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School of Hard Knocks • Self-Taught

Subclasses Designed by VGCKenny

About these subclasses

The School of Hard Knocks Wizard allows you to take hits to improve your spellcasting.
The Self-Taught allows you to hone your skills, and manipulate your magic, while working off what you’re studying on your own terms.

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Wizard

Subclass details

School of Hard Knocks

Spell trait: Instinct

Play the School of Hard Knocks to take hits to improve your spellcasting.

Foundation
Tier 1
Thick Skin: Gain an additional Hit Point slot. Add your Instinct modifier to your Damage Thresholds.

Battered and Bruised: When you have at least one Hit Point marked, you gain a bonus to your Spellcast rolls equal to the number of Hit Points marked.

Specialization
Tier 2
Best Served Cold: When you take Major Damage, you may gain advantage on your next roll. When you take Severe Damage, you gain advantage, and add your level to your next roll.

Adrenaline: When you have 3 or fewer unmarked Hit Points, the Stress cost to recall a Domain card is reduced by 1.

Mastery
Tier 3
Lick Your Wounds: Once per rest, make a Spellcast roll (20). On a success, you may clear all your Hit Points

Down, But Not Out: Once per session, whenever you mark your last Hit Point, you may place a Domain Card into your vault, and gain Hit Points equal to half the level of the card.

Self-Taught

Spell trait: Instinct

Play as the Self-Taught to push your limits, and hone your magical skills.

Foundation
Tier 1
Run on Instinct: Whenever you roll your Strange Patterns number, you may add your level to the roll.

Acrobatic Combatant: Gain a permanent +1 to your Evasion. Whenever you use a One-Handed weapon, you may add your Instinct modifier to your damage rolls.

Specialization
Tier 2
Trust Your Instinct: Whenever you roll with disadvantage, you may Mark a Stress to ignore it.

Breakthrough: Whenever you make a Spellcast roll, you may spend a Hope to double your Instinct modifier.

Mastery
Tier 3
Faith in Friends: Whenever you help someone, or someone helps you, you roll a d10 as your Advantage die.

Graceful Instinct: Gain a permanent +1 to your Evasion. Whenever an attack misses you, you may spend a Hope to force the creature to make a reaction roll (17). On a failure, the enemy lowers their difficulty by your Instinct modifier.

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Foundation / Specialization / Mastery
Wizard

School of Hard Knocks

Foundation

SPELLCAST TRAIT: Instinct

Thick Skin: Gain an additional Hit Point slot. Add your Instinct modifier to your Damage Thresholds.

Battered and Bruised: When you have at least one Hit Point marked, you gain a bonus to your Spellcast rolls equal to the number of Hit Points marked.

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Card Backing
Wizard

School of Hard Knocks

Specialization

Best Served Cold: When you take Major Damage, you may gain advantage on your next roll. When you take Severe Damage, you gain advantage, and add your level to your next roll.

Adrenaline: When you have 3 or fewer unmarked Hit Points, the Stress cost to recall a Domain card is reduced by 1.

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Card Backing
Wizard

School of Hard Knocks

Mastery

Lick Your Wounds: Once per rest, make a Spellcast roll (20). On a success, you may clear all your Hit Points

Down, But Not Out: Once per session, whenever you mark your last Hit Point, you may place a Domain Card into your vault, and gain Hit Points equal to half the level of the card.

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Card Backing
Wizard

Self-Taught

Foundation

SPELLCAST TRAIT: Instinct

Run on Instinct: Whenever you roll your Strange Patterns number, you may add your level to the roll.

Acrobatic Combatant: Gain a permanent +1 to your Evasion. Whenever you use a One-Handed weapon, you may add your Instinct modifier to your damage rolls.

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Card Backing
Wizard

Self-Taught

Specialization

Trust Your Instinct: Whenever you roll with disadvantage, you may Mark a Stress to ignore it.

Breakthrough: Whenever you make a Spellcast roll, you may spend a Hope to double your Instinct modifier.

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Card Backing
Wizard

Self-Taught

Mastery

Faith in Friends: Whenever you help someone, or someone helps you, you roll a d10 as your Advantage die.

Graceful Instinct: Gain a permanent +1 to your Evasion. Whenever an attack misses you, you may spend a Hope to force the creature to make a reaction roll (17). On a failure, the enemy lowers their difficulty by your Instinct modifier.

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Card Backing

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