A Truly Wild Mage (5e Class)

Wild Mage

A sorcerer finds themselves in quite the pickle, surrounded by enemies on all sides. He had unfortunately pissed off the wrong people, getting into trouble with the organized crime syndicate that basically ran the city the sorcerer was staying in from the shadows. The sorcerer didn't know what to do, but... He didn't have to. It never stopped him before! So, with a flick of his wrist he'd fling unstable weave energy at his opponents, which, of course, immediately went wild. This wasn't a bother, seeing as the sorcerer couldn't NOT cast wild magic. He was counting on the chaos his spells caused to get him out of this, and much like every time before... It worked, just as planned. 10 gallons of water would be summoned out of nowhere, falling on the sorcerer's opponents and giving him time to escape while they slid on the stone.

Sorcerers, or something more?

A Wild Mage, if you couldn't guess from the above description, is a Wild Magic Sorcerer taken to the next level. Your average Wild Magic Sorcerer doesn't have full control of their own magic due to their connection to raw, chaotic weave energy. While they fight against their chaotic power to cast normal spells, a Wild Mage loses themselves to it. By fully embracing their magic's chaotic nature, they gain access to a form of magic like no other. Raw weave energy being fully utilized by a caster, chaos taken form. Their quick wit and creativity is what lets them use their chaotic magic, weaving together a spell at random every time they wish to cast. While a regular caster forces the weave into a certain shape and form in order to cast magic, a Wild Mage simply goes with the flow. This gives them certain advantages over other casters, detailed below.

Creating a Wild Mage

Quick Build

You can make a Wild Mage quickly by following these suggestions. Your highest ability score depends on what you choose to be your spellcasting modifier, so, choose carefully. Second, choose a background related to your character's backstory. All that's required to become a Wild Mage is contact with raw or chaotic magic, so feel free to get weird with it. Third, well... Who needs equipment, right? You already have no idea what you're going to cast, so supplies aren't necessary.

Class Features

As a Wild Mage you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d6 per Wild Mage level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + Constitution modifier per Wild Mage level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: light, medium.
Weapons: Simple weapons.
Tools: None.
Saving Throws: 2 of your choice.
Skills: 3 of your choice.

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• If you are using starting wealth, you have 3d4 x 10gp in funds.

Table: The Wild Mage

Level	Proficiency Bonus	Features	Wild Mana	Max Chaotic Casting Table Level
1st	+2	Chaotic Casting, Wild Mana, Unbound Spells	4	1
2nd	+2	Font of Chaos	8	1
3rd	+2	Chaoting Casting Improvement	12	2
4th	+2	Ability Score Improvement, Wild Metamagic	16	2
5th	+3	—	20	3
6th	+3	Chaotic Mixture	24	3
7th	+3	—	28	4
8th	+3	Ability Score Improvement, Supportive Font	32	4
9th	+4	—	36	5
10th	+4	Wild Aura	40	5
11th	+4	—	44	6
12th	+4	Ability Score Improvement, Mana Siphon	48	6
13th	+5	—	52	7
14th	+5	Chaotic Mixture Improvement	56	7
15th	+5	—	60	8
16th	+5	Ability Score Improvement, Metamagic Aura	64	8
17th	+6	—	68	9
18th	+6	—	72	9
19th	+6	Ability Score Improvement	76	9
20th	+6	Pure Chaos	80	9

Chaotic Casting

At 1st level, you have access to Chaotic Casting, which is like Spellcasting in the way that when doing it a spell is cast, but almost completely different in every other way. Unlike normal spellcasters, you do not prepare spells, and don't choose any specific spells to study and learn. Rather, depending on the level of spell you have unlocked, you have a table of spells from every possible spell from said level that you roll on whenever you'd like to cast a spell. The spellcasting ability for all spells is chosen by you, though this can't be changed later.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + the chosen modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + the chosen modifier

Spells cast through the Chaotic Casting feature no longer require components to cast. Not just material, but verbal and somatic components as well. This is due to the wild nature of the spellcasting, and the fact that raw weave energy is being used. It's more powerful, but less refined, making it… Y'know, chaotic.

Wild Mana

Also at 1st level, Chaotic Casting works not through Spell Slots, but through Wild Mana. Seeing as Wild Mage’s don’t prepare spells, the amount of spells they can cast is directly linked to their energy, rather than an arbitrary number linked to knowledge. Seeing as a Wild Mage doesn’t have to refine and focus their magic in any way, they have much more energy than a regular caster, and can cast more magic before losing their ability to do so. To roll on one of the Chaotic Casting Table’s you must spend double the level of said table in Wild Mana. For example, a 1st level Chaotic Casting takes 2 Wild Mana, a 2nd level Chaotic Casting takes 4 Wild Mana, and so on. All Wild Mana is restored during a long rest, and an amount of Wild Mana equal to an expended Hit Dice + the chosen modifier can be regained during a short rest.

Unbound Spells

Also at 1st level, spells cast with Chaotic Casting ignore the specified restrictions of spells. That may seem odd, but seeing as chaos is not bound by law, your Wild Magic has grown to the point of breaking whatever spell is randomly cast from you from the laws that created it in the first place. For example, if you were to cast Mage Hand, it says in the description of the spell that “The hand can’t attack, activate magical items, or carry more than 10 pounds”. The Mage Hand that was cast through Chaotic Casting would be able to do all three. Any “can’t” that is specified within a spell no longer exists, as chaos is ungovernable. This allows for much more creativity to be had with even the simplest of spells, though this is balanced out by said creativity happening directly in the moment the spell is cast, and you can never really prepare for what spell you could possibly cast next.

Font of Chaos

At 2nd level, you tap into the chaos within your being for more than simply casting spells.

• Converting HP to Wild Mana. As a bonus action, you can siphon HP from yourself in order to re energize your magic. You regain Wild Mana equal to double the HP you decide to siphon.
• Converting Wild Mana to HP. As a bonus action, you can convert Wild Mana directly into HP. You regain HP equal to half the Wild Mana you decide to burn.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Chaotic Casting Improvement

At 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, 15th, and 17th level, you get access to the next level of the Chaotic Casting tables.

Wild Metamagic

At 4th level, you gain the ability to pour additional Mana into a Chaotic Casting in order to empower the spell you cast. As a reaction after you cast a spell with Chaotic Casting, you can expend 1 point of Wild Mana per spell level (0th level spells still require 1 point) in order to empower them with a random effect rolled from a d8. If an effect is rolled that is l unable to effect the spell, the extra Wild Mana is simply wasted.

1. Nothing. Nothing happens.
2. Reckless Spell. If the spell forces other creatures to make a saving throw, the spell becomes even more unpredictable. A number of creatures you choose equal to the chosen modifier gain disadvantage on the save against the spell (minimum 1).
3. Sawed-off Spell. If the spell has a range of 10 feet or greater, its range is halved, and if it hits, its damage is automatically doubled.
4. Siphoned Spell. If the spell does damage, its damage is halved. All the lost damage is transmuted into temporary HP for yourself.
5. Slowed Spell. If the spell is usually instantaneous, its effect is instead drawn out over a number of rounds equal to half the chosen modifier rounded up. Anything the spell usually does happens each time for the extra rounds it stays before dissipating.
6. Unsubtle Spell. No matter what, the spell you cast becomes incredibly loud and bright. Any hostile creature that hears or sees the spell becomes either deafened, blinded, or both. This lasts for as long as the spell does.
7. Negative Spell. If a spell does no damage, it gains damage equal to 1d8 per the spell's level (minimum 1). If a spell does damage, it instead does none, but all of its other effects last for twice as long / become twice as strong.
8. Bisected Spell. When a spell is cast, it splits into two smaller versions of the same spell. The two smaller spells have the same effect, but any damage that the spell would’ve done originally is halved between the two parts, and each spell lasts for half as long (minimum of instantaneous for instantaneous spells / 1 turn for spells that last for longer than instantaneous).

Chaotic Mixture

At 6th level, as a bonus action after using Chaotic Casting, you may roll again on the same table. The second spell’s effects that were rolled occur at the same time or directly before / after the original spell, basically resulting in a fusion of two different spells. This feature can be used a number of times equal to the chosen modifier per long rest.

Supportive Font

At 8th level, your Font of Chaos feature now allows you to convert Wild Mana into HP for your allies, healing them for an amount equal to the Wild Mana converted.

Wild Aura

At 10th level, your very presence has evolved, becoming chaotic and influencing your surroundings. This aura is represented as an invisible sphere with a 10ft radius which is always active.

• Every spell that comes within a 10ft radius that is not one of your own spells goes “wild”, being transformed into another spell of the same level.
• Any effect that is dependant on alignment no longer works within the Wild Aura, the chaos nullifying both good and evil.
• You can sense any movement within the Wild Aura, even if your senses are effected by magical means.
• You can cast your spells from any point within the Wild Aura.

Mana Siphon

At 12th level, when you are hit with magic in any form, you regain Wild Mana equal to the damage taken from said magic. If the magic doesn’t do damage but still targets and affects you, you regain your proficiency bonus + the chosen modifier in Wild Mana. This restoration of Wild Mana occurs every round that external magic is affecting you, so if magic persists between rounds, you regain Wild Mana for each round that it affects you. Any Wild Mana that is gained that goes over your maximum is instead added to your Hit Points as Temporary HP.

Chaotic Mixture Improvement

At 14th level, when using the Chaotic Mixture feature you can add another random spell into the mixture so long as you get rid of an extra usage of the feature to do so.

Metamagic Aura

At 16th level, you have the ability to pour additional mana into your Wild Aura much like you can for your spells. As an action you can roll a d4 in order to see which aspect of the wild aura is enhanced. An effect ends as soon as the mana cost stops being payed.

1. The radius in which spells go wild around you doubles to 20ft, and you can effect said spells with any of your own features. Every turn this effect is active it drains 8 Wild Mana.
2. Lawful creatures within your aura gain disadvantage on anything they do, their orderly minds unable to handle the sheer chaos you radiate. Every turn this effect is active it drains 10 Wild Mana.
3. The radius in which you can sense movement is quadrupled to 40ft. Every turn this effect is active it drains 8 Wild Mana.
4. You can now extend the Wild Aura 10ft in any direction as a bonus action, allowing you to cast your spells from further distances away. Every turn this effect is active it drains 10 Wild Mana.

Pure Chaos

At 20th level, all features that require Wild Mana can now be used with half the Wild Mana cost. Additionally, the stat for the chosen modifier is increased by 4, making its new maximum 24.

Chaotic Casting Tables

The tables you use for casting.

0th Level

1. Acid Splash
2. Blade Ward
3. Booming Blade
4. Chill Touch
5. Control Flames
6. Create Bonfire
7. Dancing Lights
8. Druidcraft
9. Eldritch Blast
10. Fire Bolt
11. Friends
12. Frostbite
13. Green-Flame Blade
14. Guidance
15. Gust
16. Infestation
17. Light
18. Lightning Lure
19. Mage Hand
20. Magic Stone
21. Mending
22. Message
23. Mind Silver
24. Minor Illusion
25. Mold Earth
26. Polson Spray
27. Prestidigitation
28. Primal Savagery
29. Produce Flame
30. Ray of Frost
31. Resistance
32. Sacred Flame
33. Shape Water
34. Shillelagh
35. Shocking Grasp
36. Spare the Dying
37. Sword Burst
38. Thaumaturgy
39. Thorn Whip
40. Thunderclap
41. Toll the Dead
42. True Strike
43. Ward of Radiance
44. Vicious Mockery

1st Level

1. Absorb Elements
2. Alarm
3. Animal Friendship
4. Armor of Agathys
5. Arms of Hadar
6. Bane
7. Beast Bond
8. Bless
9. Burning Hands
10. Catapult
11. Cause Fear
12. Ceremony
13. Chaos Bolt
14. Charm Person
15. Chromatic Orb
16. Color Spray
17. Command
18. Compelled Duel
19. Comprehend Languages
20. Create or Destroy Water
21. Cure Wounds
22. Detect Evil and Good
23. Detect Magic
24. Detect Polson and Disease
25. Disguise Self
26. Dissonant Whispers
27. Divine Favor
28. Earth Tremor
29. Ensnaring Strike
30. Entangle
31. Expeditious Retreat
32. Faerie Fire
33. False Life
34. Feather Fall
35. Find Familiar
36. Fog Cloud
37. Goodberry
38. Grease
39. Gulding Bolt
40. Hall of Thorns
41. Healing Word
42. Hellish Rebuke
43. Heroism
44. Hex
45. Hunter's Mark
46. Ice Knife
47. Identify
48. Illusory Script
49. Inflict Wounds
50. Jump
51. Longstrider
52. Mage Armor
53. Magic Missile
54. Protection from Evil and Go
55. Purify Food and Drink
56. Ray of Sickness
57. Sanctuary
58. Searing Smite
59. Shield
60. Shield of Faith
61. Silent Image
62. Silvery Barbs
63. Sleep
64. Snare
65. Speak with Animals
66. Tasha's Caustic Brew
67. Tasha's Hideous Laughter
68. Tenser's Floating Disk
69. Thunderous Smite
70. Thunderwave
71. Unseen Servant
72. Witch Bolt
73. Wrathful Smite
74. Zephyr Strike

2nd Level

1. Aganazzar's Scorcher
2. Ald
3. Alter Self
4. Animal Messenger
5. Arcane Lock
6. Augury
7. Barkskin
8. Beast Sense
9. Biindness/Deafness
10. Blur
11. Branding Smite
12. Calm Emotions
13. Cloud of Daggers
14. Continual Flame
15. Cordon of Arrows
16. Crown of Madness
17. Darkness
18. Darkvision
19. Detect Thoughts
20. Dragon's Breath
21. Dust Devil
22. Earthbind
23. Enhance Ability
24. Enlarge/Reduce
25. Enthrall
26. Find Steed
27. Find Traps
28. Flame Blade
29. Flaming Sphere
30. Gentle Repose
31. Gust of Wind
32. Healing Spint
33. Heat Metal
34. Hold Person
35. Invisibility
36. Knock
37. Lesser Restoration
38. Levitate
39. Locate Animals or Plants
40. Locate Object
41. Magic Mouth
42. Magic Weapon
43. Maximlilan's Earthen Gras
44. Melf's Acid Arrow
45. Mind Spike
46. Mirror Image
47. Misty Step
48. Moonbeam
49. Nathair's Mischief
50. Nystul's Magic Aura
51. Pass without Trace
52. Phantasmal Force
53. Prayer of Healing
54. Protection from Poison
55. Pyrotechnics
56. Ray of Enfeeblement
57. Rime's Binding tre
58. Rope Trick
59. Scorching Ray
60. See Invisibility
61. Shadow Blade
62. Shatter
63. Silence
64. Skywrite
65. Snilioc's Snowball Swarm
66. Spider Cilmb
67. Spike Growth
68. Spiritual Weapon
69. Suggestion
70. Summon Beast
71. Tasha's Mind Whip
72. Warding Bond
73. Warding Wind
74. Warp Sense
75. Web
76. Zone of Truth

3rd Level

1. Animate Dead
2. Ashardalon's Stride
3. Aura of Vitality
4. Beacon of Hope
5. Bestow Curse
6. Elinding Smite
7. Blink
8. Call Lightning
9. Catnap
10. Clairvoyance
11. Conjure Animals
12. Conjure Barrage
13. Counterspell
14. Create Food and Water
15. Crusader's Mantle
16. Daylight
17. Dispel Magic
18. Elemental Weapon
19. Enemies Abound
20. Erupting Earth
21. Fear
22. Feign Death
23. Fireball
24. Flame Arrows
25. Fly
26. Gaseous Form
27. Glyph of Warding
28. Haste
29. Hunger of Hatar
30. Hypnotic Pattern
31. Intellect Fortress
32. Leomund's Tiny Hut
33. Life Transference
34. Lightning Armow
35. Lightning Bolt
36. Magic Circle
37. Major Image
38. Mass Healing Word
39. Meld Into Stone
40. Melf's Minute Meteors
41. Nondetection
42. Phantom Steed
43. Plant Growth
44. Protection from Energy
45. Remove Curse
46. Revivity
47. Sending
48. Sleet Storm
49. Slow
50. Speak with Dead
51. Speak with Plants
52. Spirit Guardians
53. Spirit Shroud
54. Stinking Cloud
55. Summon Fey
56. Summon Lesser Demons
57. Summon Shadowspawn
58. Summon Undead
59. Thunder Step
60. Tidal Wave
61. Tiny Servant
62. Tongues
63. Vampiric Touch
64. Wall of Sand
65. Wall of Water
66. Water Breathing
67. Water Walk
68. Wind Wall

4th Level

1. Arcane Eye
2. Aura of Life
3. Aura of Purity
4. Banishment
5. Blight
6. Charm Monster
7. Compulsion
8. Confusion
9. Conjure Minor Elementals
10. Conjure Woodland Beings
11. Control Water
12. Death Ward
13. Dimension Door
14. Divination
15. Dominate Beast
16. Elemental Bane
17. Evard's Black Tentacles
18. Fabricate
19. Find Greater Steed
20. Fire Shield
21. Freedom of Movement
22. Gate Seal
23. Glant Insect
24. Grasping Vine
25. Greater Invisibility
26. Guardian of Faith
27. Guardian of Nature
28. Hallucinatory Terrain
29. Ice Storm
30. Leomund's Secret Chest
31. Locate Creature
32. Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound
33. Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum
34. Otiluke's Resilient Sphere
35. Phantasmal Killer
36. Polymorph
37. Raulsthim's Psychic Lance
38. Shadow of Moll
39. Sickening Radiance
40. Staggering Smite
41. Stone Shape
42. Stoneskin
43. Storm Sphere
44. Summon Aberration
45. Summon Construct
46. Summon Elemental
47. Summon Greater Demon
48. Vitriolic Sphere
49. Wall of Fire
50. Watery Sphere

5th Level

1. Animate Objects
2. Antilife Shell
3. Awaken
4. Banishing Shiite
5. Bigby's Hand
6. Circle of Power
7. Cloudkiil
8. Commune
9. Commune with Nature
10. Cone of Cold
11. Conjure Elemental
12. Conjure Volley
13. Contact Other Plane
14. Contagion
15. Control Winds
16. Creation
17. Danse Macabre
18. Dawn
19. Destructive Wave
20. Dispel Evil and Good
21. Dominate Person
22. Dream
23. Enervation
24. Far Step
25. Flame Strike
26. Geas
27. Greater Restoration
28. Hallow
29. Hold Monster
30. Holy Weapon
31. Immolation
32. Infernal Calling
33. Insect Plague
34. Legend Lore
35. Maelstrom
36. Mass Cure Wounds
37. Mislead
38. Modify Memory
39. Negative Energy Flood
40. Passwall
41. Planar Binding
42. Raise Dead
43. Rary's Telepathic Bond
44. Reincarnate
45. Scrying
46. Seeming
47. Skill Empowerment
48. Steel Wing-Strike
49. Summon Celestial
50. Summon Draconic Spirit
51. Swift Quiver
52. Synaptic Static
53. Telekinesis
54. Teleportation Circie
55. Transmute Rock
56. Tree Stride
57. Wall of Force
58. Wall of Light
59. Wall of Stone
60. Wrath of Nature

6th Level

1. Arcane Gate
2. Blade Barrier
3. Bones of the Earth
4. Chain Lightning
5. Circle of Death
6. Conjure Fey
7. Contingency
8. Create Homuriculus
9. Create Undead
10. Disintegrate
11. Drawmij's Instant Summons
12. Oruld Grove
13. Eyebite
14. Find the Path
15. Fizban's Platinum Shield.
16. Flesh to Stone
17. Forbiddance
18. Globe of Invulnerablitty
19. Guards and Wards
20. Harm
21. Heal
22. Heroes Feast
23. Investiture of Flame
24. Investiture of Ice
25. Investiture of Stone
26. Investiture of Wind
27. Magic Jar
28. Mass Suggestion
29. Mental Prison
30. Move Earth
31. Otiluke's Freezing Sphere
32. Otto's Irresistible Dance
33. Planar Ally
34. Primordial Ward
35. Programmed Illusion
36. Scatter
37. Soul Cage
38. Summon Fiend
39. Sunbeam
40. Tasha's Otherworldly Guise
41. Wenser's Transformation
42. Transport via Plants
43. True Seeing
44. Wall of Ice
45. Wall of Thoms
46. Wind Waik
47. Word of Recall

7th Level

1. Conjure Celestial
2. Crown of Stars
3. Delayed Blast Fireb
4. Divine Word
5. Draconic Transformat
6. Dream of the Blue Ve
7. Etherealness
8. Finger of Death
9. Fire Storm
10. Forcecage
11. Mirage Arcane
12. Mordenkainen's Ma
13. Mordenkainen's Sw
14. Plane Shift
15. Power Word Pain
16. Prismatic Spray
17. Project Image
18. Regenerate
19. Resurrection
20. Reverse Gravity
21. Sequester
22. Simulacrum
23. Symbol
24. Teleport
25. Temple of the Gods
26. Whirlwind

8th Level

1. Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting
2. Animal Shapes
3. Antimagic Field
4. Antipathy/Sympathy
5. Clone
6. Control Weather
7. Demiplane
8. Dominate Monster
9. Earthquake
10. Feeblemind
11. Glibness
12. Holy Aura
13. Illusory Dragon
14. Incendiary Cloud
15. Maddening Darkness
16. Maze
17. Mighty Fortress
18. Mind Blank
19. Power Word Stun
20. Sunburst
21. Telepathy
22. Tsunami

9th Level

1. Astral Projection
2. Blade of Disaster
3. Foresight
4. Gate
5. Imprisonment
6. Invulnerability
7. Mass Heal
8. Mass Polymorph
9. Meteor Swarm
10. Power Word Heal
11. Power Word Kill
12. Prismatic Wall
13. Psychic Scream
14. Shapechange
15. Storm of Vengeance
16. Time Stop
17. True Polymorph
18. True Resurrection
19. Weird
20. Wish

Multiclassing

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