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How does Magic Item creation cost differ between Sorcerer and Wizard?
I know that Potions, Scrolls and Wands vary in price, depending on class making them. This is explained by the fact they are usually made at lowest possible CL and have a fixed CL of spell being ...
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Would it be possible for a Multiclass Order of scribes wizard/sorcerer to put sorcerer spells into their spell book [duplicate]
The Multiclassing rules state that you determine the spells you are able to prepare and cast independently, but it does not seem to apply to spells a wizard is able to transcribe into their spellbook.
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How do you determine your available spell slots as a Wizard/Sorcerer multiclassing? [duplicate]
When you multiclass as a sorc and a wizard, you add the two classes together and that determines your spell slots. This is one combined table of available slots that both casters share, or does the ...
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How would losing their spell book affect an NPC wizard-sorcerer multiclass?
I’m currently DMing a long-running campaign and trying to plan a small quest to save their wizard NPC friend from an evil-wizard’s abandoned lab. My initial thought was to have him lose his spell book ...
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Can a multiclassed Divine Soul sorcerer/wizard add cleric spells to their spellbook?
I am in a campaign where I am a multiclassed Divine Soul sorcerer 2/wizard 1. I have a paladin, a cleric, and a druid in my party. As a Divine Soul sorcerer, I have access to the cleric spell list.
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Can the sorcerer's Twinned Spell metamagic and the Enchantment wizard's Split Enchantment feature be used at the same time?
The Twinned Spell option for the sorcerer's Metamagic feature says (PHB, p. 102):
When you cast a spell that targets only one creature and doesn’t have a range of self, you can spend a number of ...
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What's the least resource-intensive way for a wizard/sorcerer to cast a Persistent Time Stop spell?
This question made me curious: How does a wizard/sorcerer (with or without prestige class (related to Wizard/sorcerer)) can cast Persistent Time Stop?
To my knowledge (assuming non-epic and no ...
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If I multiclass a Wizard and a Sorcerer with Arcane Bloodline, can I choose a familiar for both?
If I multiclass a Wizard and a Sorcerer with Arcane Bloodline, can I choose a familiar for both?
Or can I have a familiar from one class and a bonded object from the other?
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For a multiclassed Wizard/Sorcerer, do the Wizard school features benefit sorcerer spells?
If I'm primarily a sorcerer and multiclass into a wizard of the school Evocation/Admixture, with this effect:
Versatile Evocation (Su): When you cast an evocation spell that does
acid, cold, ...
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Using a found spellbook as a Sorcerer-Wizard multiclass [duplicate]
I have a Divine Soul Sorcerer 6 (with INT 13) playing in a published adventure.
I just found a spellbook with 11 spells in it of varying levels. All are wizard spells, and some of the spells are ...
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Can a multiclassed Wizard/Sorcerer use the Twinned Spell metamagic option on Simulacrum?
Consider a Wizard 13/Sorcerer 7 multiclass, who happens to have the Twinned Spell metamagic option:
When you cast a spell that targets only one creature and doesn’t have a range of self, you can ...
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Does replacing Metamagic with a delayed Arcane Tradition have glaring balance issues?
In an answer to a related question, linksassin suggests an untested variant rule to apply some wizard flavor to the sorcerer class. I've attempted to formalize this approach and want to verify that I ...
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Sorcerer/Wizard multiclass learned spells [duplicate]
My friend is playing a wizard/sorcerer (in a campaign I'm not in) and he's claiming this (irect quote from discord):
you can learn any spell by either finding a scroll or copying it from another ...
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Can a Sorcerer/Wizard prepare spells from another person's spellbook? [duplicate]
Sam is a level 8 sorcerer that takes 1 level of wizard for his 9th level. He now has a wizard spellbook and all that.
Walter the level 9 wizard has a thought. Walter hands Sam his own spellbook for a ...
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Are familiars supposed to live as long as their masters?
How long does a caster's familiar live? Some familiar options are from very short-lived species, and on campaigns with long downtimes, they might be dead from old age next session.
Is it implied the ...
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Why does "Emergency Force Sphere" not appear on the Sorcerer/Wizard spell list?
So, I found out about this spell. I wanted to get it on my sorcerer but I got distracted and couldn't read the whole description. When I remembered again a moment later I went to look for this spell ...
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Why do Wizards and Sorcerers get to pick from light crossbows or simple weapons for starting equipment when the light crossbow is a simple weapon? [closed]
In the player's handbook, it says Wizards and Sorcerers have a option between a light crossbow with 20 bolt or any simple weapon as a weapon, But the light crossbow is classed as a simple weapon. so ...
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When I multiclass Sorcerer/Wizard do I unlearn a cantrip?
I was thinking of making my level 6 sorcerer part wizard. But at level 6 my Sorcerer knows 5 cantrips and looking at the multiclass spell table, he'd have 4 when he's a 7th level multiclass caster.
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What is the broad overview of the differences between Wizard and Sorceror in D&D 5e?
What are the differences between Wizards and Sorcerers in D&D 5e, in broad overview terms?
Really, I'd like to know this from two perspectives. One I have a somewhat idea about from reading the ...
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Do Elemental Affinity and Empowered Evocation Stack?
A 6th level Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer gets the Elemental Affinity feature, which states:
...when you Cast a Spell that deals damage of the type associated with your draconic ancestry, you can add ...
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Does a multiclass Sorcerer/Wizard have something that a single-class Wizard or Sorcerer doesn't have?
I have a character concept (for roleplaying reasons primarily) of a Sorcerer who started to study the Arcane in an intellectual way and gained a few levels as a Wizard. He is Sorcerer 3 / Wizard 3 now....
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At level up, can a sorcerer learn spells of a level granted by slots he has from any class? [duplicate]
The sorcerer's spells known feature says:
You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the sorcerer spell list. The Spells Known column of Table: The Sorcerer shows when you learn
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Why did the sorcerer/wizard spell lists diverge in D&D 5e? [closed]
The party I am playing with is currently playing Pathfinder, and we are considering switching to 5e within the new couple of weeks. I have been doing research on the difference with Sorcerers between ...
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Can Contingency plus Dispel Magic be used to mitigate all negative Wild Magic outcomes?
Is the following use of Contingency legal?
You are a Wild Mage Sorcerer with Wizard levels. You cast Contingency with the following trigger condition: any time wild magic causes you to cast fireball ...
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Do spellcasters need to know a spell to use a magic device?
This question came up amongst my group when, in a Pathfinder game, the Wizard acquired a wand of fireballs but does not actually know the spell fireball. Does he actually need to have fireball ...
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Sorcerer, mage, wizard, magician, what's the difference? [closed]
Sorcerer, mage, wizard, magician, what's the difference? I'm a non-native english speaker.
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Can a sorcerer write their own spells into a wizard's spellbook in 3.5?
I have a sorcerer who found a wizard's spellbook. She cast read magic and wanted to put some of her spells into the book for the wizard. Is this possible?
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Could a wizard multiclassed with a sorceror spontaneous cast all their wizard spells?
In D&D 3.5e, if I multiclass my wizard with a sorcerer, would I be able to spontaneously cast my spells like a sorcerer and still get the rest of the spells that a wizard gets? Or is that not ...
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Which spells do Wizards get at lower levels than Sorcerers?
For my first D&D character I chose to be a wizard because I love wizards and spellcasters in general, and I heard that wizards can learn certain spells before sorcerors can. Is this true? If so ...
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How can I get my wizard to cast low-level spells spontaneously?
Okay, I have this idea for a character (DnD, 3.5e) who has some innate magical talent, but simply fails in developing it intuitively, so he goes on to invest his intelligence in studying and learning ...
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