You can now copy spells to your spellbook from any spell list, if it is of a spell level you can prepare. For each spell level of the spell, the process takes 4 hours and 200 gp. The additional cost and time represents the added difficultly of trying to replicate the spell from another type of caster into a manner which a wizard may cast it. Once the spell is added to your spellbook, it counts as a wizard spell for you. Spells from a non-wizard spell list are not effected by the Spellwright Perfectionist feature.

*Note: Please work with your DM before adding spells from another spell list into your spellbook. There are certain spells that a wizard should not be able to learn such as healing spells and other divine spells. Some of these spells might be able to be flavored in a manner where a wizard can learn them, one such example being the shield of faith spell, where it can work as intended but is now an Arcane Barrier instead.

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