Powerful Wizard (3.5e Class)

Balance Note: Most Fighter-level classes are pretty wimpy when it comes to personally affecting the course of a plot. This class is not. In Fighter-level campaigns where it isn't possible to find a variety of scrolls, wands, and high-level NPC Wizards to employ, the DM will definitely need to consider the suitability of the Powerful Wizard class in their campaign.

Powerful Wizard
Powerful Wizards are somewhat of a misnomer, as they are among the weakest of wizardkind. Their main advantage is the ability to repeatedly cast flimsy magics, and occasionally do something that impresses the Fighters.

Making a Powerful Wizard
Powerful Wizards are flimsy in comparison to the fine upstanding sword-and-boarders of the land, but they occasionally pop out a fireball or two to keep small armies in check.

Abilities: Like all Wizards, Powerful Wizards need Intelligence, and usually want some Constitution and/or Dexterity.

Races: Any race that can wiggle its fingers and speak mumbo jumbo may well have large groups of Powerful Wizards.

Alignment: Any.

Starting Gold: 2d4&times;10 gp (50 gp).

Starting Age: As wizard.

Class Features
All of the following are class features of the Powerful Wizard.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Powerful Wizards are proficient with the club, dagger, heavy crossbow, light crossbow, and quarterstaff, but not with any type of armor or shield. Armor of any type interferes with a Powerful Wizard’s movements, which can cause her spells with somatic components to fail.



Since this is an arcane spellcasting class, the Powerful Wizard can qualify for arcane spellcasting prestige classes.



Whenever a Powerful Wizard casts an Encounter spell, she can't cast it again for 5 minutes. Whenever a Powerful Wizard casts a Daily spell, she can't cast it again until she spends 6 consecutive hours resting or doing nothing more stressful than making Craft checks.

The Powerful Wizard can choose to learn a spell from a lower-level list of the same type (at-will, encounter, daily) instead of from the new list.