The reality of it being a conduit that is either at full power or not. Creating a life is not a spirit dreaming to be prior to conception after all. The warped circumstance being exactly as you said though. They touched on Lichdom for example. Done properly you are tethered to nature (the elements..) in negation (Autumn..) whereas the perverse rendition results in a slow fatality involving insanity no less. Essentially the Archivist has grasped the negative plane & the prime material plane fundamentally & through a hint of artifice at that! Encountering a evil rendition would result in some sort of single celled horror story getting it's next fix from the exhaust pipe that consists of it's solid state. ⛲

tom olson “but that spell no longer exists because you used it yesterday old friend.” The book then sighs to show how it’s displeased with how you erased part of its pages to survive again.

I like the you see that

Mathematicians that bend reality that is.

That was my immediate thought. I had to have a scribe wizard in my campaign as an NPC immediately when I read it.

lol i was literally trying to figure out how to talk my DM into letting me make my spell book a skull

I honestly see the Scribe as meshing the Archivist Subclass from the Artificer & the Lore Mastery Subclass. It helps make the Archivist make sense & nerf's the LM [I get it's a UA Subclass but as it is, it is/can be OP Broken]. Because with the Scribe, they're able to a much limited sense modify the damage type of their Spells. Though, depending on how the Scribe "prepares" their Spellbooks (ie dependent on what Spells they choose) it can be even more Broken then the LM's similar Ability. - Scribe's: "When you cast a wizard spell with a spell slot, you can temporarily replace its damage type with the damage type of another spell in your spellbook, as your spellbook magically alters the spell’s formula for this casting." - LM's: "When you cast a spell with a spell slot and the spell deals acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, radiant, or thunder damage, you can substitute that damage type with one other type from that list (you can change only one damage type per casting of a spell). You replace one energy type for another by altering the spell’s formula as you cast it. - When you cast a spell with a spell slot and the spell requires a saving throw, you can change the saving throw from one ability score to another of your choice. Once you change a saving throw in this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest."

But its only damage feature it has...

@@h-grid3137 just get chronatic orb. It's an insult to sorcerers.

@@h-grid3137 It allows the wizard to more easily circumvent damage resistance, an advantage it already has over sorcerers by virtue of their broader spell selection. The ability to quick-cast a ritual spell and upcast a scroll each day along with arcane recovery means it can cast a greater number of damaging spells without sacrificing utility. In comparison, it's a powerhouse.

Absolutely, also since it is any spell damage of a type you have in your book, all you need is magic missile to bypass almost any immunity. Now your fireball does force damage. Or you are fighting anything with vulnerability to any damage type? for example, you just need one of Xanthars guide radiant spells, like Sickening radiance at 4th level or dawn at 5th, and now you can blast undead and fiends. Imagine a Disintegrate against a boss with a damage vulnerability? 20d6 +80 dmg.

just thought of this, you can switch up the damage type of bigby's hand to do damage per turn. Or animate objects. There is no limit on what damage type you are exchanging. Just that it changes the damage type of a spell to any other type.

Cool idea

I like this idea as sort of a pseudo warlock pact as well.

Isn’t that kinda like hex blade? Idk tho

How about an Artificer who creates a suit of magical power armor that is customizable?

@@Lobsterwithinternet The armorer artificer actually has a built in ability to do that I forget the exact wording, but basically they can have extra infusions as long as those infusions are in their armor. So they can have an infusion in their helmet, chest piece, gloves, and boots, and the whole set of armor all counts as 1 infusion

Cause they get expertise. Wizards already are the best casters, with ritual casting and a great spell selection. They don't skill support.

Game explaination: bards and rogues are skill monkeys, they are build to be better than other classes in skills Fluff explaination: bards travel around and collect a lot of knowledge on their travels, including knowledge that you may not find in a book and unlike wizards they aren't trying to learn spellcasting with their studies of magic, this way bards can focus more on the actual study of magic and be better than wizards, who also try to cast spells with the help of the study. Basically bard is the master of the theoretically knowledge, but doesn't get the practical knowledge which the wizard gets

@@PoisonGlamour2399 disagree on both counts so Bards learn more of EVERYTHING than any other class because rules? Also Bards are unarguably the MOST powerful casters in the game raw as there arcane secrets feature allows them to pair spells that where NEVER supposed to be paired for totally absolutely game breaking results. The rules or rule that allows the expertise feature is badly thought out and poorly implemented (putting aside the game breaking arcane secrets).

They did that, ua "armorer"

Eyes of the Rune Keeper says that "You can read all writing", but not necessarily understand what is written. To that Warlock, since Wizards' magical mode of writting is specific, it would just be gibberish. I think in the same way Eyes of the Rune Keeper wouldn't automatically make the Warlock a master in understanding written mathematics.

@@elf-lordsfriarofthemeadowl2039 ah, I wasn't sure if it would be treated the same as how they'd see a Rogue's "Theives' Cant". They can translate it but not the understanding. So they'd see it as, example "The mist rises as the sun falls", but they wouldn't know what that would decipher into.

Scrolls are a wizard thing because wizards benefit from them in a way no other class does:learning additional spells

Limited choice, lots of uses

Many Spellscrolls the Scribe Wizard makes can be used by the Sorcerer, so that would help party synergy

We have a sorcerer in our party that was given that ability.... fireball.... to Thunderball is very handy.

Not entirely. The Clone spells takes 120 days to mature. "This clone forms inside a sealed vessel and grows to full size and maturity after 120 days." If your clone hasn't matured yet, this is a good stop-gap that you can use, and it takes a number of long rests to regain those sacrificed spells. Or the Wish spell, but probably better to just use those long rests to recover them.

How bout a spelljammer update as well

When picking between guaranteed death, and a death spiral with a chance of escape. I'd always pick the death spiral. Remember that you revive one minute after death, so if your cleric revives you before then you don't have to worry about losing spells. Also, it's still a choice thing, you don't have to. So if you think there's still a chance of being revived after that one minute then just choose not to use the feature. I think the point of this ability is that it's an ability a wizard shouldn't want to use because it really is a last resort, but it gives you a back up plan to get back into the fight and keep playing with that character. Imo a character resurrection on death, is pretty much never a bad ability, but they had to bring in some downsides to balance it.

When I saw that I really thought of it as an NPC ability. Imagine the players defeating the mad wizard guarding the ancient library, not detecting any trace of undeath or necromancy, but he just keeps coming back over and over, weakened each time but still able to throw out hurt. Then finally someone realizes they need to destroy his spell book.

Who picks a class based on a capstone ability that the vast majority of players will never be high enough level to ever even use.