Wizard: School of Muscle

School of Muscle
The School of Muscle teaches wizards not to perfect their
spellcasting with booksmarts and brainpower, but rather with Credits
pure muscle memory and sick gains. Masters of somatic Cover art by Earl Norem. Artwork on page 2 by
casting, "muscle wizards" manipulate the spellweave with ashprwright (taken from here).
raw physical strength, channeling arcane energy not through
orb or wand but through their bare fists. While a muscle Subclass designed by VYLT. Thank you for checking
wizard may still be more fragile in body than a martially out my content! 💜
trained warrior, this does not stop them from charging
headfirst into a fistfight during battle.
Muscles Savant
2nd-level School of Muscle feature
You have undergone rigorous study and training that
synergizes both the martial and arcane arts. Whenever your
Strength score is higher than your Intelligence score, you use
Strength as your spellcasting ability and your Strength
modifier for your Wizard spell save DC and Wizard spell
attack modifier. You can also now prepare a number of
wizard spells from your spellbook equal to your Strength
modifier + your wizard level (minimum of one spell).
Your unarmed strikes now use a d4 for damage and score a
critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.
Hex Pecs
2nd-level School of Muscle feature
You have learned how to emit a protective force around you
by flexing your shredded physique. You can cast Mage Armor
on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material
components.
Punchcasting
2nd-level School of Muscle feature
You are now able to channel magic purely through the
somatic motion of throwing hands and clobbering people.
Whenever you hit with an unarmed strike, you can
immediately cast a wizard spell with a casting time of one
action or bonus action (no action required). You can only do
so once per round, unless the unarmed strike was a critical
hit, in which case you can use this feature without expending
its once-per-round use.
    If the range of the spell is not a range of self, the range of
the spell is changed to a range of touch. The target of the
touch must be the same as the target of your strike, and the
point of origin of the spell becomes the point of the surface
that you strike. If the spell requires a ranged spell attack roll,
it now uses a melee spell attack roll instead. Casting a spell
this way can use one empty fist of yours as your spellcasting
focus, and you can replace any verbal components of the spell
with somatic components. You automatically succeed on all
saving throws against spells cast in this manner by yourself.
If you had already cast a leveled spell on your turn, you can
only cast cantrips with this feature. You cannot cast more
than three spells in one round with this feature. Your DM
may disallow you from casting certain spells with this feature
if deemed inappropriate, such as Booming Blade.
Gains of Magic
6th-level School of Muscle feature
You have infused arcane energy into the very fibers of your
muscles. You gain the following benefits:
50% sweat. You can make two unarmed strike attacks,
instead of one attack, whenever you take the Attack action.
50% magic. Your unarmed strikes now count as magical
for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to
nonmagical attacks and damage.
100% gains. Whenever you hit with an unarmed strike,
you gain temporary hit points equal to half the damage
dealt with the strike alone, rounded up.
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Fist of the Muscle Wizard
10th-level School of Muscle feature
Your fists can now travel further than your physical body
through the power of ripped, swole magic. You learn the
Mage Hand cantrip. This does not count towards your
number of cantrips known. If you currently already know this
spell, its range increases by 30 feet when you cast it.
As a bonus action, you can now make an unarmed strike
using your Mage Hand, which counts as a ranged spell attack
for its attack roll and deals force damage equal to 1d4 + your
spellcasting ability modifier. You can use this feature a
number of times equal to your spellcasting ability modifier.
You gain back all expended uses after a long rest, or you can
expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher to gain back a
number of expended uses equal to the spell slot's level.
Unarmed strikes made in this manner can utilize your
Punchcasting feature without expending its once-per-round
use. In such cases, all spell attack rolls are treated as ranged
spell attack rolls. Your Mage Hand can deliver such spells as
if it was your own hand, but it cannot cast spells with a range
of self.
Arcane Knockout
14th-level School of Muscle feature
Decking people really hard now lets you wizard harder.
Whenever you roll a critical hit on an unarmed strike, if you
immediately cast a spell with your Punchcasting feature, you
can choose to empower it. If the spell uses attack rolls, its
first attack roll is automatically considered a critical hit as
well. Otherwise, the target of the spell (or target of the strike,
if the spell affects multiple targets) must subtract 10 from the
first saving throw it has to make, and all damage die rolled
against that creature are doubled if not yet already doubled.
Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you
finish a short or long rest.

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