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's 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.

Explorer's Intuition

You have gotten a taste of power, and now seek to use it to venture into a greater world. Explorers often come from impoverished areas that they otherwise would have no hope of ever leaving. They use their magic to explore the depths of the world, both to learn and for adventure's sake.

Student of the Body

The very physical nature of your power requires you to understand how the body works. If you have an Inherent intuition, you gain proficiency in the Medicine skill or another skill of your choice from the Hedge Mage skill list if you are already proficient in it.

Uncaged Essence

As a bonus action, you can make the magic within you flare up and empower your form. While empowered in this way, you gain the following effects:

• Your unarmed strikes inflict damage equal to your Simplicity's Strength in place of the normal damage and you can use Intelligence instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes. When you damage a creature with an unarmed strike, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike, you can inflict damage of a type of your choice that can be inflicted by a Hedge Mage cantrip that you know.
• The magic surging through you generates a protective field. So long as you are not wearing any armor, your armor class equals 10 + your Constitution modifier + your Intelligence modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.
• You gain resistance to a damage type of your choice that can be inflicted by a Hedge Mage cantrip that you know.
• You cannot cast spells, apart from Hedge Mage cantrips with a range of self, touch, or 5 feet. In this state, your magic is too dispersed throughout your body for you to call upon your normal magical potential.

You remain in this empowered state for 1 minute or until you end it as an action.

Controlled Imbalance

At 6th level, the magic that suffuses your form is unstable enough to be unleashed on impact. As an action while empowered by your Uncaged Essence, you can make an unarmed strike. Whether or not you hit, as part of the same action, you can cast a Hedge Mage cantrip targeting either yourself or the creature that you attacked.

Purification

At 10th level, the magic within you burns like a cleansing flame. While you are empowered by Uncaged Essence, you are resistant to poison damage and immune to magical diseases and the poisoned condition. Any magical diseases or effects that would cause you to be poisoned end on you when you enter your empowered state.

Walking Tinderbox

At 14th level you achieve enough control of your inherent magic that you can allow it just the right amount of instability. If you you take damage from a creature within 5 feet of you

while in your empowered state, you can cast a Hedge Mage cantrip.

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.

Arcane Suffusion

If you have a Knight-Errant's intuition, as an action you can channel even your limited arcane power through a weapon. Make a melee weapon attack with a weapon against a creature within the weapon's range. On a hit, the creature takes additional damage equal to your Simplicity's Strength. All damage dealt by this attack is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Battle Ready

Also at 2nd level, you gain proficiency with medium armor, heavy armor, and martial melee weapons.

Magical Warrior

At 6th level you can imbue your magic into your weapon. At the end of a short or long rest, you can touch a melee weapon you are proficient in and choose a Hedge Mage cantrip you know that inflicts damage. If you hit a creature with your Arcane Suffusion using the chosen weapon, they take additional damage equal to your Inteligence modifier and of the same type as the chosen cantrip. This effect ends if you use this feature again.

Arcane Appraisal

Your worldly experience and knowledge of enchanting equipment allow you to readily understand magical essences. At 10th level, you gain the ability to cast identify without material components and at will, but only on objects.

Spellsword Flurry

At 14th level the magical speed you have honed through practice likewise quickens your swordplay. If you use your action to attack with Arcane Suffusion, you can perform Arcane Suffusion again as a bonus action.

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.

Ritual Spellcasting

Also at 2nd level, the knowledge you have acquired and refined through your studies allows you to circumvent your magical limitations and utilize 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 a Hedge Mage spell as a ritual is halved.

Master of Rites

At 14th level, your deliberate and exacting control of arcane energies allows you to draw upon them with astonishing speed. As an action, you can cast a spell you know with the ritual tag regardless of its normal casting time and without needing to cast it as a ritual. You can't use this feature again until you complete a long rest.

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 a bonus action, you can request your leshy merge your form and consciousness with its own if it is within 60 feet of you. 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.

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.

Driven Spike

When a creature under the effect of your mind sliver attempts a saving throw, they take psychic damage equal to the twice value subtracted from that saving throw by mind sliver.

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

Your chill touch ignores resistance and immunity to necrotic damage on undead targets. 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.