Wizard Spell Casting Explained - Spell Slinging Saturday

In Dungeons & Dragons every magic user works a little bit differently so I'm

gonna start breaking these down for you so today we're talking about wizards

Welcome back fellow Game Gasters I'm Richard Quiner and welcome back to Spell

Slinging Saturday as I mentioned briefly in my Wednesday video every spell

casting class works slightly differently so we need to understand each one for

what it is today we're talking about Wizards why Wizards because I picked

them first now understanding Wizards you gotta understand where their magic comes

from and for them they don't have any innate special abilities they don't have

any special connection to the unknown arcane powers they just read a lot of

books and study really hard think of it this way being able to learn something

quickly is a skill and that's what Wizards do best they learn quickly they

can read they can understand what they're reading and absorb knowledge

from all the different books around them so let's talk a little bit more about

the rules behind being a wizard wizards rely as I mentioned on study and reading

and understanding in order to learn the spells and magic and because of that

their main spell casting ability is their intelligence so if you remember

our abilities score episode where we talked about intelligence and modifiers

and such that intelligence score is going to come into play it will

determine your spell attack bonuses and your spell save difficulty challenges

depending on the spell you cast so keep that in mind as a wizard you want to be

smart you want the highest intelligence you can get now as a wizard you start

off the game knowing and understanding three can trips can trips are the level

zero spells they're the ones you don't need to study to understand you just

know them and for a wizard probably because you just studied them so much

that you've got those ones down those are your can trips Wizards because they

love books they also keep all their spells in a book they keep a spell book

it's pretty cool and have a start a wizard can have six level one spells in

there spell top do they get more later on in the game absolutely as you level

up as a wizard you can add two more spells to your spell book that can be of

any level that you have spells lot access to so for an example of that if

you're a level 3 wizard you can finally add two level two spells to your spell

book if you would like another fun part about Wizards is you

find spells in the world as you're playing this granted this is largely you

know relies on the DM giving you this information giving you opportunities and

you looking for opportunities but you can find ways to find magic copy them to

your book and use those later on so it is a whole process though it does cost

some money some time and effort so you got to think wisely if you really want

to get a spell in your book you can do that but it's gonna cost you

so I also mentioned on Wednesday a little thing called preparation now