The Hedge Mage

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know four cantrips of your choice from the Hedge Mage spell list. You learn additional Hedge Mage cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Hedge Mage table.

Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one cantrip you learned from this feature with another cantrip from the Hedge Mage spell list.

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your Hedge Mage spells, since you learn your spells through introspection and personal discovery. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a Hedge Mage spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your Proficiency Bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Spell Attack modifier = your Proficiency Bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Pupil's Parsimony

Your magic comes from instinct and practice, often without access to reagents and magical sources- not that you'd know what to look for. All your Hedge Mage spells do not require material components, though they may still require verbal and/or somatic components.

Arcanist Intuititon

The most common journey for those who self-teach magic is to follow this new and wonderous path so its end. Referred to as Arcanists, these Hedge Mages focus on the breadth of the simple yet diverse magic newly available to them.

Eldritch Fury

If you have a cultist's intuition and successfuly bond with an extraplanar entity, you can manifest their power as an action, unleashing a blast of raw arcane or extraplanar energy. Make a ranged spell attack against a creature within 60 feet of you or a melee spell attack against a creature you can reach. On a hit the creature takes 1d10 force damage. If the target is within 5 feet of you, this attack scores a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20. This ability's damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th Level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10). A creature damaged by this ability takes additional

Boons of the Traveler

Explorers utilize the mundane in their journeys as much as the magical. You gain proficiency in the Survival skill, cartographer's tools and navigator's tools, and with blowguns, hand crossbows, heavy crossbows, and longbows.

Hunter's Eye

As with many outdoorsmen, you also find practicality in learning the techniques of the hunt. When you hit a creature with a ranged weapon attack, you can focus your assault on them. As long as you remain focused on them, once per turn, you can inflict additional damage equal to your Simplicity's Strength when you damage them with a ranged weapon attack. Your focus ends if the creature dies, you go unconscious, or you attack another creature. You can use this feature once, and regain your use of it when you roll initiative.

Spellshot

At 6th level, as a bonus action you can imbue a piece of ammunition or a thrown weapon with one of your Hedge Mage cantrips that inflicts damage and targets only one creature. If you hit a creature with a ranged attack using the imbued ammunition or weapon before the end of your next turn, the spell triggers, inflicting the damage and any effects of the chosen cantrip. You are not considered to be casting the cantrip for the purposes of Simplicity's Strength or for features or Magical Evolutions that take effect when the spell is cast.

Seek Horizons

At 10th level you are adept at traversing obstacles of all sorts. You gain a climbing speed and swimming speed equal to half your walking speed, moving through nonmagical difficult terrain costs you no extra movement, and difficult terrain doesn't slow your group's travel when traveling for an hour or more.

Seeker's Shot

At 14th level you can imbue your shots with your very will and senses, guiding their flight. You add your Intelligence modifier to ranged weapon attack rolls with simple or martial ranged weapons against creatures you are focused on with your Hunter's Eye. You can also fully project your consciousness into an arrow, dart, or crossbow bolt as you fire it. For 1 minute you can control the trajectory of the projectile and can see and hear as if you were in the projectile's location as it travels, though you have disadvantage on Intelligence (Investigation) and Wisdom (Perception) checks while doing so due to the speed of travel. The effect ends if the projectile stops moving, and the projectile falls to the ground at the end of the duration or when it has traveled a distance equal to ten times the firing weapon's long range.

Knight-Errant Intuition

All too many Hedge Mages come from regions torn by war or the perils of the world. As they come to realize their magical potential, many might become inspired to take up arms to better protect the defenseless with their newfound power.

Pilgrim's Intuition

Some Hedge Mages see their burgeoning powers as being a gift from their makers and seek to return the deed by spreading their word. Often these powers are attributed to gods of magic or knowledge, whether deserved or not. Other Pilgrims may have led lives of piety even before discovering their power, the faith they hold only intensifying for it.

Lessons Taken to Heart

If you have a Scholastic intuition, you gain proficiency with the History skill or another skill of your choice from the Hedge Mage skill list if you are already proficient in it. In addition, you learn a Hedge Mage cantrip of your choice that also appears on the Wizard spell list.

Ritual Spellcasting

Also at 2nd level, the knowledge you have acquired and refined through your studies allows you to circumvent your magical limitations and cast more advanced magic- albeit at a relatively glacial pace.

You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from any spell list, which must have the ritual tag. The Spells Known column of the Scholastic Spellcasting table shows when you learn more spells of 1st level or higher. A spell you choose must be of a level no higher than what's shown in the table's Maximum Spell Level column for your level. Each of these spells must have the ritual tag and can only be cast as a ritual. For instance, when you reach 9th level in this class, you can learn one new ritual spell of 1st, 2nd, or 3rd level. Spells you learn through this feature are Hedge Mage spells for you.

Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the ritual spells you know with another spell of your choice with the ritual tag. The chosen spell must be of a level equal to or lower than the Maximum Spell Level for your level.

Deliberate Cantrip

At 6th level, you can apply the principles of slowly drawing upon and amplifying magic that you use in your rituals to your cantrips, at the cost of speed. As a bonus action, you can cause the next Hedge Mage cantrip you cast on the current turn to inflict additional damage equal to your Intelligence modifier. You can use this bonus action only if you haven't moved during this turn, and after you use the bonus action, your speed is 0 until the end of the current turn.

Rapid Ritual

At 10th level you have become more efficient at performing your elaborate rites. The additional time it takes you to cast an Hedge Mage spell as a ritual is halved.

Gift of the Wilds

If you have a Wildling's intuition, you gain proficiency with the Nature skill or another skill of your choice from the Hedge Mage skill list if you are already proficient in it. In addition, you learn the primal savagery cantrip.

Leshy Companion

Also at 2nd level, your deeds have caught the attention of a spirit of nature known as a leshy, which aids you in your adventures. The leshy acts independently of you but considers you to be an ally and follows your instructions to the best of its abilities. It takes on the form and statistics of a tiny beast of CR 0 of your choice, except it is a plant instead of a beast, has Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores of 10, and has visible plant-like characteristics, such as leaves for fur and feathers or roots in the place of claws. The leshy understands Common and Sylvan and can communicate with you telepathically, but cannot speak. If it is reduced to 0 hit points, it disappears in a gust of leaves and sawdust. You can summon it anew or change its animal form over the course of a short or long rest. In combat, the leshy takes its turn immediately after yours. It can't attack, but it can take other actions as normal.

As an action, you can request your leshy merge your form and consciousness with its own. While merged in this way,

you perceive using its senses and can communicate with it telepathically, but cannot take any action other than to emerge into an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the leshy.

Finally, when you cast a Hedge Mage cantrip with a range of touch, your leshy can deliver the spell as if it had cast the spell, or you can cast a Hedge Mage cantrip with a range of self, targeting the leshy. Your leshy must be within 100 feet of you, and it must use its reaction to deliver or be affected by the spell when you cast it. If the spell requires an attack roll, you use your attack modifier for the roll. Spells cast in this way may benefit from Magical Evolutions that you know.

Symbiosis

At 6th level, your leshy has grown in might, and you can request it to call upon more of its power in dire situations. When you roll initiative, you can command your leshy companion to transform into a medium beast. The beast can have a challenge rating as high as your Hedge Mage level divided by 4, rounded down, but must not have a flying speed. The leshy can remain in the form for a number of minutes equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1).

In combat, the leshy shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated or merged with it, the leshy can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

While your companion is transformed, the following rules apply to it:

• Its game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the beast, but it retains its alignment, personality, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. It also retains all of its skill and saving throw proficiencies, in addition to gaining those of the creature. If the creature has the same proficiency as the leshy and the bonus in the creature’s stat block is higher, use the creature's bonus instead of the leshy’s. If the creature has any legendary or lair actions, the leshy can't use them.
• When it transforms, it assumes the beast's hit points and Hit Dice. When the leshy reverts to its normal form, it returns to the number of hit points it had before it transformed. However, if it reverts as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, it isn’t knocked unconscious but cannot transform again in this way until it completes a short or long rest.
• It can't use any of its special senses, such as darkvision, unless its new form also has that sense.
• Anything worn by the leshy merges into its new form.

Wild Tongue

At 10th level, the wild recognizes you as kin. You can cast commune with nature, but only as a ritual.

Primal Apotheosis

At 14th level, you can call upon nature to fully empower your leshy. You can cast guardian of nature, but targeting the leshy rather than yourself. Once you cast the spell in this way, you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.

Slayer's Tools

At 2nd level you train in the arts of warriors and spellcasters alike. You gain proficiency with the scimitar and shortsword and you learn the booming blade and green-flame blade cantrips. Intelligence is your spellcasting modifier for them.

Warding

Also at 2nd level, your rudimentary magical abilities can offer you protection against your foe's spells. If you have a free hand, your AC is increases by 2 against spell attacks and you gain a +2 bonus to saving throws against spells.

Spell Combat

At 6th level you, when you use your action to cast a cantrip that requires you make a melee weapon or melee spell attack, you can make an attack with a light weapon that you are wielding as part of the same action.

Spell Breaker

At 10th level your familiarity with magic allows you to affect enchantments. If you damage a creature with a melee weapon or melee spell attack, you may choose one magical item they have equipped, if any. That item's magical effects are negated and unusable until the end of your next turn. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier and all expended uses are restored when you finish a long rest.

Dam in the River

At 14th level you devise a way to force other magic users down to your level. Once per turn, if you damage a creature with the Spellcasting or Pact Magic ability with a melee weapon or melee spell attack, they take additional psychic damage equal to your Simplicity's Strength.

When a creature takes this damage, you can choose to partially seal their magic. The next time they expend a spell slot to cast a spell of a level equal to or lower than half (rounded up) the number you rolled, they must make a saving throw against your spell DC using their spellcasting ability. If they fail, the spell fails. If they succeed, the spell fails but the spell slot is not expended. A seal holds for 1 minute, a target can only be affected by one seal at a time, and the seal dissipates after the target attempts this saving throw. You can seal magic in this way a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and all expended uses are restored when you finish a long rest.

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Archmage Hand

When you cast the mage hand cantrip you can make the conjured hand invisible. Alternately, when you cast the spell you can make the hand opaque, in which case it can carry up to 20 pounds.

Be the Leaf

When you cast the gust cantrip you can instead conjure the winds around a willing medium or smaller creature within 30 feet, raising them 5 feet off the ground for 1 round. If you cast the spell on the creature again before this effect ends and they are still willing, you can move them 5 feet through the air in a direction of your choice. The creature falls at the end of any round you do not cast the spell.

Bend Flame

When you cast the control flames cantrip, you can choose magical flames and flames that fit within a 10 foot cube.

Best Friends

When your friends cantrip ends the creature makes a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, they do not realize that you used magic to influence their mood or become hostile.

Biting Cold

When you a damage a creature that is concentrating on a spell or effect with your frostbite, they have disadvantage on the saving throw they make to maintain concentration.

Caustic Bath

When you cast the acid splash cantrip, each creature within 5 feet of the targeted creatures must attempt the save as well or take the spell's damage. A creature cannot be affected twice by a single cast of this spell.

Condense Water

When you cast the shape water cantrip, you can you can control water that fits within a 10 foot cube. You can also increase the casting time to 1 minute. If you do so, you can gather humidity from the air, forming up to a gallon of water in an open container or as rain that falls in 1 foot cube at the end of the spell's casting time.

Conducted Grasp

If a creature that takes damage from your shocking grasp cantrip is holding or wielding a metal weapon or shield, they must also succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your spell DC. On a failure, they drop the object if they can.

Dancing Suns

When you cast the dancing lights cantrip, you can cause any number of the lights to instead shed bright light within 10 feet and dim light for an additional 10 feet.

Divine Mischief

When you cast the thaumaturgy cantrip, you can instead cause yourself or a medium or smaller object that isn't being worn or carried to float up to 5 feet in the air for 1 minute. A creature must succeed on a Strength check against your spell DC to physically move the target.

Echo of Radiance

Creatures that fail the saving throw against your word of radiance cantrip are outlined with light until the end of your next turn. For the duration, they shed dim light in a 5 foot radius and can't benefit from being invisible.

Enchanted Stone

Objects that you have imbued with your magic stone now have a thrown range of 120 feet and attacking with a sling at long range using your magic stones doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls.

Grave's Touch

If you reduce an undead target to 0 hit points with your chill touch cantrip, they immediately disintegrate into dust.

Grip of Frost

Creatures hit by your ray of frost cantrip are unable to take the dash or disengage action until the start of your next turn.

Guardian's Ward

When you cast the blade ward cantrip, you can choose another creature within 30 feet to gain the effect instead. Additionally, creatures under the effect of your blade ward spell also have resistance against bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage dealt by spells and magical effects.

Harvest Witchcraft

When you cast the druidcraft cantrip, you can increase its casting time to 1 minute. If you do so, all plants within a 5 foot radius centered on you become enriched for 1 week. The plants grow twice as fast and yield twice the normal amount of food when harvested.

Healing

You can cast the mending cantrip on creatures to stimulate their natural recovery. If you do so, at the end of the spell's casting time, the creature can spend one hit die.

Hydra's Breath

When you cast the poison spray cantrip, you can change its range to a 15 foot cone originating from you. If you do so, all creatures within the cone must attempt the save as well or take the spell's damage.

Indomitable Light

When you cast the light cantrip, if any of the spell’s area overlaps with an area of darkness created by a spell of 2nd level or lower, the spell that created the darkness is dispelled

Inevitable Toll

Creatures that fail the saving throw against your toll the dead cantrip take damage as if they were missing hit points regardless of their current health.

Impart Flame

When you cast the produce flame cantrip, you can also pass the flame to another willing creature within 10 feet, transferring the flame into their hand. That creature can also hurl the flame as an action, using your spellcasting modifier.