Class: Magus

Class Features

As a magus, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d8 per magus level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per magus level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: Light and medium armor
Weapons: Simple and martial weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Intelligence, Constitution
Skills: Choose two skills from Acrobatics, Arcana, Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, or Investigation.

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
(a) a longsword or (b) any martial weapon
(a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus
(a) a scholar’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
(a) leather armor or (b) scale armor
Alternatively, you can ignore the equipment here and in your background, and buy 5d4 × 10 gp worth of equipment from chapter 5 in the Player’s Handbook.

Cantrips

At 1st level you know two cantrips of your choice from the magus spell list. You learn an additional cantrip at 5th level, 9th level, 13th level, and 17th level.

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your magus spells, since you learn your spells through dedicated study and memorization. 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 magus 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

Spell Combat

At 1st level you learn to combine weapon attacks and spellcasting. Whenever you use the Attack action with a one-handed melee weapon and your other hand is empty or holding an arcane focus, you may use a bonus action to cast a cantrip.

Font of Magic

At 2nd level, you tap into a deep wellspring of magic within yourself. This wellspring is represented by sorcery points, which allow you to create a variety of magic effects.

Sorcery Points

You have a number of sorcery points equal to your magus level. You can never have more sorcery points than your magus level. You regain all spent sorcery points when you finish a long rest.

Flexible Casting

You can use your sorcery points to gain additional spell slots, or sacrifice spell slots to gain additional sorcery points. You learn other ways to use your sorcery points as you reach higher levels.
Creating Spell Slots. You can transform unexpended sorcery points into one spell slot as a bonus action on your turn. The Creating Spell Slots table shows the cost of creating a spell slot of a given level. You can create spell slots no higher in level than 5th.
Spell Slot Level Sorcery Point Cost.

• 1st 2
• 2nd 3
• 3rd 5
• 4th 6
• 5th 7

Converting a Spell Slot to Sorcery Points. As a bonus action on your turn, you can expend one spell slot and gain a number of sorcery points equal to the slot’s level.

SPELLCASTING

The Magus spell list are any spells available to both wizard and sorceror.

Spellbook

At 2nd level, you have a spellbook containing 4 1st-level magus spells of your choice.

Preparing Spells

You prepare the list of magus spells that are available for you to cast. To do so, choose a number of magus spells from your spellbook equal to your Intelligence modifier + ½ your magus level (minimum of 1 spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest.

Ritual Casting

You can cast a magus spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell in your spellbook. You don’t need to have the spell prepared.

Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher

Each time you gain magus level, you can add one magus spell of your choice to your spellbook. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. On your adventures, you might find other spells that you can add to your spellbook. You can add spells to your magus spellbook if the spell is on the sorceror spell list or the wizard spell list.

Spellstrike

At 2nd level, once per turn whenever a magus casts a spell with a range of “touch” from the magus spell list, he can deliver the spell through any weapon he is wielding as part of a melee attack. Instead of making the spell attack normally allowed to deliver the spell, a magus can make one free melee attack with his weapon as part of casting this spell. If successful, this melee attack deals its normal damage as well as the effects of the spell. The magus can make this attack in concert with spell combat.

Archetype

At 3rd level, you focus on one of the following magus archetypes: the Aeigis, the Arcane Archer, the Duskblade, the Myrmidon, the Spellthief, or the Witchblade. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level, and again at 7th, 11th, and 15th.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Magus Arcana

You learn arcane secrets tailored to your specific way of blending martial puissance and magical skill. Starting at 6th level, you gain one Magus Arcana. You gain an additional magus arcana for every four levels of magus attained after 6th level. Unless specifically noted in a magus arcana’s description, you cannot select a particular magus arcana more than once. You can find

True Magus

At 20th level, when you hit an opponent with a weapon attack, it suffers disadvantage on the saving throw on the next spell you cast on it. When you target an opponent with a spell, you gain advantage on the next attack roll you make against it. You have advantage on Constitution saving throws made to maintain Concentration on spells.