You Might Be an Order of Scribes Wizard | Wizard Subclass Guide for DND 5e
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In Jocat's words: "we heard you like the wizard, so we put more wizard in your wizard"
"So you can wizard while you wizard" 💀
“What’s this, a comment section with a woeful lack of bees? A large influx of bees can help with that” vote swarmkeeper before Dr. Bees visits you
Oh no! This comment section has only been made worse by the addition of yet more bees!
NOT THE BEES
I’m making an NPC inspired by Dr. bees for my eventual perfect draw TTRPG campaign
Although he got reworked into a park ranger rather than bee themed alter ego of a wasp themed superhero
Finally, someone else makes this comment!
Bees and Swarmkeepers have been historic allies
The ultimate Wizard
Not the strongest, but the most Wizard of Wizard
The ONE guy deserving a Tower of his own
I had no interest in playing a Wizard, that is, until I heard about Scribes.
I had a DM that would absolutely target your spell book and generally target your character's flavor, and that has kind of made me build characters that can survive the DM.
Scribes is a Wizard that can survive that kind of DM.
@@Bacon_and_BuschIf your strat somehow failed
Just get a new DM
One of my favorite parts about this subclass is that it actively encourages you to be the greediest wizard you can be. Between your quill's ability to copy spells in mere minutes, your desire for multiple damage types per level for you to alter your spells with, and the need for several "throwaway" spells you can sacrifice for your big "oh shit" ability, you are downright rewarded for stuffing your spellbook with as many spells as you can get your nerdy little hands on, regardless of how useful or even good those spells would usually be. Sure, every wizard dreams of getting every spell in the game, but no other subclass incentivizes you to do so quite like the Scribes Wizard.
Granted, this does touch on the Scribe's biggest weakness, in that it's power level is almost entirely dm-dependant. You need to be playing with a dm that is actually willing to give you access to the spells and gold required to pad your spell list the way you like. That being said, if you find one that's willing to play ball with you, this subclass really lets you go wild
I've been playing a Scribes wizard for a year now and I really like being able to get around damage resistances. And my book's mind manifests as a spectral black cat made of ink with white eyes.
Commenting that the "Eragon" movie is much much worse than the book isn't annoying, it's a much needed public service.
It's like talking about the avatar live action that doesn't exist. Better example would've been harry potter or something.
@@TheeOK1There is no live action Avatar in Ba Sing Se
I just made a character yesterday. Turned all of my damage type into Slash Damage and just made Sukuna
Wall of fire? No.
Domain expansion: Malevolent Shrine
Dude thats absolutely amazing lol
Hot damn now this has given me inspiration for a muscle wizard!!
Yeah he's so fun to play, my buddy is doing drakkenhiem
Wooo did not expect this to get traction
Scribe Wizards are the most fun, even if they're just changing damage types.
But when you're a Spell Attacker, you can change things into mostly Bludgeoning-type, and Piercing and Slashing for a Wizard who took Crusher, Piercer, & Slashing.
Slap on three levels into Sorcerer of your choice and Metamagic Adept and bam! Seeking Spells like homing Missiles.
Fun fact, Levar Burton has a podcast where he reads short stories. It's awesome!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh thank you! This is excellent.
As the price of learning spells doesnt change but the time shrinks, we can discern the info that the money in this subclass goes to the cocaine required to write and learn the spells this quickly
If the world of DnD _was real_ and not a game that is *carefully balanced* to make it "fair," then Scribes Wizard would be the best and safest class.
DM's generally won't steal or destroy your spellbook because it's such a disaster, and it completely nerfs the players' Wizard character.
*But life is not like that.*
Every other Wizard subclass must be paranoid every time they sleep and are terrified of theft.
There would be specialists rogues that target spellbooks, either to resell to Wizards who don't have those spells or for commission to take down a rival.
Don't like a particular Wizard - Hire "that guy" to really take down their power level, even a Bladesinger would be in trouble if their spellbook disappeared or was destroyed out of combat.
And of course, there's always targeting an enemy Wizards spellbook in combat....
As a Wizard need to drop everything and run? Well, your spellbook effectively has hidden cloud storage backup. Now, being captured and having all your possessions taken isn't such a disaster to your magical career.
This is especially useful with the Clone spell.
For other Wizards unless you want to go to the _expense_ and time of creating a complete copy of your spellbook and leaving it next to your Clone jar (and what about new spells learnt since then?), coming back from the dead might still be very detrimental to your health.
Imagine you had problems with a (non scribes) Wizard? It's the most obvious but effective move that doesn't include murder...
Until they're now weak enough to be killed.
*Wizard horror story:* Your spellbook is gone.
Fabricate solves the time issue of copying a spellbook. The gold cost remains, however.
Note that wizards do not need calligraphy proficiency to transcribe spells, and in fact gain no benefit from it, so the rule about high-craftsmanship items does not apply. You are "proficient" in transcribing spells just by being a wizard.
The Order of the Scribes Wizard:
Knowledge is power, AND MY MIND IS THE GODDAMN AKASHIC RECORDS!
Okay Luther
Scribe wizard is definitely the class that makes me want to make a full a wizard in a campaign. It and illusion wizard are definitely the most fun to me
The book........oldest trick in the book
Now you can have Bob The Skull in DnD. Awesome.
Harry is that you?
Yo at least a minute without a copyright claim! And using a Taylor Swift song! And on the day she releases a new album. Congrats on that expertise in stealth.
I really like this one.
Being able to swap in another spell's damage type is particularly appealing, being even better than ignoring elemental resistances since you can actually capitalize on weaknesses too.
On top of that, being able to cast from your spell book's manifestation is great too. Imagine you're in an Anti-Magic Field and you manifest you summon the manifestation outside of the field, then cast Dispel Magic from there. Boom, no more Anti-Magic Field.
Order of Scribes is my favorite subclass of Wizard. Maybe I've read to much Dresden Files (though I'd argue that's not a thing that can happen), but the whole Manifest Mind screams Bob the Skull to me. What else could a manifested mind be but a spirit of intellect? Okay, a lot of things but it's still where my mind goes when I think about it for 2.4 seconds.
This class took "I'm reading a book" the song to a new level.
Just started Rime of the Frost Maiden as a Scribe Wizard. I am excited to play it and this video couldn't have been timed more perfectly
I really like casting spells directly from the book like a fire emblem mage, that specific visual/fantasy has beeen in my mind since I was like 11 and I've always loved it.
Because it's so quick and easy to copy new spells into your spellbook, having a whole bunch of _pointless spells_ in your book to temporarily "burn" for *One With the Word* with at most 18 levels of spells that you don't care about being unavailable for up to a week.
All those spells you never use, they're now an insurance policy. So any spell you don't have has a potential use, and considering you can copy a 9 level spell in 18 minutes, taking a short rest gives you the opportunity to copy 30 levels worth of spells from another Wizards book.
Go for the entire Wizard spell table......
You do still have to pay gold to do this so its not entirely free, even if by this level gold should not be in short supply.
If only it cut the cost of copying as dramatically. This is my favorite wizard subclass but it feels the weight of those wizard student loans like no other.
My favorite subclass. Instantly solves the main problem of fireballs.
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NGL I love how the Book spirit is basically a remote artillery platform lol
HELL YEAH NERDIER WIZZARD!!!!!
Finally, my chef wizard with his sharpie!
yep I do like how scribe takes the core concept of the class and really make it it's own unique playstyle instead of how some of the "default" subclasses that just give you more of the base class, looking at you lore bard (tho early magic secrets is fun).
Can I humbly request 'You might be an Evocation Wizard!'? Thank you so much for everything you do!
about to play an Autognome Scribes wizard and i'm so excited!!!
Woot!!! Thank you very much for the video.
Love seeing my favorite subclass
YES, MY SUBCLASS IS HERE!!!
Hope I did it justice!
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This has been my main character the past few months. Love it.
Man, these videos never disappoint
I love the flavor and old school feel of this subclass.
It’s my favorite, along with Necromancy.
Another amazing video. Keep it up.
Every chance I get I either play this or have the BBEG be this, never fails to be amazing and break everything...
I also love how you can re flavor it to be more like an artist/painter
I had a fire genasi Scribes wizard once, and while unfortunately the campaign fell apart before I could play him for long, his main gimmick was that he would mostly cast fire spells, but with different damage types as the situation required. This is probably one of my favorite subclasses just because of the sheer versatility, but like you said, it's very DM-dependent. If I have a wizard in the party, I'll always give out spell scrolls, let them swap spells with friendly wizards, take the spellbook of defeated enemy wizards, etc...
Been enjoying playing wizard in bg3 😊 don’t normally play wizardry (divination school) would love to been able to play a scribe wizard
Hats of to you Jesse!!
been waiting for this one. i had the idea of a scribes wizard that is just a hyperfixating artist that draws up new spells by combining them. his intelligence isnt that hes so book smart, he just has lots of special interests that he knows about
Okay lol so that dwarf picture you used that was smoking a Cigar hunched over is the art I used for my dwarf wizard!!!!!! 😂❤️❤️
Having a little spirit attached to your book, along with a Familiar, and whatever you're able to conjure with spells, you've got a pretty effective and thematic summoner.
Man I love combining spells. Its just such a cool concept even if its only changing damage types. Fireball is boring fire, but scribes can make it actually cool!
I'm was instantly naming my talking book/scroll lavar bookton and see I wasn't the only one thinking that. Thanks pbs 🎉
When you're old enough to fully get that Duey Decimal joke....
Scribes Wizard, Scribes Gnome, and the (older) Archivist Artificer.
Common and Uncommon scrolls end up like 1/8 of the cost and 1/32 of the time to produce, and all other scrolls and magic items have smaller total reductions.
With Master Scrivener add Cartomancer and you have two open spell selections per day.
Emerald Quill magic item!
"As a heavy steel strapped oaken chest levitates on an invisible platform a tiny imp and it's homunculus look-alike load it with the pieces of loot... errr of a precious artifacts, and some unseen force is loading larger items of value. Meanwhile, a dusty and ink stained gnome intently studies the carvings around the ornate ruins, marking it all to memory for recording later. Hovering over this scene are a pair of glowing, eye like orbs keeping watch for anything that should approach.
Oh how the gnome wishes they had a real fully equipped expedition with them, so these excursions could last more than an hour in the dark and under constant risk of violent encounters. They could write their notes on site, with time to translate texts more properly. This is what all that training was for after all."
1/8 cost and 1/32 time of producing Common/Uncommon Scrolls. 1/4 cost and 1/8 time of other scrolls. 1/2 cost and 1/4 time on other Common/Uncommon magic items.
Gnome - Darkvision 60'
- Gnome Cunning
- Gnomish and Common
Mark of Scribing - 1d4 Intuition
- Calligrapher's Tools and Forgery Kit
- Message, Comprehend Languages
- 1 language (Elven)
Archeologist - Cartographer's Tools
- History, Survival
(Swap Survival for Religion)
- Historical Knowledge
- 1 language (Draconic)
Artificer 10 Archivist -
- Thief's Tools, Tinker's Tools
- Arcana, Insight
- Flash of Genius
- Magic Item Adept
(1/2 Price 1/4 Time Common/Uncommon)
- Infuse Items
- Tool Expertise
Archivist - Painter's & Leatherworker's Tools
- Tools of the Trade
(1/2 Price 1/4 Time Scrolls)
- Artificial Mind - Platinum Quill
- Perception(animal)
- Persuasion(mineral)
- Manifest Mind
- Information Overload
Wizard 10 - Order of Scribes
- Investigation, Medicine
Order of the Scribe -
- Wizardly Quill - Platinum Quill
- Awakened Spell Book
- 1 ritual between rest without extra 10 mins
(Frequently Unseen Servant or Comprehend Languages)
- Manifest Mind
Master Scrivener
- Free 1st or 2nd level scroll per long rest
(Frequently Tenser's Floating Disk or Comprehend Languages)
(1/2 Price 1/2 Time Scrolls)
FEATS
- Keen Mind
- Arcanist
(Prestidigitation, Detect Magic)
- Theologian
(Thaumaturgy, Detect Good or Evil)
- Historian
(Help gives +Prof bonus)
- Magic Initiate/Bard
(Minor Illusion, Vicious Mockery, Identify)
Extra Training - Medic
Humonculus Servant and Familiar
2× Manifested Minds
- Platinum Quill
- Awakened Spellbook
4× Attuned Items
‐ Spellbook of Scrolls
(Store and Cast any scroll, 1x Counterspell, Druidcraft and Toll the Dead, Spell Storage Item 2×Int Mod Shield)
- Staff
- Robes
- Needle of Mending
4× Unattuned Infusions
- Bag of Holding (Tools, Excavation Gear)
- Wand of Secrets
- Mind Sharpener
- Homunculus Servant
Int Mod× Tinker Toys (Inkwells)
- Light
- Sound of Wind
- Sound of Waves
- Smell of Ocean
- Smell of Library
Additional Unattuned Items
- Emerald Pen - Platinum Quill
Wizard Spells and Slots
Int + Wiz prepared
5 Cantrips (Bladeward, Booming Blade, Chill Touch, Green Flame Blade, Friends)
4 1st Level (Dissonate Whispers, Protection from Evil and Good)
3 2nd Level (Arcane Lock, Borrowed Knowledge, Continual Flame, Dragon's Breath, Invisibility, Misty Step)
3 3rd Level (Clairvoyance, Dispel Magic, Fly, Hypnotic Pattern, Tongues)
2 4th Level (Secret Chest, Resilient Sphere)
Artificer Spells/Slots
Int + 1/2Artificer prepared
3 Cantrips (Guidance, Resistance, Thornwhip)
3 1st Level (Absorb Elements, Alarm, Feather Fall)
3 2nd Level (Air Bubble, Detect Thoughts, Enhance Ability, Locate Objects)
2 3rd Level (Create Food and Water, Revivify)
Free Castings
- Emerald Pen Illusory Script at will
- Spellbook Shield 2× Int Mod
- Spellbook Counterspell 1× 5th level
- Features 1x Comprehend Languages, 1x Detect Magic, 1x Detect Good and Evil, 1x Identify
- Master Scrivener - Unseen Servant
- Awakened Spellbook- Floating Disk
Perfection!
A while back, I finished a campaign with a Scribe Wizard/Tempest Cleric. His signature move was a maximized Lightning Bolt from his spellbook. And goddamn did it hit like a TRUCK.
From the title, I thought a Scribes Wizard was someone who could make whatever they write down happen in the real world
My favorite wizard 🧙♂️
Percy Jackson and Eragon will forever be my favorite novels but least favorite movies. This is literally me
I'll be waiting for the War Magic wizard to show up🔥
Yesssss finally my favourite subclass I’m too stupid to play right
I know this is a great wizard wizard, but scribe mix with a fighter as Triton gives you a wall of water and frost wave to make an ice cage they are stuck inside with you.
I love it
My dyslexic brain misread the thumbnail as Scribble Wizard
I mean, you were kinda not wrong.
My main dnd character rn is a scribes wizard:)
Anyone know why there was an editing error at 0:06? I think there is suppose to be an image but its just a black box
(Incase anyone is wondering this is a joke. We dont talk about the Eragon movie or acknowledge its existence)
please can we get a video on the swarmkeeper!
I have an idea for a Scribe/Gunslinger whose spell book is a deck of playing cards and his wizardly quill is a fountain pen.
The nerdiest wizard subclass and a bit underrated. You can do some magical shenanigans.
As someone graduating with a Masters in Library and Information Science in the next three weeks with a specialization in archiving manuscripts and special collections...I have never felt more seen by a D&D subclass 😅
LOOK!
After reading the Eragon books and then watching the movie was a small agony.
They literally kill two things that serve as a MAJOR plot point later in the story. And completely screw up the relationships that really matter.
And then the sequence where Saphira just....
GROWS UP IN 10 SECONDS INSIDE A DAMN BLUE LIGHTING CLOUD!
It was an unpleasant experience.
This was my all-time favorite book series growing up and I watched this movie as a birthday present to myself. Normally I am a pretty calm person but I was yelling at the screen and throwing popcorn this day.
The scribes wizard is definitely my favourite wizard subclass
First 30 seconds and you already read my nerd-ass mind when I saw the Eragon and immediately went, “It’S nOt LiKe tHe bOoK.”
Now imagine if you will, taking pulse wave and turning that fireball into a concussive blast
This is indeed a true wizard.
The temptation to play a scribes wizard and make my manifested mind the great GRIMOIRE WEISS
That...fits remarkably well, actually
This is my favorite subclass with wizards being my favorite class.
With your uber shield, the more spells you learn the more powerful it is. Since you choose what spells get used to block the damage, you are uighly incentivized to copy even normally useless scrolls. Or spells your character wouldn't ever use, like animate dead for example.
This subclass fits wizards SO well it naturally makes you better at being a wizard.
Why wouldn't you use Animate Dead?
I mean sure, it would, depending on the setting, shift your alignment to evil, but there are no mechanical consequences for that. And it's not like those people are using their bodies any more.
@@theuncalledfor ...... Because necromancy is often frowned upon in most settings, so only morally dubious or outright evil characters would actually use it.
Do you not know what kind of game DnD is? Everything you do has consequences, assuming your DM doesn't suck.
@@haku8135
So because it is "frowned upon" it's somehow actually morally wrong?
@@theuncalledfor ........ Are you just being a troll or are you actually this stupid? I can't tell.
Recognized!
Scribes is awesome as now when you are inside a resilient sphere you can still cast outside it with your book. 😆😁🤣
My Scribe Wizard tattooed his spells on his skin. So, I shed dim light at one point lol
I had a player play one on a oneshot i made and is fuckin awesome
A useful misdirection for Awakened Mind is to make it look like a ghostly figure; a spectre, a spirit, a spirit guardian!.... or a ghost of an animal.
Something that doesn't scream Wizard Spellbook, but looks like it could scream.
You should do a paladin subclass nest
It's remarkable how much from the Lore wizard actually got translated over to the Scribe wizard. It'll, obviously, never *be* the Lore wizard, my beloved Lore wizard... but, honestly, it's *much* lower maintenance and much more tactically versatile.
Best wizard. Honestly, *this* is the wizard that oughta be in the PHB. It's the wizard of wizards.
Anyone else considering creating clippy as their awakened spell book form.
Maybe a stupid question but I had a thought. Since undead can be hurt by healing spells, does it count as a damage type? And if so, how cool would a Healing fireball be in a pinch?
Is there a sourcelist for the images used? (I know a lot of it is from PF and D&D books but I am curious about images sometimes)
Congrats. You are now Lantry.
Can we see a Barbarian path of the beast subclass please.
Any party boons/bains for reading bedtime stories while resting?
when i saw scribe wizard had "won" i was pretty convinced you cheated the poll just cuz of the sweet reading rainbow clips you wanted to use. but i have to admit, the flavor on this subclass is great, the whole spellbook ghost that has darkvision thing is just really cool, this is the most wizardy wizard. nice.
Hope oathbreaker paladin makes the poll.
My buddy named his book. Booker T
God damn scroll sniffers
If I multi class Artificer Armorer with Scribes Wizard can I use my armor as a spellbook?
Oathbreaker Paladin pls
4:57 why not cast burning witches?
*Salem has entered the chat.*
I once ran a Barb/Scribes Wizard, Goliath who held a vendetta against other wizards and learned magic specifically to take them down and steal their spells. So unhinged
Sorcerers: Yeah, but you can still only cast one spell a turn.
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For me, the Order of Scribes is like having a Costco membership.
Scribes Wizard. The "um actchually" of the wizards. So basically Hermione?
the wizard subclass for wizards is also the pet subclass.
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